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    NEW DOOR LATCHES!

    I had the drivers door latch fail open a few months ago on my May 2016 Model X. As in, the door refused to latch shut. I had to have the car towed in. Curiously, the tow company (part of Tesla's roadside assistance program) towed the car in with the door unsecured. Apparently they were more...
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    The best winter driving car!

    I've been pleased with how my P90D X performs in slushy, snowy, and icy driving conditions this winter. I had Tesla install all season radials on it. I wasn't pleased at all that they refused to deliver the car with those tires initially. My main complaint about the X in the winter is that my...
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    Model X Winter Driving Experience

    Is there any equivalent for anti-lock-brakes for regen? That is, if the wheels start slipping during regenerative breaking, will the car react in any useful manner, or just skid?
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    Both Cars Teslas? New England Winter?

    National Grid is the local natural gas supplier.
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    Both Cars Teslas? New England Winter?

    I've installed a natural-gas powered automatic standby generator (20 kW). It's sized large enough to run everything in the house _except_ the Tesla. But as long as I'm not running both air conditioners AND the steam shower, there should be plenty of power left over for the Tesla. If that ever...
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    Will regulatory approval of Self Drive include override by the State?

    I suspect a "Pull out of the traffic lane when emergency lights appear at the rear or in front" will cover many of these use cases. The part I'm worried about, as a New England resident, is the ability of these vehicles to respond to hand-control of traffic by off-duty police earning their...
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    Pulled over by a cop on Day 1

    Yes, that's how I read it. IANAL. But I read it as the top 6 inches of the windshield can be tinted. I fear they failed to anticipate the model X windshield.
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    Pulled over by a cop on Day 1

    I was reading up on this, and was amused to read that front window tinting is restricted to the top 6 inches of the windshield in Washington state. Check your registration. Mine in Massachusetts classifies the vehicle as an SUV. If yours does, too, it looks like rear window tint is...
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    Model X EZ pass mounting

    That's entirely possible. I pulled the documentation out of the filing cabinet this evening to confirm. This was for a Model X delivered in late May in Massachusetts. Here's what it said on the top of page 3: <u>Front LIcense Plate Mounted Transponders</u> The windshield of your vehicle has...
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    Model X EZ pass mounting

    The documentation I was handed at X delivery said that a transponder wouldn't work through the windshield. Given that, I asked EZPass to send me a front-plate mounted transponder. Neither Tesla's screws nor EZPass's bolts were suitable for mounting the EZPass external transponder on the front...
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    Wiki Model X Reset Techniques

    Dazureus, I walked through all the various reset procedures at the time in the hopes that it would help, so I did an instrument cluster restart, a center console restart, I powered down the car and powered it back up. All of that preceded the sequence above.
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    Model X external transponder

    Entirely possible. When I get that warning or citation, I'll move it.
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    EZ-Pass transponder mounting on refreshed nosecone-less Model S

    I have a Model X, and I used the plate-mounted transponder. It's working fine. Ugly, but functional. I haven't noticed any autopilot interference. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/media/license_plate_ezpass.115488/
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    Model X external transponder

    Here's a photo of the front-plate mounted transponder: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/media/license_plate_ezpass.115488/
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    License_plate_ezpass

    An EZPass plate-mount transponder attached to the top of the front license-plate frame.