Guys I’m picking up my used private m3 lr on Monday any tips please can I use a supercharger immediately or is that not the case thanks

I have not recently used ABRP. But last year you can adjust the date and time to calculate the routes in ABRP without subscribing. However I tried it today but couldn’t see an option to change the date or time? Has that gone under subscription? Does anyone know?

I didn't see a master thread on Model Y nitpick issues. The purpose of this thread is mostly for others to chime in and provide solutions / education on aspects of the Model Y that could be improved. Feel free to vent here too. While this car is by far the best thing I've ever driven, I'm still learning, and there's always room for improvement.

Here's mine, and feel free to correct me (I still haven't RTFM yet since the car is a week old and I've been busy).

• Mirrors fold in at home while backing into the garage, or
• Mirrors point at the ground while backing into the garage
• Sentry mode seems to run at home despite excluding home (and makes a humming sound while doing it)
• Tesla insurance considers taking a corner at > 0.4G an indicator of bad driving despite that being less than half the vehicle capability
• Overriding autopilot and braking hard to compensate is considered by Tesla insurance as risky behavior
• Car wants to prepare to go somewhere opening any door (starts HVAC, etc)
• 16v low voltage, really? Why not 13v, or go all the way to 48 like Cybertruck?
• Camera calibration has been at 80% for the last 80 miles
• Poor performance with rain sensing

Really impressed with this car, but this is my petty list of annoyances so far. What are your complaints?

Bear with me as I describe my migraine headache with a fairly recent purchase of an 11 year old 2013 Tesla Model S, P85+.

I was brand new to Tesla 9 months ago when I purchased a used 2013 Model S, P85+ with low miles on it from a Mom & Pop car dealership here in So Cal. As usual my sales person said what most say when you're looking at buying any used car. "Its great, it has low mileage, its a great price," etc... But wait, he said, "we replaced the motor recently with a Standard motor." My response was "Great you say you replaced the motor, that's awesome." "Yes", was his response. "We put a standard motor in this P85+."

Being absolutely new to Tesla that meant nothing to me. Fast forward 2 days later and I purchased the car. Of course I eventually noticed that my dashboard and 17" screen never showed P85+, it showed S85. The VIN# on my Tesla App says that I own a P85+. Carfax shows that I own a P85+. Even Tesla headquarters confirms that the car is a P85+. Every detail on my car, including the badging shows that this car is a P85+ however both screens on my dashboard show that its a S85.

My unfortunate dilemma is when I attempt to sell the car sometime in the future, what model is this car? Is it simply a P85+ with a Standard motor? That's like pulling a V8 out of a sports car and replacing it with a V6, right? Confusing at best.

I'm not blaming the dealership but it would have been nice if they actually took the time to truly explain how significant swapping the motor out of a P85+ with a Standard S85 motor truly was. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have purchased the car. BTW, the dealership is out of business and my insurance company is billing me for a P85+.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Try not to kick a man to hard when he's down, I just need some help getting back up, thanks. I attached recent pictures to this thread.

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TL;DR Well it's dead again kinda curious what it is hopefully the rear motor since it's under warranty.

Today I was charging as normal at a supercharger and I unplugged then get in the car and got the ding ding oh **** sound. Vehicle unable to start, acceleration and top speed reduced, electrical system power reduced.

I opened service mode and took the pics you see below. Called Tesla roadside and was like I need a tow. 15 min later the truck shows up and another 20 later I'm at the SC. They got me all checked in and gave me a loaner and said prob tomorrow sometime they'd be able to get to my car. I didn't care about the timeline because I got a loaner lol. I can never stress enough how either I always end up at awesome SC or I just get lucky at SC but I always have a good experience when I got to a shop.

Because it's DISw166 error I'm leaning towards rear drive unit and definitely hopping because it's a model U and it's under warranty. It was installed early Dec last year about 5k miles ago. Which was replacement for the rear motor that was installed in October last year at another SC when the stock motor failed after 188k miles.

Downside of it is the rear motor I'm gonna need another alignment because they somehow messed up my toe when they put things back together and I had major outer tire wear.

I'd love to hear the speculation y'all have as to what failed and why. Obviously I'll keep this post updated as I get more info.

