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I think the best reply to the OP's question is "Sometimes"!! Waze is better.....

From 22 May to 2 December over 4400 miles consumption has averaged 263wh/mile. No doubt the next 6 months will be higher. Most of my driving is on rural A roads, the longest drive so far is 120 miles. I charge from home, with occasional Supercharger use.

Charging my M3 this morning in the sun (PVs on the roof contributing) the App said that at 90% I'd have 307 miles range. I looked at the Mercedes App for SWMBO's AMG C43 and it said that at 91% full it had enough petrol for 307 miles! A coincidence... but one that made me think. The biggest...

5' 9" and 86kg.. the seats are comfortable but I'm "slim hipped". They lack side bolster support and the distance from seat back to front is a bit mean. But overall a 2.5 hour drive caused me no grief. SWMBO prefers the seats in the C43 Coupe she drives. The headrests are weird, to narrow and...

That is what I've done.

Standard 13A house plugs are not intended to carry a continuous 2kw to 3kw for 12 hours. For this sort of load I'd use a 16A commando socket and plug, much heavier duty. They are not expensive, even if fitted by an electrician and Tesla supply a 16A Commando plug connector for the UMC...

I chose a Sync EV charger. It works but with the benefit of hindsight I'd have got a box with a tethered cable. I thought of changing, but a second cable to leave plugged in is a cheaper option!

Agreed. I note that the lower end of the strib looks to be damaged. That observation leads me to suggest that it was damaged by the fitter and dumped in the boot (not trunk!!)

Contact Tesla, they had to re-send the download. It is a known issue: Tesla Winchester had 8 such reports today. Problem now solved.

A conversation with a Tesla service person about my car made me realise just how much data the car shares with Tesla's "Mothership". We were discussing the problems arising from the faulty car computer and I mentioned that the side cameras were regularly reporting that they had been blinded or...

The only App I have is the Tesla one. It tells me enough and I certainly don't need my watch telling me the remaining range... I certainly will not pay for Apps that provide me with lots of interesting, fascinating, but ultimately useless information. I could probably live with a more basic...

My April 21 build M3 Long Range needs a new "Car Computer", Tesla don't expect this before mid January 21. The car works, but Autopilot isn't safe to use as it is prone to cutting out or trying to do things I wouldn't do. So I don't use it: if I commuted in the car I'd be cross, but to be honest...

It is a sports saloon, not a comfortable limousine. Far, far quieter than the Mercedes C63 estate it replaced, far less crashy. Road noise is very sensitive to the road surface. On some recently laid low noise tarmac it is all but silent, on some worn 30 year old tarmac it is noisy.. Overall...

Email from Sync, they pushed a firmware update so it is sorted. Good service.

40.6 arrived overnight, as others have reported it seems to have completed (I now have stops and British English) but the little green arrow is there, and although the 'downloading' green bar is full, it says 0 B/s, even when on WiFi... I did a hard reset, but the green arrow is still there. I...

I have a SyncEV home charger. About 20% of the time when I plug the cable into the charger and then to the car I get the same message. The answer is to reboot the charger, using the app. After a re-boot, which takes 20 seconds , the charge proceeds as normal. This has reminded me to contact...

My old car, a 4L V8 twin Turbo cost me in fuel 34p/mile. Add servicing and road tax and it would be 46p/mile. The M3 LR is running at 280wh/mile, so 3.6 miles/kw. I'm 85% home charging and at present the cost is 16p/kw so the car costs 4.44p/mile. Add in some Supercharger use and over a 7000...

Morgan are about as good with shaping aluminium as Tesla is with battery management....

I thought you might like to see what is inside A Morgan Plus 8, Morgan made this "half and half" car for the Geneva show a few years ago. And this is the factory "Production Line"

It seems that certain artists demand that the users cannot use shuffle and this destroys the integrity of the album. Adele is one, I'm told. Sorry, I've paid to listen in whatever order I choose.

It is amusing that Tesla use what3words when the Tesla sat nav doesn't recognise it!!!

I prejudged the content and instead watched a repeat of Professional Master Chief. It seems that I made the right call, I learnt something from Master Cheif. Cobalt isn't particularly toxic in most of its forms. The mining culture in DRC is highly toxic, as it is an many sub saharan countries...

Worth giving the screen a clean with the sort of glass cleaner used on ceramic cooker hobs. It could be residue left over from a parking lot code during shipping, but I wouldn't completely rule out the Thief Option (because I'm a bit paranoid)......

