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My Churchill renewal came through at £1069.36. Last year it was £842.24. So I went on comparethemarket and got various quotes, starting at £701.50. Interestingly, a Churchill quote was listed at £841.52. I made the mistake of calling Churchill to see if they could do better than £1069.36 for my...

I did my first Model 3 MOT last week. I went to the nearest reasonably reputable sounding local garage (the nearest HEVRA garage was a bit further away). They said they'd done quite a few Teslas, and like them because there's not as much to test. They also said the only unusual thing they'd...

These are now being installed. There's a fair bit of digging involved:

The speed of auto-park is one of the major issues I have with it (other than it crashing my car - see Auto-park bashed our neighbour's car - should Tesla pay both repair bills?). When it unexpectedly swerved it was going so fast that (i) there wasn't enough time (0.1s) for a human to react to...

Thanks to those who provided level-headed replies (and no thanks to the mean-spirited replies). To answer my second question - Tesla do have a process for requesting an investigation/diagnosis. You need to raise a service request via the app (I used the "Other / Something else" category), and...

Thanks. So to the original questions: - It sounds like we (or our insurance) will have to pay for the damage to both cars, even if we can prove it was caused by Tesla's "Full Self Driving" with no time to manually override. - Still not clear on whether there is a process for reporting bugs in...

It didn't let me attach mp4 files, so I put them inside zip files - sorry for the extra level of indirection. Timings are: 00:03 - autopark starts moving the car 00:06 - impact To re-iterate the points above, the issue is that autopark turned the front of our car too soon hitting the back of...

It is not consistent with a driver having hit the accelerator by mistake, because the issue isn't so much the speed but the fact that it swung round way too early. Looking at the video, the speed of the impact is consistent with the normal auto-park speed. I described it as "at speed" because...

Studying the video carefully, the time between auto-park starting and the car making impact was under 3 seconds. It is hard to tell from the video at what point the auto-park started behaving unexpectedly, i.e. swung around too soon, but it is likely to have been well under 1 second, which isn't...

My wife has just used auto-park to park our Model 3, and while on auto-park it swung round way too early at speed damaging the left rear of the car in front and right front side of our car. It did it too quickly to have cancelled, and there were no obstacles and there was plenty of space so...

In many cities and towns you can pay large sums of money for a flat or house and not get a drive or garage, and it isn't unusual to see some very expensive cars parked in the street as a result, so a higher price per unit for electricity is likely to be an okay trade-off in return for having...

Ah, I thought the pole popped up and retracted. I guess it makes sense having no moving parts. There are some lamp-post charging points nearby, and you have to pay £299 for the special SmartCable to use those, so this isn't dissimilar in terms of setup cost. But one of the things I like about...

Just had a leaflet through the door for On street EV Charging that benefits everyone - Trojan Energy , who are going to install some "flat and flush" on-street EV charging points in the area, and are looking for people to pilot. They install 15 adjacent charging points on a street, so even...

Thanks for the tip. Restarted a weekly trip to Westminster this week. Just put the minimum 10 mins on with the RingGo app, and that seemed to be it (no fine so far, and if there is I'll contest by directing to Visitor parking information | Westminster City Council ). Cost was £0.43 this time -...

Yes, pretty sure he's partly doing it for the lulz. But he also knows that he could buy $1.5bn of pretty much anything, get large number of followers to buy in and drive up the price, sell it for maybe a billion or so profit after a very short period, and face no consequences for doing so in an...

Thanks. I had a heavy object in the rear foot well the other day that was leaning on the seat and triggering the alarm, and wondered if there was something like that, but couldn't find anything with a super quick search. FWIW, my workaround was to plugin the seatbelt:-)

The biggest issue I have with the new UI is that the Brake Hold icon is hidden behind my left hand. I'm in the habit of checking the Brake Hold is active whenever I stop, and now I have to take my left hand off the wheel to check it. If the designers put all the icons on the right of the screen...

The thing that annoyed me most about the website is that the information and menus on it made me think I also had to pay for the Auto Pay, so I paid £10 for the Cleaner Vehicle Discount and £10 for the Auto Pay. Which of course makes no sense because the Cleaner Vehicle Discount means there's...

There is a discreet printed sign saying "Electrical vehicles only" (see photo), and I guess technically an Audi E-Tron is an "electrical vehicle" (first time I've seen them called "electrical vehicles" though).

I've no access to a hose either, but have popped outside with 2 buckets of water and 2 sponges a couple of times now. What I noticed after the last time I got it new and shiny looking was that after a day or two just sitting in the street it had become encrusted in a thick layer of dust. Once I...

I've a full write-up at London to Orkney, and most of the NC500, in an electric car but here's a summary: Planning The route was based on a trip I took with my wife in August 2003. The main electric car specific constraint I used in terms of planning the route was: No more than 200...

This measure is specifically to address localised pollution. Fossil fuel cars tend to pump their poison into the most heavily populated areas, which is why they're connected to around 30,000 excess UK deaths per year, whereas even if you charge your electric car with non-renewable sources any...

When I was at Fort William on 31 Aug, the pile of cables etc. looked pretty much untouched when compared to the photo from 5 Aug posted earlier. There was however a Tesla EV charging distribution board a few spaces down which might or might not have been there earlier:

From my albeit limited experience, I can echo some of the comments above, particularly (a) the older rapid chargers show CCS as Unavailable, but as long as CHAdeMO is Available the CCS should be too (and conversely, given it is only possible to use one DC charging option at a time, the CCS won't...

Those of us who pre-ordered the Model 3 on 31 March 2016 were promised "something special" (Elon Musk, 5 Nov 2016: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/794769008868233216?lang=en) or "something cool for sure" (Elon Musk, 22 May 2017: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866470572967903232?lang=en)...

