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Great stuff, thanks. The bike does draw a small bit of power to keep a GPS security module on it charged, but the model draws very little power, so probably wouldn't draw much over a long time. I guess I could leave it in there to bring the SOC down and just check it intermittently. It's on...

OK, here in the UK we never see it that cold where I live, so presumably I would be better off leaving the battery in the garage all year round, as it tends to be the coolest place? Should I remove it from the bike or is leaving it in there likely OK? I guess then I should bring it into the...

Thanks again Aakee. I presume these behaviours apply also to the lithium batteries in other items such as eBikes/mobile phones/laptops? (Give or take?) The reason I ask is because I always aim to charge my phone to 80% as well, to try to limit degradation. I also have an ebike and don't fully...

Sorry, a few more questions, if I may? 1.) Do we know what affect SOC has on the car's ultimate power output? I previously read that power drops off quickly below 80%. Is that correct? For me, that's my only reason for charging above 55%. It seems silly to buy the Performance version, then...

Interesting. I thought it was detrimental to deep discharge the battery, but you think it's OK? I thought it was recommended to keep it above 20%? The graphs from earlier as well suggested that using it at a lower SOC was more detrimental than using it at higher SOCs? Or is it just that...

Wow, that's a lot of data. So am I right in reading that as saying keeping it between 45 - 55% and charging daily would provide the best longevity for the battery? Obviously that's not particularly possible unless you always do short trips and don't mind the hassle of plugging the car in every...

OK thanks for that. I'll dig out your other posts. I think I generally have the idea on lithium batteries for best practice, but I'm always open to learning more. My car is a 2019 and is leased, due to go back at the end of this year (I extended the lease twice already). Most would say "it's...

Aakee, what's your background in batteries then and what do you recommend for optimal battery life? I always try to look after the batteries in all my lithium powered devices as much as I can, but is charging to 83% really going to be detrimental over time? It's that catch 22 between charging...

Yes, I think this is the right answer. The wording was along the lines of a single charge limit. The only thing being that I didn't increase the limit any more than I usually do and I never set the limit to 71%. I suppose though, as it's a new function and my charge limit was set above 80%...

I doubt it. The car only has 24,000 miles on it and has never been charged to 100% or discharged particularly low. It mostly gets charged once a week and used between 83% to 50% with mostly 7kw charging and very little fast charging no higher than 50kw, so to have almost 30% degradation seems...

I dunno. I just have the vehicle charge limit and a charge limit that I set on my energy company app. That's only 2 things. Doesn't really explain the whole 71% suggestion though. I'll get a photo of the message next time.

Hi folks, I set my 2019 Model 3 Performance to charge last night and set the limit to 83% (I do this, as I use 3% getting to work the next morning, which then leaves the car at 80% for the day). However, the charge is also controlled by my electricity provider to get the car to charge at the...

Hi folks, For a while now I've noticed a noise when going over speedbumps from what sounds like the front end of my Model 3 Performance. It doesn't sound like a problematic noise, but more like a motor doing something. I just wondered if anyone else had heard it and if anyone knew what it...

Well really you'd hope the sensor would activate first and they just wouldn't turn on in the day at all, but this car just seems obsessed with having the headlights on needlessly.

Hi folks, I've noticed a few changes to the UI recently that have made the car worse to use. I was wondering if anyone knew a way around them? Firstly the headlights. I always turn them off out of habit, because the car loves to put the headlights on all the flippin time, even on sunny days...

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but just had a similar thing happen to my M3P. Some idiot hit it in a supermarket car park and drove off without leaving any details. I immediately checked sentry mode but there was nothing. Weirdly, there were no clips since December 06th 2022. The...

I would think that 250kw is worse for the battery than 50kw, as it'll inevitably generate more heat. Generally the faster you charge the worse it is for a battery. Anyway, I used a Supercharger and the whole time I was on it it didn't go above 47kw, so I needn't have worried. (It was cold and...

