Recent content by toutizes

Some update, Gruber found bad connections (rivets) on 3 battery sheets. They will rebuild connections to all sheets while it's in AZ. Interestingly they also offer additional fixes, even including the peeling headlights 8-D So I'm pampering #190 and fixing/maintaining small things too. Looking...

Hi Henry, about 40k miles. I don't remember the exact number and the car is still at Tesla. Gruber picks it up on Monday, Yay! How's #187 doing? Matthieu

@gregd You have a very valid point, and I agree with you. Thanks @Roadster for the Gruber recommendation. I contacted them and was immediately contacted back by Pete Gruber. He is impressively knowledgeable about roadsters in general and battery issues in particular. ==> #190 is going on...

It makes sense that they would buy for parts, I guess. They are really out of them. They indicated that they'll make an offer as follows: estimated street value of the car as if running minus price of a refurb'ed battery ($14k). I haven't received a number yet though. And it would be a...

Just in case someone has some ideas. My #190 died 2 weeks ago with "Powertrain failure." I did not think of writing the error code number. This was the 3rd time I had the failure, this time luckily just in front of the Palo Alto Tesla store. It rebooted and I could drive to the service...

Original owner #190 here, ~40k miles, was charging at ~170 miles in normal mode, always garaged, only range charged a few times per year too. But the PEM or battery (not sure) suddenly died 2 weeks ago just in front of the Tesla dealer. So seems that such good charge results were not...

Ford F450 vs. Tesla.

Around Palo Alto I have a lot of pollen build up on the panels. I clean them myself using a hose and the swimming pool long brush. By looking at the instant output on the meter before/after the cleaning I see about 15% improvement. Thanks for the reminder, Owner, it's indeed the right time...

>> [I eat vegetarians] :) :) Nice!

Still, the last line... "The V-8 may be dying but we have something better coming along to replace it." Hear, hear!

Stick shift ICE cars don't creep. I've never heard they were less "secure" than automatic transmission cars.

I gave up on it a while back and just use my Android phone. I have the one that came with the car in a box in the garage in Los Altos, Bay Area. Yours for $157?

Google finds this, not sure if it's the same Neal Stanley though.

Wow, pretty good. What car was #1, Neal Stanley, driving?

Ahhhhh... Is that the Elise Krypton Green?? I almost switched my color at the last minute to get it, but I chickened out. Oww, I'd like to see it in real life, photos have a hard teim rendering the color. I remember seeing a Krypton Green Elise in Hong-Kong at night 10+ years ago and...