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The Tesla service center isn't likely to use an aftermarket shaft, and I don't have the experience to install one myself. I have no idea what the part charge is for a new one. Apparently their hourly rate is $195/hr, but I also don't know how long it would take to replace. Is this something...

That's what he said. Maybe he was referring to both shafts, but that was not explicitly stated. The service tech who performed the repair said he'd been working at the service location about 3 months and has done over 20 re-greasings.

Same click on my October 2019 purchased Model 3 with about 15,000 miles on it. Took it to Tesla service yesterday. Only had to wait about 2 weeks for an appointment. Spoke with the service guy who said he greased both axles. It was covered under warranty, but I'm only about 4 months out...

Yeah there's one over by 818 brewing that, before the pandemic, when I'd visit there about once a week, there was never an actual cable. I reported it broken, but it was never fixed. Or maybe it was and was just treated as new copper to take. Who knows.

I was coming south back to the valley on I-5 yesterday and Santa Clarita had 17 open slots while Granada Hills had 4, so I stopped in Santa Clarita. I think they under-sized Granada Hills.

Uh, Tesla owners aren't regular people? Tesla owners are more likely than Toyota owners to read forums? Or maybe just because the car tells the owner where it is? Oh look a new red supercharger icon! :) Living in the area, I don't find it surprising at all. Before the pandemic the Volta...

In my confusion as to why there was water on my center console, I didn't think to do that. It's pretty easy to see however where the headliner has detached near the center left of the windshield. I suppose the problem would be if they just reglued that to the windshield but didn't find the...

The first rain of the season after the first hot summer. And we didn't get much in the way of rain last year. This is Los Angeles in an extended drought.

Model 3 purchased Oct 2019. We had our first rain of the season overnight and when I went out to the car this morning there was a puddle on the center console. Looked up and the headliner near the rear view mirror is damp and slightly detached in the driver side as compared to the passenger...

That's a pretty dense area, I can see why there might be trouble finding a spot. One wonders however what happened to the Target partnership? The Target on Balboa at the 118 would have been a better location to capture freeway usage than Sprouts in Granada Hills which doesn't have the same...

Indeed. In fact, quite a bit more reliable than PG&E, and likely even less shady. That said, it's a public power utility, owned by the citizens of Los Angeles, but run as a profit center for the city's general purpose budget. And I've lived here long enough to remember when there were no...

I filed a service request and received a response saying someone had looked at some logs and deemed it a software problem that would be fixed by a software update. And in the meantime if it happened again a full reboot would get the car going again. Uh, huh. We'll see.

My car just did this when I went to move it back to its charging station after washing it. Anyone have service out to actually look at this? Or anyone have remote diags done with a definitive answer?

Isn't the CHAdeMO adapter like $400? And an L2 charger isn't really fast enough to service that trip, at least in my 220 at 100% mile range 3. (240 on the sticker, but I didn't get 240 even off the lot (lost the battery lottery)). You'd have to spend 4 or 5 hours outside the park. For a day...

I drove by on Friday during the noon hour and there were two LADWP trucks on site with two LADWP employees asleep, at least all 4 eyes were closed, in the cab of one of them. Drove by Saturday and the blankets are still on the chargers.

I'm glad to have some chargers in the north valley, but this seems like a strange location. I would have thought Target, which presumably Tesla was supposed to have a relationship with, on Balboa and SFM would have made more sense. Closer to the freeway. Still lots of options for shopping in...

Agree. Especially if the goal is to support travelers. Tulare would be a much better option that Visalia for getting from LA to Sequoia as the backtracking is less. You just cut straight up from Tulare to the 189, or you backtrack and go north through Exeter. Both better options than the...

I have a Porsche that has a tire that will protect the rim. In 11 years of ownership I've grazed a curb maybe twice and both times the tire protected the rim. I had my Model 3 about a month and took one on the rim. Taken a couple more since. It's like this car attracts curbs, and there's...

@MarcoRP What's a Canadian doing scouting locations in an obscure, and largely forgotten, portion of Los Angeles? :-)

And here I've been waiting all this time for the Target location in the valley to open. And we get a surprise GH location. FWIW, the Sprouts was a huge upgrade to that center. For a while there were two Ralphs across the street from each other. (Merger damage) It was almost a Kohls which...

Any update on these from someone in the neighborhood?

I wish they'd do Visalia first. You are going to see a lot of people backtracking through Woodlake to get to SNP.

Oh wait, this is a bit of a lie. I was pulled over two weeks after buying the car. Lidar on southbound Hwy 99 south of Bakersfield. I was only doing 91.

The one risk here is if you pull out of a bar's parking lot, and are obeying all road rules and not otherwise appearing drunk, they can use the no license plate violation to pull you over and then do a sobriety test on you. That said I have a 2009 Porsche, sole owner, that's never had a license...