I see on https://supercharge.info/ that Hilton Park, Southbound is still listed as "Construction". My Tesla navigation sent me there last Tuesday (11 Aug) and I successfully charged. Thought it was odd that such a big location should be so empty - I was the only car there the whole time - so...

I got a private hire to Heathrow with a company that only uses Teslas a few years back. They were http://gooder.london/ . Looks like the website is down so maybe they're out of business now, but their LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/company/gooder/ has a couple of contacts you could...

I used to live around there too when I was young, and remember a walk in the hills where I was actually above the planes. Pretty exciting for a young boy with his feet firmly on the ground to be looking down on super fast flying jets with what looked like flames coming out of their tails tearing...

Thanks for the tips. Interesting about the fly and the water bottle theories. In my various internet searches about the problem, before I'd seen it here, I'd come across the fly theory. I didn't know if the person who reported it was being sarcastic or not, but I was starting to wonder if it...

I had the car alarm go off 4 times last night, waking up ourselves and quite probably several other people in the street too, with no indication as to why. I had problems with repeated false alarms when I first got the car, so switched the alarm off, and wasn't troubled by it again. However, it...

I've used the SC at Elvenden 3 times now - maximum was 3 other cars there, minimum 0 other cars. Going to be using it tomorrow as well.

I'm in London zone 2 (NW3) and paying £928 a year with Churchill. The Model 3 LR is my first car and I have zero no claims bonus so that's not likely to have helped, although I'm not in my 20s so that might have helped.

I finally got my first windscreen chip too:-( Thought it was going to be a big one with the noise it made, but fortunately it is quite small with no cracks radiating from it yet (see picture). From the other comments in this thread I'm guessing it is worth doing something about it to stop it...

Specifically the woodland fresh version. Not sure if that's still available though, or whether they might have changed the formula, so Smidge might be a safer bet nowadays. Anyway, I see that there are superchargers due in Fort William and Inverness sometime in 2020. Anyone know roughly when...

The Cybertruck seems to be being marketed as a post-apocalypse truck for survivalists to use if/when society breaks down, so I guess we'll have to see how the next few months go to see if we'll get it in the UK:-) As for Model Y, I reckon 2 years after the US, so it depends on when it comes out...

I've used it a little bit, but only for on-street parking. Got to drive past the spot at about 2mph, not too close to the side of the other cars, and if the spot is too tight it won't show up. Had it try to park me in a spot clearly marked "no parking", and put me slap bang in the middle of a...

My Tesla Model 3 is actually my first car. Definitely saved way more than the cost of the Tesla Model 3 by not having a car in the time since I got my licence. Still not convinced I actually need one now I live in London, and can sometimes go weeks without using it. The school run for example is...

The difference is, you aren't forced to buy FSD, and if you do opt to buy it and change your mind about it you don't have to keep on using it, plus you certainly won't have your children and your children's children still paying the price for it in future generations, not to mention that FSD...

Thanks for the writeup - very interesting. One question - was there much traffic? Last time I did that route, it wasn't called the North Coast 500, and you could drive for hours without seeing any other traffic (not counting sheep on the road). But from what I can gather, some people are...

The "standard" garage, or at least the ones in London, are 4.9m x 2.4m, with the doorway narrower, e.g. 2m. This simply won't fit a 4.97m x 2.19m Model S, but will just fit a 4.694m x 2.088m Model 3 with the mirrors folded. I've got a garage this size, and this is one of the main reasons I...

Not compelling evidence I know, but of the 2 updates I've had one was downloaded during my (only) visit to a service centre. Still on v9 myself too. I managed to get a park in my street the other weekend and perched my WiFi range extender on the window ledge to get a poor-medium strength signal...

I'd be very interested to read about your experiences too. Doesn't have to be a live feed:-) I've done the London to Edinburgh return trip a couple of times now in my Model 3, but that's pretty routine nowadays using the superchargers on the way, and I've also spent a few days in the more rural...

Has anyone actually seen any concrete evidence that this was a legitimate project, e.g. pictures of the car? According to the BBC article "The first cars had already been developed and were being tested" on a "£200m ... test track" and "the project employed 523 people". But none of the news...

I'd imagine it was nothing specific to the Canary Wharf location - they announced at the start of the year that they were closing a lot of stores in order to focus on online sales (replacing test drives with "return in 7 days if not satisfied" like the online mattress stores), and that's what...

Sorry to hear about your troubles. As you have done I'd report to the police, with any information that would make their lives easier such as the video footage and name of the school if you know it. I'd also try and get the police to contact the school - the school will take it much more...

FYI, they finally responded with "the £10 registration charge for Cleaner Vehicle Discount (CVD) application. The £10 charge on your Auto Pay service refers to the Auto Pay annual registration charge". My next question to them is - why do I need Auto Pay if my car is a zero emission-capable...

I've had mixed results. There are some spots that I think are too narrow to even register, and some I've had to go past 2 or 3 times to register (including one in a busy part of town when I was trying to demo to my nephew - some onlookers seemed a bit bemused by my driving forward and reversing...

I replaced all our bulbs with LEDs a few years back. Was quite expensive at the time, especially given we needed new transformers. Very roughly cost £1000, for an £80 annual saving, so will probably be over 12 years before it pays for itself, but cost saving wasn't really the point - the main...

There were a couple of times I parked outside on the sunny side of the street on particularly warm days this summer (seems such a long time ago...) and it reached the mid 40s inside the car while it was high 20s outside. Didn't worry about it too much though because, as other say, of the...

I'd heard about the push and lift technique, and have had a few that were pretty reluctant to come out, but this was something else - I was using that technique, and trying other techniques, combined with a considerable amount of force, to the point of being afraid I was about to break...