Recent content by Ivan Abundance

I really like this station, as the drive up to Placerville along 49 is just splendid. I plug in, hit up the Teriyaki Bowl, and watch whatever's on in the car as it charges. Going back to Galt, the downhill saves me a few miles compared to the (slightly closer) Folsom chargers. However, the...

Stopped in for my usual fill on 1/2/2020 and found the upper-left ring terminal deformed and un-insertable on Charger 1B. Still messed-up a week later, but now there was a piece of plastic broken off inside. I wrote Tesla and told, but as of 1-29 it was still broken, but coned-off. No huge...

Welp, just one thing I'll point out where our DMV fails- California won't tell you what color a car is. Oregon, among others, does. There's times it matters. Of course you can re-paint a car. You can also dye your hair, or wear tinted contacts, yet these items are used on Driver's Licenses.

I don't think the State gave us Tesla. And Elon almost didn't, either. But when you could pick up the Numi factory for $8/square foot, in the heart of the Bay Area.... well, sometimes genius is palpable.

It used to be a good idea. But today, cars are so much plastic and wind-screening that you're liable to find a soft place.

I'll be darned. There is a brake pedal down there. I wish I could stop half so smoothly as the single-pedal does.

Could be worse. Could be Whitworth. Then again, if you're plumbing, it just might be.

Same as any other car. Turns the A/C compressor, temperature settings and fan speed to whatever the car (and its sensors) thinks is most appropriate. Teslas aren't really magic. They just feel that way.

2020, and the State demands we mail (must be envelopes here, someplace) with a stamp (stamps? What are those?) a check (I thought I left that book in this drawer...) to them. On top of it as always, California.

Do you mean to imply that taking away a lane when commute most demands it is some kind of political folly? Me, too. Just idiots.

Fewer blue pills?

I'm 6-1 and 280. And old. My trouble is getting my pachydermal buttocks into the seat without beating the living daylights out of the weatherstripping on the front edge of the B-pillar. So I put in my right foot, pivot sideways to sit on the seat, and then turn again to pull in my left and make...

I got a Performance at the end of last July. Love it dearly. Last month I picked up a Dual Motor, non-P. The smaller wheels/taller tires and suspension differences were stunning. It also does away with thin-little-Hotwheels-tire road damage anxiety. Unless you're truly racing, I'd skip on the...

Printed copies are available on eBay. Not from Tesla, but the same info.

A repair kit is of course a good idea, but if the sidewall's damaged, or if a nail gets through near the edge of the tread, you're going to have to get a new tire. Same with all tires. I do hope this new Tesla Michelin has a better market life than the Michelin TRX disaster.