Hi folks, I've had my M3P for 3 years now and have extended my lease for another year. In that time I've never used a Supercharger. My reason being that I mostly charge from home and when I need to charge in public I tend to go for a 50kw charger from Pod Point or similar rather than a 350kw...

Hi all, I've just gone into my app to change the max charge percentage for tonight's charge, but noticed that the lines on the battery no longer signify the 10% increments of 50%, 60% 70% etc. They line up with 56% 65% and 74%, for example. So I put the slider all the way to the top and it said...

Thanks for this. My car is around 9 months old now, so I doubt there's any air in the system and there's no sign of a leak anywhere (plus brake fluid reservoir is still full). I think you're right in that something mechanical is faulty - I was thinking maybe the ABS pump or similar... Anyway...

Hi folks, I drove my car yesterday in and out of work as usual, all fine. Then this morning I get in to drive to work and the brake pedal is very soft indeed, as I press it to shift into drive. The pedal goes down way more than usual. I start driving, cautiously, but it's much the same...

Sometimes I think the connectivity icon has a lag. often my Spotify will stop and say "network error", even though the car is showing 4/5 bars of LTE signal. A couple of minutes later it's showing no signal, so it's like the signal indicator is lagging behind. I also get the failed voice...

Mine isn't quite that cheap, but it's under £400. That's with it being parked on the driveway and for full business use for up to 10,000 miles pa as well.

Just stumbled across this because I swear I had frunk bag hooks before, then noticed them missing after a mobile service tech worked on my car and had to disconnect the battery. Asked them to replace the hooks today when the car was in for other work and was told my car apparently didn't come...

Just had this also. It's not a particularly warm day today, but the A/C was on on my way home. Around a 6 mile drive. After getting home I went back outside around 30 mins later and there was a fan noise from around the bottom of the windshield on the driver's side (my car is RHD). I checked my...

Hi folks, I used the "Vent" feature today to help let the heat out of my car in the hot sun. I thought it just opened the windows, but it sounded like it put the blowers on as well. I left it 5 minutes to get rid of some heat, then hit the "close" button to close the windows, but I was back...

Hi folks, I often find that my car refuses to connect to Spotify or the voice control doesn't work, though the other evening I had a new message about voice control not working, as well as Spotify not working, despite my car also showing a full LTE signal. See the screenshot below. I Googled...

Hi folks, I have been using the charge limit for my car in the app and usually set it to 80%. When I come back to the car it's often at 81%, so I assume it just overran slightly. However, last night j set it to 60% as I'm not driving much at the moment and when I went out to the car this...

Yes, I've read a number of threads on this and other websites like the TeslaTap one that I mentioned. Both you and TeslaTap recommend the SanDisk USB 3.0 adaptor, which is the one I just bought which isn't working for me. One thread I saw says that it stopped working around November for some...

The thing is, the adaptor that seems to work for me (and only showed the error message once, referring to a sentry cam trigger (rather than dashcam recording) I'm pretty sure is only USB 2.0. I got it somewhere as a freebie years ago. However, the new SanDisk adaptor I have is USB 3.0 and on...

Hi folks, A while back I bought a memory card to use for sentry mode/dashcam. After reading on here that the best thing to use is a high endurance MicroSD card with a USB adaptor I ordered a SanDisk High Endurance 100MBs Micro SDXC Card and put it in a USB adaptor. It didn't work, however I...

Hi folks, I got home today and had forgotten my house key, so had to wait for my wife to get home, so decided to jump back in the car and watch some YouTube and Netflix in the warm (joys of owning a Tesla!). But when I got in and was trying to adjust the Netflix volume with the steering wheel...

Hi folks, I just went out to my car and noticed a small ding in the side of my centre console that I never noticed before. Funny, because I was sat in my car only yesterday installing a matte screen protector and thought I'd therefore have noticed something like that. I swear this interior...

