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for me atleast, i now highly suspect a big part of above was due to the brakes. when driving at low speeds, the car blends friction brakes with the regen, and the light braking application causes the noise. when using the brake pedals manually with low brake pressures, it would make a loud...

I lived in there even before the turn of the millenium. We said Cali, San Fran, Frisco, and Socal in equal measures. Never really said Norcal much though.

FYI limiting 16A continuous use on a "20A" circuit relates to the national electric code https://eepower.com/technical-articles/national-electrical-code-basics-sizing-and-protecting-branch-circuit-conductors/

This thread is like if the hypermiling communities all discovered electric cars

tires are a consumable and swappable product. think of it like an outercoat. its your prerogative to change them to suit the weather, and in certain jurisdiction it is your legal obligation to change them. people in places with seasonal climates change tires/wheels twice a year. its just a...

I'll buy generic chargers and adapters for cell phones and cameras and small electronics... but for something plugged into a car at literally tens of thousands of watts... no way. And visually looking at the product housing is not an indicator of the quality of internals. The adapter is not a...

Buy the exact color for even better results. Apollo wheel is Sonic Silver, WPB-8838-3. https://service.tesla.com/docs/BodyRepair/Body_Repair_Procedures/Model_Y/HTML/en-us/GUID-769C9625-76EE-467B-B756-C9032AC2B99A.html I just repaired a similar scratch on my Uberturbines, code WPB-82422E...

looks aftermarket... not necessarily in a good way

I can see that in certain window of conditions. Most of the time here when the handles are frozen, so are the windows, and on my 3 if the windows are frozen (from lowering slightly during unlatch), you wouldnt want to open the door because the top edge of the window rubs against the trim

Drove my Europe model in a windy unlit country road last night. Could not see any evidence of curving functionality. I'm not sure if that functionality is independent from high beam / matrix, so i could go into low beam mode with less visibility and test it. Doesn't much matter because with...

The new rear end is MUCH better. The new front end is about the same or worse. In certain colors/angles I like the slimmer lights, but in others the whole front end looks too pinched and plain, whereas the older one had more sculpting.

Generic answer is that omission of deliverable functionality is often a deliberate choice: why present something to the user when there's no useful purpose to it? You add clutter to the UI for no particular advantage. Personally speaking even the drivers door unlatch feature seems pointless to...

Works great on my car. A neato undisclosed update is that the car and traffic visualization now renders whether surrounding cars have their brake lights or turn signals active. It's about 90-95% accurate even in clear day light (when the illumination of lights are not that obvious). Of course...

why not DIY is a simple answer for me: not for a job this big in physical size, and i'd hate the imperfect results. i had a well-regarded shop do my full front end, in a tip top facility, and even then i found a few miniscule hair type debris lodged under the film. to get a satisfactory result...

and FYI, Tesla has roadside assistance that includes towing. The terms says for warrantable issues.... but in this of blown fuse, perhaps the cost will be waived by them. I've used them twice for blown tires and nothing was charged (its explicit in terms that towing for tire/wheel damage is...

1. Very broadly speaking charging at higher power creates more wear on the battery, compared to home charging at lower power. It is also very contested how much is this effect in real life. (there are other variables affecting the wear) 2. The control of the charge that in effect protect the...

You encountered a black swan event. This should be rare for obvious reasons - gigantic risk and liability at both ends. Most people dont get issues like this and similarly we plug our phones in different chargers and plugs all the time. Firstly, tesla service is like any other car dealership...

It adds a sense of airiness and volume for the passengers, esp rear passengers

The swiveling there is very obvious. My GTI was never looked like that...although maybe I didn't see it because the end effect is not that prominent, but because your video is in fog it made the beam of light look much more obvious

It's very possible that you simply have a faulty charging port door. I put up with an erratic port door behavior for a while.. thinking it was just some occasional programming bug or whatever. But I had the SC center replace it under warranty and everything is back to expectation. Much better...

I recently bought the 2-piece fabric style using clips and the fit is near perfect. The frame is just rigid and oversized enough that it doesnt fully rely on the clips to stay on, but rather friction from pressing against the perimeter of the roof. There's no sagging or dropping or anything yet...

they're rubber seals. you can cut the rolls you buy from the shop with scissors. they're rubber. you bend them to shape - thats how you would seal windows and door frames and other things they're primarily targeted for.

They don't make any of these products. These are generic EPDM/rubber gaskets. You can get them from any hardware store, automotive store, or amazon. Just search for EPDM seals in D or P-profile. Cut to size and apply as needed.

…until the salt and grime from the road spray scratches your lens. happened to my 5year car. i carry a squirt bottle in the trunk for this.

