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At 30K miles on my 2019 SR+, I’m still beating rated range on every trip I make. I have a 90 mile round trip for work now. I leave in the morning with about 187 miles range (95% - I charge to 90 when I arrive home, then top it off to 95% just before I leave in the morning), arrive at work with...

Mine has never done that, either. The only reason it should switch out of satellite mode is if you are in an area with no cell coverage so it can’t download the satellite map data.

We had this same concern. They sell car seat pads that go between the child seat and the car seat that protect the leather. As a bonus they also keep small spills, barf, etc. off the seats. We also have the blue w/white interior.

I think they mounted it with the Tesla “T” upside down…😀

It’s not slow either way, but half a second is a pretty big change.

Doesn’t the LFP battery increase the 0-60 time by half a second, as well?

I have an early Pentium 4-based PC in my basement. It’s not even worth the space it occupies. I have a feeling electric car values are going to age more like old PCs than like classic cars. Every time a new update happens people are crushed when they learn they can’t retrofit the updates into...

You know what I would worry about? If you put it in the car and it zapped onto a ferromagnetic car component and you couldn’t pull it loose again.

After living with the new UI for a few weeks I think I prefer the appearance of the new over the old, though I might argue with the placement of a few of the controls. I still have a beef with the seat heater and defroster button locations. It has forced me to use the voice controls more often...

I’ve had a very different experience. We have 2 Model 3 SR+. We have a 2109 and a 2020, and I’ve had almost no drives where something went weird. The 2019 has been my daily commuter since mid-June 2019 and the 2020 is my wife’s car and our beach trip car. There were a couple of times immediately...

For the tire pressure, I clicked the right steering button and said, “Show tire pressure” and it popped up the tire pressure card. I think it might be nice if we could click on the low pressure warning icon to pull up the card.

My guess is LTE and WiFi status were judged to be less important because most folks generally have the same commute every day, so they know where they do and don’t have coverage - it doesn’t need to be on the screen all the time. I would say that seat heaters are something people use every day...

Yes. All 3 cars appear in the “Gallery” that you can swipe through to select a car to control. With the new version of the app things are even easier - you don’t have to swipe to the correct car to unlock and drive it like you had to do in the old version - you just walk up with the phone in...

My wife and I and our daughter have 3 separate accounts, but have no trouble adding everyone as drivers on all three cars. I know other folks who have a single account for two cars. Either way works.

Sometime last year I had to wait in the car (2019 SR+) for my wife to have a dental procedure. IIRC, it was around 85°F and I was parked in the sun. In 2.5 hours of sitting in the car running AC with a set point of 76°F I used either 15 or 16 miles of range by the guess-o-meter (at the time, I...

I had to google the procedure to request a change to the location of my home address pin in google maps. I ended up on a google maps page where I could shift the location of the address pin on the map and submit the change as an update request. Did it in the evening and by sometime the next day...

I had to slightly adjust the Google pin for my home address, which was off by enough to make the car think it wasn’t quite home yet. Now I works perfectly.

I thought the idea was to sell it cheaply to allow buyers to get the rebate, then pay to upgrade the car to get the range and autopilot of an SR+.

Voice commands don’t work without cell service, either, do they?

Let’s keep in perspective motor vehicle code vs. criminal code. You might be ticketed for a wiper-headlight violation, but they’re not going to drag you out of the car, cuff you, and cart you off to the hoosegow over it.

My conclusion was the Maguiar’s didn’t last as well as the Adam’s or Hydrosilex. I think the Hydrosilex and Adam’s were easier to apply and the Hydrosilex edged out Adam’s in lasting power and ease of removing road tar and bugs. I reordered Hydrosilex for this year’s autumnal ceramic waxing.

I think Tesla is a pretty phenomenally good software company. Just compare them to their big competitors, Ford and VW. They are miles ahead. I’ve used the menu system in a Mach-E, and it is so much worse. You might argue that you don’t like their particular UI design, but UI design sensibilities...

We just need some gizmo that turns the wheels into paddles, like a steering wheel button on the Mach 5.

I’ve had 2 M3s for a bit over a year. My M3s are registered under separate emails - one under mine and one under my wife’s. Despite that, we were able to grant each other access on the two accounts. In fact, our daughter has a MX under her own account and she and my wife have all 3 vehicles in...

