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Yep, but to do that, you gotta completely disassemble the thing and hope that you can turn the clamp around. And the instructions are awful, but they’re not really helpful in that situation either. Also note that the radar detector mount itself had to be turned around in order to get the extra...

Changing the clamp so that it comes in from the right hand side seems to have set the radar detector back a little bit further…. It’s still well at the edge of peripheral vision… you literally need to take your eyes off the road to see the radar detector is doing. (Valentine One v2) On the...

OK, it’s a well-made product, but the radar detector is damn near in the front seat with me because it’s so far out. I’m not seeing how I made any mistakes assembling it… I will tell you that the clamp does not work if it comes in from the right hand side. There is literally no manner to...

I ordered it for the valentine... took the darned picture

Yeah, but you have to take a darned picture of the mirror from the side… their web site is a little a bit difficult to find the proper product on.

OK, I’m on the road and I can’t do a lot of searching… The most recent update for FSDB knocked out the ability to turn on cruise control as opposed to FSD How the heck do I fix that? Every time I try to turn on cruise control it flat out turns on FSDb. Also, if I kill FSDB will that problem...

Probably a lot cheaper

Same thing with my 2019 M3… huge difference between my 2022 model Y and my 2019 M3.

I haven’t tried today… I’ll check

Folks, I’m sitting at home trying to login into TMC, and Cloudflare will not under any circumstances get me past the “ verify you are human” screen. I’m not using a VPN or anything along those lines… direct directly connected to a Verizon POP. Why is it not letting me to the website from a...

Pretty much everything has to work as advertised... Your designation charger has to be available (my trip to NJ didn't have that, so I had to charge to nearly 100% to be ok at the destination and able to get back to a charger), the weather was freezing (so I needed to charge more frequently)...

My current big safety issue is that FSDB will attempt to drive you down a turn lane that has a dotted line…. In other words, it doesn’t like the fact that everybody in front of you is going slow, so it attempts to do the New York City a-hole maneuver where it drives down the right side of the...

If you do any road trips whatsoever, you are going to spend a lot of time charging your car. this will especially be true if you are dealing with any sort of freezing weather conditions. I had a real eye-opener this year when I drove up north in the Pennsylvania from Maryland only to find that...

Given how much I’m burning through tires in white Tesla, I’m not entirely positive how much saving the planet I’m really doing….

Where are you would run into a problem is if you had to drive a decent percentage of the warm weather mileage… More than once I’ve had to drive from Maryland to Pennsylvania, and the trip is roughly 300 miles round-trip. My mileage is nowhere near the rated mileage for an MYP. In addition, I...

Yeah, the biggest problem is the horrible performance of the battery in cold weather. If the heat pump spends all it's time keeping the battery warm, you're going to have a lot of loss. I agree that a ICE car is a better option in cold environments, at least until solid state batteries become...

Yep, I’ve got to agree at this point

My biggest issue is the deceptive manner in which Tesla sells the car, or at least did in 2019, and fails to tell you a bunch of things about the vehicle. When I originally purchased my model three, before moving onto a model Y, there were a bunch of things that nobody told me until I went to...

At this point, I’m going to assume that the issue was actually that the charger was the problem…. Next time Ill move to another stall.

That’s correct…. Usually, if there’s a problem, it tells you In the car. What I normally do is I check the pins on the plug, if it’s not obstructed or doesn’t have pieces from the prior car is charging receptacle stuck in it, I then plugged it in the car.

Rt 95, Delaware reststop. I think it’s the only one. Looks like 12 stalls? I’ve had this happen once before, in Pennsylvania during subzero temperatures… Even though the car is supposed to have been preconditioning on the way there.

That was never an issue… I always selected the superchargers from actual supercharger icons on the map that got added directly to the trip route. Subsequent additions of superchargers would yield preconditioning notifications on the screen. Absolutely something screwed up with Tesla and the...

So eventually, I got annoyed and went to the next supercharger up 95 in New Jersey.… simply added from the screen as part of the trip. Charged in about 20 minutes to 85% from roughly 45%. Without a doubt, the preconditioning messages that were being displayed for brief periods of time weren’t...

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve had it precondition when the SC is part of the trip destination list. (Drive to Boston a few times a year…) As such, this is a certain oddity… Every other SC stop had preconditioned properly. When I arrived at Delaware I had 35%, so that’s not it. I’m...

OK, So I sorta assumed the folks in Chicago were somewhat being whiner babies, but after this AM I think I need to take it back… I left Maryland this AM at 4:00 with the battery 100% charged and the ambient temperature of the car in my garage being 58°. To be expected, I said, waypoint to...

I’ve actually been able to get 300 to 330 miles on my MYP… but I had to swap out the tires to do it, and they had to be low resistance. And I had to drive around 70 to 75 miles an hour, with auto pilot/FSD

So interesting enough, my MYP with 20 inch wheels does get 300 to 330 miles when I am on trips in decent weather. (weather not in the freezing temperature area.) Obviously, the car didn’t do as well with the original tires that were on it, but when I replaced the tires with low resistance...