Do you have grandparents or elderly parents that live near you? Do you have any family with underlying health conditions? Do you frequent large gatherings? Churches, raves, sporting events, _cruise ships_? Slowing the spread of the disease helps to protect the vulnerable people around us...

The new development in Porter Ranch where Whole Foods located would have been nice. The Voltas there are a joke. They only tease with the free charging ads as they are _never_ available. And there's always multiple Teslas in that parking lot. But yeah, nothing in the northwest SFV. What's...

My steering wheel was off also upon pickup. SC said it was an alignment issue. Did an alignment, still off. Took it back the next day, they apologized profusely and proceeded to adjust the tie rod arms. That fixed the issue. So, it's not always alignment. Regarding removing the wheel and...

You won the battery lottery. Congratulations. However, the calibration advice given here is the aforementioned voodoo.

"For some reason." - Like actual capacity loss, or the BMS not being able to account for actual capacity, or balancing, or charge to some percentage, or charge to 100% and then drive continuously down to 5%, or pick whichever hypothesis/solution supports whatever you want to believe. And...

Right. The difference is an ICE vehicle's gas tank doesn't shrink over time. If I buy a car with 12 gallon tank it's still a 12 gallon tank 5 years from now. I bought a Tesla that advertised a 54kWh battery and off the lot it was almost 3% below that, and it's now almost 10% below after only...

Sigh. Again. This is not how the range calculation works on the main screen. It's exactly how the range works on the Consumption screen, and on the Trip screen if you have a destination in the nav, but NOT on the main screen.

If the guess you specified is a guess of battery capacity, then, right, you didn't refer to driving behavior. The term in your original reply was ambiguous. That said, it would behoove Tesla to be a bit more transparent about how the BMS is determining capacity. There's a lot of voodoo out...

This is simply, utterly, wrong. The number is the SoC multiplied by the rated wh/mile and represents ideal capacity. It has absolutely nothing to do driving behavior. How many times must we dispel this myth?

Consider yourself lucky. Mine says 220 miles at 100%, although I've never charged it 100%. I have an August or September build (purchased from existing inventory in late Sept). I have never got a full 240. I took it to the SC the first week and they ran diags on it and said I was right at...

FWIW, I had a good experience at the Van Nuys SC.

I'd give up 10wh per mile for more sound deadening in my M3 SR+.

I put a comforter I wasn't using in my frunk which I wasn't using either. I think it makes a difference, but I have no data to support that. And if I ever get stuck overnight in the cold I won't freeze.

I'm so looking forward to this as it will make Sequoia National Park accessible from Los Angeles in an SR+. Visalia was a gaping hole in the largely ignored southern highway 99 corridor. Rah!! Can we get one in Lemoncove next? :-) Then I could do my normal shortcut up through...

There was the huge sales rush at the end of last quarter and there was a lot of inventory at that time. There's nothing now. Perhaps they are just shipping all available cars to other markets as they deferred the time it takes to ship back in September to push to make the numbers.

There's a button on the J1772?!?! Learn something new every day about this car.

Folks, When I charge at the local Voltas I almost always end up with the J1772 adapter still inserted while the charging door wants to close. And it jams against the adapter. I think this can't be good for the servo/motor driving that hinge. I will click "Stop Charging" and will cycle off...

How long behind does the android version typically lag?

This is precisely why when people ask me how I like my M3 I say, "It's a fantastic computer on wheels, but Tesla is still figuring out how to actually build them." I hope they succeed, but my wife's Honda Accord Hybrid Touring is a better car to ride in. It has adaptive cruise control that...

I know that. But I bought a $40k car and I have to now buy a $150 fob? And that fob has no place to put a key, so I have to carry the fob, and key ring, and I can't hang the fob with the rest of my keys. It's a really poor design.

That would require drilling a hold in the key card. The salesperson on delivery told me that would be a bad idea. Or putting it on a lanyard, which is bulkier than I'd like. So the card lives in my wallet. Which is a good thing given that my phone died on me while I was 30 miles away from...

I also do not like the key options on the M3. All of my cars with key fobs have the fobs hanging on hooks just inside the back door. When walking out the door, there's all the keys. If I forget to grab them when I walk out, all I have to do is reach in the back door. More than once...

Thank you. How did you decide where, and how much, dynamat to use? The wife was complaining about the noise in the car last night on an hour long trip down the freeway. I observed that the car would be ideal if it had the acoustical properties of her Honda Accord Hybrid Touring model. Alas...

People confuse capacity and range all the time. Capacity is displayed on the main screen and if displaying miles is always a multiplier of rated range and how many kw hours the BMS tells software is in the battery. Range, based on driving habits, known route, etc. is displayed on the energy...

Under 50mph road quality makes a massive difference in sound. Above 50mph on good roads wind noise becomes prevalent. I'd like to try dynamat in the wheel wells. How hard was that disassembly for that job?

Happened to me twice. Both when pulling out of a narrow space and passenger mirror didn't extend upon initial pull out because of space issues. I think software just "forgets" to extend once there's room.