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I hunted around and failed to exactly find this answered. We're looking at selling our beloved Model 3 since we're moving abroad. In trying to price it appropriately, I'm wondering whether all the software goes with it. Specifically, we have: Enhanced Autopilot Full Self-Driving Lifetime...

Our Model 3 just passed its fifth birthday. And just recently, when the glove box opens, it now opens with a bang. That is, it flops open hard and fast, such that the door actually bounces a few times before coming to rest. It used to open gently. Clearly there's some sort of damping system that...

Like many of you, we got 11.4.2 a few days ago. The release notes said a lot about FSD improvements. That's all great. But it's May of 2023, and this was our first 2023.anything release. I figured in the last half-year or so there would have been some non-FSD improvements and new features. But...

On our way home from Victoria, BC, we stopped to visit my daughter and her family near Portland for several hours. There's limited parking in her neighborhood, so we ended up several houses down the street from hers. Later when we were out front playing with the grandkids, we heard a car alarm...

Okay, I admit the title is just kidding. But I've wondered from time to time how much FSDβ increases our consumption of tires and brakes. Really twitchy, rapid steering at near-zero speeds is rough on tires. And when I'm driving I can do almost all my slowing and stopping with just regen, but I...

Something new has shown up for me in 2022.36.20. I'm curious whether others have noticed similar errors. Most of I-5 in southern Oregon has a 65 mph speed limit. There are a few miles as it passes through Medford where it drops to 55. In prior releases, when the car was on AP and got to the 55...

Here's an FSD topic I've wondered about several times, but haven't seen discussed. FSDß nicely brings me home from whatever outing. Well, almost. It gets to the street right in front of my house, dusts off its electronic hands, and is all done. Why not turn into the driveway and enter the...

I was cleaning our car a couple days ago and found this clip on the floor. It was under the center console, on the floor beneath where the rear AC vents are--about where someone's toes would go if they were in the center rear seat. I poked around that area, expecting to find a hole, but didn't...

I've been in the FSD Beta since last year when they lowered the threshold to reckless people like me with a score of only 98. Last month our MCU abruptly fried (a whole separate story), and the car got towed to Bend and had a new one put in. They returned the car with the same software version...

This seems like the sort of thing someone on this forum would have compiled, and keep compiling over time. Had I thought of it, I would have done it! I'm looking for the changes to the Model 3 since the first shipments to now, and when each such change rolled out. I know with Tesla the change...

We got home late last night from a long road trip. Nothing remarkable to report. This morning I went out to the car and the display on the screen was hung. It wouldn't respond to any touch anywhere. So I did the usual two-thumb reboot, holding the buttons for about ten seconds until the screen...

I noticed the other day that the dashcam icon is gone. I'm on 2021.44.30.5. I've generally noticed that the recent UI overhaul has cleaned up lots of stuff, including the indication of current user profile. But I just realized the little camera icon is missing. I tried the usual unplugging and...

Tēnā koutou. We're trying to plan ahead for moving to NZ in a year or so, where we hope to buy a Model Y to replace our beloved Model 3 here in the US. I'm trying to get some clarity on charging Teslas in NZ, and I'm hoping someone can explain. I know the plug in the car there is different from...

Any other USAA folks out there? We're having a heck of a time getting an answer to this question from USAA. If we add USAA's towing coverage to our policy, and we need a tow, will they take to to a Tesla facility or just to the nearest repair shop, which probably can't do anything unless it's...

Greetings! My wife and I are looking at what to do with our 3-year-old Model 3 if we move to New Zealand. Is it reasonable to bring it with us? Obviously, we’d have to live with the steering wheel being on the opposite side from the ideal in a right-hand-drive country. I saw a NZ website about...

(I did some hunting around the forum, but didn’t find this anywhere.) For a few weeks I’ve been hearing a clunking or clicking sound from the dashboard on the left. It starts as soon as I open the door and climb in, and continues maybe 30-60 seconds. The clunks are irregularly spaced in time...

My wife's key card has stopped working. No response at all from the 3. Mine works normally. I thought maybe the car sort of "forgot" hers for some reason, so I went into the process to add a new card, but it doesn't recognize it at the step where you put it by the cupholders. Weird. Or maybe not...

So I was walking down the street, talking on the phone with my son in California. My wife happened to drive down the same street in the opposite direction in our Model 3. Just as we were waving hello to each other, my call with my son suddenly dropped. My wife's experience of that same moment...

It's a little thing, but I've wanted it for 2.5 years: time remaining in a song played via Bluetooth. My most common music source is iTunes on my iPhone via a Bluetooth connection to the car. My $99 decade-old stereo in my old car could show track time on a Bluetooth song, but the Tesla...

We've had our 3 for two and a half years. Every now and then the Tesla phone app wants us to log in again. Today my wife's Android phone's Tesla app is refusing to let her log in, saying the password is wrong. We've tried multiple times. Carefully verified the email and the password--spelling...

Some months back there was word of a major rewrite of the software that would be released by the end of 2020. I seem to recall Elon saying he was already using a version of it for his daily driving, and by year's end they'd begin sending it out selectively, but it sounded broader than just the...

This surprised me the other day. We went for a hike, and left the car parked at the trailhead, elevation 5249 ft. I failed to note the temp on arrival, but it was cool, let's say 60s F. The car was in full sun, toasting nicely while we hiked for almost 3 hours. Upon our return to the car, the...

I searched around the forum and failed to find this. Has anyone been tracking which service bulletins are applicable to which VINs? Our 3 just turned 2 years old, and I recently scheduled mobile service to install our FSD (HW3) computer. I also asked them to do any relevant service bulletins...

We got 2020.12.5 a few days ago, but with the lockdown, didn't take it for a drive until yesterday. We're still waiting for our notice for the HW3 upgrade (yes, we bought FSD). But with this release at least we have now joined the club that gets cones on the visualization. It was kinda fun...

Last Monday we moved from Sacramento to Talent, OR. My wife drove our Model 3. I got the honor of driving the 26-foot diesel Penske moving truck, nicknamed Behemoth. The journey is all on I-5, except the local roads at each end. It's a bit over 300 miles, and includes long, straight stretches of...

We just moved to Oregon. A month or two ago someone posted a link to a site where you can check whether a given custom plate is available in OR. I even tried it and found a few available choices. I thought it was a DMV site, but I can't find it now, and maybe it was a third party. Can anyone...

We're moving to a new home in a couple weeks, leaving our nice 14-50 behind in Sacramento. We'll need a NEMA 14-50 in the new garage. I've already verified there's capacity in the panel, and it'll be a nice short run since the panel is in the garage. So I'm contemplating doing it myself. I've...

This was a first for me in 19 months of driving our 3. I had Autosteer engaged in a 65 zone, so we were cruising along at 68 (+3 configured). All normal and happy. We got to a construction area posted as 55. So I used the right thumb wheel to reduce speed. Still on Autosteer and TACC, just...

Several releases ago, starting when Navigate on Autopilot (NoA) was in its youth, the car would change lanes automatically to maintain speed and get by slower traffic. Then after a little while it would display (approximately), "Changing out of passing lane," and move over a lane, which seemed...

Well, after recently starting a thread about 18 months of zero service issues, I may have something. A week or so ago i noticed that after pulling the driver’s door handle (outside) to open the door, it would not immediately return to its flush position. Then twice today after climbing in, I...

A year and a half ago today, Wattney, our Model 3, came into our lives. Today she is just a few miles short of 30,000. And nothing has gone wrong. The car has never been in for any warranty service. Okay, I lie a little. One time an OTA update got stuck, and they unstuck it for me remotely. But...

It’s fun to use NoA to make the transition from one freeway to another and see how it does. In my experience, when it’s making a net 90° turn, it does quite well almost always. It’s just a ramp that curves from one freeway to the other. It’s more interesting when it makes 270° turn using a...

Mid-day on Thanksgiving, we pulled into the San Mateo Supercharger. The nav showed 1 of 12 stalls available, but when we pulled in, all 12 were full. We became the first car in a waiting line. While waiting, the nav still said 1 was available. I counted cars and stalls: 12 of each. I have...

Okay, friends up north, I need your help and advice. Since I was a kid, I have wanted to drive the length of the TCH. Life intervened and it never happened. But now a few things are coming together to make it possible. I'll retire next August, giving me time. And Tesla is busily working at...

I haven't seen any comments on the tires. These Goodyear tires have sidewalls that are clearly matched to the 7-spoke wheel covers. We don't even see the rim itself. Cool design. But does it mean I can't buy just any tire of the right size and load specs? Probably not--it just wouldn't look so...

Remember Henry Ford's famous quote from 1909 about the Model T? "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Well, now we have the Cybertruck. It comes only in stainless steel. (Remember DeLorean, anyone?) If you had a Cybertruck, would you wrap it to...

I keep looking at these two photos from the Tesla website, and I can’t figure out the rear glass. We see it with the bed open, obviously how you’d have it when hauling furniture to your kid’s new apartment. And we see it closed, which would clearly be preferable for efficiency when running...

Well, this morning was a big transition. Last year my wife retired. Next year I will. We've had Wattney, our Model 3, for about 16 months. Since we got it, we have scarcely used our Prius any more. Usually we had to make a deliberate point of driving it now and then, just to keep it going. So...

I got zero hits on "tesmat", so I thought I'd start a thread. Tesmat makes a fold-up, compressible camping mattress for the Model 3. It stuffs into its own bag and fits in the sub-trunk, leaving the main trunk available for other stuff. My son-in-law came across it on Reddit a while back and...

I've been on the TMC fora since June, and find this a valuable place to spend time. But I have noticed one odd thing, and since there's a forum for suggestions, I thought I'd mention it here. I've seen a few instances where someone responds to a post with a thumbs-down. This ends up offending...

Yesterday we finished a 1200-mile round trip to Oregon and back home to Sacramento. Nearly the whole trip was on I-5 (that's "the 5" for those of you from SoCal). I'd estimate that we used some level of AP on about a thousand of those 1200 miles. So I thought I'd share some thoughts. Read if...

You know how in the Tesla nav it’ll show “3 of 8 stalls available” (for example) when you look at the info for a given Supercharger? Is there any way we can get that in-use status when we’re not in the car, like on some website? I think the answer is “no,” but I thought I’d ask just in case...

Hi, gang. We’ve had Wattney for over a year, and received lots of software updates without problem. But now she’s been “stuck” for almost two weeks. We have the orange down arrow on top, indicating she wants software. She’s attached to our WiFi network as usual. The software screen shows about...

It’s a bit of a trick getting our Model 3 in the garage just the right distance. Enough space in front to walk by, and just enough behind to open the trunk without bonking the closed garage door. The high-tech ultrasonic proximity detectors sort of help. When they read about 16-19 inches is just...