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I have coded the lights to "Together in Electric Dreams" !! This is a lovely feature and I'm just working on the windows up and down because it has the effect of muffling the higher frequencies on the tune you're playing. Until coding this, I didn't realise the complexity of the front light...

Basic computing: there is no point reporting a message unless the driver can do something about it or know how to modify their behaviour based in the message...

Affordability and cars. They are built like this to sell credit, the car is just the asset based to sell loans. It's no coincidence that the credit arms of the big manufacturers make all the money and the manufacturing parts of the organisation barely make a profit. It's kind of interesting...

Does your model 3 think it is Portuguese as well? If you use Netflix, YouTube, Google - mine appears to think it is in Portugal. Is this something I've done or is it using a Portuguese SIM provider?

I used Meguires Ceramic Wax. £16 from Halfords or Amazon. There's a bit of prep required but the outcome had been very good (I hate washing cars). Water just beads and falls of car, cleaning appears to be very easy. I agree with someone above, a lot of the ceramic coatings are overpriced crap...

Meguires ceramic wax works amazingly. I actually hate cleaning cars and can't be arsed with detailing etc, but I used this stuff and it's amazing. I gave the car quick clean yesterday after applying the ceramic stuff and it got rid of the salt etc from daily commute fast more quickly than usual.

Road Legal Number Plate Makers | Custom Number Plates (I'm not affiliated in any way, I just bought mine from there) You have to upload your v750 and some I'd though.

I bought aluminium players and they fired fine (with a saltire too)

I swapped onto my winter tyres on the M3 today, 18" Aero. I checked with a few different pumps that read 50psi but the TPMS indicators were reading 42psi as per spec. I know that many pumps are inaccurate, but is TPMS more trustable?

It's a bit much to carry around, but if anyone has a non scissor jack solution, let me know! I have winter tyres installed plus I ceramic coated the wheels. All was relatively straight forward.

I got the wolf jack and cut the rubber insert that came with it so that there is a flat surface for the Tesla puck.

I got a Tesla issued plate and I transferred my plate (kinda reads VOLTS) when the V5c came in. You can do the cherished plate transfer online nowadays. New V5c arrived in a few days. LV insurance notified by phone, new insurance docs came in email 19 mins later.

I'm adding this to prove that it does not work. Whilst the mato bottle jack is small and low, it is too low. I tried using a wedge but the jack don't have enough lift and I wasn't going to kick away the wedge incase I got the bottle jack stuck underneath. Thanks for the tip about the wolf...

Update on the Mato bottle jack. With the puck, it's 1cm too tall which is very annoying because on paper, it should have fitted! Plus, both my trolley jacks were too tall. So I'll pop it up on wedges and change to the winters today but have just ordered the wolf 2.5T trolley jack. I think...

I also can't reverse turn and park in my m3, even though I'd consider myself jedi status In the subject. Also, after a week of autopilot I've only just realised that using the parking brake button to disengage is a very bad idea and you are meant to move the stalk upwards!!! I kerbed an alloy...

I got a small EST loan through my company. They paid the money to my business bank account about 5 dates after my first final invoice. I did send them the other final invoices (all 5 of them) but it didn't seem to matter. Tesla and EST seem quite well acquainted.

VIN - I had 4 different VINs before the last one which was on final invoice 5. So, whilst a VIN indicates your car is closer, it might not be your actual car.

Mine does not have the noise. M3 picked up last Thursday.

^ PSD2 for customer authentication for banking. Quite a few Edinburgh banking tech workers will be living the dream trying to get that working. It's a new directive where banks have to be much more stringent on checking who is making payments.

I won't use scissor jack's again after I had one catastrophicly collapse losing the end of my finger last year when putting winters on my wife's car. Apparently, (everyone told me after the accident) they should only be used once or twice in an emergency and then replaced. I had used mine 50+...

This is a low profile 4 tonne Jack. It's all a bit tight, but it is 12.5cm tall and the M3 with 18's is about 16cm from the ground/puck. The 18" wheel profile is 10cm but a flat tyre would never go to zero. I've got some plastic wedges used for leveling a camper van. Might just throw one of...

Potentially urban myth, but at pickup on Thursday, Tesla staff were telling of complaints from Birmingham because some customer got a plate like BJ69COK or something equally pornstar like ... Mine was SL69OWx which is about to be changed when the V5c comes in.

Picked up from Edinburgh on Thursday. 40+ model 3's all lined up waiting for owners. Guys there said it was the "same last week". I only got my number plate (which they thought was hilarious because it is reads SLOW) so I had to book insurance when I was there. Also, my own numberplate could...

