Recent content by jgs

What’s your experience been with the CC2s? I was looking at those and Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 4, but I’ve really just begun to look. I use winter tires in the cold months so snow handling is less of an issue, but the shoulder months are always dicey so I still want an all-season, not a summer tire.

Yeah, that's what I'm still driving, early 2015 S85D, and yes I agree with all the comments about AP1 still being the gold standard (my wife's car is AP2.5). Also, anything from the AP1 era is going to have free Supercharging.

From most companies, I'd quickly dismiss the "change the charging curve to fleece the customer" theory as obvious crazy talk; VW executives went to prison for similar shenanigans. From most companies...

What do you mean by "ultrasonic 'noise'"? FWIW I haven't noticed any funnies about the avatar of my AP1/MCU2 car.

That's kind of cool. I fear that the randomly-capitalized "P" in "mP/h" would make me crazy, though. "mph", yes. "m/h", unusual but accurate, and probably should be "mi/h" if you're going to go that way to avoid the collision with meters. "mp/h", no but it's not the worst. "mP/h", whaaaat? Is...

Wait a minute, you've had success playing tracks you ripped yourself (and that you're sure are your own tracks, not being matched from Apple's own cloud service, which is a trick they do)? I ask because when I tried it earlier, I had zero luck getting it to play my own, ripped tracks, that are...

I did pay out of pocket. And (shame on me) I still haven't pursued every escalation path I could, in order to be reimbursed. I haven't given up on it but now the the problem is fixed, the urgency is reduced and so it keeps getting shuffled back...

It's a lot easier to explain that there isn't one, than that something has moved. Same. Same again. At least in my cars (2015 S, 2018 3) that have physical control stalks, this is an easy one: "like any other car". If you mean one of the new ones with buttons instead of stalks, yeah, good...

Also, naming no names, but I like runny eggs too. As I recall, the cross-over restriction existed before airbags did. My vague memory is of being told as a learner that there was some notional risk of your arms getting entangled with one another? I guess this is not much less plausible than...

Well, yeah, but that's only because in your telling you aren't calling the $5M in cap gains "income". But it is. $1M paid on $6M net income is... perfectly reasonable. I mean, yeah, some of the other things you listed genuinely do throw off taxes regardless of your income, but your primary...

I think the only honest answer to this kind of request to foretell the future can be "no, nobody knows". Even more than run-of-the-mill companies, Tesla has a history of saying they're going to do something, and then never doing it. There are big examples like the promised cross-country...

The honest mechanic I spoke with sort of suggested that -- strong adhesive to just glue the whole thing on. He threw it out as a ha-ha-I'm-only-serious kind of comment, and not one the SC would have been willing to do. I'm hesitant to take such an extreme and irreversible step.

The one that opens.

If I could change one thing about my build, it would be to get rid of the sunroof. It squeaks so much. I finally gave up trying to get the SC to fix it after my umpteenth try when a mechanic finally gave me the truth which is that it's a common problem and they have no fix. (I am glad to see...

I was briefly excited to see Apple Music, because I have my personal library uploaded there. But nope, my personal uploads don't appear when I go looking for them via the car's interface. :-( Edited to add: by "my personal uploads" I mean, my uniquely personal ones. The things that matched to...