Recent content by LionelHutz

I think it’s more that Tesla has been cruising on its competitors being extremely supply limited for the last two years. That’s opening up now—can readily get the Ioniq 5/ EV6 without markup in a lot of the country, for example. Used pricing is going to reflect that.

Wound up trading in yesterday for $51k. Instant purchase quotes have dropped into the mid-$40s. All used car prices are dropping, but the bottom has definitely fallen out of the Tesla market.

I was gobsmacked by how significantly the online purchasing quotes dropped for my car. '21 MYP ~20k. Vroom may well have been an outlier on how much they were willing to pay in August, but wow is that a huge drop in a couple of months. Rude awakening on my new car plans LOL Vroom: January...

The strike zone on my Y's rear doors was trashed within 150 miles of driving on paved roads. It's no-excuses bad paint.

You're talking about the dimpled paint in the 911 arch/side skirt area? It's factory coating designed to protect against chips--very deliberate. The poster above unfortunately just has a really awful paint job.

This is in coastal SoCal--definitely not a temperature issue.

Over the last few months, I've noticed that my car often doesn't hit the selected % for scheduled charge, and can be over/under by as much as 3-4% (e.g., charge set to 80% will result in the car being charged anywhere between 76-84%). Has anybody else seen similar behavior? It's been a year...

Man, there would be 100 posters in here with pitchforks if this was a $$$$TSLA FUD post.

Follow-up post on this as the Adams Graphene continues to really impress. It's been a couple of months since application, and the car has been through lots of rain, a bit of snow, and nearly weekly washes. The beading is still going strong and paint looks great. Have done nothing to reapply...

Not really. You'd be putting a good coating on top of a less durable coating. You may be able to find a detailer who will agree to do all the prep work but not apply the coating (but I think the ones charging 250-400 for a coating probably aren't doing quality prep).

IDK, I think the wide low grille can work pretty well...

We have a Wall Box for another car and are happy with it. Well made and lets us schedule charging which is all we needed from it. It has an LED status bar that seems impossible to disable which strikes me as a waste of energy, but probably not very much. I don't see any real advantage over...

I decided to test a product that I've been curious about (Adam's Graphene Spray Coating) while my paint was still in good shape. So I stripped the Turtle Wax and put on two coats of the Adams spray over the course of a few days. It's hard to tell from a bunch of iPhone photos, but the Adam's...

Ugh, the turning radius is by far my least favorite thing about how the Y drives--nearly a 40' radius. It makes it so clumsy in parking lots. Our other car (ID4 EV, virtually the exact same size as the Y) has a turning radius 7 feet tighter.

I’ve seen swings in predicted SoC as high as +/- 8 between the start and end of a drive. I’d like to have it prominently displayed if I’m going to finish a drive at 18% or be squeaking in with 10% or less.