Had my M3H for a month now after a '72 MLR.
Love the cooled seats & swipe to drive (much faster than the old 'gear shift'.
No issues with the lack of stalks for indicating - got used to the buttons pretty quickly.
But...
apart from slightly dodgy wheel balancing which needs to be sorted, I'm wondering if I have bigger issues with the steering.
I know the rack has been changed from earlier models (a slower turn rate?) but the 'null' / centre point on the motorway seems really wide. The car can meander around this centre point and when you need to do something about it, it's a much harder 'nudge' to get it back to centre which then means (if you're not careful) that you can overshoot a bit and start a 'driver induced oscillation' about the middle!
Never had this on a car before and it's really not a relaxing drive - especially is any sort of cross wind.

Anyone else had this?

We were heading to La Plagne for a week of snow for the first week of the Easter holidays... it was an incredibly wet drive. Apart from a brief interval at Reims, it was hammering down for about 7 hours.

As we were heading towards Lyon we received a message saying there was an issue with the front engine and it had been disabled. The message was surprisingly calm - it basically said, no worries, this will probably resolve itself and carry on as normal, so we did. We then stopped to charge at approximately 15:30, and as soon as we stopped we received a "Pull Over Immediately" error. We tried rebooting everything to no avail, so we called Tesla roadside assistance.

We were fortunately only 4km from a Tesla Service Centre, unfortunately we were in France. Even though we were in an Aire charging bay, roadside eventually got back to us and said they weren't allowed to recover from the autoroutes as it's too dangerous, so we'd have to call 112 for an emergency recovery that would dump us off the autoroute and Tesla could recover us from there. By the time we'd been through this faff, we'd driven past the now closed Tesla Service Centre twice, which also meant we were unable to borrow a car and being Easter, would hear nothing until Tuesday.

Stuck in a recovery depot with two young children at 8pm, we were left with no real choice other than to pay for a very expensive taxi for us and our stuff up the mountain.

On Tuesday we were told that the front motor inverter had failed and were given a fix date on 22nd April, nearly 3 weeks away. After some chasing they said the part would be arriving on the 10th and they should have it fixed by the 12th.

I spoke to our travel insurance (Virgin Money), who said they wouldn't cover anything directly related to the car, which is fair enough and expected, but they also have nothing in their T&C covering self drive holidays. They said we could put in a claim and they might cover things like the taxi, but refused to commit to anything over the phone. When I asked with options they'd be most likely to cover, they said "the cheapest".

If we got a car from Tesla, we weren't allowed to take it to the UK, so I eventually managed to arrange a convoluted and cheapest possible return journey involving dumping most of our stuff in the car in Chambery, hiring a car from Chambery airport to drive to Calais (we couldn't take the car across the channel), a pickup from Calais by my dad, hiring a car in Dover and eventually getting back to Oxford.

Next weekend (13th/14th) is the last weekend of commercial flights to Chambery for the ski season, so the planes flying out are all empty and we could get a ticket for £31, which wouldn't have been too bad, but I've now been informed that the car won't be fixed until 25th April, which makes Chambery a pain in the arse to get to. I've had quotes to ship the car back for £~1500.

Tesla have been very little assistance, they've offered zero compensation other that saying they'll pay for the emergency recovery, but I'm still chasing that and we're already approximately £1500 out of pocket for a breakdown of a car that's under warranty.

Anyway, I'm one very unhappy Tesla customer. I have no idea what I can do other than sit tight and wait.

Any advice, suggestions, sympathy appreciated!

Just a few days ago I received the 30 day free trial of FSD and frankly I am blown away by the performance. I have never used FSD before and have been driving my 2021 MY using autopilot only for 50k miles. I am very familiar with the behavior of TACC and auto steer and know how it responds, which has always been decent enough, but FSD is a whole other animal!

Not the fancy stuff, but the basics. The acceleration, the stopping distance, the following, the lane positioning, is so much improved. Why is this? The car is much more confident and makes a lot more good decisions.

It feels like a completely different software is running and from what I’ve read lately it seems this is exactly what is happening.

My current SW is now 2024.3.10 and I see it says v11.1 with FSD v12.3.3

Does this mean that when I am just using basic features like the equivalent of TACC and auto steer I am now running the v12.3.3 SW and this is responsible for the improvements I am noticing?

When my free trial ends will the regular (free) autopilot performance go back to the inferior level I had before or will I get to keep this improvement in basic skills?

