Recent content by laalves911

I have a AWD LR 3 and love it. But I love my 911 Turbo way more than the 3. Tesla has not ruined anything for me, the Porsche had done that already, ruining my "any other car" experience for me. Well, not true as well ;))) I rent a lot of cars and enjoy many of them (Fiat 500, love it, Camaro...

IMHO opinion, there's no need to rotate wheels. If you rotate, what you will achieve is that tires will wear more equally across front and rear. Let's say that, instead of replacing the two rear tires at 20k km and then the fronts at 40k km, you'll end up replacing all 4 tires at the same time...

And with 16.3.2, NoA in Portugal. It’s coming to the EU it seems.

Got 16.3.2 couple of days ago, had Advanced software update on. In accordance with Teslafi, I got it early, only 7% of the fleet had it at that point. And it got me NoA. I’m in Portugal.

Exterior paint excellent except for excessive orange peel on the front bumper, have to take care of that myself when I have the time. Panel gaps actually fine as well, but chrome door trim alignment is bad though. That's where you see this is no euro made Volkswagen (best build in the industry).

Here's the API response in full. Other than the codes, the rest of the parameters are correct. I deidentified everything, including coordinates...

From querying the API directly for my car. The API response includes the correct VIN, and the correct nickname I gave the car so it is really my car

AD15,MDL3,PBSB,RENA,BT37,ID3W,RF3G,S3PB,DRLH,DV2W,W39B,APF0,COUS,BC3B,CH07,PC30,FC3P,FG31,GLFR,HL31,HM31,IL31,LTPB,MR31,FM3B,RS3H,SA3P,STCP,SC04,SU3C,T3CA,TW00,TM00,UT3P,WR00,AU3P,APH3,AF00,ZCST,MI00,CDM0

My car is a 240XXX VIN, multicoat red, dual motor. Received it new on April 09 in Portugal. Suspect build date would be late Feb or early March. When I query it through the API, it returns a rather strange combination of contradictory option codes that, in accordance with Tim Dorr's website...

Release notes, pls....

With 16.2, does anybody get very nervous/jumpy/agitated neighbouring cars in the animation? In mine, it's getting ridiculous: when I'm stopped in a light, if I were to believe the car, there would be cars doing 180s in the middle of the traffic lanes and hitting mine. Ah, and they're...

I did this as well but in Portugal. Might be very different to your case in the US. The tradein was dealt with fully online. I filled in a web inquiry, put in all the data, uploaded a copy of the title and that was it. A day later the €€€ proposal came in and I accepted it, out of lazyness of...

I know (knew) of quite a few bikers that eventually died of old age or various diseases without that wreck ever coming their way. That is certainly not a given. Several close encounters with the tarmac or dirt, yes. In my ~30 years of biking I've had a few. Most of them stopped or almost...

Sure, I'm fortunate to have a 911 (996) Turbo so that's what I end up comparing it with, which might be unfair, I know. Still, the Tesla handles very, very well, but in comparison to nimble, light, sports cars, it's no match. I'm sure, in the future, ICE will lose comparisons in all respects...

See your point but I think that it also depends on the area you drive around in. Europe is, for the most part, very different from the US in what regards road/street configuration. In my country/my area, outside highways, 90% are twisties, so the fun here is not at all "drag" racing between...