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I have gotten this message three times in the last month. Twice right after supercharging, once after the car had been sitting undriven for a few weeks. The entire message is" Autopilot / Active Safety features unavailable. Camera alignment required. Schedule service." What I have found is...

Early January I was , for the first time in many years, having trouble with autopilot warnings and strikes. After reading this thread, I drove about 300 miles with very few warnings (and zero strikes). I really appreciate everyone's helpful comments and look forward to more. OP

very helpful. Thank you.

good idea. Thank you.

Moreover, in about 50,000 miles over 4+ years driving using FSD, AP, auto steer extensively, this has never happened to me before. I have never gotten a strike before that I did not think was my fault.

No that is incorrect. I saw the alerts, I did torque the wheel and the alerts escalated at normal pace to a strike in spite of the fact that I was torquing the wheel and looking at the road. That is the puzzling aspect.

I am not that tall (5'9") and tend to drive in a low position and with the seat forward so that I am close to the steering wheel and don't have to extend my arms to applied steering wheel torque. I think my problems are correlated with the advent of interior camera monitoring.

I had the same experience as you until recently. From day one in my model 3 for years (since 2018) I had no trouble satisfying the nag. It was pretty effortless and easy. light torque, sometimes occasional, usually with my left hand. Not a problem. My experience has changed very recently. I...

I thought there was something people applied for where you got FSD features early and you were sort of an FSD beta tester? Am I just imagining that? I recall something pretty selective based on driving and you could get kicked out...?

sorry, my mistake. They installed HW3 not HW4. About a year after I paid as I recall.

Right. I got confused. They did a service call and installed some hardware. I guess that was HW3 that they installed around 2019.

Good idea. I wonder if my cabin camera is misaligned or something.

No. I wasn't eating at that time. I was driving with two hands on the wheel. I think it said that in the 2nd sentence of the original post. If I was eating at the time I would have understood why I got the strike.

I think I have an interior camera, but I only got three strikes before I was locked out for a week recently. I was driving a 2023 Model Y with just basic autopilot auto steer. We also have a 2018 model 3 with FSD (though not FSD beta as far as I know. we just paid the $3000 back in 2019 or...

On my last drive north on highway 101 from Santa Barbara to the SF Bay Area I got 3 strikes. The third one especially seemed completely unfair. By that point, I was very focused on not loosing the use of autopilot for the drive. I had two hands on the wheel and was staring straight ahead at the...

I wonder if my compressor will work okay with 16 V input? Anybody know if compressors are effected by that?

Interesting discussion. I am following.. Thanks all. (I just got an Model Y...

I do not, but one way you could approach this is to buy a Jackery 240. That is way overkill; it can do a lot more than what you are asking for, but I its input will accept 16 volts and it is a cool think to have in your car. (It has a 12 volt output for you radar detector...

I believe Gjeeb only paid $200.

I believe that people somewhat routinely use some 8 mm studs under the rear seat, which are connected to a dc-dc converter. 20 amps pretty doable with 6 AWG wiring; some draw higher currents. They use that to charge and power stuff, usually via an inverter. So one way to get power to your travel...

Measuring the voltages sounds great! I wonder if the V+ slot is wired at all.

PPS. Some people who know a lot are n2mb_racing and stopcrazypp

Great questions. I will be following this too. (I just got a Model Y.) I don't know the answers to any of your questions, but I can provide a bit of background info which I hope is helpful. The Li battery is very small. About 99 Watt-hours. (So on its own it can barely sustain 5 amp draw...

The keyless press-on locking silent hitch pin looks pretty cool. Has anyone used this? With the model Y hitch pin seems like it will be tricky to me to do anything without risking scraping your hand. The access into the hitch pin area is pretty constrained compared to most normal tow vehicles...

Thanks. Here is an example. https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hitch-Ball/CURT/C40047.html

Thanks. Just to be clear, I am planing to use exactly 3/4 inch rise for the draw bar. So that would be in full compliance. A rocker ball happens to be taller than a regular ball, but I don't know if that is exactly the same as using a draw bar with more rise. (e.g., in terms of torques and all...

Great questions.Thanks. More rise keeps my tongue jack foot from bottoming out on small bridges and cattle guards. Enables me to go 8 miles per hour over them instead of slowing to a crawl. (By bottoming out, I mean that the bottom of the jack catches on the road and the jack bends and becomes...

Nice. Thanks! Those curves are beautiful! But my question also is: what is T roughly for an 500 to 1200 VA inverter (typical)? If the capacitor is a microFarad then it would be just a few microseconds... right? But I don't really have a clear idea even to within an order of magnitude what the...