Essentially, i bought a Tesla Model Y in Perth in June 2023 and boy was I excited. After collecting the vehicle, within a week I began to hear a whistling noise coming from the driver's side window. Obviously, took it back to Tesla, they said they resolved the issue, drove it out of the service center and it presented itself again. Turn the vehicle around, the service agent agreed the noise was present, and kept the vehicle again.

Examples of the sound:
New video by Adam (turn up your sound / audio and you'll hear exactly what I mean)

My vehicle was subsequently returned to Tesla 8 times for the same problem, each time they acknowledged the problem, except for the final instance when I demanded a replacement vehicle and they dropped the "this noise is within spec for the vehicle" and we cant hear what you're describing (convenient right?).

They attempted firstly to replace the speaker grill, mirror replacement, went onto door realignment, window realignment, sealing something in the front trunk area believing air was getting up into the pillar, to then finally taking apart the car roof, resealing everything and replacing the roof (only because I'm a valued customer and they didn't believe the noise was present). Yet the noise still persists. Particularly on windy days, it is ever-present.

Has anyone had any luck solving this issue? My only avenue now for remedy is taking Tesla to court, which could end up costing more than the car is worth for no guaranteed outcome. I just want it fixed!

Sorry for the rant but this is a painful experience and honestly would not recommend anyone ever buying a Tesla. I saw all the horror stories about build quality in the forums and I should have listened!

I just accepted delivery on a new model Y 3 days ago and it got a couple dents from hail.

Am I out of luck?

Considering getting adjustable camber arms for the rear after having this happen to the tires too many times. Its only the right too. The left is still okay, I understand from reading that the front is too dang expensive and usually not quite as bad, and the rears look reasonably easy to install. My main question is do I need to do the toe arms and the camber arms or am I fine to just do the camber arms and are there any reasonably priced ones? By reasonably priced, I mean 200 or less ideally. Not that Unplugged and Mountain pass don't make good stuff or anything.

I’m just looking at the car now and the picture shows these wheels. It’s a 21 plate long range should it come with covers or are these fitted as standard? Thank you

It's finally happened. I'm in the netherlands and come out to find broken glass on my rather cracked spoiler and no evidence of the heinous crime.

So have a small depression on the boot lid (no creases so hopefully my PDR guy to the rescue) and replacement spoiler to sort when home

On the plus side with Teslas worth feck all a few dents probably won't harm the residuals

Greetings all! I vent only in hopes that someone uses their head next time. No answers here I'm sure, so apologies for the rant, but (for some strange reason) this one really, really, irks me. I just took delivery of my pretty awesome RW MY a month ago, and am overall quite happy with it...except for the 7 speaker audio system..ok, and maybe a couple of the rattles. So why NOBODY mentioned this when weighing the differences between the dual, and RW, is beyond me. They (more than 1 in the local "gallery", and when taking delivery) mentioned the fog lights, and the parcel cover..period. The only test drive vehicles available at the "gallery", were Dual Motor vehicles, for the WOW factor, I get it. I LOVE my music, and every vehicle I've owned has always had the best system available. While on the test drive, my passenger and I were blown away with the sound, and it might have been what really sealed the deal for me, I know, it's the little things. Literally, there seem to be 3 things, other than a motor, and more range, that are different, so how everyone forgot to mention it comes with half the speakers, and no sub, has me scratching my head. Had I known it had a downgraded audio system in it, I may have opted for the Dual. I don't wish it on many, but really hoping this brilliant idea generator no longer has a job with Tesla. Really..how much money did it save?

Downloading now on my refresh model s. Appears that only the UWB Key is changed in this update to be better? Along with a trailer alarm on the CT. has anyone heard anything else?

The lease is up on my Model 3 in September and I'm planning to just buy a used model outright given that the lease costs massively outweigh any salary sacrifice saving (assuming the insurance isn't £20,000/year).

In the price bracket I'm looking at I can have a 2022 Model 3 LR, or a 2019 Model S 100D. Obviously warranty / modernity / software updates etc apply to the Model 3, but is the comfort step-up worth it for the Model S? Does it have the same bangin' stereo for me tunes? Is Autopilot camera or radar based? Any charging hiccups? I'd be getting one with the CCS upgrade.

Hi guys

Anyone got the best match touch up for Blue MY?

Tesla shop returns nothing.

My family used Signal for messaging, phone calls and video calling.

