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I like the old style 19" wheels, the newer ones are UGLY with that thicker edge on the rim. I wouldn't mind buying a M3P, but I hate the looks and harder ride of the 20-21 inch wheels they come with. I'd want to put old style 19s on it. Model Y 19s are ok looking.

I got the Goodyears last week. So far they seem fine. They ride smoothly, not noisy, no regen problems. Total cost was $909 along with a state inspection and some slight tweaks to the alignment, a couple of the specs were off a little bit.

I'm due for a new set of MXM4's, I wore out the last set in 21,000 miles, with a few tire rotations in that time, in my RWD Model 3. Not AWD. The tire shop says Goodyear Touring all season tires are half the price, and I guess I'd get the same mileage lifespan from them. They have an extra...

If I needed to fix a nail hole in a Tesla tire, I'd do it the same way I fixed tires on my 1971 Plymouth Valiant and many other old cars for many years. Get a cheap plug kit, coat the plug with RTV silicone, pull the nail, rough up the hole, throw the plug in there, DONE!!!

When I got my 3 in May '18, after about a week I got that low 12 volt battery warning once. Did a full 2 button reset, and it was fine. Still on the original 12 volt battery almost 4 years later now.

I'm going to have to go through my papers for my car. I remembered it being 8 years unlimited miles, not 8 years OR 120,000 miles. And now there's more confusion. At the time I got my 3 in May '18, there was no AWD model. My 3 was the Long Range version, despite the fact that there was no...

I thought the Model 3 battery and motor had an 8 year unlimited mileage warranty. Don't they? My 3 is an April '18 build, and I'm hoping for the original battery to make it 7 years and 10 months then crash out then get a FREE warranty replacement pack! Are there flaws in my plan?

A 6-15 should deliver 11 MPH of charging. I had a 6-20 wired up for a couple months before I built my driveway, and I got a solid 15 MPH charge rate from it.

Aside from the quarter panel and bumper, the suspension subassembly is all bolt on parts, so if the frame rails aren't damaged, it shouldn't be too bad to repair. It can be fixed, only issue is the cost. And with vehicle prices as high as they are these days, that works in your favor to raise...

I'm 6' 0", and I like my Model 3 seat all the way back. But I've got a couple dozen excess pounds too......

I've charged my Model 3 on a Predator 2000 watt generator. I have a plug I made that ties neutral to ground and plug that into one of the two power outlets. The car won't accept the generator without it. It is an inverter generator. When running, the generator delivers a solid 120 volts at...

My 3 is an early April '18 build with the radar AP, not the newer vision-only AP. We had a very overcast cloudy day this morning on my way home at 8am, so no real glare from the sun or anything. Yet the AP behaved the same. Turn off the headlights and the AP freaks out. But only when heading...

You're missing the point, which is that AP has an issue it never used to have before. Likely due to changes in its sensitivity.

No, they will turn on even in mid-day if it is a cloudy day and the front of the car is facing away from the sun, or if the car is in enough shade, I've seen it many times. No, I turn them on when needed, I just don't like the auto-headlight idea in general. I've been turning my headlights off...

Tesla really needs to get more colors for its cars. They can afford an additional paint shop line.

This has been tested and confirmed. My base AP in my 3 only works if I leave the headlights on in a certain driving situation. Lemme 'splain. Your first question may be "Whaddaya mean IF you leave the headlights on? They are on by default!". Not in my 3 they aren't. For nearly 4 years, I...

I don't see what's so hard about this. Take a good regular diesel truck, strip it down, take out all the diesel stuff, add the electric drive components and screens and things, and there you go. How hard is this, Tesla? You should be paying me as an outside consultant.

Do you ever accelerate in your car, to make tires last 38K miles? When I first got my RWD LR 3, the rear tires were worn SMOOTH in 16K miles. I'm rotating tires every 5-6 K miles now but I still not make it to 25K on a set of tires. I accelerate. Often and hard.

I used Car Colorizer to make my car a nice shade of... BROWN. But yes, there are far more important issues, like give me back my 10.2 interface and tenths digit on the odometers instead of this failure of a Version 11 interface.

Wow, it sure would be nice if there were something in the update notes that told us that!

That's dumb. Don't do that.

I just got the 2022.4.5 update, and at the top of the screen, between the temperature and my name, there's a red dot. If I touch it, the red goes away and I just have the outline of its circle. If I touch it again, the red comes back. What is this? I have honk to save clips enabled for dash...

This winter, with my '18 RWD 3, I've been driving to an area out in the middle of nowhere for work, where the roads are not plowed first. I've been driving in Pittsburgh winters for 30+ years, but this winter has been a little more annoying. On hard packed snowy roads, the all season tires...

My 3 is an early production April '18 build. Never had a problem with the windows until today. For a couple weeks, I've heard a glass cracky sound from the rear of the car. I thought it was maybe the cold weather, but if glass isn't moving, how is it making noise? This is the car's 4th PA...

I had a service appointment scheduled, the service tech messaged me and said the AP problem will be fixed in the upcoming 44.30 update. We'll see. Over the last week, AP has continued to be erratic. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it cuts out part way through a drive and won't go back on...

