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So I wonder if it is possible to sell my car's FSD capability at a reduced price to someone buying a new Tesla? That seems to be the only way to retrieve the money I spent four years ago for a function that remains a distant prospect in France.. Or I could put the money earned from the sale...

Sorry @Dazboj you are right, I was getting you confused with someone from a Facebook forum! I actually registered my car in France after the end of the withdrawal period (we moved here in protest at Brexit and all the attendant effects on Britain's body politic). Fortunately I had little...

Following our DM conversation you might be interested to know that when I was driving in the fog yesterday I noticed two French cars with their rear foglight on and both were on opposite sides! So it may not be an issue after all.

Two years later I am still driving with RHD headlights adjusted to point downwards and only occasionally getting flashed.

Interesting -- I presume that you have the newer metric headlights.

Thanks -- that's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. I will look into it. FWIW my winter tyres were fine when I put them away (I had occasion to inspect them in detail after spending a lot of time getting the bits of gravel out of the treads!)..

After changing to my summer tyre/wheels (Michelin Pilot) I have noticed a slight "vibrant/swishing" sound from one or more of the wheels on the motorway. There is no steering wheel vibration or any kind of vibration that I can feel. The wheel cover is securely fitted. Might one of my rear wheels...

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the aesthetic impact of allowing other brands into SuCs. Who doesn't love the elegant unified effect of a row of streamlined, near-identical cars lined up to feed, in a limited range of colours, all parked the same way? Just think of the chaos as cars of all...

Since the latest UI update I have noticed the reversing screen is now frequently juddering or freezing for maybe a second while reversing. This is somewhat disconcerting : the net effect is to slow my reversing down considerably to avoid unseen hazards otherwise out of view in the mirror. I...

That does seem very small. Shortly after having a slightly larger chip repaired I was amazed to find the entire screen pockmarked with even tinier chips at about 150 cm intervals that are visible in the sun but not otherwise. Around that time I had had a period of very frequent long Automate...

This is related also to the contrast between the excessive complexity of every other prestige interior, designed to demonstrate how much you are getting for your money, and the blessed simplicity of the M3.

Je prévois que lorsque ma Model 3 RHD devra finalement subir son Controle Technique, il me sera peut-être demandé d'intervertir les positions du feu de recul arrière et des feux de brouillard arrière, car ils sont bien sûr du côté opposé au LHD. Est-ce que cela risque d'être un processus coûteux...

Since moving to France from the UK I have rarely suffered from phantom-braking events, thanks I think to the spacious much emptier autoroutes. However I have recently experienced disturbing events when pulling back in from the fast lane to the middle lane while a truck is in the slow lane. What...

An account of some of the few moving parts on a Tesla, which make an ICE by contrast look ridiculously complicated...

First thing I did with my bike rack..!

Mine was facing down! However I may have forgotten about the torque-clicking feature. I was using Thule's wraparound rubber gismo designed to protect cardon frames from being overtightened but I think I must have still been too cautious with the torque. In any case I do think it is sensible to...

No, nothing so complicated: the way that the bike was placed on the rack meant that I had to place the clamp that grips the bike frame in a slightly awkward position on the downtube. I should have tried another position: the turbulence generated by driving at speed caused the grip on the tube to...

As to the additional drag caused by a rack I can report one set of data points from two 500 drives from central France to London mostly cruising at 130 km/h. The rack held a single lightweight carbon road bike. The first, without the rack, was 74.56% efficient and consumed 200 Wh/km The second...

Ah, so I was missing something..!

Am I missing something here..?. My Easyfold locks itself to the tow-bar so there is only a remote chance of its being stolen unless I park it in a tough neighbourhood, in which case I would be more worried about vandalism to my car..!

I too enjoy the feeling of being in an exclusive club. However I realise that such sentiments are unworthy and I am OK with opening up SCs if and only if the effect is to accelerate the development of new sites to compensate for the additional demand.

Actually although I have contemplated such a device I find that the M3 acceleration allows you to stay far enough away from the vehicle in front to allow you to see sufficient distance in the opposite lane. The instant acceleration then more than makes up for the additional distance you have to...

"Resident" being Autocorrectese of course for "resin"...