I think the lock icon should be in the circle? I’ll check mine. I think the circle is supposed to be there to emphasize the lock icon, which is being rendered too low on the screen, perhaps.

If your delivery date was mid- to late-September I’d still be worried, though…

That was end-of-quarter gamesmanship/maximization of delivery numbers. Quarter’s over, so you’re probably in the clear.

The Boombox function even more so. I want to pass an Amish buggy at low speed with “coconuts” set as the pedestrian warning sound.

Mine is working fine. I did notice that when my last update happened the AC protection setting was changed to “OFF” and I had to turn it back on, but other than that it has been working. I usually listen as I approach my parked car to see that I can hear it running.

I would have thought that to be the case - that they would delay making those until later - but I don’t even see the $60k car in their line-up anymore, and the one that was billed to come out at $60k now shows up as $80k. Also, the fancy executive seats used to show up as an option in the...

The back-up cameras make it so easy you have to either be completely incompetent or “JDGAF” to end up on or across the line.

Looks like Lucid has also dropped those crazy-luxurious “executive” rear seats.

Lucid were supposed to have a $60k car out alreadym according to C&D: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30534478/lucid-air-ev-deposit-debut/

What happened to the original claims that they would have a sub-$60k offering for the “masses“? They have definitely positioned themselves as a competitor to the S, not the 3 - it appears they have given up on that segment. In my mind, “starting below $80,000” means $79,995.

I bought a set of lift pucks that I carry in the car, so I always have them for inspections or if I get a flat and have to get a tire replaced or plugged somewhere and they want to put it on a lift.

I was thinking in terms of the raging MY vs MME battle, plus some shade Ford execs have thrown at Tesla by publicly claiming to be the only US car company helping to support California’s Climate Action Plan.

You know what would be funny - try to schedule an inspection at a Ford dealership. To do inspections in PA, they are required to inspect all cars.

For me, whichever car was last selected in the app is the one that it will unlock. If I switch cars I have to launch the app and swipe over to the other car.

The only time I unplug when the cars are in the garage is during electrical storms and when I’m re-calibrating the BSM.

For reference, my relative received his MME about a month or so ago and is having no problems with the PAAK feature. His charge door is not popping open, either, so I think they’ve at least made progress on those issues since the early deliveries. I think that at least shows that Ford is on top...

There is a feature that appears to be missing from the MME’s UI. My relative noticed that when I do AC charging, the Tesla displays volts and amps and allows you to throttle down the charging current. If you are having to plug into a wonky 120 socket and you’re afraid it’s not good for 80% of...

After driving a M3 for a year I drove our Prius on a shopping trip. After activating the windshield wipers trying to shift gears, I ended up walking away from the car in the supermarket parking lot without turning it off or locking it. When I returned with my groceries the gas engine cycled on...

Yep, my mind got ahead of my fingers and I didn’t proofread. 4.1 mi/KWh.

As an owner of 2019 and 2020 M3SR+, a close relative recently bought an MME. He wanted a Tesla, but his wife said she would never drive it because she didn’t like the “computer screen” - she insists on a traditional instrument cluster behind the steering wheel. When the MME came out he saw an...

I’m not sure disabling the sound is even breaking the law at the moment. The feds legislated a requirement that car manufacturers include the PWS, but it’s up to states to legislate motor vehicle code that would require it or criminalize disabling it. I searched PA’s code and couldn’t find...

Just keep in mind that I mentioned this as an alternative to disconnecting wiring harnesses or stuffing newspaper into the speaker. If people want no noise, they’re going to have no noise one way or another. This is just a better way to do it. If you want no noise but you’d still like to be able...

Maybe instead of a noise maker they need a cowcatcher.

For myself, I don’t plan to do it- I don’t mind the sound that much if it’s federally-mandated, and I can’t really hear it from inside the car with the windows up anyway. I’m just putting the idea out there, though it’s a pretty obvious one.

Yes, I read that. In fact, it was to that post that I was responding. What I’m saying is that deleting a silent PWS sound takes a lot less time and effort than crawling under your car and reconnecting a wiring harness. And it’s a lot less noticeably executed, too. Deleting a silent sound file...

I didn‘t read all 77 pages of responses in this thread, so maybe someone has said this already: you can upload a sound file, right? Maybe a sound file of silence? Then you don’t have to disconnect the speaker. For Teslas, anyway. Others may not allow sound file uploads.