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    Range Loss Over Time, What Can Be Expected, Efficiency, How to Maintain Battery Health

    Curious what you guys make of this... Just signed up for TeslaFi, charged to 100%. My car has been massively above average degradation since new, its a 2019 dual motor. Looks like its showing ~266 at 100% with 34,500 miles. It was around 288 with a few thousand, steadily dropped since. Maybe two...
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    Iphone wont connect to my model 3

    Are you trying to set up the key, or pair the bluetooth for the other functionality? If you're trying to pair to the phone, you need to be in the bluetooth page for the phone to be visible to the car.
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    "Deep Rain" improvements [post about auto wipers]

    When I first got the car a bit over a year ago, the auto wipers were absolutely awful. They worked maybe 5% of the time, suddenly went full blast in perfect weather, wouldn’t work at night, when the glass was wet when entering, or in light rain. Now they’re OK most of the time, but my biggest...
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    Battery heating while preconditioning cabin

    The fact that they’re preheating the battery so readily now, leads me to assume they have both confidence in the motor design enough that it can tolerate the abuse, and they feel it’s advantageous enough for the battery to warm it although it adds discharge cycles.
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    Tesla removes regenerative braking strength option

    I find it’s easier to control the vehicle on slick conditions with low regen. The trouble is, if you need to lift your foot to apply friction brakes, the regen will come on stronger than the tires are capable of tolerating, break loose, and the vehicle is unsettled. If this happens around a...
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    Cameras seem wonky??

    That sounds entirely normal. You should watch some videos on how bad it was a year or two ago...
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    Blowing the Carbon Out

    I usually just scream "POWWEEEEERRRRRRRRRR" as the peal is matted.
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    Overheat protection only for humans?

    I suspect its intended for a bit of both human comfort as well as reduced interior degradation. If they were terrified the car would melt when it gets hot, they wouldnt let you turn it off. I assume its more of a good idea, but not absolutely required. Reduced thermal cycling on the interior and...
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    Leaving 110 Charger Plugged In

    There is no reason to suspect leaving the mobile connector plugged in will damage it. I'd assume right now tens of thousands of them are plugged in and sitting idle without worry.
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    Video: Vandalism by Motorcylist

    That's pretty common if someone feels you endangered their life. Dude could just be a jerk though.
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    Does your 3 "click" at all?

    I suspect this is extremely common, and how the vehicle is designed to operate. My car does this, and has since new. My brothers car and a Leaf I had prior did as well. It's extremely likely just caused by the backlash in the axle splines, and nothing of considerable concern.
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    MICHELIN® Primacy™ MXM4 Holding up pretty good

    I mentioned in a previous thread I had 9K on the car when the tires were down to the wear bars. I forgot that I put around 3K of those with winter tires. The winter tires were new, and won’t be good for another season. So I’m thinking twice the life of snow tires isn’t terrible for an all...
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    15kmiles: need to replace tires and do alignment - is it ok?

    I got about 9K out of the stock tires before they were on the wear bars, so 15k sounds good. It depends a great deal on how you drive. Most places will check the alignment for free. If its out, its not out by much to make it this long.
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    "Thump" under hard braking?

    Mine does it too. I assume it has something to do with the brake booster design, it does not appear to be ABS engagement. I had a leaf that did something just like it when the battery was cold.
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    "Thump" under hard braking?

    Can you feel a slight click in the brake pedal at the same time? Is this a single occurrence that happens just the once, at the first heavy braking event?