Recent content by Kincaid

So sorry for your mishap. You would not have encountered the problem if you had purchased an available software option for your Model 3. Perhaps you have the option and it was not engaged. It comes standard on a Model X. Go to your control panel and look for the entry "Engage regenerative...

Alas, here is a gloomy reality check on the Tesla Body Shop located in Fremont on Spinnaker Court, and on Tesla's organizational shortfalls in general. Our family has two Tesla Model X’s: A 2016 Model X 90D, and a 2017 Model X 100D. The 2017 Model X 100D had a rear trunk lid alignment issue...

What if we were to try this approach in order to understand what happened to cause this tragedy. We have 3 factors that are most likely responsible for the accident: Auto Pilot error, driver error, or roadway conditions. Let’s give the benefit of the doubt to the most reasonable defense for...

In the same manner that Autopilot, inattentiveness, and difficult lighting played a role in the May 2016 Model S collision with a truck, those factors created this Model X tragedy. In the Model S accident, The NTSB unanimously voted to accept that the probable cause of the crash included a...

Today's long awaited Model 3 delivery party from the perspective of the 2 year wait for my 5 seat Model X delivery: As we all know, it was an extra long and frustrating wait for our 5 seat Model X cars to be delivered. Those scurrilous neighbors of mine all driving around in 6 and 7 seat Model...

Space at the Fremont factory has been crowded significantly by the addition of the huge Model 3 production line. They no longer deliver new cars at the factory, but have moved the delivery center to a huge, fancy building complex a few miles away, and also in Fremont. Storage for the new car...

My preference, of course, is always to be an optimist, so I have strived to have the ideal health, ideal wife, ideal kids, ideal job, ideal houses, and ideal cars & boats. Alas, I admit, it's a tricky path navigating those fantasies. I kept the 90D set to "Ideal" range (it's under "Settings"...

New discovery: that new 5 seat Model X 100D of mine has another very surprising difference from its 5 seat Model X 90D twin picked up the same day as yours on December 22, 2016. I was surprised because the Tesla literature indicated that the battery pack for the 100D Model X could be charged...

Absolutely another five seat Model X. In fact, the cars are identical except for the battery pack. I still can't figure out why anyone wants six or seven seats stuffed into a Model X. As you discovered, the ability of those rear cargo floor panels to carry a heavy weight is exceptional. We went...

The first 5 seat Model X (90D) I ordered took two years to be delivered, and came without rear flooring panels. Those woes were daily chronicled on this forum. Nevertheless, it has been a wonderful car. So how pitiful am I? I ordered another Model X (100D) last Thursday, June 29. It arrived...

I have not yet recovered from the fact that, nor been able to understand why, folks from Oregon and Colorado were anointed with fully implemented rear cargo flooring panels in December, and I was shortchanged on the deal. Perhaps Tesla discovered I had a bunch of TSLA stock and they knew it...

This is a very positive demographic that is developing on the Peninsula, all the way from San Francisco down to San Jose. There are still thieves, but now reciprocating piston gas operated dinosaurs are viewed with such disdain that not even the thieves will steal them. At the other end of the...

You mean other than your flooring panels were unfairly delivered in December, you could show off two golf bags neatly resting on a flat surface in your rear trunk, and I had to wait until April? One peculiar difference I notice is that the three "Top Tether" signs on the rear of your back seats...

Model X 5 seat flooring fun: Was it a coincidence that on the day Tesla delivered and installed the updated and resigned flooring panels for my 5 seat Model X Tesla stock was up over 7 points, and close to its all time highs on heavy volume while the rest of the market was way down?

Model X 5 seat flooring panel design: