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Whoops, that unfinished sentence was about the wheels. I moved it higher up but didn’t clean up. I saw what looked like a usb drive pluged into the port under the Center console in one of the photos. That’s how you pull the oyour ga and there are programs in this forum that can read the logs...

Honestly, with the specs you've listed, I wouldn't list it at less than $70,000. I might take a little less only because of the missing hard top and base wheels. You've got a highly desirable color, low mileage, most recent model, and the double-din stereo. The only think you I see you've...

“Can not locate” tends to mean that they haven’t been good at keeping older parts organized. They seem to have to send someone into the warehouse to manually search though piles of parts. I’m not worried about a shortage.

You can cut the Roadster connector off your charging setup and replace it with a J1772 head and use your CanJr all the time. But, no, I’ve never seen anything that converted from Roadster to J1772. That would be an extremely limited use case.

It’s likely a scam. Look at the other inventory that seller has listed.

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Is this board the same in 1.5 PEM’s as it is in the 2.x cars? I don’t think I’ve seen any 1.5’s that require repair.

I found some advice on a lotus forum to use 3M 468MP tape to bond the pads to the caliper. It seems to have eliminated rattles for me.

The fronts and rears are different sizes. He didn’t put the rears in the front, did he?

Strange that the tires are on backwards. Are the wheels the right way around? I always get confused with that style.

To be fair, he didn’t say he bought it three years ago; just that he fell in love with a black Roadster three years ago and really wanted one since then. He goes on to say that he realized he couldn’t afford it when he had to make his first payment. He’s being honest, but it does seem a bit...

I mounted mine in the passenger footwell using 3M command strips. There’s an external antenna, which I ran under the passenger door sill up to the rear window where it mounts with adhesive tape.

Well, I did go to a “Superheros and Villians” gala last night, dressed as Tony Stark and drove my Glacier Blue Roadster, so I can see how you got confused.

I’ve always heard it termed “floating the title,” and it’s used to avoid paying sales tax on the transfer of the vehicle. I’m under the impression that it’s illegal and could get the seller in lots of trouble. Basically, the seller needs you to keep quiet about it so that he can save some...

It won’t happen all at once. The car has to learn the new battery, and it learns slowly.

Isn’t this what caused the fire?

The advice is to do a range charge and then take a single long drive (one turn of the key, never shut off) until you hit the threshold where the car says it can't calculate the estimated mileage remaining. Then charge it back up with a standard charge. That should allow the car to calculate...

Yes, use that chart. Know that charging at 208 volts will take about 15% longer than at 240 volts. Also, as noted, at the higher amperage, the charger will slow down when it gets close to finishing. See how 32 amps charges twice as fast as 16, but 64 amps take a little longer than half of 32.

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I don’t think you should measure based on the device. What matters is voltage and amperage. There are two different “mobile chargers.” One tops out at 30 amps and the other goes to 40 amps. J1772 charges can range from 24 to 70 amps, with 30 being most common. Those J1772’s may be on a...

Don’t be so quick with that diagnosis. They may need to be cleaned off at the start of every drive, especially if the car has been washed recently. In the plus side, brakes are often unnecessary due to the regenerative feature. I’ve heard it described as “driving with one pedal” since it’s often...

I used PenFed. I had to call and talk to them because the Roadster was no an option to select on the website, but no problems getting the loan.

If the brake booster has failed, it should feel like you described. That’s a pretty simple part replacement. However, the Roadster brakes are used so seldom, that they make need to be “cleaned off” before they’re really effective. Hit them hard a couple times and see if they improve. There’s...

I’m with State Farm. The device is forndiscount purposes. I don’t know if they offer mileage-based pricing.

My insurance company has a puck that sticks in the car. It’s self-contained and connects to my phone via Bluetooth. An app on the phone collects the data. Honestly, I’m not sure if the puck actually contains any sensors or if it just tells the phone to collect some data. Maybe you could ask your...

Maybe I’m just not understanding, but wouldn’t you just use the accelerator or brake to change speed and then simply re-engage AP?

Wrap it with the code tag. See above.

Sorry for the confusion. Mine doesn’t have any numbers, so I wasn’t considering position 0.

Just happened to log in today to show a friend the delivery estimates and saw I could configure. I’m a first-day in-store current-owner reservation in Texas.

That seems normal to me, unless I misunderstood your numbering. The lowest fan setting is off.

When the yellow cord is broken, it’s tupically just the gfci plug. You can cut it off and replace it with a new one from Home Depot for about $5.

I’m under the impression this is all a software issue. Shouldn’t the 3.0 last longer based on the cell chemistry? The CAC calculation just doesn’t seem to be accurate for the 3.0, likely due to the standard charge threshold that doesn’t go high enough for the battery to balance. I’d like to see...

Why do you keep talking about Gruber in the third person? That seems a bit disingenuous.

I knew Performance mode affected cooling, but didn’t think it was impacted in Range mode.

Navigating to the Tow Mode setting is all the manual describes.

There's not much point bumping your post. Maybe in another two years. Even a rough, high-mileage car with no tech package would be priced above your comfort zone.

Driving in range mode just reduces the amount of power supplied to the motor. Basically, it doesn’t allow you to floor the accelerator and drain the battery quickly. Range mode also unlocks the bottom 10% of the battery. Nothing makes it inherently “worse.” Driving in standard mode, the car...

The car will brick itself at some point. There is no protection, as far as I know; at least in Range mode.

Maybe these are estimated instead of ideal miles? 10% should be around 24 miles of ideal range, but the estimated range could be lower when you hit that threahold. I’ve hit it a couple times on hot days when I had to use the a/c on an Austin/Dallas trip.

That message pops up when the battery hits 10% in range mode.

The single-din JVC radio (base, without navigation) uses a standard usb cable allowing you to use a lightening charging cable. The single-din JVC radio with navigation uses a hard-wired 30-pin connector. You can use an adapter to plug in your lightening iPhone for audio, but the radio’s...

Do you have the part numbers for the 1.5 PEM? does it suffer from the IGBT insulation failure?

Lots of carbon fiber. Damage doesn’t really look that bad; front end damage, but not on the lower air dam. The wheels look to be in good shape, too.

My 1.5 had a “fab update” that also confused me. Apparently it was the “condenser fan” on the coolant system that the updated on my car.

What happens in this case, when the motor is different but nothing else is changed? I’ve heard stories of Roadsters that dramatically outperform the original specs, and wonder if it’s all related to the motor.

My favorite for any fast car is “TI 3VOM” but for a new Roadster? I think “BYE” would suffice.

I can count the number of hot chicks my Roadster has attracted on one hand. While wearing mittens.

Are we sure the dual motors are in the rear? I’m expecting innlarge motor in the rear and separate motors in the front wheels.

Don’t they have some sort of patent for liquid cooling the motors? I suspect the new Roadster will be the test bed for some amazing new tech that isn’t financially viable for mass production yet.

Hopefully this one will depreciate like the original and I’ll be able to afford one in 2029.