Recent content by Swordtail

It does have USS. I didn't realise newer cars didn't. I see the Tesla website says summon and autopark don't work on these cars while they make their camera based "Tesla Vision" up to the task of replacing them. Sounds rather like the cr*p auto wipers that don't work properly as Tesla rely on...

My M3 suffered a slight scuff on the wheel arch in a car park due to someone driving into the next space forwards and clipping it. They owned up and their insurance will cover the repair. However the repairer I'm using at Tesla's recommendation has said "please be advised that your vehicle may...

I've always been irritated by how the AC seems to have a life of its own. The issue where settings are remembered for the Easy Entry profile can cause the problem, but just recently I've found the AC keeps turning on whatever I do. I have the climate control set to "Lo" but I want AC off. I...

My three year old M3 has got minor scratches around the door handles, and elsewhere, which seems unusual as I've never noticed this happen on previous cars. I know Tesla doesn't have best reputation for paint quality. Is this a common thing and/or covered by warranty does anyone know? Cheers.

So it's been a few weeks since I turned off obstacle aware acceleration and it's not done it since. I think the feature is another one in the "good idea if it works properly" category.

This is what I'm doing. It's not consistent though. Sometimes I can pull out and take the 90 degree turn without any impact on acceleration and other times it does the "granny power" thing. I'm now wondering if it is the OAA and maybe there has been a car turning in next to me or something...

Cheers for this. I've turned off the obstacle aware acceleration setting and I'll see if that makes a difference. I just thought it was a bit hit and miss to be the traction control.

I've had my M3 LR for about 18 months. Every now and again when I try to accelerate reasonably hard from a standstill the car seems to hesitate slightly before picking up speed. I don't think this relates to battery condition (temp or SOC) as it can do it one moment and be fine the next. I...

I don't really see how bits of car can fall on you doing a brake service even if the jack gave way suddenly. The wooden safety block sounds like a good idea though maybe along the lines of in the pic cut out better?

Thanks for all your opinions on this. I think I'll use my two trolley jacks to jack up the front and back at the same time and leave it at that. I like the idea of putting a wheel under in case a jack were to fail but couldn't this damage the battery or other other parts of the underside if it...

I've read lots of posts about jacking up a Tesla at home. I'm no mechanic but would like to have a go at servicing the brakes which (unlike tire rotations) requires quite a bit of brute force to remove retaining pins and pads. I'm struggling to see how you'd get the car onto jack stands. I...

Another novice question (!) - is it ok to jack up just one corner at a time? And since you're not supposed to take wheels off etc. until the car is on jack stands, how do you get the car from the jack to the stands with such tiny jacking points?? Cheers!

Cheers, I was worried about the saddle slipping off the puck but I expect it'll probably stick by the teeth digging into the rubber like you and "android04" have said. I'd read elsewhere that the puck did need to fit inside the saddle which prompted my question in the first place. That's...

I've already got the puck, it's rubber but much wider than the saddle. It's about 45mm between the inside of the teeth. I don't know how easy it would be to cut notches in the puck for the teeth to slot in. I could give it a try although I'll probably cut my finger off!

Thanks for this. It is a 2 tonne jack which is 2.2 US tons. I was wondering if the teeth of the saddle would jam into the rubber of the puck and prevent slippage. I think I'll try this and just be very careful when I start unscrewing the wheel nuts.