Recent content by RidgeRunner

Most people are concentrating and thinking on transitioning to "sustainable" energy for climate change reasons. Here is one more thing to think on, vinyl chlorides. While we can't totally get rid of this ingredient of plastics we can reduce the use by returning to paper for grocery bags, milk...

Does auto Pilot detect red lights and give an "urgent warning" if it thinks you are about to run it?

Are there any subtle signs the 12 volt battery is losing its capacity. My concern is that we have to ride the ferry twice per week and it is about 30 minutes each way. So, there may be longer duration of load on the battery running HVAC, radio, seat heat, screen than the normal user doesn't get.

hasn't happened, just trying to prevent it from happening.

Right, just trying to prevent a problem before it happens.

OOOOooo. I don't like that

ha funny I did find the instruction for this procedure after posting the question. and intend to get the 12 volt A123 and will post the instruction on her phone. And..... have a little jump starter battery in the frunk. thanks. Now wondering if one gets a warning that it is fixing to die...

If my wife comes out of the store and 12 volt battery just died what does she do? Can't get into the car, where I've stashed instructions and a small charger in the trunk. She Can't open the car door, no emergency hard key, can't open the trunk or the frunk.

trying to find out now if we get a warning that 12 volt battery is beginning to die. (probably not). I had seen somewhere a post saying not to push the car more than some insanely short distance say four or five or ten feet. Trying to check on that as well. here is what I found from the...

Thanks jcanoe. I need to get an understanding of sleep, standby, and awake modes. I'm going out now to determine lead acid or Lithium battery. I'm thinking if Lithium then I can worry less about losing the low volt battery going dead My Y is less than is only 1.5 years old. I'm assuming if...

If I charge up to say 80% and leave it plugged in for 3 or 4 days and the charge goes to something less because the heater or AC may be running or whatever, does it recharge back up to 80%. So the question is how far off of 80% does it have to go off of the 80% to start charging again? This can...

We have to take the ferry to the mainland (Galveston) and often cars that fail to start or run have to get pushed off so other cars can load/unload. So if something happened and we get stranded on the ferry is it possible to push off or are we really stranded? A dead volt 12 volt battery may...

could the NIHTSA recall requiring Tesla to use less power to close the windows cause them to not fully seal off and bring us back to the era of when there was excessive and much too much wind noise in the cabin? I know, I know,...... you will say it was the double pane glass that ultimately...

I've had my Y over a year and have yet to read any of the alerts. As a driver I need to keep my eye on the road ahead. As soon as I feel safe to look at the screen the warning message is gone.

since posting this side mirror vs. camera question I've tried to use the cameras with their image on the screen and I feel its awkward (taking eye off the road to the screen and not able to judge distance. And, the way these jerks drive 20mph over the allowable 5 mph over the limit, they can be...