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A few months to go before hitting 10 years, but my 2014 P85 is also still a great car on its original battery. The drive unit was replaced twice in 2017 under warranty, and so far, the third drive unit has been perfect. 62K miles. 252 mile range at 100% charge (when new, a full charge was 265...

My 2014 P85 (AP1, MCU1) had a software update notice available for a while but it hadn't actually downloaded yet. Then on a trip last weekend, I spent too much time at superchargers and apparently still had the Tesla WiFi password enabled. So now I have the update downloaded, with the dialog...

Several times I was at Kettleman when my car did not have the current update, so the code displayed in Nav was not the most recent and didn't work. Fortunately Tesla owners are a helpful bunch, so when they see another owner frowning and punching in the numbers (even remembering the symbol at...

I held out as long as I could, but eventually had to take the car in for service and was "updated" to a current release that no longer shows my USB album art, among other downgrades. The new version spews a series of errors about my USB drive being corrupted or not formatted correctly, even...

Check whether Autopilot was disabled in settings by the update. I had to turn it back on and agree to a disclaimer about "beta" quality.

Still on 3G, and as of 12:30 AM on February 23rd, 3G still works for me. Tesla has sent two messages via the mobile app, one back in November and the other on the 11th of February, reminding of the impending 3G shutdown and offering the $200 LTE modem upgrade. That seems reasonable and fair to...

The car graphic on the sleeve is cool. I would also vote to remove the "Member" text, for the reasons that @Stavinski mentions. As someone who has collected a lot of unique t-shirts over the years, my observation is that the ones which are actually wearable out in public are as understated as...

My personal version of Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute any change to someone making a deliberate decision, either for the original behavior or the new behavior." It could be that the smaller font sizes were a bug that wasn't intended and later went away by chance when a newer version of some...

It's been 865 days since 2018.32.4, a slightly later flavor of 8.1 in which USB audio works great, the UI is still relatively usable, and charging speed and range aren't throttled. Giving up app access and real-time supercharger status to keep these things is not a bad tradeoff, IMO. I think...

You should know that only about 400 P85 and P85+ cars were built with Autopilot; we've been keeping a list. P55854 showed up as a Tesla used inventory listing back in October 2017. One word of warning: not sure what constitutes a "weird" Carfax but if it's been in a major accident or has a...

That is a great find! The listing shows you the original packages that came with the car, including the Tech Package, the Fog Lights package, and the Parking Sensors package. Autopilot was not yet announced at the time this car would have been built (probably in September or October of 2014...

What's a 2021? ;) Anything built up through New Year's Eve would still be considered 2020, right? Or has Tesla started playing the legacy manufacturers' game to get people thinking they're buying a model that won't be out of date for another year?

Head-bang song to sing In AMC, or Tesla: "Keep Yourself Alive"

Blade Runner hellscape? Bioweapon defense mode Filters out the crud

Seems like my original speculated location, the Target on Birch Street, isn't happening either... at least, not anytime soon. Target apparently released a list of the locations where supercharger improvements are authorized to be installed in 2020, and Brea's not on that list. :(