L2 AC goes up to 230V*32A*3phase=22kw

In europe many gas stations have high voltage electric chargers. Charging the car doesnt spontaneously create sparks to ignite fuel vapors.

i would want the model with matrix lights, heat pump, and amd ryzen processor. - lights you view with your eyes and the last 2 you can see displayed in the car computer's info page. i thought the sonic parking sensors would be valuable, but turns out i like the camera-based Park Assist 3D...

i occasionally have this light groaning/shuddering on my YP, which ive never had with the 3P, but unfortunately its extremely difficult to pin down. it *seems* to be most coincident after rain, which indicates some rotor rust and caliper sticking... but ive experienced that when it was more...

If you already have an SUV and your kids grew out of child seats (ie they climb in/put of the car by themselves)……id go with the Model S to get a car thats lower to the ground for sportiness

the swiveling function of headlights are rarely ever perceptible. in cars ive had, they look obvious when first turned on (and they swivel to calibrate), but on-road driving theyre not noticeable. the matrix-blanking function of headlights, if delivered to north america, is noticeable. but...

unless you somehow get in touch with an actual engineer, the responses are probably gonna be like "we improved the design for enhanced comfort and better efficiency"

If you park the car next to a wall for years it would have differential UV rot. If the alignment is different they’d have different contact patches. If the air pressures are different it’d build up different temperatures and have different max grip. Etc. If everything compounds - and it does -...

i love their computer generated render where the rim in 'before' state magically scratched only inside the spokes

T# are just different generations of tire customization for a manufacturer. They should be very minimal changes in actual characteristics, otherwise the manufacturer would label them as a different model altogether. Ideally (or even officially), tires should match in characteristic across an...

i am wondering if all these low speed groaning-while-turning sounds might not be due to the differential effect. the car is pulsing the brakes to compensate for speed differences across the axles or the tires and/or the tires are skittering across the surface and/or the load is going back into...

That's expected https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2023/tesla-intel-vehicles-will-receive-some-of-the-visual-updates-in-spring-update-2024-14

Recently have had to call Tesla roadside assistance twice for tire punctures. (Farrrrr from California, however). They coordinated with local companies to do the tow. No complaints. I'd probably lean with Tesla first because if it's covered, you don't have to deal with potential paperwork...

youre getting 8kW power. thats the important part. (important because youre maxing out the 240 voltage and 32 amperage [single phase] to yield 7.7kw power) if car is rated for 300mi from a 80kwh battery, that works out to 3.75mi/kwh. 3.75mi/kwh * 8kw = 30mi/h.

my neighbor has a non-tesla L2 station mounted outdoors, connected to the car with a mennekes type2 cable. he suspects that when the car is receiving less than the 32A the box is capable of handling, it is due to thermal issues on the box -- which also has a black colored external housing...

service appointments are a chance for them to add non-critical service bulletin or recall checks as well, for example checking the rear wiring harness on the 3 https://www.tesla.com/support/model-3-trunk-lid-harness-retrofit

Fixing a curb rash means sanding it down and respraying it. Mobile service definitely don't do that, and SCs dont do that type of work either. Any 3rd party can do a good job at that because it's not considered a complex job.

Gemini 19" is the standard, baseline, most-efficient wheel. If I had gotten them on my car in the original color, I would have spray painted them dark also. You got a free 'upgrade'

Its the shareholders prerogative to vote for representatives acting in their best interest. If those reps are allied with Elon, thats still the voters’ prerogative to elect/reelect/remove. So far, Musk’s rescinded pay was not determined by the shareholder class. It was determined by a judge...

Board members are appointed by shareholder votes. Your ownership determines your voting weight. Thats how all corporations work. If you own your company, you can appoint whomever you want to what position you want. Do you have an issue with that cut and dried principle ?

In the 13 years of Jobs' 2nd reign, he brought Apple from basically nothing (7B revenue and 4B market cap) to 100B of revenue and 400B of cap. In the 13 years of since Musk's CEO, the company went from literally nothing to 50B revenue and 1T of cap. If counting since IPO, it's 100B revenue and...

that link from an insurer says or implies nothing like what you quoted. no other insurer have similar language. nhtsa says nothing about axle preferences in their main tire safety page Tires | NHTSA they performed a large tire failure study but did not focus on links to differences on which...

If you give me a Taycan 4S extended battery Cross Turismo for the same price as a Model Y Performance I'll take it. If not... I'll stick with the Tesla.

just 1 way is in your phone app, go down to the bottom and click Release Notes. It'll tell you what's on your car. there is no official listing of what is the most current version. there are a bunch of websites that will compile voluntary fleet information to show what is newest. you'll...

I scraped and sanded off the surface rust from inner and outermost radius of the rotors, and needed to run many many cycles of Brake Burnishing to get the surface nice and smooth. The inside of the rears still arent shiny enough to be *visually* passable. The rears just dont get enough loads...

Yes you should do this. For Performance trims enter Track Mode and turn down regen. For all trims enter Service mode and use the brake servicing option to disable regen. You want to do this early and regularly to maintain a good, clean, flat interface between the pads and rotors. Debris may...