Recent content by Ken Thomas

Picked up our Tesla YLR on 24 August 2022. On 16 January 2023, after 6,000 miles, I rotated the tires and reset the tire pressure display to reflect the correct positions. Surprisingly easy. On 3 July 2023, after 14,396 miles, I rotated again. This time, I can't find the tire location reset...

Just voted Optimistic with normal build out. Just got back from a 5,121 mile road trip crossing 11 states. Lots of miles on interstate highways, state roads, rural back roads, just about every kind of road imaginable. Absolutely no issues charging. Never any "hypermiling" or "range anxiety"...

Would like to point that my service experience has just gotten even better. For all of my 55 years of driving, I have always enjoyed doing my own service work. I can't stand being dependent. For ever car I have owned, I have bought the factory service manual. I have even performed many repairs...

Throughout my life I have learned that the quality of service from any sort of service center is dependent on the employees you are dealing with. My experience with Tesla service centers has been excellent. They have gone above and beyond with each visit. They listen and actually seem to care...

That's it!!! Thank you so much. Best commercial for anything I have seen in years! I now see that I was wrong about it being an X, but still... beyond awesome commercial! Thanks!

About a week ago, I ran across a Tesla ad that I think was produced by the owner, but can't be sure. It was very well done. The ad showed the driver of a model X running errands and loading stuff from different stores; put in a ladder and some boxes from a home improvement store. Then a drive...

I'm not imagining anything. I'm just referring to the "loosening" of the nut as suspected in this thread. Realistically, I do not imagine any nut or bolt loosening on a steering wheel. Never witnessed anything like that or can "imagine" how it would occur. As I have mentioned, the steering...

What needs to be understood is that the steering wheel mounts on a keyed shaft. The nut only keeps the wheel engaged on the shaft. If the nut loosens it will not make the wheel wobbly or not steer the car. If the nut comes completely loose the wheel will only slide off the shaft if pulled. If it...

Are you referring to my post regarding my hearing aid? If so, then both. Some were ICE cars, some were plugable hybrid with a substantial electric only range. In each one, the issue was with air flow. Our model Y is the only car I have had, withing the last decade, that I could tolerate...

Indeed! I may be mistaken. I haven't actually measured it, but it looks a lot smaller than any of the other EVs charge port doors with CCS.

Since this post is labeled as Opinion, I guess I will share my opinion. As a retired electronics design engineer who worked on the early development of charging stations, I am disappointed with how the "standard" has developed. At the time of early development, I was irritated with the...

Very interesting thread. I have a hearing birth defect and wear a custom hearing aid. It has to be custom because my hearing issue is not common hearing loss, thus no commercial hearing aids are available that work for me. In any event, it's frequency response extends deep into the infrasound...

When we first got our Y, it did all the common complained about phantom braking and over reactive etc., but that seems to have gone away. I now use cruse control and auto steer almost all the time now and it hasn't phantom braked in several months. Also braking due to cross traffic and abrupt...

Built in garage door opener.

On our drive from Houston to Austin we were peacefully cruising along US 290. I was driving and using SD at about 70 mph. Suddenly an SUV darted directly across our path from a side street. Equally suddenly, our Tesla Y slammed on the brakes. It was a few milliseconds faster than me. My foot...