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Telsa confirmed this via text to me last week. After they closed out my service request, they sent me a text out of the blue stating that they showed that setting was causing significant battery drain. I texted back to clarify since I never turn on Sentry Mode, and they said it will drain...

I've been in this situation for almost two years now. It's not really a big issue in California, where Tesla superchargers are plentiful. Since the supercharger in my city is by a large shopping center, I just plan errands around the charging time. I set it to 100% and by the time I'm done with...

It's telling me in one screenshot, not two, and that 2% is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the other 18% in that screenshot, and the 1.1% over five hours of simple idling in the other screenshot. If it was drain coming from a 3rd party app, I would expect that to be shown in the...

I've noticed some rather troublesome additional idle power drain with my M3LR. I don't own my home so no option to plug in overnight, I'm 100% tied to superchargers. The first time after a long spell between charges, I saw ~18% battery drain over the span of 12 days. Just today I saw it use...

There is a long Reddit thread here indicating, at least on the surface, that something in a recent update is leaching power during idle. It may be the HVAC anti smell running per my ticket with Tesla. I recommend opening a service ticket just to let them know. They seem to be brushing the idle...

Hey everyone, I'm curious if others experience this with AP. When I'm at highway speeds, I notice that AP tends to take curves wide, riding either the divider line, or the ditch. This is particularly problematic on a number of California two lane highways; in some instances when testing safely...

Sadly, the SC gave stock answers and the cold shoulder with my rollback request. They did admit they're getting lots of negative feedback about this update and that is being passed on, but I take that with a grain of salt.

Be sure to open an NHTSA complaint as well. If it's a safety issue (like playing games while driving), they'll compel an update from Tesla. In this case they should, all the changes require you to look more at the display than the road for common tasks. I also opened a mobile service...

If you ask the SC they will probably scratch their heads and ask you to show them what's wrong. They're not good at doing things that require much creativity or go outside of their scripted fixes. You could have an independent tire shop inspect your tires for any nails or embedded debris...

After watching the whole video, the main things that I'm interested in are: The likelihood of this particular issue occurring in another car, especially in SR+ vs. LR/P Model 3s that have the front motor (and for those who say the motor would deflect the road debris -- you're cool with your...

Mobile tech just finished my inspection. No issues. He says he's done 200+ already and not found a single issue. One thing I should warn you on, the mobile dispatch tried to reschedule my service appointment because they didn't have the bolts in stock. This is pretty silly since A) it appears...

Which isn't ideal because of the vampire drain. I've found success in flipping the network on my phone between wifi and LTE, or hitting airplane mode when it's stuck. But yeah, it's not always super reliable, and I suspect it's probably Tesla's data center and not the app itself.

Quick update, got the car back today. It was a pretty quick fix once the parts came in--they got them yesterday afternoon and the car was ready to pick up this morning. So far the issue seems to be gone and the AC definitely feels like it's blowing colder than it was before. Heat is hot as...

I think I got the M3 that was built by drunken robots and a half blind QC person, to be honest. Half the car was fine for panel fitment, the other half had a ton of issues. What's concerning is it seems like they didn't work out the kinks with the heat pump system. Between the recall for the...

It always fascinates me on any of the Telsa forums how some people are so dismissive of reported issues. My last car was a VW GTI that has zero issues for the four years I owned it. Not a single one. My M3 on the other hand has had more issues in 3000 miles of ownership and spent more time in...