I got in my 3 today and put the trip miles menu up. It is 0.6 miles from my house to the first stop light. Before I even got there, my miles traveled changed from 0 to 1. So not only did we lose the tenths digit (WHY?!?!?!?), but it's also showing the wrong number of miles on top of that...

If you have to "GET USED TO IT", it is not a good change.

I haven't been here much for most of this year, but I'm making a special return appearance to tell you everything I don't like about V11. I'm sure I'll forget some things, so it'll probably take a few posts. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Tesla should be paying me as a consultant...

I got a notification this morning that the 25.2 update was ready to download. Is this the version 11? I haven't done it yet, was driving around doing things today.

It got fixed, the problem was exactly what I told them it was. They replaced the wireless / cell receiver card and it has been fine and has had a solid LTE connection ever since. The general manager listened to what I had to say and talked to a mobile service tech, and I was right.

44.6 didn't fix it. I drove to work and the AP was fine, then I left work and was halfway home on AP, out on the open highway, when suddenly you get the warning beeps and the red steering wheel and TAKE OVER IMMEDIATELY on the screen. Then once it does that, the steering part stops working but...

I got the 44.5 update not long ago, 44.6 is installing tonight. Over that last week or so, I've had a problem with the autopilot (Base AP) working randomly. It might be fine for a day or two, then all of a sudden it'll kick off and won't go back on. The 2 blue circles on the touchscreen will...

I got a toy Model 3 when I picked up my new Model 3 on 5/8/18.

My April '18 build 3 developed the musty AC smell and had it for a few months, I had the local Tesla SC clean it out last year. It's been good, but now in the humid summer weather it's coming back. Since the car is off warranty now, I'll look into doing it myself.

I disapprove of the mods. Tesla are to be kept looking elegant and distinguished and for people who can afford a better car, not turned into some rice rocket looking thing. Go get a Honda Civic and mod it like that.

Back when I got my 3 LR RWD in May 2018, the standard maintenance thing was to change the differential / gearbox oil and filter at 25,000 miles. But only a month or so before I got to 25K, Tesla stopped doing that. Now they claim it's good for much longer, I forget the time or mileage numbers...

I'm working now on getting some warranty coverage at least in part for a computer replacement. Warranty or no, it should not be failing in 3 years and I sure as hell ain't paying TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS for one that only has a 1 year warranty! I'll grab a used one on ebay for a few hundred and it...

Well I'm not going to ask HIM for it. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of saying no. I'll contact higher Tesla warranty support. And I doubt it was intentional, but my car DID leave the SC with 3 problems that it didn't have when I dropped it off, and the original problem wasn't fixed, so...

After having driven my car some since yesterday, it now has a few problems that it didn't have before it went in for service. 1. There's no temperature readout on the screen. Someone must have left a wire unplugged from the computer. 2. While driving in traffic, not on autopilot, every time I...

Well, it's the bad news. The SC rep called today and said the 2.5 computer is futzed, they couldn't connect to it, the car is offline, etc. TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, PLEASE. Yeah........ NO. I've enjoyed being able to just take my car in under warranty and have them just fix whatever with no...

Well yes, but for security reasons I never input my real address for home or work into the car. I've read about people finding your home from that. The recent version of the "Death Wish" movie series Bruce Willis movie was predicated on that exact thing, the valet parking criminals finding his...

I bought my Model 3 because I like the technology and the car itself. And it rides like a high powered go-kart! I'm not some enviro-whacko who is out there screaming how the world will end and we must abandon all fossil fuels NOW. Having said that, although wind energy and solar and battery...

I have an April '18 build Model 3. In March of '19 I bought the Base AP for $2000 during their sale that lasted about a week. It was good, but I'd like to have turn signal lane changes. Here in 21st century America, kicking off the AP, making the lane change, and 2 downward clicks to turn AP...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-insight-mars-lander-is-not-getting-power-due-to-dust-on-arrays/ar-AALmEBW?li=BBnbfcL Why am I not surprised that NASA thought the 1% of earth thickness Martian atmosphere would be able to blow clean the rover solar panels? NASA should have had...

I'm a data center computer nerd and a professional internet troll. :)

I use Sentry Mode at night and turn it off when I'm at work to save battery power. It'd be nice if Tesla would put its on/off slider in a more accessible location at the top of a menu, so I don't have to press the car icon, THEN the Safety & Security words, THEN scroll down to turn it on or...

I had a mobile service appointment scheduled for the 15th, but Tesla changed it and had me bring my 3 to the Wexford SC today to be worked on tomorrow. I got a Model S 70D loaner to try out and it's ok, but I'm surprised it doesn't have the Hold feature in the driving options. Once I stop in...

I put in a service call, they can't come look at it until the 15th. And if you remember some of my earliest posts here, you'll know that I had to pay an extra $14,000 for my 3 because Tesla only made the expensive version first. So any bonus free service I can get for that 14 grand is good. ;)

Well, I'm over the 50,000 mile part of the warranty, but not over the 4 year part of the warranty. So maybe 50% covered? I'm looking for any way to get it fixed for free, because it seems to be a component / software failure, plus if I can get it fixed for free, I'll have more money in the...

Ever since the LTE connection in my 3 became erratic about a month ago, I've had to do a lot of Power Offs and 2 button resets to try to kick the LTE into working again, which it will do sometimes, but there's no telling how long till it fails again, could be minutes or days. This morning...