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Don't let this stop you though. You can make better or more persuasive arguments, bring more evidence, or just get a different arbitrator. You also have small claims as an option. Don't give in just because one person tried it and was not successful.

You state this without any proof however. You are saying that by definition, delta V is indicative of conversion loss? That if I look up any voltage conversion system that it will have an efficiency curve dominated by delta V? If this is true, can you explain why the car is not massively...

Except: 1) Boosting voltage more is not necessarily less efficient, and in fact can be more efficient due to lower currents. If larger voltage deltas were always less efficient, than 150kV transmission lines would not exist. 2) You're assuming the motor itself is identical, and not changed to...

Second time I have seen you out in the world telling people to violate the national electric code. Let's not do this as racers. We already have tracks not allowing EV's at all due to theoretical fire risk out on track, let's not prove them right by messing up their electric setup. The correct...

The failure rate is not that high, and there will always be one to buy from somewhere. This is annoying for sure for the people it has happened to, and it's scummy of Tesla to call something sold under "HV battery components" as "not part of the battery" and thus denying warranty, but this is...

1) You have to reset the car after every drive before you get out. 2) This probably doesn't work anymore 3) It is impossible for this to be "illegal." I promise you no legislature in the USA has considered this.

The part is not listed as restricted. You can buy one. There are literally over 1M Model 3/Y's in the USA now. Finding a wrecked pack someone has taken apart for a different project wouldn't be that hard. The part itself is most of the cost, not the labor. Looks like Tesla only charges about...

You fundamentally misunderstand how gateway configurations ("coding") and software deployment works in a Tesla. Even doing a reset of basic things in the car like the learned steering angle requires a gateway unlock, which requires you to physically do things to the car like hold the brake...

Last paragraph of the post three posts up.

Same month mine was built and had I had a failure too.

This isn't quite true. Tesla of course has a build sheet for the car and could, if they wanted to, see that the config had been changed vs the way it left the factory. However, Tesla upgrades stuff themselves in the field all the time, such as the AP2->AP3 computer, or adding the homelink...

If you look at who has needed repairs, it very much looks like a batch issue in the earlier cars, 2018 or so.

Where did you get that information? The Tire Rack test above shows the exact opposite, that a tire that wide on a 9" rim will have less grip.

The 600 HP they get in the AWD trim would still make a great M3P, but like we keep saying, only if it sustains. The concern here is that they are only doing 600/800 HP off of a 120+ kW pack. We still don't have a lot of data that Tesla is happy to do that level of power off of 80kW packs.

Wider is not always better if what you care about is performance. https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=296 Tire rack actually ran faster with 225's on a 9" wheel than 245's. You'll take quite a range hit with wider tires as well.

Consider requesting a CLUE report from LexisNexus - it's free for you, and is what most companies use to determine your risk profile. It can be disputed if it's incorrect.

By definition it is. If manufacturing tolerances were good enough, we wouldn't need alignment adjusters at all. So every car will be different in if they need toe arms. A reminder to everyone that toe has more impact than camber on inner tire wear. You can always do like I did and just do max...

You're correct, but Tesla isn't saying you are getting one every 8 seconds either. Per your screenshot, they said you got 14.3 FCW's PER THOUSAND MILES. Notice that the units of this are not PER DRIVE but normalized to 1000 miles. Per your own data, you drive about 100 miles a month. So you got...

You got a new declaration when you switched states that included all disclosures needed. If you did not, I'd file a complaint with the TX Insurance Commissioner. Again, your real issue here is that there is no competition to Tesla's rates because all rates in TX are crazy for you. You should be...

Except you were, and it's this lack of attention to detail that is a problem. Here is Tesla's insurance page: https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance Follow the safety score link, and you get deep details on what they use, which includes aggressive driving and night driving. I mean, when you...

So you are annoyed at the company charging you the least by a huge factor because they won't charge you even less? An 82 safety score is nowhere near the maximum rate you could end up with. Your overall anger, language, and lack of research when buying a product as complicated as insurance...

There is well supported actuarial data that driving at night is a higher risk than daytime. Tesla makes exactly what they use to evaluate your risk very clear, and night driving is one of those items. It's your choice to use a company like Tesla that uses this data vs a company that does not.

No, the ST43's are not made for our pad shapes (again, assuming stock M3P calipers). https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/raybestos-track-pads-for-model-3.211713/ There are very minimal options for the M3P's. The front calipers are 100% custom pad shapes, and not enough people track the...

Assuming an M3P, here's all the options for the stock brakes on the car: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/m3p-comprehensive-brake-pad-option-list.230502/ If you're running R-10's, you're running real tracks and putting real heat into them. I'd think only the Endless, Carbotechs, and...

Dang. This is 65kWh in 15 minutes, which is 240kW average, which is 320 HP. Being able to average 320 HP of output for 15 minutes solid is not something that can be done on every track, especially with a slow lap in the middle. Spend 25% of your time braking or in a corner, and suddenly you need...

