Recent content by slickrock

Ordered the Straight Plaid yesterday after the announcement. There is a lot of speculation about the differences. My sense is if the Plaid can do <2.0 than it’s going to get big/wide meats and probably will have the same tri-motors. Major diff likely for the Plaid+ will be the huge battery /...

OK, I heard it once going downhill at the bottom of my hill, but much softer. I still feel there some "windup" is involved; it doesn't occur out of the gate. My guess is that temperature, hill inclination, and side-to-side pitching is involved. My car is scheduled for service next week on a...

I have not experienced it going downhill. Seems to happen only when the gravity vector is pushing aft.

My situation is just like al503 above: live 1000ft up a step hill with twists along the a way up. One clunk is almost guaranteed and happens when car is thrown into a left turn and then right turn (or vice versa)... basically when car is in torsion. Seems to happen at the end of the route...

My Model S app wakeup is very fast - under 5 seconds, whether on LTE or WiFi. In the same garage my M3P takes at least 30 seconds to boot up - sometimes it never wakes up until I open the car door. The only time it is fast is when its connected to power, but even this it still takes about 10...

Fundamentally, do you folks feel that the price of a used Model 3 would actually gain resale value after the EV tax credits expire? The thinking is if you buy new in, say March 31 2019, the price of used Model 3 is now basically $3500 higher? Or in August of 2019 the price of a used Model 3 is...

Bay Area resident / Fremont Delivery 18th in line at Walnut Creek Store Model S owner since 2015 Invite arrived 10:10am PST.