I think it may be time to apply some pressure. They have offered to send a ranger out to do a 12V reset... but suggested it would only be a temporary solution and the board needed to be replaced. So I'm not sure there is any point. They don't have all the parts they need, some US build M3s are...

It did seem a lot, but looking at Mr Miserables thread on shipments and the number of ships on the way it isn't impossible!

Talking to a Tesla person today I was told that there are 13,000 M3s booked to be delivered in the UK before the year end. That is 41 days so 288 per day.... across all the delivery locations. Seems reasonable if Trafford Park are doing close to 100 a day.

It isn't difficult to find them on the what3words website. Winchester is ///originate.gurgled.generals

Tesla Bournemouth?? I was informed by a member of the Winchester team that Tesla are working on a Tesla Location for charging in the Bournemouth/Poole area. That would be really useful. Anyone have any supporting evidence?

I spoke to one of the service team at Winchester today (23 November) who told me that they have 12 new units installed, just waiting on the arrival of a new transformer and its connection before they go live. The Tesla chargers line the service road between Tesla and Mercedes... this seems to...

Thanks, that is easy enough.

JJ, Helpful... thanks. I parked my car in the street of a small town near to where I live. The car was nose to the kerb and the sidewalk/pavement quite busy. Returning 2 hours later there were 158 incidents to review. It seems that it recorded everyone walking passed triggers the sentry. Far...

I thought it was time for an update... As of 22 November I'm still waiting for the part to arrive, it is still on order with no scheduled delivery date at Winchester. I talked to the service agent at Tesla Winchester who told me that supply of certain electronic spares is poor, fall out from...

100 mile round trip Salisbury-Sherborne-Salisbury including a night drive yesterday and today. The car behaved flawlessly, navigation as usual, Auto pilot also. The headlights are better than the Mercedes LED units in the C43 Coupe. Averaged 271wk/mile, despite starting out this morning when it...

Hmm.. I'll be testing mine later today. At least I know where I'll be going! We shall see if the car does...

What I'd expect from the BBC. I will not be watching as experience tells me that the program will be light on facts, heavy on opinion and with a bit of "shock-horror" thrown in. In my view the more a company talks about its ethics the more it has to hide. The managers of a company have a...

The media wanted a negative Tesla story to balance all the positive stories: part of ne new journalistic version of "fairness". I have a small credit card holder/purse/wallet thing that lives in my back pocket. It has a spare credit card that is not in my iPhone Wallet, the tesla key card...

This one.... mine since 2014 and whilst I can still breath!! I don't believe we will be banned from the roads, just Motorways and city centres. By the time we have fully autonomous cars we will have affordable 100% green petrol, made using green electricity from CO2 in the air and Hydrogen in...

I charged using the Tesla UMC for about 3 months whilst the EV point was sorted out. I replaced the 25 year old socket in the garage with a new one, just in case..... The plug was just about warm, as was the "box" in the UMC cable. Had I not fitted an EV socket I was planning to fit a a...

I believe the reason is that the van/coach/caravan small truck carriages have enhances fire suppression systems over the standard car carriages...

Exactly: to be useful the hospital chargers need to be 50kw, happy to pay but not wait overnight....

I remember those days... Tiger Tails too from Esso....

The Tesla Key Fob is about the same price as a traditional car key fob.... I'm thinking about one as every time Apple update my phone it seems to break the link to the car and I have to reset it. First World problem, I admit, but the Tesla Fob is a wonderfully tactile shape...

Possibly a silly question, but why to ships refuel at Singapore, not Shanghai?

And then there are the "OTHER" chargers....I use the phrase loosely. Salisbury District Hospital has installed a row of BP Pulse 7kw chargers in an obscure place next to the Eye Clinic. The good news is that they work. But they are not really much use: waiting for my wife to complete her annual...

Yes, the image is a little sharper, the wheel nuts show up well (I don't have the Aero trims on).

Shell and BP have to do this, but from experience it is doubtful they will in Salisbury any time soon. The city of 45,000 has no working fast chargers, just a scattering of 32A chargers....just like the one I have at home. The nearest fast (more than 50kw) chargers are on the A303, Amesbury at...

Are the images above from the screen in the car or from the phone app?

My excitement was brief... I'm waiting for .40....

36.5.8 arrived overnight.

Amazing.. as you say, crawling slowly into the 2000s....