In reality, you can't unless you really know what you are doing and can do some math. You're going to need to take the rear wheels off, and look at where the current toe adjusters are. Going less camber means the car toes in. So how much toe out adjustment do you have left? Your current...

No, nowhere close. 255/40/20 is 29.0" in diameter. Stock tires are under 27". This will run into the control arm upright in the front.

Basically any shock using the stock mounting points is allowed in street class. Spring changes are not. Shocks must have no more than 2 adjustments. Page 78 of the ruleset: https://www.scca.com/downloads/66191-2023-solo-rule-bookv1/download I'm still pretty sure a Model 3 with awesome shocks...

Yeah, re-looking at it, I forgot about wheel width having to be stock, and all the bushings have to go back. So all you can really do is shocks (not springs) and one sway bar. Which is why this is actually a BS car in stock form, not AS, and why Daddio could only eek out a BS victory in 2019.

One driver in one region is exactly how we got into this SS mess back in 2019! ;) Glad it worked out, but shame they couldn't have followed the data from all sorts of national events which clearly show the M3P as a slow AS car, fast BS car.

Just ran into this thread on Reddit I thought was funny. Not a single person that actually tracks their car suggests full forged wheels vs flow/rotary formed:

I would have won so many top PAX events if SS was 0.835 and STU was 0.833 vs EV at 0.830 instead of 0.833 / 0.830 / 0.832. Gonna be a lot of annoyed STU and SS drivers this year. In just my last event that would have taken me from 4th to 2nd in PAX against a 20 year EVO school instructor. At...

Oh, I just checked and the 2024 PAX is out also... SS 0.835 AS 0.824 EV 0.830 Almost fair...

Wow! Makes me kind want to bring my car down to a max AS config and see how much it slows down from EV-X. The Model 3 would benefit a lot from shocks and a rear sway, which you could run in AS. Lack of camber would not be great, but I'm not sure that would give up 1%, which is the general gap...

2023.38. https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1700/tesla-adds-new-brakes-panel-to-service-mode-in-2023-38-update I can confirm my 2018 M3P on 2023.38 has this.

In an electric what would LC even do without air suspension? I guess it could be like Rivian's which is just to stand on the brake, full throttle, release brake. Maybe nothing else is needed.

Agreed. But there's a detail in here- the "transporting" Tesla talks about is normal transporting, with nobody in the car. The issue there is that in this mode, the motors have no power so the oil pumps are not on, they cannot manage back EMF, and probably a bigger deal is that the car is in...

Why? This is identical to being at the top of a mountain and regenning down the mountain for miles and miles, which is covered. The car doesn't know or care if it's being towed by another car or gravity.

Ugh, you're right, I meant rear, not front.

I'll say that I'm personally completely uninterested in launch control, and one of the things I love about the Model 3 is that it doesn't use it to get the performance it has. Launch control is great in drags. But you can't really use it on the street, and for any non-drag performance driving...

@Olle - A lot of what you mention is reasonable, but it misses the fact that Tesla has already solved the issue we are discussing in the Plaid, and it isn't with higher voltage. Model 3 runs 350V nominal voltage, and power starts falling off at 50 MPH. 50 MPH is 5,700 stator RPM in a Model 3...

Citation needed. This argument just happened in this thread last week and it's far from clear that is true. If you are going to argue it, please be very careful with your language as people have some very different definitions in this space. I mean a professor says the primary reason 800V is...

We have to stop coming back to it being this easy, or this even being the best/economical way to make the car faster if you assume it's built on the Model 3 Highland platform. First, Tesla Model 3 motors are already rated at 320V. There's no data that they can take advantage of higher voltages...

Fenders for a 355's on a car that comes with 235's stock? That's a heck of an ask! Where are you even going to drive that thing with all 136 miles of range? What kind of racing do you currently do that needs 355's? The Corvette Z06 puts 680HP down to just the rear wheels and only runs 345's in...

How is this a useful kit for road trips if it can't be used to replace a tire on the side of the road?

Just a thought, but have you shared actual autocross results with MPP to convince them of your use case? Also, maybe they would be more open if you buy front camber arms at the same time? You really want those for AutoX anyway, they'll save you money in the long run on tires.

The question was not a theoretical one for any arbitrary amount of power. We're talking real powers used in current cars, and the claim that 800V makes them charge faster. Nobody here is talking about trying to shove a megawatt into the car. 350kW is all anyone supports. Tesla already uses...

You, an American living in the USA, clearly having lived here for years, "penned" an article for the Australian Academy of Science, and the only bylines on the article are people that live in Australia and are deep experts in their fields? What was the reason this site refused to credit you as...

Are you claiming YOU did testing to figure out that pre-heating a battery enables faster charging? First you work "volunteer" at an emissions testing center, then you're a professor, and now you're someone that invented pre-conditioning? Are you George Santos? My Model 3 has preconditioned since...

Yeah, it's to post actual useful information, not run away. When your students ask hard questions, do you "bow out"? Could you at least suggest to the crowd here where they can learn more, and what kind of college courses teach how a 800V architecture enables faster charging so we can consider...