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I think the insurance premium is more based on the cost / time to get accident damage repaired and the risk of the car being written off if there is the slightest risk the battery may have been damaged.

Do you have to press stop and then press unlock if charging at an SC. I don’t have to when charging at home. Pressing unlock works by itself - and obviously it also stops the charge

If you do get your tyre replaced at KwikFit, you could take the tyre away and take it up with Michelin or whoever sold you the tyre. If that was KwikFit and you think the tyre was defective your claim is against them - although it may be easier to deal with Michelin.

I don’t have EAP but do have the adaptive matrix headlights. Only a brief drive in the dark but they seemed to be working well. Stayed on main beam but not flashed by oncoming traffic.

Because it’s unreliable I turn off smart charging in the Octopus app and control charging from the Tesla app. Usually when the sun is shining and I want to stop my home battery from ‘overflowing’ into the grid.

Over here the police rarely stop people for speeding - the job is done by cameras each of which can issue hundreds of tickets each day with little or no human intervention.

My father’s Rover 2000 had adjustable intermittent wipers 50 years ago!

UK electricity meters must be accurate to within +2.5% -3.5%. I suspect that modern meters are a lot more accurate than that. This report looks at faults in meters submitted for testing - not likely to be representative of modern meters which haven’t been tampered with...

I don’t think rainfall radar is anything like good enough to use for wiper operation. I look at the Met Office radar reasonably frequently. It often shows light rain when nothing is reaching the ground. It may well be raining at the height the radar is looking but rain evaporates on the way down...

If the vast majority of people posting here have problems with the wipers it’s clearly not a vehicle specific fault. My experience is that sometimes they work flawlessly in differing amounts of rain - at other times they are hopeless. Particular problems with dawn / dusk / fine drizzle / sudden...

Driving in intermittent fog yesterday. Wipers were doing all the wrong things. Had fog lights on with headlights but when the car decided it was bright it turned off the headlights and the fog lights despite poor visibility. Not a new problem but, in my view, a serious one.

My take is that a warm battery on a cold day is just going to lose a lot of heat en route. If the battery needs heating it can do it at the charger with less heat loss

Perhaps I should have said FSD will never work acceptably on the current generation of Teslas. There is no system of cleaning any of the cameras other than those in the windscreen and it seems that the other cameras are needed for lane keeping at least. The removal of forward looking radar won’t...

If you are delivering 200kW the longer cables needed would also have to be a lot thicker to avoid getting hot and dropping the voltage too much. The existing cables are heavy enough to be awkward, longer thicker ones could be unmanageable and might need different plugs. I understood the latest...

FSD can never work acceptably unless the car can ‘see’ satisfactorily in less than perfect visibility. Not only can it not reliably decide whether the screen needs wiping but the cameras are blinded by sun when our eyes can cope ok. It can’t decide that the cameras can’t see because it is dark...

The manual says this about preconditioning before a scheduled departure: When Model Y is not plugged in, preconditioning operates but only when the Battery's charge level is above 20%. Would be logical to do the same en route.

I thought it wouldn’t do it if you were below 20% but maybe that has changed. It does seem to use (waste?) a lot of energy just to get you off the charger a few minutes quicker.

When I had the windscreen on my Y replaced by Autoglass they said they had to drive it for a while to calibrate the sensors. I tracked it doing 80 mph! It took them at least half a day to do the job.

The tyres supplied on my model Y are labelled Ventus evo3 ev. No mention of ion. If you ordered’ ion evos might this have confused things?

Have you got a 3 phase supply? 30kW is around 125A which is more than most of our main fuses could cope with!

Certainly takes longer in my heat pump Y than it did in the pre heat pump 3. However pressing the windscreen heat button twice to show Max will generally clear the screen in a couple of minutes. I keep a microfibre cloth to hand to clear the worst of any moisture if necessary. AC needs to be on...

I think it is a giant millipede.

The symptoms are strange. On a recent drive I couldn’t issue voice commands for a while due to ‘no connectivity’ but was able to make and receive phone calls through the screen. The map tiles were very slow to refresh with black ‘tiles’. The problems seem to be much more frequent than I’ve seen...

Makes sense if you are travelling at a speed where hitting something isn’t going to cause damage. Of course it doesn’t help if, as in the OPs case, stopping from a low speed might prevent you being hit by something travelling at high speed! I guess that FSD would have seen the high speed object...

Are you saying AEB doesn’t work if you are travelling at less than 2.2 m/s (about 5 mph)?

I thought this thread was going to be about map tiles not uploading and appearing as black on the map or only uploading very slowly. Uploading seems to have got worse for me in recent months. Have others experienced this?

And I thought EVs were supposed to save the planet!

