Recent content by gtg465x

Yeah, Sentry, cabin overheat protection, preconditioning, and natural battery losses from the car just sitting aren’t factored in to EPA numbers, so it can be hard to hit EPA range without disabling those features or doing all of the driving in one go or over a short span of time. My RWD has...

I think the effect of the covers is vastly overstated. I use Tessie to track all of my drives, and after a few months I removed the wheel covers and saw no difference, even on a very consistent 20 mile drive that I make weekly, which includes mostly constant driving on Autopilot at 50-60 mph...

I did exactly that yesterday. Drove around 400 miles with my family and was planning to use FSD v12 the whole way to try it out, but after the first 20 miles, I switched back to trusty old EAP. Not as “smart”, but sometimes that’s a good thing. I will definitely give v12 a lot more testing when...

At least in Georgia, it seems like the police departments only care about getting their money. Last time I got a ticket, I just emailed the county prosecutor’s office or whatever was listed on the ticket and asked them nicely if they would agree to not add the points to my license if I agreed to...

My car woke when I went into the garage the other day without my phone. Caught me off guard. Sentry was not on. I believe Tesla has been tweaking how phone key works in recent updates. I think they are trying to prevent relay attacks, so the Tesla app recently started disabling phone key...

Interesting. Maybe I missed it before, but I can see alerts from the car’s service menu in Tessie now… a crap ton of them lol. I’m getting DI_a024_holdNForNeutral, APP_w304_lssCamBlockedStatus, and APP_w269_autopilotLimited every time the car wakes up it looks like, often twice per wake, so 6...

I had this, but when I uninstalled my child’s car seat, it went away. I haven’t reinstalled the car seat yet, but I was thinking maybe I had tightened it down too much. I had both the latches and tether connected.

Praise direct telemetry! The energy used and efficiency shown by Tessie match what the car shows much better now! Went on three drives today totaling about 40 miles, and both the car and Tessie showed exactly 200 Wh/mi!

But the question remains… what the hell is this update changing? Lots of news articles saying Tesla displayed range now accounts for battery age, but it already did. Hasn’t it always?

I wonder if Tesla is going to factor in a baseline calendar aging rate for all cars, which it seems like they may already do for cars with LFP batteries. The displayed range in Teslas with LFP batteries ticks down with alarming consistency over time, so much so that you can guess the age of them...

You forgot the $250 order fee, there was no doc fee for me, and tax was only 6.6% for me (you want to look up TATV (Title Ad Valorem Tax) rate, which is a little different than regular sales tax). I got $43,568.54 after those changes.

@mahaney03 @Vaillant The Ingenext timer seemed ok compared to Dragy in my tests. It gave results 0.1-0.2 seconds higher than Dragy. Not sure if that's due to my tires being over Tesla recommended spec by 2 PSI, or because Ingenext starts the timer as soon as the pedal moves whereas the Dragy...

I use ABRP to plan stops before long trips. I like being able to tweak all of the parameters to minimize trip time, and I also like being able to set my desired % on arrival. The fastest trip is usually obtained by driving fast (I go 8-10 above the speed limit, so 78-80 mph on the east coast)...

I have both a Boost LFP and Draggy, so I can do some comparisons when I get a chance.

While we're discussing degradation and the chart shown by Tessie, I would like to take the opportunity to request a time-based degradation chart. Yeah, you would have to let users manually enter their car's manufacture date, or Tessie could probably get away with just using the connection date...