Recent content by TarmacSurfer

So does anyone here have any information regarding (1) whether Tesla will actually change the oil based on a customer request (is there an official policy?) and (2) what the warranty implications are if you DIY it?

As I used to tell my students (back in my CFI days), “good judgement comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgement”. The hope of course is that it doesn’t necessarily have to be YOUR OWN bad judgement… IOW learn from the mistakes and failures of others and develop good...

Nailed it. There’s this concept of “personal responsibility” that comes into play in just about everything in life. I’m a big believer in it, I was raised to have it and I raise my kids to have it, although it’s become an antiquated notion in our society today where everything must be someone...

Not that facts matter to the EV-h8r crowd, but the fact is I use my M3 to go up to the mountains skiing pretty much every weekend. No issues. I’ve driven it in -15°C temps up at Mammoth and it sat overnight cold soaking in sub-zero (-18°C) temps overnight. Got in the next morning and drove it...

Perhaps, but perhaps not… Most people who buy pickup trucks don’t actually use them to do things that can’t be done as well (or better) by other vehicle types - they buy them for image, status, and wanting to appear macho. As someone mentioned earlier, actual job site work trucks are typically...

Booked my place in TX a few months ago for the eclipse - at that time most hotels still hadn’t caught on that there was going to be a high-demand event then. Now it’s either impossible to find space at all or the cost is so ridiculous as to be prohibitive (just for fun I went online a few weeks...

Why do you feel you need to?

Might be rolling out of Fremont now… sure looks like it in this post from Elon Musk a few minutes ago…

Yea it’s encouraging that the water shield system seems to be working as designed however a 6% failure rate on the engines is not so encouraging. In aerospace, that’s way outside of acceptable tolerances for just about everything. So there undoubtedly will be some serious looking at that...

So still no real information. What’s the over / under on this flying before Thanksgiving?

Interesting - what’s the change in weight and cost? Never heard of this until now.

I looked at the Taycan before deciding on the M3. It’s beautiful and it’s a Porsche, but the stats were inferior to the M3 across the board - range, charge time, acceleration, cost… and Tesla has its charging network. The higher end Taycans (“Turbo” or GTS) are different animals entirely but...

That’s what motorcycles are for.

Haha, brilliant! Then FSD can crash someone else’s cars!