Recent content by Sosius

LM is willing to pay $55 an hour, and they want $100 an hour.

Sorry, to clarify. My car is a Tesla Model S, but the local certified repair shop is the Mercedes Benz Collision Center. Liberty Mutual refuses to pay them the going local rate for aluminum body work, leaving me with a bill of at least $1600, plus my deductible, to make up the difference...

I would not recommend Liberty Mutual to anybody with a Tesla. My car has been in a Tesla-certified body shop (Mercedes) for 81 days now. Weeks of delay were due to LM being slow with estimates and supplements. The rest was due to parts delays from Tesla. Now LM has paid the body shop, and...

I damaged my rear driver's side door backing out of my driveway. Didn't realize my son hadn't closed it and it hit my house--DOH! My car has now been in a Tesla-certified Mercedes collision center for 78 DAYS. Supposedly, they are now down to some final negotiations with my insurance...

Nice! My car got dropped off on the side of a busy road in front of a Salvation Army residential facility by a Russian truck driver named Yuri. I got no goodies but the car, which needed a wash! I finally bought some goodies from the Tesla website to make myself feel better. I still love the...

Given that the price differential between the single motor S and the D model is $5000, I would think the drive units are not that expensive. Yes, I know that there is a size and performance difference between the P85 motor and the base 70D motors, but the $5000 price differential includes a lot...

Yit, You don't see complaining posts from me about my 70D because I, like many others who don't spends hours a day here, don't have any complaints about my car worth posting about. It's by far the finest car I have ever owned, and I don't regret buying it at all. Enjoy your car, and don't...

This is a great thread. None of the usual b*tching and moaning about stuff that has infected much of the discussion of v7. Change is hard, but when it comes with tangible improvements like this, I'll take it every time!

My 70D has been very reliable. Usually high-end cars with a lot of gizmos have a number of small issues, but my only repair was getting the sunroof recalibrated. It did not open evenly when vented. Tesla ranger has been great. If you get one, post a picture of the car in front Mr. Tesla's...

No, I'm pretty sure it's part of a plan to replace the entire dash display with a big analog clock. :)

Very strange. I was just looking at it, and when I hit the back button to get back to it, it just took me to the Model S page. Now we have some good stuff for the conspiracy theorists to chew on for the next day or so until v7 is released! ;)

Negroni poured. Send some more pics so I can live vicariously.

Interesting. I guess they really are targeting both the SUV market and the mini-van market. This is the same setup as our Toyota Sienna minivan. And that's a good thing. If you can create a vehicle with the functionality of a minivan that doesn't look like or drive like a minivan, you have a...

As of 2 minutes ago, you can still configure a VW TDI "Clean Diesel" at VW.com.

VW's going to have a hell of a time retrofitting all these vehicles to meet emissions regs. The end result will be markedly slower TDIs, which will be unacceptable for many buyers. My bet is that they wind up buying a lot of cars back or offering cash to people whose vehicles lost performance...