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2019 Model 3, five months out of warranty. Just been quoted £1200 to fix a water leak and replace the trunk carpet, caused by a common paint defect, cracking around the trunk seal. I am not best pleased!

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Apparenlty driver profiles also lost.

Just installed 223.2.12 and all my settings were lost (phone access) and now my car thinks it's parked at Tesla HQ in California, and it's apparently 1:40am.

Scratch that. My Go renewal price has jumped to match. So I guess Intelligent is the way to go, then.

My Go expires next month. Being quoted 35p/kWh peak to renew Go, vs 40p/kWh peak for Intelligent. I don't think the extra off-peak hours will make up for the higher peak cost of Intelligent. I very rarely need more than 4 hours of car charging, so I'm going to stick with Go.

I was hoping "Remain connected to WiFi in Drive" meant in your driveway. Mine keeps forgetting the Wifi password every few days.

I received a payment reminder for an invoice dated November 2019 (which I never received!) and they want to charge me £87 for fixing a squeaky steering column. See attached screenshot. Cheeky buggers! This repair was carried out just a few months after I received the vehicle, and only now 18...

I'm glad you went to Orkney. Having grown up there, I heartily recommend it! Nice photos of Birsay and Stenness. :)

If you're going to Fort William, be sure to head west a bit along the A830 (Glenfinnan, Arisaig, Morar, Mallaig). It is stunning.

I had a mixed experience with my A2. Had it for about a year now. When it arrived, there were scratches and paint bubbles on the front plate, which the installer logged and I contacted support about. I also could never get the phone app to recognise my charger. It worked fine as a dumb charger...

Could it be that the songs your daughter likes all just sound the same?

If you (as an artist) want a gap between two of the songs on your album, you can put it there. It's your album, you can make it sound however you want. What you don't want is dumb crappy audio players sticking extra gaps between your songs when there was supposed to be no gap. Imagine a live...

Playing songs without an (unintended) gap between them. The way it sounds when you play an LP, cassette, or CD. So if you're playing an album, the songs will flow smoothly from one to the next exactly as the artist intended.

Gapless playback working beautifully.

Volvo V70. Still got it, although these days we only use it for occasional long trips or taking the dog places. Things I miss about the Volvo: 500+ mile range. Enormous boot. Roof rack. Not caring about the interior getting filthy with mud, sand, and dog hair. Happily bouncing along country...

Personally I was hoping for Hillington/Braehead, alongside all the other luxury dealerships there (Infiniti recently pulled out leaving one empty). But this'll do, I suppose!

99% happy. Gripes: The new £10/month connectivity fee. Spotify doesn't support gapless playback. Got a couple of nasty stone ships in the front, which I tried to fix up myself and I made an arse of it. OK, this one's not Tesla's fault.

Meerkat quoted £609 with Admiral, so I phoned Churchill to threaten to leave, and they magically applied a loyalty discount to bring my renewal quote down from £720 to £570. That makes it a nice easy decision! In fairness to Churchill, they did also give me a £40 rebate a month or two back to...

Had my M3 since August last year. Insurance with Churchill was £680. Just got the renewal notice, and it's jumped to £720. No claims or anything else which I'd expect to have an adverse effect. Eek! Time to start looking around.

It's Lomond, not Lommond, BTW. :D

Just back from a week in St Andrews and we used the CPS chargers in one of the (deserted) university car parks, just a couple of minutes' walk from the town centre. There's also a Tesla supercharger just 20 minutes away in Dundee.

Oh dear. From the side it looks like a Saab. Bleurgh.

No, it costs £50k but you get a nice car with it.

It is on the route if you're starting from Orkney! Me too. :)

Maybe it's the LR variant that has higher screen wash capacity.

I poured most of a 5L bottle into mine. The remainder splashed all over the inner surface , thankfully avoiding the open frunk. What an awkward position for the opening, miles away from the nearest edge...

No, you have to supply proof of purchase once you've received the car. Otherwise they will seek to recover the loan from you.

What's open in Aviemore at 7am? When I drive up the A9 I normally leave very early in the morning, and in my ICE car I would stop at Ralia which has 24 hour toilets and the cafe opens at 8 for a nice cup of tea. Sadly Ralia has no charger though!

All the ChargePlaceScotland chargers in... ermm... Scotland are free. (Subject to registration, and an optional £20 RFID card.)

I find myself using the brakes quite a lot at the moment. Freezing cold weather means the regen takes ages to become useful.

As long as you don't mind hackers scaring your kids, etc. Ring’s new security ‘control center’ isn’t nearly enough – TechCrunch

That's quite an invitation.

VAT invoices are only legally required if both parties are VAT registered. Curious to know if people on this thread experiencing the problem are actually VAT registered?

I have an Andersen A2. It looks nice. It works fine as a dumb charger. I have never managed to get the app to connect to it to play with the "smart" features, not that I particularly need them. The front panel of mine was damaged when it arrived (some scratches and bubbles on the paint), and...

Yep, it's an Andersen A2, charging at 32A.

Octopus Go is working very nicely for me.

I got the Andersen A2 smart charger purely for aesthetic reasons, and at the moment it's operating in Dumb mode because I couldn't be bothered setting it up and linking it to the phone app. Maybe I'll get round to it one day, but at the moment I'm happy enough with it just being a dumb charger.

Sometimes the auto wipers work fine. But other times I've been driving through torrential rain at night and the wipers haven't so much as twitched without manual intervention.

My P- is described as MODEL 3 PERFORMANCE AWD 4 DOOR SALOON which is correct.

I booked a regular service centre appointment, and they got in touch a couple of days later to tell me they'd send the mobile engineer round to my house instead. I'm in Renfrewshire; I was booked into the Edinburgh SC.

I had a mobile service appointment today to sort a squeaky steering column. Kept me informed, arrived on time, very pleasant and helpful, asked if there was anything else he could help with. Very positive experience.

Charging points are there to be used, so use them. That's literally what they're for. Every 30 minutes you spend charging is 30 minutes less you'll have to spend next time. It all evens out in the end.

Glasgow would be a much more sensible location than Edinburgh for the Irish market too, it's much nearer the ferries.

Mystery solved, then. :)

It's already better at understanding and communicating with humans than I am. :D

Send me a referral please.

BTW the most beautiful stretch of road in the country is the Road to the Isles: the A830 from Fort William to Mallaig.

This might be of interest: The Tesla Model 3 and the Scottish Highland Adventure

I did this recently with Skyport at Glasgow Airport. They have four charging bays (Rolec), I just drove into one of them and plugged in, and left it for a week. The airport shuttle bus takes 5 minutes. The whole process worked well; I would do it again. I had pre-booked an electric car charging...