The Primary difference with an ICE vehicle is that it will almost always have a 400-450 mile range, which doesn’t actually change in any meaningful manner in cold weather. In so far as gas mileage, once you lock down the actual mileage, it remains consistent. Obviously, the ICE manufacturers...

We had the same issue in this area and it seems like they’re getting better about how busy They are. That being said, they still do the same old stuff they always do: For example, they moved the service center from its previous location to a new location and never said anything. I go to drop...

I don’t really understand how that applies to what I said? I’m talking about presets that you can turn on for your vehicle globally that don’t require you to spend time eyeballing the screen. A bunch of different things such as the inability to turn off regenerative breaking (which was...

I will honestly say that both my first and second purchases of a Tesla pretty much a pathetic experience. At least on the first one they showed me some thing about the car and some basics about it to use. The second one they basically told me to go out and look for my car, see if there’s...

I'm not going to lie to you: I'm not impressed with the manner in which Tesla is limiting driver input to the FSDb / AP stack. For example, currently you are prevented from turning off the option for FSDb to change lanes automatically. Basically, they've made FSDb into a potentially deadly...

For the military in fact… one of my friends is one of the leading scientists from the old days in that field. Toyota has said that they are going to come out with a solid-state battery and it’s going to be sometime soon. If they’re willing to hedge their bats with those batteries, I am certain...

The biggest thing I have an issue with is the ratings have to take into consideration all of the factors we commonly run into: - Driving at 55 - Driving at 75 - Driving in <32F temperatures - Etc What are the things that pissed me off the most when I picked up my M3 back in the day was the...

Yeah, I mean that’s absolutely true… a lot of folks just dislike the idea of EVs because they are being mandated in certain states… and sensitive people are being told what to do nothing any of us say about EVs are going to make them OK.

I feel like quoting money python “ I used to dream about having a” 296wh/mile efficiency… I currently get around 330wh/mile

Thanks for that. I just found it really weird that a quick search didn’t yield anything as comprehensive as that post, re:ICE. One would think that an average midsize sedan would have a crazy list of materials… much of it plastic… along with the addition of the factor continues to burn fossil...

Folks, I saw this post on another form, where there are a lot of people who are super conservative, and really dislike EVs. I’m looking for a counter list on what it takes to produce the typical ICE vehicle (probably a midsized sedan) by comparison. Don’t get me wrong, I am fairly certain...

Russians finally going after Elon? I’ve wondered how long util they start messing with him for the Starlink support of Ukraine….

I though regen couldn’t be turned off? One of my biggest complaints is Tesla not allowing that on my MYP…. Especially after coming from a M3LR that I could turn off regen. so, in order to turn off region, they had to edit settings in the vehicle, either through the maintenance menus or by...

What I got out of this is that we just need to get the Chinese to kidnap him so he’ll stop screwing with FSD…. 🥴 <Joking> I’m sure that Musk was not talking about system security because they don’t talk about that with people outside the company… It was interesting that Mike was black balled...

That is a really cool trip. The one thing that was really interesting to me, given the cost of the Tesla supercharging: if you have a gasoline powered car and gas is roughly 4 dollars a gallon, any hybrid is cheaper to operate by about $100 for that trip. We have a Subaru ascent (as well as a...

My brother-in-law did tell me to loosen the bolts into attempt to properly align the trunk. The implication he gave me was if you loosen the four bolts and you can’t get the trunk to sit flush like it should then you have a much bigger problem and it may be that you got lucky enough and it’s...

Yep, that’s what I’m worried about… I’ll swap out the hinges which should be easy enough for me to do… and then see where we go from there. Thanks folks

Believe it or not, my brother-in-law works for a shop that works on Teslas… he’s just 250 miles to the north. He did tell me that to check the alignment on the hinges because they do sometimes get loose or get messed up. After that you start replacing things.

so when you say trunk struts… are the struts actually that delicate?

Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of…. Funny part is that I did not go crazy, slamming the trunk or anything…. I simply pushed it down with both hands.

Ok, The situation is that I had my trunk full of stuff, and a cooler in the back that apparently very slightly got in the way of the trunk closing properly. Of course, I did what you always do. Was I put pressure on the trunk to close it and when that didn’t work I pushed on it with both hands...

Tesla refused to install them at the shop. Moreover, they refused to allow me to order the parts and canceled my order. I then went over there and ripped the guy and new a-hole saying to him “what I order parts wise is none of your business. Order my damn parts.” (That exchange followed an...

I've had multiple situations where the car tells me that I've got one of those hands free defeat devices (which I don't), and the car goes nuts and disabled FSDb. (It happened two times.) I've ALSO had it tell me that I need to have my hands on he steering wheels, when I actually do! Lastly...