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Thanks for that! In that threa, they posted this picture which was helpful because usually the car's not here for me to run out and try to find stuff.

Thanks! Somebody else posted a link to another post that included this picture.

Thanks! That's great. Next level question: While re-learning the swiping, I accidentally swiped the cards down and away and I can't figure out how to get them back. Tried swiping in all directions- nothing. I got out and shut the car down and started up again, twice, but I can't find them. Do...

Thanks for that. Very helpful. Apparently I did that years ago and forgot, and also forgot that you can swipe sideways to see the other cards. And then while re-learning that, I accidentally swiped the cards down and away and I can't figure out how to get them back. I got out and shut the car...

Yeah, agreed, you make some good points. Thanks for that. But "it's always been that way" is a good enough reason for me! Mostly because I like to do stupid little math games with the mileage, especially on long drives- calculating what mileage I'll be at when I get to Syracuse, what I'll be at...

Is it possible to get my Model 3 to display the odometer on the homescreen while driving? If I want to see it while driving, it's unsafe to have to go fish for it in the software screen and then have that screen obscure the map. Is there an easier way to see the odometer than going to the...

I never know what percentage I am from home or a charger.

FWIW, I have had my iPhone ringer and alert volume set to about 60% and I have been blasted at 100% volume by my 2019 M3 a few times, only once when playing from my phone, and a few times when playing the radio.

FWIW, I have had it happen while playing from my phone (and dialing down the phone volume has no effect) and also from the radio.

Have you gotten past this problem yet? My 2019 M3 started doing some of this in early September. Driving along, not doing anything, volume ramps up to maximum volume in about 2 seconds. This is a safety issue- scares the crap outta me as I scramble to shut it down in a panic. Steering wheel...

FWIW, I heard from my local phone repair guy that SOC accuracy gets worse at the bottom of the range, AND as the battery ages, making for a compounding effect… That said, the one time that extreme cold sucked the last 15 miles of range out of our reading within 4 hours while it was sitting, I...

Wait, what? Accessing your phone ap draws on your car battery, even when it is miles away? I guess that makes sense, but can you say more?

This is a recommendation for anybody who charges at home to see if they can get a better rate from their electric utility. Where I live, just north of Chicago, we have the option to switch our billing method with Commonwealth Edison to hourly pricing, rather than paying a flat $.13/kWh at all...

I have a 2019 Model 3. Do you still have the phone charger? Interested.

My experience: My wife's Model 3 (SR, single motor) went 42,000 miles before I remembered, oh yeah, even EVs need some maintenance, including rotating tires. 3 of them were fine and good to go, and the back right tire was halfway to bald. Very stark difference. YMMV, but I wonder if my...

FINALLY somebody has come up with a word for that thing. THANK YOU.

Since my wife's Model 3 (SR, single motor) has needed absolutely nothing in 3 years except wiper fluid, I completely forgot to do anything else. (Manual just recommends checking the brake fluid every 2 years.) When I finally looked at the tires at 42,000 miles, 3 of them were fine and good to...

I can't find anywhere in my paperwork a mileage limit for my warranties, just that General and Roadside Coverage both last 4 years from the purchase date, and Battery and Drive Unit Coverage last 8 years from the purchase date. Is there ever a mileage limit?

Gas mileage in Teslas never varies.

Thanks for sharing. Can't really tell from the clip if we've got the same noise. Plz let me know how it turns out. I'll post a clip next time I get my hands on the car.

Our 2019 M3 SR+ just started making a noise this week from the front left wheel. It sounds like a squeaky balloon, or creaky like an old door, with every bump and every tiny turn of the steering wheel. Does that sound like your control arm noise? It's pretty loud both inside and outside the car...

Got any results to report yet? Tire shopping this week... TIA

FWIW, I found out I was wrong about my everlasting tires. I checked tread depth on the left side and, in the dark, the tires looked great. I went to rotate them and saw the back right tire in daylight and it was very different. Getting close to bald in the middle, with wear marks showing...

Well, if you leave your car unlocked on the street here sometimes people come around and help clear the change out of your ashtrays, and some Priuses lost their catalytic converters last year, but I haven't heard of anybody changing tires on cars at night. Smooth roads around here, I guess. I...

Wow, that's gotta be a record. Sounds like you're peeling out. It never occurred to me that you could put it in Slip Mode when on dry pavement- would it let you peel out? Yes, I stomp it multiple times whenever I drive it (when alone in the car or with my daughter who loves it) but as I say, I...

