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I have had a good interaction with a gentleman named Daniel in the San Rafael Tesla SC for Roadster. You might call and ask for him by name. I haven't taken the car in yet. I'm also unclear whether the work is now being done in San Rafael or Corte Madera.

Thanks glide - that seemed to help.

Rec'd update 2022.8.10.5 yesterday. It has muffled most of the car's speakers. The two speakers at the windshield emit audio, but all four door speakers rear side speakers are almost silent. The speakers in the trunk lid very faint. This is not correctable with the silly balance control -...

Chad, you and I both appear to be in the Bay Area. How did you tow your 1.5 up to Fife WA? Strib

My Roadster 1.5 has been in a specialty repair shop for months and they appear to have damaged the PEM. Say they can't get IGBTs. Anybody know the identification of the IGBTs in the 1.5? Should I retrieve it and tow it to WA or other Tesla SC? Strib

Opens wrong door

This seems to be a different, more basic, problem than other threads, and I'm not sure if it's 7.1 related - so I've started this new thread. I deferred programming the HomeLink on my new MS until I completed some mechanical work on the garage doors. Meanwhile it received the 7.1 update...

I put new Yoko AD07's on my Roadster 1.5 exactly 5000 miles ago, and the Fremont SC tells me the 17" rears are completely worn and must be replaced. Honestly, I'm a VERY conservative driver and these tires have been carefully 'babied'. Sorry. But this seems to be extremely low tread life...

I put in a fairly large, 18KW (raw DC) system, designed to offset my household energy usage plus two EV's. I'm on PG&E's EV-A time-of-use plan, but it doesn't matter. I'm a net positive supplier so they pay me a puny $0.04 per kwh at the end of the year's true-up period without regard to...

I've just learned that this is true, of course, for a Model S. But when charging in freezing weather the initial energy is used to warm the battery; when plugged in for battery management energy is used to maintain a reasonable temperature.

AllDigital, 'offered' that to my daughter but no joy, so still no driving readings. I admire your even more analytic approach. But surprised you found no deflection near the trunk hasp (the passive part of my motorized latch) or at the lower passenger side front bumper. My readings were very...

I said I'd report back, and here's what I got. Note that I was dubious about there being an intense magnetic field when the care was completely off... I suspected the strong fields would exist during driving or charging. Using my handheld compass, I could not test in the bottom of the trunk...

I, also, just ordered a DJI Inspire 1 V2 to carry around in my P90D. So I'm going to be very interested in investigating any possible magnetic field coupling strong enough to miscalibrate the compass. I'll do some checking with my backpacking compass in various locations and report back. But...

Shinteetah, read your blog, Laura, nice! Congrats on your writing career. But... now you know there's no need to justify a Tesla. It's a Tesla. I pick up my 'Blue Boy' MS day-after-tomorrow, very excited - no aidos for me.

I take delivery of my P90D this Friday! And I plan on taking it to Tahoe (often, I hope). So I have the same question about chains, cables. But I have no idea what tires will be on my 19" wheels. For my old Lexus SUV (360K miles!) the stock default tires are S&M. What about my AWD MS? If I...