I'm currently experimenting with a 4 tonne bottle style jack. My winter wheels arrived the other day for the M3 and will change them over at the end of Nov - although I was driving in heavy snow on Thursday night in the Highlands. The bottle jack will fit in the frunk or lower boot space. My...

My M3 winter 18" tyres arrived before the car! I've always used winters (I am a skier/boarder) - the biggest benefit is tyre rotation every 6 months. Although the 18" winter package has directional tyres which will limit the rotation possibilities. The manmaths is that losing a couple of days...

The reason that the 2 models are the same in the video is environmental, likely to do with traction and grip rather than Tesla fiddling with power numbers. Both cars reached the maximum grip at the same time. Remember that 0-60 times will have been recorded at a drag strip that has a...

picking my M3 up next week; when (and how) are you informed of the license plate? i.e. thinking about getting insurance sorted out.

I'm on 4 final invoices. Had to ring up Tesla because I was about to start paying on invoice number 3. First 3 had different vin.

edinburgh blue/black LR-AWD, text through for the only day in Nov I'm away on business! how do they know this?

Just logged into "manage" - 3 final invoices; 18th Nov, 6th Nov and then 18th Nov for Edinburgh pickup. Different VIN on the last invoice. What on earth is going on.

I was at Edinburgh sc yesterday, they have around 12 new model X in the car park. My M3 collection date is 18 Nov... I ordered winter wheels+tyres, 3 week lead time.

Edinburgh LR AWD, 12-July VIN now in source code final invoice arrived Looks like the list was transmitted pretty much as the ship left the lock gates at Panama.

Edinburgh, M3 LR-AWD, Jul-12th, final invoice arrived

Ordered July 12th, LR AWD - spoke to Edinburgh today (answered phone in <10 seconds) - acknowledgement that Edinburgh were left dry with very few cars and that southern UK SC's got major priority. I imagine it hurt them too. Looking like November before next cars are delivered

I had the same problem getting in touch with Edinburgh. I email deliverygb and got a response in 3 days or so. Although, it is a very woolly response. What I can't work out is that there are P- cars available now (Teslainfo.com) but they have not attempted to match to Edinburgh customers...

Did anyone find a Tesla friendly insurer that will work with ltd company? I already have a mod'd van owned by my ltd company, it is insured through Adrian Flux. The company name is on the V5. I am doing the same with my model 3 when it arrives...

I tried to get in touch with Tesla (early July deposit, Edinburgh) to try and match to a car but they're saying that they'll try to match me with a car "in a couple of weeks". So, it looks like the next batch won't be on their way until mid Oct.

I've gone for a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD and then formatted it to 148Gb for music and ~350Gb for teslacam (500Gb total) . I used gparted on linux to format it. anything with "extreme" in it's title (microsd or ssd) means that it will withstand high temperatures SSD will be better than...

interesting, I'm another Edinburgh LRAWD black/blue without FSD. Given FSD is a software update, it's a simple measure to increase revenue before 30 Sep by soft-updating cars.

There's going to become a point where the enormous goodwill for the Tesla brand starts to give way to legal pressure. I know the Tesla brand and excitement means that people will put up with a bit of hardship - but there will come a point where a delivery date on an invoice will be used as...

For those getting 4p/mile etc, you can claim a tax advantage of 45p - 4p per mile as a tax rebate against your tax. Obviously, you'll have to fill in a form to do this but you'll end up being paid for it. So, if you do 10,000 miles your tax claim will be £4100. If you pay tax at 40% then this...

Like many others on here, my early July order (expected delivery August wtf) isn't materialising with the latest ship arrival. It would be nice if Tesla made up for the large out of pocket expenses of waiting for materially longer than the order process gave expectation for. I missed a phone...

My Swedish friend had a fine from ULEZ London after failing to be able to register a Swedish reg vehicle "vehicle type not recognised" - it sounds like a disaster of a process to get a foreign vehicle registered. These types of zones are cropping up all over europe. The German TuV has a...

8 arrived in Edinburgh yesterday. (not my one!!).

I was just going to buy the Tesla option (for model 3), they cost £1800 for a set and come with tyre bags. I'm a skier and so drive in wintery conditions all the time. It's a bit expensive but I don't know where to start to get decent aftermarket wheels either.

Ordered early July, no vin, had a missed call on my phone that turned out to be Tesla Edinburgh! Tried to ring back but couldn't get through... Was that some random matching process that I've now missed? Anyone in Scotland just matched to a blue/black LR AWD?