Hmm, OK. Thanks for that. Perhaps I'm over thinking this or something then. I was really expecting the car to charge at 10% or more per hour, based on the 9% an hour I was getting with the Jag with its bigger battery. I think, although it's a 7kw charger it can actually put out 7.4kw or...

Funny enough, mine just started doing this today also, but my driver's door handle (which is probably the same as your passenger door handle, as my car is RHD). I'm just going to hit it with some teflon spray tonight. Ought to do it.

Just to keep this updated. I charged last night and checked the app as the car was charging. The app showed that the car was charging at 32 amps. It still took from 11:47pm to 3:36am to charge from 46% to 81% which isn't all that quick. Quicker than the other night, but still not as quick as...

You're kidding?! It's literally just a sound it makes every time?! Lol! I thought it was to notify me that there had been a sentry event or something happening with the car. Derp!

Hi folks, Does anyone know what all the beeps/bings mean when getting in the car? I know there's on when there's a sentry event, but I also get other bings the same but no notification of a sentry event comes up. Earlier, for example I parked on my driveway (sentry not active at home) got out...

OK, so I just got out of my car as I got home from work and as I was stepping out thought I could check the charge screen to see what it said. It was set to 16 amps, but wouldn't go any higher. I could set it lower, but not higher. The car wasn't plugged in at the time though, so perhaps I...

I need to check this the next time I charge, so will have a look and report back. I suspect this is the issue, but am baffled as to why it would be set to a lower amount than the maximum available. I'm not using scheduled departure, no. I just use the Tesla's "max charge" limiter to set when...

Thanks. My home charger is single phase only, not 3 phase. Also, it's cold here, but not that cold. It was probably around 6 - 8c overnight last night, so fairly warm for this time of year. (That's 6 to 8 centigrade, not minus 8, BTW.) Again, comparable temps to what the Jag was charging in...

No, sentry mode is not set to be on at home. Nothing else on. Car was locked. Also the Jag had only 3500miles on it when it went back, so I doubt there was much battery degradation. Either way, the Tesla should be managing a minimum of 9% an hour the same as the Jag, not charging far slower. I...

Hi folks, I've not long moved from a Jaguar I-Pace to a Model 3 Performance, and I have a 7kw home charger. The I-Pace had a 90kWh battery and the Tesla a 75kWh battery, so I had expected the Tesla to charge faster (on a percentage per hour basis), by virtue of the battery being smaller...

Hmm, is anybody asking why?

Standard. Won't go any higher! The I-Pace is a good 4o0kgs heavier than the Tesla, so it's not a weight thing, either. The Tesla ought to be able to slow down better on regen. Does the car show dots for power just because of reduced SOC though? I thought it only showed the dots when it's...

Sure, but Tesla let you charge it to 100% where other manufacturer's all fence off a few percent to help prolong battery life. Makes me wonder why my I-Pace did that, but then had full regen at 5C, whereas the Tesla lets you charge to 100% but has (in my experience) almost no regen at 5C. I've...

Yeah, I dunno that's it, because I was only at around 60% SOC, so it wasn't the capacity that was limiting the regen, it was most likely the temperature. The I-Pace seems to regen fully at lower temperatures than the Tesla does. This morning I had around 80 - 85% SOC after charging overnight a...

Hi folks, just wanted to get a bit of guidance on "those dots". The ones that show when your regen or power is reduced. At the moment it's pretty cold here in the UK (around 7c), but still above freezing. However, my car (a brand new Model 3 Performance) seems to have quite a few dots on the...

Just got my brand new Model 3 and have had this every day that I've driven the car. It's always saying that one or more of the cameras is fogged up or dazzled by the sun. Seems to almost constantly be moaning about it on the screen. I was told by the service center that it's normal. Though my...

Another one here with a misaligned trunk. My left trunk strut actually rubbed the rubber seal around the bottom of the rear windscreen every time I opened and closed the trunk, causing it to squeak as it rubbed. Took it into Tesla today and they undid the bolts on the bottom of the hinge where...