Recent content by Gnomeface

Update on my post #55 about my MY's severe and dangerous late braking well after passing a potential incident. It has not happened again, so I assume that there was a bug in a software release that was then fixed in the update issued a few days later. As compensation, the matrix headlights...

They do work well, but I have a couple of minor points. One is that when approaching a parked car on an unlit road the system turns off the relevant pixels when it 'sees' the light reflected from the parked car's red reflectors - and now the illumination is removed there's no reflection so it...

I live in a small village, mainly one-way streets, some without street lighting. Driving through after dark last night in unlit one-way sections with cars parked on both sides, whenever a parked car's red rear reflector was picked up by the lights the chunk of pixels covering it switched off...

I got my Model Y RWD just over a year ago after hankering for a Tesla for years. I've thoroughly enjoyed it despite the wiper issues (manageable) and the "phantom braking" concern - until the last few days. I use the cruise control a lot and had only one instance of severe phantom braking last...

A bit of an aside, really, but I joined British Gas in early November. I've spent hours on the phone since, trying to get them to put right the incorrect tariff rates on my account, but they have bungled it every time. I've now dumped them and joined Octopus. I wish you luck trying to get...

I also decided last spring that MYLR at 80% and MYRWD at 100% had roughly equal range, although at that time I wasn't aware that Tesla superchargers discouraged charging above 80%. I bought the RWD and have kept full charging records; only done 5,000 miles in 9 months, but a wide mix of short &...

I did check that. The vent button only appears in the Climate page of my app and I've never used it - and I hadn't looked at that page for weeks. I know that leaving the app live means that it could select itself when in my pocket but I always close the app after using it. When my Android...

The car CAN do it - my model Y did exactly that some time yesterday. It opened all 4 windows by 1/2 inch or so and I've no idea why, as all were shut when I locked it after a short drive and the temperature was well above freezing. I did not get a notification in the app. Of course, there was...

Two comments: 1. Check that you have the right size for your door - a 40:50 lock for an inside door would be 50:40 if the door opened outward. I made this mistake, although replaced it easily through Amazon. 2. If the cylinder sticks out from the door handle by around 10mm (very common...

I believe that the torque is limited at lower speed. If so, a software update to remove the torque reduction - or to make it a driver-selected option - would be brilliant. It seems odd that a RWD car with only around 300bhp should have this "feature".

So what do the long-standing leaders in car safety - Volvo - do about daylight fog or drizzle? Our top-of-the range, car of the year XC40 does not even have a "headlights on" display icon in the instrument panel. The only indication the driver gets when the headlights are on dipped beam is the...

If you are going to rest your foot on the brake pedal then you need to remember that your brake lights will probably be on, so a following driver will not get any warning if you suddenly need to brake hard. Many of the drivers I have to follow down a local hill have their brake lights on for...

Note that the charging history from the wall charger shows how much power has been provided to the car; the stats in the main app are from the car and show how much power has been added to the battery. The difference is quite high when just topping up the last few percent to 100%.

Thanks for that, which I did implement successfully. It was also useful as a reminder today in my seemingly endless quest to get Charge Stats reinstated on my phone. After clearing up the duplicate Tesla profiles that resulted when I first set up my new phone, then rebooting both car and phone...

I've been caught by another deliberate ploy by a council (Torbay) to catch motorists. For years I have had an annual permit for local car parks, in the form of a self-adhesive label to stick on the inside of the windscreen. It clearly showed the expiry date and I also received a postal...