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Apropos of nothing and I’ve said it before, but I don’t think an automated frunk is worth the aggro when it goes wrong. If I had confidence that the cinch motors were protected from the elements and could only fail due to old age, then I’d feel more comfortable about it, but as it is they are...

Sorry I didn’t see this reply. To answer your question - no. The cable you’re pointing to there is OEM, not part of the kit. The cable you need to cut if the cinch motor is seized or otherwise won’t unlatch is the smooth black cable to the right of your photo. You wouldn’t cut it at the...

That’s the problem, regular dashcams typically record front and maybe back, for the purposes of helping with accident/insurance disputes. They won’t capture door dings etc which is to be fair Sentry’s pièce de résistance. The CCTV I have at home consists of several bullet cameras all powered...

I use Soundiiz - Transfer playlists and favorites between streaming services I'm a bit of a cheapskate so I use their free plan which allows one sync to be scheduled. I just set this to happen every Monday morning when Spotify updates, and it copies the playlist across to TIDAL. And here is...

Got an email reply yesterday evening from Tesla, the deadline I gave them on the LBA was today. Everything as expected, a complete and exhaustive denial of everything I had said, and a request that if I proceed that I correspond via email with Taylor Wessing. The thrust of their rebuttal is...

Good to know. I hadn't thought about licensing. I haven't come across anything that is obviously missing, but I have a more contemporary taste generally. I have an automated sync set up to bring across my "Discover Weekly" from my UK Spotify Premium account, and 99 times out of 100 always...

I used this app (on a Mac, but there is a Windows version too). I can't vouch for its safety or reliability, but it was 100% free (not "free but please enter your credit card details") and I was able to connect to a Malaysian VPN within about 3 mins of finding the page on Google.

A slowed down steering rack and indicator buttons both on one side of the wheel feels like trolling.

I'd say that Sentry is worth having on in public places. Guaranteed the first day you decide to turn it off to save battery will be the day you get a nasty ding and no note. I don't really know why Sentry consumes as much energy as it does. Theoretically it need only run 4 cameras for it, and...

Adrian stopped work on TeslaMate? I did not know that. When did that happen?

They stopped taking foreign Visa/Mastercard on TIDAL Argentina, that’s what killed that off for UK folk. Can confirm Malaysia works on the same Revolut card I used to use on Argentina. Nigeria is cheaper than Malaysia apparently.

Same. I just apply a bit of torque, doesn't even feel like I'm pulling really, just a little extra weight on the wheel where my hand is. I guess it depends on where your hand(s) are normally holding the wheel.

Why would there need to be a replacement for TeslaMate? Are we anticipating it not being updated, or is there something about the new API that makes it incompatible (e.g. it's chargeable?)

Yup. Don't think everything can be changed though. if my car were out of warranty I'd be very interested in coding UNECE restrictions off the car, or at least trying to see how it behaves when those settings aren't turned on.

You can get TIDAL cheaper by using a VPN, if you're interested. I was using Argentina for the longest time, and a HiFi Plus (the Master quality one) was less than £1.50 a month. Have switched to Malaysis at around £3/month but have been advised that Columbia or Nigeria are cheaper. Same...

No one has confirmed it as far as I know. It was never confirmed.

That's a different thing. The current regs mandate that a lane change has to be completed within 5 seconds: Additionally the delay between lane change "procedure" (presumably the notification of intent) and the lane change "manoeuvre" starting must NOT be less than 3 seconds, and not more...

Do you happen to know if you can change the "ece_restrictions" or "eu_vehicle" config variables? Would quite like to have a Summon that actually works without me having to be in touching distance of the car, or at least would like to see what the car does without these restrictions in place.

If you can root the car and code off "ece_restrictions" (and possibly "eu_vehicle") to "no", then yes. Don't think you'd get offered FSD Beta though, on a car outside of the States, as presumably it's done by VINs. Who knows though.

Pretty annoying clickbait headline on both the video and Twitter, but is to be expected I suppose. As is always the case the devil is in the detail, as @Pink Duck has highlighted. This sounds about as gimped as you could imagine it could be. Feels like it would be entirely pointless to use...

Nothing here. Lame!

Leasing? Thought that was standard practice for that?

Early adopters tax. Logic dictates one should at minimum wait until the end of this quarter to buy, or even see what’s going to happen with interest rates later this year, but can understand why some people can’t wait.

It’s probably the most controversial thing about the new car. If you were coming to the brand completely cold I could understand not being aware of this in advance, but as a 2019 owner I’m surprised at the lack of apparent research into a new car purchase?

Thanks for the review. RWD sound system (pre and post Highland) is worse in hardware terms - fewer speakers, fewer woofers, no sub (I think) than the 3P which would’ve had premium sound. The predictive Drive and Reverse thing only works after the cameras are calibrated, from what I’ve seen...

Aside from anything else I’ve been told Tesla are going to notify people next week about what is happening with the extended warranty options. That’s what Marsh (parent company of Helvetia) told me.

