Recent content by X-Chris

Yeah, I know developer of “Watch App for Tesla” suggests a workaround for slow Siri response — open the app before you anticipate needing to issue a command. This gives it a chance to wake up, so later, you can give the open command and get better response time. This makes it not very...

Pretty sure you mean Watch App for Tesla? I use it too. Great when it works. If walking to car, have to hit “open trunk“ or tell Siri to do it long before I get there. Otherwise I end up standing behind car waiting for it to open. Often unreliable and have to open manually anyway...

I was having my tires rotated by mobile service. I mentioned to the technician that I could not disconnect the speaker wire. He pulled the panel and swiftly disconnected it. He said you just need to pull firmly, and there is no need to try to push in on any catch or clip on the connector.

Regarding the Virginia program, another note: When you attempt to activate the program using telematics, you are forwarded to the domain "smartcar.com" which requests your Tesla login information. Because of this, I bailed. In all likelihood this is legit, but I am not comfortable turning...

As mentioned by others, this speaker plays autopilot alerts when your main touchscreen is down/rebooting. You can test that it is working by triggering an autopilot alert while your touchscreen is restarting. To do this while parked: Hold down brake and put car in drive Tap stalk down twice...

That link is more helpful, thanks. I plugged in the info for one of my Teslas, and the popup below indicates it is eligible for telematics, at a cost of 1.004 cents per mile.

Recent email from Virginia DMV promoted the "Mileage Choice" program for EV Owners. This lets you pay the annual highway use fee based on mileage instead of a flat rate. If anyone is enrolled, please share your experience: How much are you saving? How onerous is the process? They say you...

If autopilot is disengaged within 5 seconds of a crash, Tesla reports it in their autopilot statistics. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

This was my initial reaction, but I am here to say I was wrong. I subscribed to FSD to try the EAP features on a road trip this weekend, and it was a pleasure. Car navigated stop and go traffic for me on DC beltway and I was able to relax and enjoy it. Later, found NOA to be useful even with...

Welcome to the forum, and apologies for some of the lectures you received on not having a trash receptacle in your car. It is your car, and you can do what you want in it! To answer your specific question: at one time there were several console trash cans like this one for the gen 1 console...

Buy an ID4 https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a34108430/vw-id4-will-come-with-3-years-of-free-charging-at-electrify-america-stations/

My wife has her own account and I made her an authorized driver of both our Teslas. She is fully able to do everything, including request roadside assistance or make service appointments. I like this better than account sharing. If either of us gets locked out of our Tesla account, the other...

I do not disable sentry at airport parking. Our LR MY loses about 6-7% a day with sentry on. I always have plenty of battery left to get home for any trip up to 7 days (beyond that I would not park at the airport anyway). I have never even dropped to the 20% level where sentry is disabled...

Service center fixed this for me by removing the covers and trimming the plastic nubbins. (Somewhere there is a thread where someone posted video of mobile service doing this for them too.) They also suggested that I was being critical about a sound that I would not have been able to hear if...

When you designate someone as additional driver, they get an email and are prompted to create a Tesla account (if they don’t already have one. ) So they do end up with a separate Tesla account.