Recent content by zap fizzle

My car broke at Grantham supercharger; I was obviously there for quite a long time. I asked at the WH Smiths shop inside and they added my reg to a list. No ticket/invoice/"fine". So you can just do that if for some absolutely inexplicable reason you want to spend time in that delightful loaction.

I've had "acoustic" (foam-lined) and non, back-to-back, on my MS and thought there was very little difference. Certainly wouldn't pay any extra money or tolerate any hassle in order to have the foam. On the tyre issue, the Nokian WRA4 performance in winter weather was absolutely outstanding...

It's a whole world of complication but IMV is worth the effort. Basically the hard part is the CAN bus cable, there are 2 types depending on age of car and they take several weeks to come by post from the USA. It connects under the cubby under the MCU, which is a pain to access if the car has a...

Personally - I have a Model S which has been quite unreliable, and while not financially a stretch to own, I would find the experience spoiled entirely by multiple £1000+ repair bills pa. Whereas, oddly, I find the car's rattling and unreliability comic, and unstressful. So, warranty is HIGHLY...

Buying a used Tesla is increasingly problematic. First of all were the problems with the 90 batteries - as you note there are several versions, the v1 on a P90D can't make full quoted power. There is also a tendency for the 90s to suffer accelerated degradation. You don't want to pay for your...

Generally, a new version is pushed aggressively when it contains a bug fix which Tesla consider important. "Aggressively" in this context can mean not just pushing it quickly, but also pushing it to cars with no wifi - which costs money in mobile charges. The bug fix can be something visible...

The small print says that but in practice it's an unfair contract term - especially if there's damage to the car which isn't declared to you before paying - so you can get it back. As with all processes and procedures at Tesla, doing so might well try your patience though.

Apologies. The UMC is fukt then, that's pretty definitive. If you had a building full of Tesla owners it might have been interesting to swap the bs1363 tail off your UMC with someone else's as a test, but as it is I think you can just put the whole UMC back to the service centre and say "it's...

"Tested with the charger at work" is very ambiguous. Do you mean "you tried your UMC in another socket and it acted the same"? If so, then agreed, raise a service request in the app. If you're near a service centre, and you just turn up, I'd hope there's a reasonable chance they'd test/swap it...

If the plug is AT ALL warm at just 5 amps, either the plug or socket is seriously defective. Focus on that.

It's always been inconsistent and dependent on SoC and luck. It's possible they have done something, but their MO for MORE THAN HALF A DECADE has been to lie and do nothing, which remains by far the most likely option.

Ecotricity have been telling gullible people that they're fixing their rapids to have more compatible CCS since at least the BMW i3 launch (2013). They haven't lifted a finger to do so since then. Indeed, in their current "squatting on the MSA sites waiting to get bought out" business plan, it...

It's not outrageous - it probably barely breaks even. It's a very expensive machine, a very very expensive grid connection, and very expensive power. Industrial uses like this do not benefit from all the hidden subsidies we get on domestic power - they pay a hefty penalty for peak-time use and...

CPS is a disaster. Go scroll around zapmap looking at comments - perhaps half the sites are in good reliable working order, and a good proportion of those will be blocked by a freeloading local when you need them. No revenue == no funds (or incentive) for repairs.

Agreed re above - you need in writing that the account is in a state such that supercharging is possible. It's taking many weeks for Tesla to process change of ownership in the UK at present. They need to ACTUALLY TEST THAT IT DOES SUPERCHARGE, not just tell you it's OK. How far you need to...