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In planning load management for the EV charger, where should the current transformer be placed? My smart meter cables go to a junction box that sends one pair of wires to the distribution board in the house and the other pair to a mini distribution board (RCD and MCB) for the charger. I see...

Having learnt somewhere that older Model S vehicles with FSD were eligible for a free camera upgrade but suspecting it was USA only, I thought I would find out if it applied in the UK by submitting a service request. It went in on the app on 12 May and was quickly approved for a mobile visit on...

Mine too, 1p up on daytime rate, 5.145p up on standing charge.

What’s the least I have to do to stop the IO app polling the car and waking it up while parked at the airport for a week? Options seem to be: In app, Accounts and Settings, Devices, Smart Charging button (says Disable IO from controlling your device). The device is the car, not the charger. On...

I have air-air heat pump units in two bedrooms, which they heat in no time, and plan to install three more in the other rooms in which we mainly live (replacing the outside unit with a larger one) so we burn less heating oil. The installer’s calculation of the heat output in kW required for the...

Have just received Octopus email with options when Go (5p/13.8p) runs out Jan 14. Can I sign up with IO now, to start on Jan 15, or should I wait until a few days beforehand? Is the IO T&C document available – I can find the generic Octopus T&C online but not one specific to IO. Thanks.

On Octopus Go: 2 EVs dishwasher Immersion heater for hot water (tops up heat from solar thermal panel) e-bike battery, Stihl batteries for lawn mower, strimmer etc. on smart switch (small beer, I know) Have not yet persuaded her indoors that clothes should sit in the washing machine from 04.30...

Mine is Model S 75D, hers is BMW i3, both since 2017. Agree about i3 looks - but there's little between one's feet and the vehicle in front. I would not want to hit anything in it.

Completely agree about air-air HP. We installed a split system with wall units in main bedroom (2.5kW) and spare room (4.2kW – room is larger and always cold), initially with cooling in mind. They are great on the very few days when it’s uncomfortably hot at night, but are used mostly for...

7912kWh in 2021 in 4-bedroom detached house. Oil boiler for heating (no gas in the village), hot water from immersion heater (mainly at Octopus 5p at night), electricity for everything else. Occasional brief use of air-air HP in main bedroom. Regular hob, not induction. Two EVs, combined annual...

My first Europe trip is in May. Is anything required to alter headlight beam?

My 2017 S 75D thinks I like to linger over lunch. kW + SOC (e.g. 80kW at 30% SOC) is never greater than 110.

I did nothing and mine renewed at the old rate on Jan 14

That's how I park at home, and fortunately was parked that way when Model S had to be towed out onto the road and onto the truck after electrical death owing to "Upon investigation found the 12V support to BMS to be at fault due to a lack of tension on wiring terminal" April 2019. I think that...

Agree it’s physics and not conspiracy theory, but arguably the physics could have been better had the regulators required from the network operators a different balance between shareholder dividends and investment in infrastructure.

I assume that the DNO response to my prospective installer’s application for 18 panels and a Powerwall on a single phase supply “Reduce PV and Battery system to 7.36kW (32A) installed capacity but limit the export capacity to 3.68kW (16A)” reflects the local infrastructure in rural Oxfordshire...

Same also. BMW i3 (her) April 2017 and Model S (me) Nov 2017. Neither of us would ever go back to ICE. Just need to find a way to ditch the oil boiler for the central heating.

At Wyboston there is a golf course with clubhouse at the far end of the car park. We had coffee in the clubhouse on the way to Norfolk and coffee + sandwich on the way back, sitting on the veranda overlooking the lake.

A Tesla ranger was at the Oxford M40 SC this morning, offering complimentary screen wash and tyre pressure check for anyone charging.

Just spotted these in the list of UK service centres, also shown on the supercharger map online - Supercharger | Tesla UK

My 75D purchased Nov 2017 has BTX8 but I don't feel it is a fast supercharger. If you add charge rate in kWh to % SOC (e.g. 70 kWh + 40% SOC), it seldom gets >110 and is usually between 100 and 110. Not sure how that would compare with 75D fitted with the more standard battery.

What's the position on parking charges at Westfield White City?

4.18 this morning but still on Nav EU-2019.21-12489

No smoke, no smell but a substantial "pop".

In April 2020 when MS was three years old, a loud electrical-type bang occurred when I put the car into drive, seemingly from behind, below and to the right of the instrument cluster (RHD vehicle). Then HVAC would blow only cold air but the car drove normally. The PTC heater had blown. SC...

HR Owen Bodytechnics in Slough are Tesla-approved and did a good job with my deer impact broken headlight and damaged panels + bonnet last November.