I recently had a windscreen chip repaired at a local garage. After the repair the pit was gone but the accompanying small crack was still visible (I can appreciate that this may be inevitable as the resident would be unable to enter the crack). However in addition I noticed that in sunlight...

So Teslas have REM sleep..?

Thanks, I found the reference. Just to make things more complicated however it says (my emphasis): "Headlights do not require adjustments when temporarily driving into a region where the traffic direction is different (for example, driving in right-hand traffic region, and then driving into a...

I'm happy to wait while our heroic American friends suffer all the beta-test er.. crashes.

I too had heard that the dipped beam was symmetrical. However I have to say that I have just driven in the dark for the first time in France with my Model 3 and I have had two people flash me (still a minority at least, although one of them was clearly very cross). Looking at the pattern there...

Merci, c'est très utile. Existe-t-il en France comme au Royaume-Uni des revendeurs spécialisés dans les VE ?

Je vais quitter le Royaume-Uni pour la France dans une semaine. Tesla.fr ne semble pas avoir de voitures d'occasion sur son site. Y a-t-il un bon endroit en France pour trouver des modèles 3 d'occasion de bonne qualité ?

Like a mother Tesla carrying a baby Tesla on its back -- or maybe its head..

Meanwhile when it diverges from two lanes into one, there are suddenly no nearby white lines for it to follow and for me it always gives up in a panic..

Yes, still no problems :-)

Showing my age but it reminds me of the air pilot skit on The Young Ones.. "Oh no! A cloud..!"

Is anyone worried like me that the rewrite will take months to bed in and debug? Presumably it cannot be a full rewrite or they would have to junk all the accumulated training by the neural networks. Why do people think the transition will be seamless?

Yes, I had my offset at 4 mph over. Try turning the warnings off, and then see what happens.

For a long time now I have had my car alert me to when I am driving 4 mph over the speed limit. Meanwhile whenever I turned on TACC and was not driving at the speed limit the car automatically accelerated to this speed, meaning that switching it on was always accompanied by frantic scroll-wheel...

That certainly gave me pause! The warranty states: "This New Vehicle Limited Warranty applies to vehicles sold by Tesla in your specific Warranty Region. For purposes of this New Vehicle Limited Warranty, your Tesla specific Warranty Region is defined as the region that your vehicle is first...

We’re currently on a research trip. I’d prefer Poitou Charentes, Mrs Cogarch thinks that’s too hot and prefers Normandy. Smart money is somewhere in the Loir (not Loire!) valley...

I shall have to preserve this project for another day. Hatched another project to move to France, which also has to be done by the end of December! With all the toing and froing should consume my excess: just drove down to Niort and I’m already down to 3400..!

Recently while speeding along the fast lane of the motorway on a long trip to Scotland on the hottest day of the year our car started slowing down to about 40 mph and an alert message said "Limited power available - (or it might have said "Reduced power") Exiting and re-entering your car may...

Thanks -- this one took me a bit by surprise. "Even if you don’t have to pay VAT on your car import, you will need to visit the tax office to obtain a valid tax certificate (also known as quitus fiscal) in order to register your car in France, and, by default, obtain a French number plate. You...

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Yes -- having bought my Model 3 as my "last car" and with money tight I could not stretch to the overhead involved in selling and then rebuying in France.. It is my only chance to avoid ending up as a retired Honda Jazz driver...!

Brilliant! It had never occurred to me to treat the possession of a bulb kit as a purely symbolic act - but that feels like it makes total sense in the French context..!

We are contemplating moving to France this autumn which will involve an avalanche of bureaucratic provisions, amongst them making arrangements for our Model 3. I just wondered if anyone else had embarked upon a similar exercise and can offer their experience on reregistering their Tesla in...

I understand that you don't need an International Driving Permit (which I bought last year in preparation for No Deal but has no expired). However where would one get a Tesla LED Bulb Kit..?

We're driving up to Edinburgh next Friday to settle our daughter into a new flat for her final year at Uni. I have often enjoyed the beauty of the Borders, particularly as my favourite route to Edinburgh is via the Clyde Valley, and found the road from Moffat to be one of the best driving roads...

Damn — beaten to it..!

The question is whether to set up a Patreon account for an obsessive concept quest or to spring for a dream holiday that no Patreonista in their right mind would feel driven to subsidise...