My wife has a 2019 M3 SR with the standard 18" wheels. Zero problems with this car except 1.) I don't get to drive it enough and 2.) I have to fill the wiper fluid every 9 or 10 months, dammit. So I forgot about rotating the tires for, um about 2 years now, and didn't realize how quickly she's...

Thanks for your responses, everybody! Very helpful.

Sorry I didn't see this earlier- gotta check my settings. Hate to say it, but at least when I had to deal with this last February, it was all or nothing. You couldn't get just the housing or the mirror, only the entire assembly, $620 at the dealer. But of course, you had to indicate which color...

Looking on the Tesla site, I'm not seeing the wireless phone chargers for sale. My wife has an iPhone 12 mini and would like to charge wirelessly on the way to work in her Model 3. Are they still out there somewhere? TIA.

Hello. Did you ever find a buyer for your wireless charger? Looking for one to put under the tree for my wife next week. Thanks!

Somebody who is not me but is not not my wife knocked the passenger side mirror off of our Model 3 last winter. She was backing in and bent the mirror backward. This broke the housing and the mirror glass itself. The rest of the mechanism is fine- it still works to fold and unfold. There is one...

Just hit 30K miles in our 2019 M3. I guess we've saved $300-$500 on the 7-10 oil changes we didn't get. Biggest outside expense so far has been wiper fluid- have had to fill it up 3 times now.

I dunno, I see a lot of women and older people in M3s, including my wife, who keeps it in chill mode. Good thing I don't drive it much or it would be dead by now. I think the powerful regen is the only reason I haven't gotten a ticket yet. Met a friend of a friend the other day who has a Dual...

I mean, really. I drove a Camry and an M3 yesterday. There's kind of a big difference.

Same as any rental. I knew a guy who worked for one of the rental companies, and said customers could never be as hard on the cars as the employees are. They had a car wash that was half a level below the parking lot, with a ramp going up to parking lot level when they came out of the car wash...

Struggling with a similar situation right now. Re: >>"Delete the phone as key from your car and set it up again." How do I do that? Don't want to lose my driver profile... I got the phone key working, but I can;t get the car to bring up my driver profile so I can get in (my wife has the seat...

I have a 2019 M3 with v10.2 (2021.32.21) and a new iPhone 12 with 14.4.1. This is my wife's commuter car, and (tragically) I only drive it 5% of the time. Since I got the new phone a month ago, I was able to unlock the car with the app, but not drive it. The car recognized the phone because the...

Hertz just bought 100,000 M3s. I bet Elon is over missing you MY purchase by now! Love my M3.

You can't tell the difference between a Camry and a Model 3? Okay.

Thank you all! Very helpful. RTFM didn't help, so thanks for putting it all together...

My wife is on her first multi-state road trip in our 2019 M3SR. She is using the touchscreen for navigation, not an app. From her texts just now: ------------------------------------- Here’s the basic challenge: I can navigate to Richmond, but I can’t navigate to Dayton with a stop in Richmond...

Thank you! Ended up calling my local service center and got through, which doesn’t always happen. The guy was very helpful and walked me through the steps that Tranquil Rage laid out – thank you. And indeed, I did have to swipe my wife’s card to deactivate my missing card, halfway thinking I was...

I lost my wallet a week ago and apparently it was found by a national crime syndicate, with fraud attempts made on my cards in multiple states. I shut all those down, but my Tesla key card is still out there. They also know where I live, thanks to my drivers license. If I go to the dealer with...

I saw a canary yellow Model 3 the other day, Chicago area. Safe to assume it was a wrap? Looked pretty good. High viz for safety.

Thanks, Hank Lloyd Right, for all that good info. So much for my theory of getting free Lasik for my nearsightedness by occupying window seats on Southwest flights. I grew up in a prairie-style FLW house, btw. The guy's focus on curating exactly how one feels when entering a room or occupying a...

...and couldn't the laser be reflected off the windshield and endanger others? While I have an expert on the line... Last year I was on a Southwest flight coming in to land at Midway in Chicago- Midway sits among dense residential neighborhoods. It was nighttime and it was Christmastime and I...

Sorry, can you explain terms, please? I am assuming dual carriageway = 2 lanes each direction, therefore 75% single lanes = lower driving speeds = greater economy. Is that right? And "carriageway"? Are you competing for space with carriages? I guess we have that in Amish country here. (I was...