If my phone is connected to the car via Bluetooth and I get a regular call or SMS, all is good. I can answer calls using the left wheel button or the onscreen green and red buttons.

However, incoming Signal calls ring through to the car and a red button (for disconnect) appears in the same spot as for a standard call but there is no green button. Likewise, you can cancel the call with the left wheel button but cannot answer (button does nothing). So, I can find no way to answer the call. You can answer it on the phone but then run foul of mobile/car regulations. I tested all this on the weekend using a couple of phones but could not find any way to answer a Signal call without touching the phone.

If I have a passenger, they can answer on the phone and things then progress normally.

Has anyone come up with a way to answer a Signal call on a Tesla without touching the phone?

I just noticed yellowish / rusty looking liquid that appears to be dripping from the center of the wheels, both front wheels only, not the rear wheels. What are these and should I be concerned? These are newly bought wheels for winter, only few months old.

Climate Control screen sometimes doesn't show lower part of the screen with temperature controls, dog mode, etc. And other times it doesn't show icons for heated seats. Anybody else are having these issues?
It started to happen in 4.31.5 and keeps happening in 4.31.6.

So this afternoon I was looking at my solar performance (So happy with the TeslaPowerwall and solar setup!)
In the morning I was thinking that today would be a great day to monitor production since the forecast was for absolutely cloudless skies and mild temperatures. Getting closer to the sun's peak angle in the sky as well...

I opened the app and saw a fairly large, seemingly anomalous dip in production in the morning and was immediately frustrated as to the why. I asked Julie who had been out on the deck in the morning if there had been any cloudcover whatso ever and she confirmed that no, absolutely clear skies.

I walked over to the Powerwall, wondering if the inverter had momentarily cut out, or if there was some overload or wiring situation that I would have to maddeningly track down. I played over scenarios in my head of being on the phone with Tesla to explain the occurrence and what my responses might be when they told me it was somehow something I had done...

I mean, what could possible cause such a sharp downward spike in production, with a subsequent apparently normal return to operation on a bright, clear day except a component fault, wiring problem, a rogue passing cloud, or an...

Eclipse

Julie's probably been wondering why I've been slapping my forehead and sighing to myself all afternoon LoL!

In my defense, here in Northern California we only had about a 20%-25% partial eclipse and it wasn't really noticeable at all as far as brightness change... and I was buried in work and not paying attention Solar nerds, watch out for them eclipses! LoL!

New YorkCNN —
Tesla has settled a high-profile case that was set to put the electric car company and its controversial automated-driving system on trial starting Monday.



Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Jury selection was set to begin Monday in a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a former Apple engineer who died after his Tesla Model X crashed while the Autopilot feature was engaged. The trial could have lasted several weeks, but the parties settled Monday.

Walter Huang was killed when his Tesla struck a concrete highway median in Silicon Valley on March 23, 2018. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its investigation, found that Autopilot was engaged for nearly 19 minutes before the fatal crash, when the car, traveling at 71 mph, veered off the highway.

Story here: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/tech/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang/index.html

We have Y and 3. Received trial for Y but not 3. 3 is a 2020 so should be eligible.

Hi folks, I set my 2019 Model 3 Performance to charge last night and set the limit to 83% (I do this, as I use 3% getting to work the next morning, which then leaves the car at 80% for the day). However, the charge is also controlled by my electricity provider to get the car to charge at the best times for the grid, and I can only set the limit in 5% increments on that app, so I set it to 85%.

The car then stops the charge at 83% and the electricity provider stop is just used as a back up. My car was at 82% when I got in this morning and always varies by a few percent, usually depending on temperature.

Anyway, this morning (for the first time) I get in the car to find a message in the middle of the screen saying something along the lines of "Single charge limit not reached, we suggest setting the limit to 71% for daily driving." Below which there was a button to ignore that and another to set the charge limit to 71%.

Has anyone else ever seen this?

I thought the general rule of thumb was to keep it below 80% as much as possible and only charge above that for longer trips. Now they seem to be suggesting keeping it below the very arbitrary number of 71%...

Why 71%?!

I also wonder if I'm the only one seeing this, or if others are also having the same 71% suggested to them by their cars. And if anyone has any idea why? Like, has Tesla looked into the battery statistics of Tesla cars and decided that charging to 71% is optimal for battery life?