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A strange thing happened this weekend on a road trip from our Boston suburb to Killington VT. Near mile marker 12.2 between Exits 5&6 Tesla nav suddenly slowed my MY from 72 MPH to 45 MPH. Simultaneously the speed limit displayed on the nav screen changed from 65 MPH to 45 MPH. At the same time...

Still loving the Pirelli PZero AS +electric. Put about 4000 miles on them so far. They seem even quieter than when they were new. Reduced noise and no range hit were my 2 main priorities and they are thankfully living up to that. Handling in snow/ice and dry road cornering were lesser...

Our 2020 MY LR early build (VIN 15XX) is CCS compatible. To find out if the car is compatible press the car symbol> software> additional information. Another way is to go on the Tesla app and try to order an adapter. If your car is not compatible they will offer to sell you a conversion kit.

I agree. With the planning, engineering, permitting, real estate agreements, equipment costs, demand pricing and maintenance, it must be super expensive to get these charge stations up and keep them running. That’s why last month when BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes and...

My dad would be 101 y.o. I know he would be super excited about EV’s if he was still alive. He loved hyper-miling in his VW Beatle including coasting in neutral whenever he could. He was also a forward thinker constantly reading Popular Mechanics and Scientific American. When we only had a B&W...

I’m glad I can charge at home 95% of the time where the rates are relatively inexpensive. If I lived in a condo or apartment where I was relegated to using expensive public chargers it would definitely cut into the cost benefits of owning an EV and would be less convenient. Hopefully as more...

As other posts have stated there’s efficiency considerations (EV’s win that comparison all day long) and there’s economic considerations. My Tesla MY gets 6 times better efficiency than my ICE vehicle (120 MPGe vs 20 MPG). But the “gallon” of energy I purchase at home from my electric supplier...

Today’s Collision Repair Center in Malden did my wheel alignment after I replaced my tires. Great people who specialize in Teslas. They may not do brakes but they could probably refer you to someone. Please post back and let us know where you eventually have the brakes done.

Great pics! I have polyurea floor coating which is similar but not exactly the same as polyspartic coatings. Mine certainly looks similar to yours. From what I’ve read they both require cleaning with pH neutral cleaner and a soft bristle brush. I just use Dawn liquid soap, warm water, some light...

On road trips like yours we do the following: - leave the house at 100% - 3/4 of the way there we “top off” at a Tesla SC at a rest area while taking a bathroom break. SoC goes from say 30% to 80%. - make a similar stop on the way home By doing this you don’t have to worry about where to plug...

I had no business driving in that weather at that speed on nearly bald OEM Goodyear F1 Eagles with 30K miles on them. The car turned sideways 3 times and came within inches of hitting the concrete barrier in the median each time before straightening out.

I’ll tell you what “took more years off my copilot at the time”… hydroplaning at 70MPH in a rain/sleet storm. It gave me some gray hairs too! Fortunately I was able to straighten out and then drove at 25 MPH the rest of the way home 🤣

1) I had a co-worker who owned an older Model S. 2) My co-worker let me sit in but I didn’t ride in it. 3) We test drove a Ludicrous S and a M3 in late 2019. Then we purchased one of the first MY to be built in March 2020 (VIN 1XXX).My wife really wanted to buy the S but I thought the MY was...

Wow. You’re brave. I get nervous when the s.o.c. gets below 15% for fear of running out of charge. The lowest I ever allowed it to get was 11% because I thought it is recommended to not go below 10%. This is because you could get the “Electrical System Power Reduced - Vehicle May Shut Down”...

Here’s something else to consider. You really can’t use the last 10% of the battery or you might get stranded and need a tow. So on our EV that’s 30 miles of the advertised range that I can't use. Then add to that all the other factors that lead to lower efficiency like weather, speed and...

We’ve had our MY for 3 years and 30K miles. It’s rated at 4.2 mi/kW. Lifetime so far I’ve averaged 3.6 (15% less than rated). At a constant 50 MPH I can get 4+. Around town I often reach 5+. Any speed north of 60 MPH and the efficiency drops drastically. But I’m experiencing similar results with...

I replaced the OEM Goodyear Eagle F1’s that lasted 29,000 miles with the Pirelli PZero AS +electric. I only have 300 miles on them and since we are having springtime weather here in the Boston area I really can’t say my increased range is due to the tires or the warmer temps. I have driven them...

I know this is a M3 thread. But the information I read here helped me decide on the Pirelli PZero AS +electric for my MY. I only have 300 miles on them and since we are having springtime weather here in the Boston area I really can’t say my increased range is due to the tires or the warmer...

Thanks. I was hoping I didn’t have to. The instructions make it sound like a pain. But I guess I only have to do it once since I’ll probably use the bagger most of the time.

I just purchased the Ego 42” zero turn with a yolk steering wheel instead of the 2 joysticks. It came with an extra set of “bagging blades”. Do I really have to switch out the blades in order to use the bagger or can I get away with using the standard blades it came equipped with? There’s still...

In my case they installed a full size loaner spare in my driveway and took my tire and rim back to the nearest Tesla SC. They returned the next day with a new tire mounted on my rim and installed it on the car. They told me they would have done it all in one day but they didn’t have the tire in...

We took our first road trip with the new energy app to do some leaf peeping in central VT. We drove 350 miles round-trip from our north Boston suburb to Killington Ski Resort. As you can imagine there are many uphill and downhill stretches on the drive. But mostly uphill going to VT (our lodge...

