Recent content by The Duke

Sorry about the late reply. I took it back to Fremont Service saying that should never happen. The manager agreed and fixed it for free. I believe his tech held the torx head with vice grips and carefully drilled it out. My solution so far has been 7" Hertz speakers in the front doors which...

Plaid has the smoothest stops ever just using regen.

Sorry, I can't. I bought them from Junior's Car Stereo in Fremont. He has a Plaid and can order the whole set. At this point I don't recommend getting the woofer, looks like a LOT of work to install. The rest are pretty easy. Be sure to get the sound deadening material as well for the door skin...

I think you are correct, but it does not sound that bad. Know of a place that sells sheet fiberglass? I have used MDF in the past. Around here it's all cloth and resin.

OK, finally got the time. NOT a drop in. The online manual makes it easy if all goes well. There is room for the Mille if you make a box and mount a little higher than stock. But my tale is different. One of the bolts holding the stock enclosure spun its nut instead of coming off. It's the...

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Has anyone done this and kept the stock position? I upgraded the rest of the speakers to Hertz Mille. No other changes yet, the stock system seems to drive the speakers just fine and sound is much improved. I also added some sound deadening in the doors so no doubt that helped. The last...

Lowering pretty much solved my half shaft vibration, but I got a new rattle at 20 mph. Tesla service has a vibration team and they re-torqued the whole front suspension but to no avail. Then they made the passenger door harder to close by moving the latch and she is now rattle free. The door is...

They blame camber which is the lesser problem. Toe is the bigger problem and alignment not done at low ride height is second.

Look at the Tesla specs, use the ones closest to zero. Be sure the car is set to its lowest ride height. Inner tire wear is mostly from the toe in which Tesla sets way too much and somewhat because of the excessive camber.

Not at all, the suspension design is exceedingly good. But wheel alignment specs from Tesla are bad. Set to minimum spec at low ride height. Many Tesla SC will not do that for you. Some alignment shops will not get it right.

Just do it yourself, any cheap UV box for fingernails works, probably two overnight treatments. Yeah, Tesla should take care of it, but I did it myself and saved many hours over service center visits. Take the bottom off the UV box so the UV hits the screen and tape it to one corner of the...

I am hoping to put a back up camera, same as original, mounted in upper section of radiator opening on the front. The idea is to see how close the curb is when pulling forward into a space. Dummy install, if it works: put a camera up front, wire to remote switch next to backup camera to...

Good weather lately. Vibration is almost gone at the lower height. As far as the brackets vs links, the brackets are harder, but not prohibitively so. I talked to UP tech and they told me why the brackets were better, not sure I agree, but they are in and working well. Note: you may be...

Got the UP lowering brackets in. Much harder than it looked at first. Finding a screw in the right front tire slowed things a bit as well. Too much rain to check vibration, but I think it's better.