Worth noting that the car may appear to be warm and mist free but it can still be ‘foggy’ in the front camera which is, I suspect, what controls the auto de-fogging. Until that is clear TACC may not be available, or the wipers may operate on a dry screen. Took me ages to realise this was the...

I think the definition of the term OEM may be a bit murky and won’t pursue that argument! I can say that I’ve had 2 windscreens from Autoglass, one for my 3, and one for my Y. Both in the first 6 months of ownership - and both with a ‘T’ marking.

ICEs only produce sufficient waste heat to warm the cabin once they have used it to warm up the engine, the oil and at least some of the coolant. The EV motor produces waste heat which I guess is needed to heat the battery in preference to the cabin. I assume the available blast of heat soon...

I’m seeing the lane departure warnings unavailable warnings pretty frequently since the update I’m surprised that at the same time AP is available. If the car can’t detect that I’m departing a lane how can it steer the car itself? To be honest I haven’t risked engaging AP whilst seeing the...

In that case it wouldn’t be an Original Equipment Manufacurer part! If it’s OEM, it has been made for Tesla and is an official Tesla part - I doubt Tesla make their own windscreens.

Surely the OEM would put the Tesla logo on it when they make the screen? I can’t imagine a Tesla screen would fit anything else. Only if it wasn’t an OEM screen might it not have the T mark.

Unsurprising on a 3m drive, especially since you were heating everything and, perhaps, defrosting the windscreen. An ICE would have had a similarly bad ‘mpg’.

I’ve noticed a bit of steaming on the windscreen when the fan comes on but it clears very quickly as the heating comes on. I had the first de- ice of the winter on Saturday. Not quite as quick as my old pre heat pump Model 3 but still much quicker than any ICE without an electric screen.

So, is the view that seat belt warnings are stopped for the outer seats if the seats are folded down, but not for the middle seat? Looks like some experimentation is needed to check out the theory.

Has there been a recent change in the performance of the seat belt warning for the rear seats? In the past when I have had the rear seats folded down and have carried heavyish goods on them, I haven't had any 'fasten seat belt' warnings and bongs for the rear seats. I assumed that they were...

I too won 1600 points on 2 spins having signed up to Octoplus. Suspect the wheel is loaded! I don’t think I’m going to be able to benefit from the savings sessions this year. I’ve installed batteries but I’m on a Feed In Tariff and that, I think, precludes any tariff that pays for export (other...

Historically the premium sound system has come with dual motor models I think.

Just returned from a 1400 mile trip to Scotland during which I was updated to 2023.32.6. Wipers still hopeless at dusk and in motorway spray conditions. Headlights still dipping for road signs. Trip planning to superchargers appears to be broken. I left Perth with system showing arrival at...

Is it true that many model S have had their batteries replaced? It was only launched in 2012 so few can be over 10 years old. If current batteries are going to need replacing before 10 years Tesla will have a serious warranty headache which assumes they will last at least 8 years.

I get notifications if I leave the boot open - which I often do deliberately if I’m working nearby and collecting / returning stuff to the boot. But I think it takes 10 minutes or so before I get a notification.

Suggesting that everyone will be drawing 7kW simultaneously is unrealistic. The average car does about 20 miles a day which is about 5kWh of battery charge. So less than an hour of 7kW charging out of the 24 hours in the day. And most of the charging can be done in the early hours when domestic...

That’s good to know. Unfortunately it still won’t put them on in fog!

I was driving in heavy rain recently and had to turn the headlights on manually. Clearly it wasn’t dark enough. I suspect the threshold may have changed in a s/w update. Main concern is that without headlights on you have no rear lights - the daytime running lights are pretty bright on the...

Do you mean that the permanent 12V live pin in the 13 pin socket isn’t wired?

After a couple of emailed prompts asking about Tracker, Octopus told me, a few weeks ago, that ‘Flexible Octopus’ (the standard variable rate gas tariff) was the only one they were offering. Currently 10.2p/kWh.

Whilst I was on Octopus Go my smart meter displayed units used on tariff 1 (peak) and tariff 2 (off peak). Since going onto IO all power is being metered as tariff 1. Is this the experience of others? I’ve had a bill which included 2 days of IO and it was correct so I’m not unduly concerned...

I filled a big scratch on my M3 bonnet with Chippex. But couldn’t make any effective use of the blending solution. I built up the paint in layers and then cut it back with Farecla and polisher. Took a lot of painting and cutting to get an acceptable finish. I had some success with Chippex on...

Octopus have said they can’t offer fixed deals under the terms of the Government price cap. That’s why it is surprising that Kelvin 660 got one. But it may well be that the variable rate will drop below that fixed rate in the coming months.