Recent content by akenham

I spoke to the chap working on my car who called to find out where the water was coming from and he was highly skeptical of leaking welds. He also said rear window would result in huge amount of water in, and lights would be obvious too and unlikely.

Second leak

I’ve had two trunk leaks fixed in warranty - both required the trunk seal to be replaced; one of them they replaced the charge port too but I’m not convinced that was a source of water. They also replaced the trunk wiring harness as part of an advisory. To be honest I still find it hard to see...

It is completely fine to leave it plugged in AFAIK but the key difference here is about the lack of use (see musings below). As jjrandorin implies the car won’t constantly micro charge (e.g. from 89.5% to 90%) but will wait until it has dropped a few percent then charge back up to your set...

[mods: I saw there are 2 recent threads - one in June appears to be about driving through water which is not the same and one several months old which might be similar but no conclusion. Feel free to merge if you see fit] TL;DR I wanted to report the problem I had, the fix and good customer...

I have seen vertical cuts in tyres from driving over potholes on my wife’s 19 inch low profile BMW tyres, but they are usually accompanied by a bulge - more often than not the bulge is present and the cut is not. Given your description of how the car is garaged and that the damage keeps...

My 2020 AWD (sentry not enabled at home, no Tesla or other app e.g. Teslafi use to potentially wake it, no opening of doors) looses very little - it takes 2-3 days to loose 1% which aligns with the lower estimates above of 1 mile per day in this thread. Today, despite some door openings to...

Tesla has always undersold the AWD (by using standing start 0-60 figures for the awd Vs the more standard 1 foot rollout on performance). The poster above is right - it's about 0.5s difference in reality and perf is the same at higher speeds. I don't know how the extra 0.5s feels in terms of...

See also the sticky thread on acceleration boost which likely goes over this too https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/master-thread-acceleration-boost-option-discussion-as-to-which-models-and-how-much-quicker.178269/unread (moderator note: posts moved into master thread mentioned. Thanks...

Mountain pass performance tested it here https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/20/mountain-pass-performance-tests-tesla-model-3-power-at-different-states-of-charge-cleantechnica-exclusive/

Tthe 5% you refer to is likely the blue coloured part of the battery that is currently unavailable due to cold (snowflake icon) given recent conditions in the UK. It's not lost - it's just unavailable as the battery is cold. In context, without sentry and waking the car (app use, opening...

The battery temperatures are much lower affecting performance - I think Bjorn pointed out that the heatpump seems to be sucking possibly too much heat out. You'd imagine they'll correct this in software although I guess it's a trade between perf and efficiency but the sub 30% figures don't...

I think you can partition a larger drive to have a teslacam and music partition - you could then keep this in your glove compartment USB. Should be easy to test on your existing one before you commit to buying a larger drive.

Very much agreed - I won't buy full winters again. As you say all season would be perfect in the UK unless you live somewhere very hilly and/or further North. I will still switch over to summers but it'll be nice to not feel the pressure to do it as soon as temps rise, and a bonus for the...