Didn’t think it would change anything to be honest. Tesla Bristol have knocked back my service request for the same problem, basically saying “cameras can become blocked or blinded temporarily which can affect autonomous features”. This is pretty much par for the course, I seem to have to drag...

One could make an argument that it’s better to have too many updates than not enough. Excessive messages you can choose to ignore, insufficient updates might leave people wondering if it’s definitely happening. To be honest, by now - 26/01/2024, I would like to think that I would have received...

Different strokes I guess. I feel like the dash wraparound to the doors is much more cohesive now, whereas on all of the ones previously although there is continuity between the dash and the door cards, it isn‘t really cohesive. Coming from a 2020 MIA car, everything felt really solid. Hard...

Damn, wish I'd been asked that.

True, I was forgetting that they also relocated that to the screen.

One could make an argument that if they removed the Autopilot features from the right stalk, to relocate them to the wheel, the car would look seriously janky with a single left stalk, so removing one effectively necessitates removing the other. My answer to that is simply - don't bother...

Each to their own but i did a drive earlier using TIDAL again after I signed up from Malaysia (£2.80/month, apparently Nigeria is cheaper) after having used Spotify for several months prior, and it was once again remarkable how much different it sounded. More bass, clearer midrange & top end...

Model 3/Y supports TIDAL HiFi quality over wireless (e.g. hotspot), which is lossless. I wouldn't say I'm a purist but I have a USB SSD attached and everything on it is in lossless FLAC quality. To my OCD ears I can definitely hear a significant difference between TIDAL and Spotify in the car...

It sounds pretty crap to me with my own personal Spotify Premium account, at least on LTE. Sounds considerably worse than TIDAL.

Yeah, it would be whack-a-mole if Tesla tried to stop it. Easy enough to stop a fixed weight wheel thing, not to easy to block something that can be updated.

What a derail. :( Highland repeater cameras (presumed HW4) are 1820734-00-D (left) 1820735-00-D (right) Latest generation pre-Highland cameras are: 1495864-20-E (left) 1495865-20-E (right), or 1125106-50-J (left) 1125107-50-J (right) - presumably US and Chinese suppliers being the reason for...

As I understand it these S3XY things are injecting CAN signals the same way the OEM controls do, so I don’t know how the car would even “know” anything foreign was doing it. If I were a Tesla coder tasked with trying to block this stuff I’d be looking at how precise the “reactivate AP” signal...

The clips on these things are absolute shite. They break putting them in, they break pulling them out. The ranger who did mine warned me that my old ones might not come out without breaking (I was hoping to sell my old ones to recoup some costs) and sure enough one side did. For what it’s...

I doubt it will change anything for the simple reason that I actually paid to get latter generation repeaters because of the orange bloom effect on early ones (Tesla wouldn’t replace under warranty) and I’m experiencing this warning as well. So, as a side benefit of you getting this work done...

It's also perhaps noteworthy that this disclaimer does not need any positive interaction to agree or disagree with, it's just there and as you said based on your browser size, eyesight, etc one might not have even seen it. it is certainly not important enough for them to have decided to have a...

You're really very brilliant with the help you've provided. I would say based on conversations I've already had with you, and your comments in this thread, that you are perhaps underestimating your own capabilities when it comes to formulating this stuff. Most people, myself included, don't...

Makes sense. China are at the bleeding edge development wise. The Highlands in the States were Chinese sourced too. There’s even a Juniper MY on show there.

Tesla aren't interested in customising FSD to fit within regulations. They want to be able to just launch it in markets "as is" at such time as they have opened up to the degree that it has in the States. In the UK that could easily be several years away. Look at matrix headlights - Tesla...

Honestly, I’m not sure. This is the first brand new car I’ve bought, so perhaps I’m looking at it with unreasonable expectations. I was obviously aware that it would depreciate, but I thought that this would be “better” than financing. Everyone says that cash is the “cheapest” way to purchase...

But back in the real world most people don’t have the luxury of financing “the mission of EV uptake”. They (selfishly perhaps) are buying things that are green but also with an expectation - reasonable in my view - that they aren’t going to lose their shirt when it comes to selling that vehicle...

It’s certainly true to say that at the start (2019) lease companies didn’t know how to price the cars so the monthlies people were getting offered ended up being in their favour. The used price craziness of 2021 and early 2022 meant the early finance customers could get out of their cars and...

Yeah insurance is a factor people sometimes overlook in the whole cost of ownership thought process. My M3P insurance has gone up year on year, except for one year. It was just shy of £1k last year and I'm expecting it to be considerably more than that this year. All the while I've...

There has to be a reasonable floor price I think. Even at £18k I'd be asking myself what else competes at that level. It's a lot of car for the money. But who knows really.. with 0% BIK and Tesla lowering prices and seeking to increase volume quarter after quarter, it's quite likely supply...

I had thought about doing that, until Tesla got rid of the extended warranty program here in the UK. I had intended to extend mine by 4 years, for peace of mind, even bearing in mind the exclusions. I haven't had anything major go wrong with my car in ~4 years, but I have had several niggly...