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The new Bristol SC seems to have very good availability, I've used them three times in the last 6 months ago (a ranger visit for a recall and a warranty issue, then a service, and then a suspension issue). Appointments available within a few days each time, though they ended up having to push...

Indeed, I would not go back to controlling the Tesla directly. It's easier to use with a second car as well. I do still suspend smart charging, though - often over the course of a weekend there's enough solar to charge the car to 80% and I don't want the smart charging to operate in that case.

Looks like we’re being taken for a ride. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/06/uk-car-insurance-cost-up-by-third-despite-smaller-rise-in-payouts

Given we have two cars, and one can only charge at 3.6kW, I would expect to see this happen frequently.

It happened again last night, and the car wasn't set to reduced charge rate. Car was set to 90% limit, and I saw 32A charge speed once it started. I plugged in, set to add 70% by 08:00 (car was at 17%) and enabled smart charging. Plan was produced almost immediately, starting at 20:14 until...

“The car will make better judgments than you”. Always? Really? I can easily think of an example where it made a stupid decision that I ignored. Coming west along the m4 it decided to send us past membury westbound, turn around at the next junction, go to eastbound sc because less wait. Even...

"Windscreen wipers are in Beta". https://electrek.co/2019/11/28/tesla-auto-wiper-update-trained-deep-neural-net/ That's right, November 2019, 7 days after I collected my car. I'm still waiting for acceptable performance. It wouldn't be hard if they were able to learn from mistakes and had...

Pretty sure this is why they offered me a test drive instead of a loaner for my service appointment last month. I declined their offer.

Software engineer.

I don't know if this has come up, but yesterday I set a plan to add 70% (using Zappi controlled by IO) by 8am and it created a plan starting immediately from 18:14 until 08:00. I noticed that charging was at 3.3kW where the Zappi can charge at 32A. I wondered if it had got stuck like that...

Not a single one is quick to access from the M4 or M5, as far as I can see. I wonder if they're aiming more at people with no off-street parking rather than people on a trip.

He says he bought a Highland. That really ought to be a clue.

As fine an example of failure to read and comprehend as I've ever seen.

A bunch of you are failing to admit that the Tesla way for essential controls is way more complex than it should be. You have to either press the stalk button for a wipe (which is fantastic user experience when what you're trying to do is prevent dry wiping), then you have to look away from the...

Driving on the M74 in variable conditions, auto wipers useless. So I'm constantly having to adjust the speed up and down, and then getting nagged about not paying sufficient attention while doing so. Great job illustrating the fundamental problem with the lack of physical controls (and the awful...

This would have been useful for me when I stopped there for a break on Tuesday having got pretty low coming from Edinburgh having last stopped at Tebay. I had charged to 100% there - I wasn't blocking anyone - and then discovered the M6 was closed (for over 18 hours in the end) north of Stafford...

This version: 2023.44.30.8 06f534d46010 I also had an issue on the same trip when I parked in Reading services and the sentry logo came up as I returned to the car and then it was stuck on the screen in front of the map. After another reboot, that was gone. None of this was confidence inspiring.

Last week on the M4 north of Bristol. Autopilot disengaging, system error. So I take over. Then I realise all the lights are out and I have to try to get into a refuge area on a busy rush hour (I was in lane 2 of 3) to stop and reboot. Still not sure what happened. Did they just get set to off?

The ability to turn off auto-wipe on autopilot is a game changer for my commute home, since the overhead lights on the M5 would always cause dry-wiping. Of course I would always forget and turn on AP, get a dry wipe, curse, turn off AP, then have to go and turn off auto wipers because the car...

I, for one, welcome having an uncomfortably hot face.

M5 past Bristol, without fail. I have to turn off Autopilot for the first 10 miles or so until I get past the Avonmouth bridge and I can turn it on again.

Warranty expired today. Mobile service was coming today to replace boot lid wiring harness which has been on the todo list for a while. On Monday the front suspension noise started so I added a note about this to the request. You can’t start a new one while one is outstanding. The response...

Two dealbreakers for the price of one.

I'll be upgrading from an iPhone 11 Pro that I've had since 2019. I've been holding out for USB-C.

I got a voicemail which was a cold call trying to push this. I guess it’s not working.

Swerving and braking in the wet while changing lane to the left, and being tailgated in the outside lane... just another day owning a Tesla.

Yep, it's a tie. :)

Mine was dispatched on the same day. It's a race! :D

Check your email, I received this: Which my French suggests this is a certificate you can use in the meantime should you be stopped. I just ran it through google translate. If you have this document then I would print it out and show it to the relevant authorities if challenged, and maybe...

I have found this thread really useful, thanks to all contributors. I have received my Bip&Go tag and the Crit'Air sticker is on the way. I wouldn't have thought to have either of these without this thread. I'm driving to a location about 40km outside SW Paris and it's useful to be covered if...

If I park in an empty section of a car park I usually find someone comes and parks next to me like a sheep

Nope Source: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/in-service-emissions-performance-of-euro-6vi-vehicles.pdf

It's a mixed bag for me. I think that phantom braking when passing an HGV is much reduced. But the overall quality of the cruise control is reduced. It's often quite erratic about accelerating (small acceleration, pause, accelerate a bit more etc), and doesn't react in a comfortable way to...

The site will show today’s rate. It will change on July 1st.

We were on Go fixed until August and switched to IO a week or two ago.

We’re probably not using a huge amount of peak. But it won’t be long until the nights start drawing in. I think based on wholesale prices there’s going to be no increase until January now.

IO scheduled a smart charge for me today as 11:00-12:00. So all that did is stop solar charging at 12:00. So smart charging is turned off for now.

I’d think probably that’s a bug. Can’t tell though. Here’s mine:

That may be the case. But we have never been asked to show any evidence that we have an EV

I'm using Zappi with the Model 3. You need to configure IO to control the Tesla rather than the Zappi. Anyone else charging at yours will get the 6h default (23:30-05:30) from IO. Just configure the Zappi to limit charging to these hours when charging any other vehicle than your Tesla. For...

Had a fairly bad phantom braking episode on the way to Scotland earlier, and an attempt to swerve onto a slip road.

We've just switched to Intelligent Octopus. In the current weather we're getting 100% usage from solar for about 14h, 6h of 7.5p, leaving us paying full rate for about 4h.

I reported the issue months ago. They know all about it. I drive *past* Bristol every day, and your anecdote about that working for you is really not very interesting.

Drove into Bristol at lunchtime. No maps at all until I rebooted when I arrived. This is just a saga now.

Who reaches self awareness first: ChatGPT or Musk? Bet now!

"Not ideal on a motorway". Pretty sure that's where Autopilot is supposed to actually work isn't it?

So there I was thinking it was fixed in the latest release...

Seems to work for me now.

I doubt leaving 100% charge for a number of hours strains the battery as much as rapid charging. So I’d charge to 100% and do it on cheap rate.