Last month, the infotainment upgrade MCU1 to MCU2 was 1166.67, radio tuner upgrade was 391.67, both ex VAT, total inc VAT £1870. The 2019 Model 3 loaner was free, as was the AP2.0 to 3.0 upgrade (I already had FSD). Both screens were replaced. The MCU surround looks the same. It took a day...

AFAIK the tow eye is supplied with the car. Was your car purchased from Tesla or elsewhere? If elsewhere, that's probably where the tow eye is. Mine was essential on the two (or was it four, I forget....) occasions that the car became undriveable and had to be towed onto a flat-bed truck for...

In my 2017 75D, the tow hook is in the flat red zipped package along with the warning triangle and some first aid stuff. I went to the car just now to check this but also found half inch of standing water in a corner of the lower trunk compartment. Grrr! Yet another SC trip.

Does anyone have experience/expertise/advice on suboptimal roof orientations? I have a 50 m2 tiled roof orientated NE with slope 15 degrees (at this orientation better than 40 degrees, at least in summer). My objective would be to make some electricity, not ROI. Is it a non-starter? PVGIS...

Switch from Agile to Go approved just now, starting at midnight, having been refused yesterday. IIRC, species of the order Octopoda have a brain in each arm.

I have been on Agile since the spring.

Prompt email response from Octopus about failure of website to make the Agile to Go switch. They said: I've had a look over the account, and as you're currently on Agile the reason the error may be popping up is that we're unable to switch directly from smart tariff to a different smart...

Switch to cooked breakfast and cold food for lunch and supper?

My reservations evaporated this morning and would have evaporated sooner had either car needed much charging at the moment. I tried to switch from Agile to Go but clicking the Sign Me Up button gave "We're sorry but something went wrong when processing your request. Our tech team will...

Six weeks at MK SC with AC fault in May 2018. The two-hour replacement of the EXV coil was started and completed on day 42 and I picked up the car in the afternoon. It had taken about a week for the part to arrive. Although the SC and the escalation team in Holland would not give much away...

See Infotainment Upgrade | Tesla UK. My upgrade has been postponed twice because the radio part was not available, hoping it will there mid-Jan.

Some improvements in text messaging (which I have never used) in release notes of 2020.48.12.1, otherwise minor improvements and bug fixes. Amesbury and Banbury superchargers now show on the map (they were not visible in 2020.48.10 despite CCS retrofit a year ago).

2020.48.12.1 currently installing on Model S 2017 MCU1 AP2.0

My Nov 2019 CCS retrofit worked at Amesbury last week but that supercharger does not show on the map and it's not found by a search in Navigation. Is this a map version issue? Map is EU-2019.20-10482, car software 2020.48.10.

A close shave, much hassle avoided. My impact with a stag in October required replacement of the broken off-side headlight, bumper, bonnet and panel over the wheel, taking five weeks. It came in a just shy of £9K, paid by the insurer apart from a substantial excess but without loss of no claim...

What determines whether the HW3.0 upgrade from HW2.0 is available for those who have purchased FSD (March 2019 in my case)? The local SC tell me that my S75D (VIN 203XXX) is not yet on the list for the upgrade in UK. However, Teslafi shows other S75D cars in Europe and specifically in UK with...

Just 'cos it's listed on the service estimate does not mean it will happen. My upgrade MCU1 to MCU2 with tuner and 2.0 to HW3.0 for MS (I have FSD) was scheduled for late November but changed because of lockdown to Dec 3. Over the phone to the SC a couple of days beforehand, it was difficult...

I was puzzled by the Octopus Watch app seeming to have a glitch in calculating the optimum time for a charge. Setting the slider to "Appliance needs 0.5h to run" gives 12:00am as the best start time. However, the half-hourly rates show 5.82p/kWh at 12:00am and 4.85p/kWh at 03:30. It also...

In response to an email reminder from TFL, I renewed just now (just in case needed in the next year). But it says CC should be paid. Is that correct? TFL changed the rules in June in response to Covid but I can't see anything in the TFL web pages to say that battery EVs now have to pay.

see: Infotainment Upgrade If you are outside the UK, the link could re-direct to your country-specific page. Tuner upgrade is £470 on top of infotainment upgrade, available "later this year".

In UK, the link above re-directs to the UK version of the page that gives £2340 for the infotainment upgrade and £470 for the tuner upgrade.

Battery code is BTX8. I have one. So far as I know, Tesla will not unlock the additional 10kWh. See thread on this battery from 2017. My battery sticker says 85kWh, 400VDC, 1107172-00-A

You could be right. However, the insurance renews in November and the renewal papers that have just arrived probably went into the post before the deer leapt out. The premium has gone down by £30. Maybe next year .....

I did not think of looking. In S75D MCU1 AP2.0, not sure it would be available. Insurers Direct Line have been first rate so far. They agreed my choice of Tesla-approved bodyshop although it was not on their list and the car was there within 24 hours of calling them. Under the policy, a...