Recent content by hgmichna

Unfortunately, my new steering wheel introduced (or kept, perhaps) another problem. The push button in the right scroll wheel does not work as expected. You would expect that pushing the button elicits a response exactly when the button clicks. But it ain't so. I can push it until it clicks as...

The unreliable steering wheel buttons are a known defect in the early Highlands. Tesla replaces the entire steering wheel under warranty, if you ask for it. I just got a new steering wheel installed by a Tesla Ranger a moment ago. This is in Germany.

Tesla cars calibrate their speedometer from GPS. How do I know? There is no other way to do it reliably. There is also no simpler way. And we know that the Tesla speedometer is always accurate to 1 mph or even to 1 km/h, by comparing it to a GPS device.

Yes. We can only flash or honk.

My Model 3 is parked under a roof on my compound, facing the street without a fence. Since this is now possible, I have taken to disabling the phone key and enabling PIN-to-drive in the evening, and vice versa in the morning, to make stealing the car more difficult.

MOIA has been operating a public ride-pooling service in Hamburg since 2018, albeit with human drivers. They have fixed passenger collect points.

Check the all-weather tires Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV, 235/45 R18 98W XL EV. That's what they are called in Germany, may be slightly differently named elsewhere. The have a prominent side protection rim and are good in other respects too. Quiet, low rolling resistance, good grip on wet and...

99.999999% is impossible, unless you play games with your definitions, tuning them towards that figure.

I've had vegetation next to the car trigger Sentry when it is moved by wind. One possible, extreme case could be when a leaf intermittently obstructs a light source.

If Chill Mode does not allow full acceleration then it is a safety risk. A small one, as situations in which this matters are rare, but an accident with chill mode as a contributing factor is conceivable.

Can you achieve maximum acceleration in chill mode? If not, I would not use chill. If yes, I would prefer chill.

Radar usually does not detect stationary objects.

The bug reports are not automatically forwarded to Tesla, only stored in the car for service personnel.

I drive the EV (electric vehicle) version of this tire, the Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV, and am quite happy with it. Quiet, good grip, pronounced rim protector.

My Model 3 has four drivers, the whole family. It has now collected three strikes. I may soon be punished for mistakes of other drivers. This is not fair and borders on the illegal, because something that I have paid for is taken from my car without any reasonable justification.