Recent content by jeffnz

Been meaning to say thanks for the good info. Turns out I should be able to leave the car in the garage after all. So holding off on the cover for now.

Last year we took a five week relatively unplanned road trip from Auckland ending up in Bluff and lots in-between of course. Mostly South Island. No issue with finding chargers anywhere we needed. The only place we worried we might have a problem was Wanaka to Franz Josef over Haast Pass and...

Anyone bought a car cover for their model 3 they like? We're heading away for awhile this winter and the car has to stay outside. Thought I'd look into covers. Was thinking of this one... any experience? Alternatives...

Software updates come when they come. People get all fired up about them having to wait or whatever. But just relax and they happen. I've had my car for 2.5 years and still love it. Over that time an average of about 2 weeks between updates. Many minor ones, some big ones, and lots of new...

They were plugged into the CCS cable. Couldn't tell if they were charging but assumed they were. No real reason they needed the parking space as it was Sunday and there are hundreds of free spaces around it.

So how does this work? Saw it yesterday at Whangarei. I thought the SC communicated with the car. Does Tesla open up its superchargers to other cars in NZ? And how does that owner pay or are we subsidising them? Or maybe the owner saw the EV charging sign on the side of the road and thought it...

Now that makes sense. I hadn't thought about it that way

Yeah, I came across this and thought the same thing. To keep it even remotely handleable it doesn't have much capacity either. Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me.

getting off topic, but I got a streamer for home a few months ago and that's what got me interested in Tidal. Enjoy...

BTW: have you tried Tidal? I've had a Tidal HiFi subscription for awhile and it sounds great in the car. Much better sounding than Spotify in my opinion. They've got a $2 trial going... give it a try if you haven't already

Maybe I'm a change addict, but I quite like v11. Took a little playing around to get the hang of where things had moved and we just got back from a long drive which helped. It's fresher and more modern looking, especially in dark mode, and being able to customise the app area for each driver is...

Might be the version of android you have. I've got Android 11 and it's still working on my phone

could it be poor connection from the car? I've seen a few failures like that recently with other functions when the car doesn't have good coverage. seems the new version of the app doesn't handle it as well. funny errors and reverted settings

Me too. Followed those instuctions with just a few tweaks and was running it on AWS but sometime ago Tesla started blocking AWS, GCP, etc They probably don't do that anymore but at that time I just moved it to a tiny server I have sitting around at home. Essentially same setup for that and I...

point updates have always (or at least since I got my car over 2 years ago) been this way. I don't recall any that release changes and they have the same release notes as prior point releases. that's the way most software dev works that I'm familiar with but it would be nice if they published a...