Sorry about the typo on the thread title. It’s update 2022.20.6

Loaded yesterday. Interesting enhancement. 2020 MY/AWD/FSD/20” Wheels/Blue/Black

From my experience (6 nails in the same tire over a 9 month period!!) there are 4 ways to plug a tire in order of quality/durability. The 1st three can be done without removing the wheel/tire from the car: 1) Buy a patch kit and do it yourself. Be sure to ream out the hole with the provided tool...

That is strange…

Good advice for next time (and there probably will be a next time) 😂 BRW, I forgot to mention that the car was facing Fremont when I did the reboot.

For the past 2 days my MY’s location (on the nav screen and the app) showed it parked at my daughter’s house where it had been parked for 5 hours 2 nights ago. As I drove, the red cursor on the nav screen never moved from that location. Therefore I could not navigate to any new location even...

No. That’s why you will find several threads on this site about the tire repair kits, compressors, tools and spare options people are going with as well as comments about Tesla roadside service.

Good info on your usage of the Modernspare kjwalker01. I’m glad to hear it’s so durable. Fortunately, I haven’t had to use mine yet except when I rotated my tires recently. I agree that the jack is a little flimsy. But I really liked the quality and convenience of the ratchet used to operate the...

I had a string of bad luck and had 2 punctures in the same tire about 6 months apart. Patched it from the outside both times without an issue. It was 6 months later that I had 4 nails in the same tire and had to replace the tire 😩 A local garage did the first 2 repairs without jacking the car or...

I just received my new WeatherTech winter mats. They took less than a week to arrive and fit perfectly on my early edition Y.

Forgot to say we own a 2020 MY, LR, AWD

We had an excellent service experience in Norwell MA today. It was for 2 recall issues: 1) coolant pressure/temperature sensors and 2) ball joints. Zack was very helpful and knowledgeable. Check-in was smooth and the work was completed in half the estimated time. The down side is that we live...

The floor of the cargo area is now approximately 4” higher. I positioned the spare all the way forward touching the seat backs so it is supported by the shallow cargo well and won’t teeter backwards into the deeper cargo well even during hard acceleration. The front cargo ‘floorboard’ sits level...

Ordered: 6/30/2021 Delivered 10/11/2021 It’s been a long wait. But it looks like very high quality. It’s in its own carrying case with a jack, lug wrench, tire bags, work gloves, safety vest and 4 emergency triangles. I was able to stow it under the 2 cargo area ‘floorboards’ perched above the...

We checked out this site today in our ICE rental vehicle. So I can’t comment on the chargers except that there was only one Tesla there at 6PM on a Thursday. But I wanted to report that a short walk down the hill at the beginning of the access road is an amazing new restaurant, Big Sur...

The service is free for I believe 4 years/50K miles… unless the duration has changed. It’s for warranty related issues making the car undrivable, lockouts, even flat tires (they will install a free loan spare). I’ve even read other threads saying they repair the tire for free. In my case the...

We’ve had our MY for a little over a year. Once about six months ago the screen went black while driving on the expressway. It reset itself before I had a chance to pull over to reboot it. In the past 2 weeks the screen was black two separate times. I couldn’t wake the car to leave our garage...

Sorry I didn’t report back sooner. Superblast was correct. After the last update I had to opt back in and Agree to the legal disclaimer in Settings in order to get the red light/stop sign detection turned back on. Note to self: check this after each update!

Yesterday we installed 12.4.2 in our MY. Used Autopilot for the first time today on a local road with 35 MPH speed limit. Used Autopilot on this road dozens of times before without incident. But today it would have blown through a red light if I had not slammed on the brakes. At the next red...

Many car manufacturers are only providing a repair kit and and compressor in lieu of a spare and a jack. But Tesla doesn’t provide anything and no well under the cargo area to stow a spare either! There are several threads on this forum with the various options a people are going with.

Both techs told me the sound deadening foam is so packed in there they doubt the gunk would get to the leak. But I’ll still carry it because in an emergency you gotta do why you gotta do. My plan on a daily basis is is to still carry Slime, a plug repair kit, and a small compressor. On road...

I’d rate my recent experience with roadside assistance as Very Good. I had 4 nails in a 2” diameter cluster which made the tire unrepairable. These were my key take aways: - I received no less than 3 phone calls and 6 texts assuring me their 3rd party tow service would be arriving soon to give...

Just downloaded 2020.44.10.1 Release notes are the same as 2020.44 which I downloaded 2 days ago.

My MY auto wipers work great except in the finest/lightest mist. But my Jeep Grand Cherokee, our BMW 5 Series and our daughter’s VW Atlas are equally as bad at sensing light mist.

I don’t carry a spare. So in addition to the pucks I travel with a bottle of Slime, a tire plug repair kit, a compressor and a Platinum AAA Motor Club Card with a 50 miles of free towing .

I did the same but haven’t had the need to use the pucks yet. Earlier this summer I wrote in another thread about spare tires vs compressor & tire plug kits that I had a nail in one of my new MY’s rear tires. The mechanic had me roll the car to the spot where he could see the nail and did the...

The last 2 software updates (36.4 & 36.11) had to be downloaded twice! This morning I was sitting in the driveway in my MY doing a soft and hard reboot because since 36.4 the car wouldn’t recognize my phone key ☹️After I finished both reboots I noticed the yellow download icon on the top of the...