Thanks. That makes sense. I was trying to remember why I chose such a low resistance. I think I was paranoid about the transition from precharge to direct connection. I was really afraid I might trip the car at that stage. I guess I was not as worried about switching the precharge resistor...

Thanks. Yes, I will keep you posted. Professional automotive wrappers around here (central California) are wanting about $450 to do it, which seems high to me. The glass surface is basically a rectangle with modest curvature that can be readily covered by a standard 5 foot wide piece of 3M...

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments here. Really appreciated! I just got a Model Y. I routinely tow a Casita type trailer (Scamp 13) with a 4Runner. I think the trailer weighs about 1500 lbs with a 150 lb tongue weight. Here is what I am thinking of doing for towing that 1500 lb trailer...

Crickets. Well, I am thinking of doing it. I would love to hear from even one person who says they know someone who put a wrap on their roof and it is still okay after one year or ...

Thanks very much. I kind of lean toward 100 Watt power resistors. I wonder if 2 ohm would be too low a resistance? I mean at 14 volts its fine, but a 16 volts at peak dissipation of 128 Watts could happen when the capacitors are showing short circuit nature. Though I guess that is pretty...

Thanks guys. I appreciate the advice and info. I think the Victron Phoenix will handle 16 volts no problem. I wonder what other inverters, possibly a bit less expensive and heavy, might also be able to handle those higher input voltages? Regarding the battery: 99 Wh is pretty small (but at...

Maybe not as many people as I thought have done roof wraps? I haven't never been able to find any information on how long they last. I know Gjeeb did put a wrap on a model Y glass roof; I heard a rumor that he took it off a few months later, but I don't know if that was because there were...

Thanks very much. I think that is what I have. I did not take the back seat out but I measured 15.5 volts at the cigarette port. I wonder if that can sometimes be higher? Anyway, I am going to get a Victron Phoenix inverter. Pricey, but it accepts up to 17 volts. I would speculate that that...

Victron Phoenix inverters have an input voltage range of about 9.2 to 17 volts I believe. High quality inverters. I think that is what I will get to use with a Model Y. I measured 15.5 volts at the cigarette port of my Model Y. As pure speculation, I am guessing that means 4 cells in series (an...

True. And you can charge a Jackery etc. from your cars energy using an inverter. That.can be useful in a power outage longer than about 12 hours/

Interesting. Thanks. The idea of this thread, here, is for people with either first or second hand experience with roof wraps to share information here on how roof wraps hold up over time. I haven't seen that anywhere else yet.

I have heard rumors that the voltage from under the seat in a model Y may higher than 12 or 14 volts. Does anyone know what the voltage is in a new Model Y? The reason I would really like to find out soon, is that I just bought a 700 Watt Renogy inverter with an input voltage range of 10 to 16...

Now that Teslas have become quite prevalent, I feel like quite a few people may have tried putting a vinyl wrap on the roof. The model Y, for example, has a 46" by 62" glass roof. The shape, which is almost rectangular, seems like it would be very amenable to applying a wrap. The idea of this...

I am thinking of doing this too. I am wondering how your roof wrap aged? I am assuming you did it in two separated pieces. Is that right? For a model 3 I am thinking that the front piece is about 48 inches wide by 33 inches long? What were the dimensions of your back piece of vinyl? Was it...

Thanks very much. I ordered a few XT90as connectors. Thanks for guiding me to those. I had no idea that there were connectors that can basically do precharge. On a slightly different subject, what is your opinion of the Renogy 700 Watt inverter as a choice for converting Tesla 14 volt power up...

Thanks very much. That is pretty great. Do XT60 connectors also have that feature? Plugging them in slowly to reduce spark? (This is not for a car but for an e-bike battery application where I have been using Anderson connectors and have been concerned about sparking. XT60 might make an...

Thanks a lot Jeff. That looks pretty great. Apparently it really works to keep the car cooler, which is something I would really value.

Recently I saw a Model Y (or maybe a 3) at a supercharger in California with a white roof. I am not sure how they did that? Possibly a wrap or a paint job? It looked smooth and perfect and my guess would be that it is a 2-part epoxy paint? Has anyone heard of that? Seems like it might be pretty...

I am not sure I know as much as you guys, but just off the top of my head I think e-bikes are typically 36 volts minimum (with 10 cells in series) and with 5 to 8 parallel channels can draw maybe 50 or 60 amps at close to peak throttle. I think that the more powerful bikes run around 54 volts...

That looks pretty good. Has any one else tried it? I am thinking of getting the white one. I am looking for whatever will help keep the interior from getting too extremely hot when you have to park in the sun.

For a model Y, are there 12 volt studs that one can access easily? Is it similar to a model 3? (I haven't seen a thread on that.)