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I agree, I've never noticed any noise with my tow bar fitted and that panel missing. Another possibility might be the undertray/cover between battery and rear apron, where it covers the rear motor/axle. It's easily damaged by deep puddles etc., maybe has broken and is vibrating above certain...

Yes, I'd agree, here is my Teslamate output after my upgrade to 2024.8.4 on my Atom Model 3, Teslamate still seems to work OK apart from the asleep/offline discrepancy:

With the new Highland Model 3, the retrofit tow bar policy has finally changed if what I’m told is correct; I asked this question of the Tesla sales guy after a recent test drive and he confirmed it would be possible to install an aftermarket tow bar and tow a trailer legally (as you have been...

Absolutely, I strongly recommend the DIY approach. When I had my garage door fitted, the installer wanted £200 extra for wifi and app integration via some dodgy looking app (probably linked to Chinese manufacturer of the door motor/controller). Most door controllers have wiring for an external...

That's interesting, because I was having excessively uneven wear on my NSF tyre (that also had the worst squeaking), where the inner edge would wear to the canvas and become illegal before the centre 75% tread wore down to 2mm for the lease company to replace it. Rather than pay for alignment...

That does seem very excessive; I had my first upper control arms replaced on my June 2020 M3LR when it was one year old, with the new improved ones, and I've just had them replaced again when the squeak came back, so about 2 years lifespan for me... that's far from ideal but surely they should...

Depending on the small print of your auto-renewal with your insurer, you might be able to cancel it within 14 days and get the rest of your premium back if you can find a better quote. Always worth shopping around as you say. I have almost zero customer loyalty with insurance companies!

I agree with you, looks kind of like a blander version of the Ioniq 6 with those headlights, and seems to have lost the aero curtain slots in sides of bumper ahead of front wheels. Not sure if this will translate in a good way to the Model Y either. No hint of Model S design language, feels like...

You're absolutely right; I had someone open their car door into my Model 3 in Costco car park (which have enormous spaces); put a good scrape in paintwork and a dent right in the swage line of the door. Sentry mode captured it and the other car driving off, so got the number plate and good video...

It might not necessarily be the case. My UK Model 3 is also owned by a leasing company, I have never been able to see it in my Tesla account on web either but the car appears in the app OK just like your scenario. Teslamate has been working fine for me for 2.5 years. Perhaps there is something...

They do get better; 2.5 years into ownership of my M3LR and the auto wipers and auto high beam are now hugely improved (you might find that hard to believe…), going from truly unusable to just-about-functional, though AHB still has a way to go and auto wipers at night still less than ideal...

I‘ve just done a couple of tests on my Fremont-built 2020 M3 LR (UK RHD) which has been afflicted by the alarm bug since the .7 update. With the car asleep (confirmed by Teslamate), opening the left-hand front passenger door does not activate the alarm. After waiting for the car to go to sleep...

How old is your car? I’ve read somewhere that some Fremont-built cars had poorly aligned roof glass which could give issues with roof bars, where glass was either fractionally proud of metal roof sides or could have sideways pressure applied on it. My rails installed fine, and the roof bar leg...

I’ve noticed the same thing on my 2020 M3LR in the last week on 2 long journeys, a strange vertical blip exactly like this. It was my first trip with roof box attached, so was watching Energy screen extremely carefully to make sure I was going to make my supercharger stops. One leg was...

I bought it directly from Taptes website; maybe they have given up producing them seeing as the new refresh interiors have been around for 18 months, lack of demand from new drivers? EBay might be your best bet.

I'm in the same position, awaiting a bill since August, and it has happened a few times before. Drop them an email and they will resolve it eventually in my experience. On previous occasions, they have been missing some 30minute billing data from a specific day, and it seems they need to...

My 2020 M3 LR is non-FSD and is downloading now…

The dates should update, so something is wrong, perhaps you have an ID/credentials issue for your Google drive connection? Is your cron job still running? Here's mine as an example (I followed @DaveW's guide which worked great, just added a zip final stage to keep file sizes down).

I run TeslaMate on my RaspberryPi (running in Docker hosted in OpenMediaVault) and additionally use TeslaMateAgile for updating actual charge costs in Teslamate with my Octopus Go tariff; it works brilliantly. However, things went awry with TeslaMateAgile with the most recent TeslaMateAgile...

Mine has always been OK, but I’ve not got that close to the actual weight limits; you should put the heaviest items under the boot floor in any case according to the manual:

I also hoped the Honda factory (capable of 250,000 vehicles per year) would have been an ideal target for EV manufacturing, but seems not; the whole site has been purchased by a company that is going to convert it into a large logistics/distribution park (Panattoni Park Swindon - Panattoni UK)...

My Model 3 company car was having some warranty work and minor bodywork repair done and my company provided a Peugeot 208 GT (petrol) hire car for three weeks (was originally only going to be a few days, but apparently certain suspension bolts are incredibly rare in Tesla's universe). It was...

It's a laudable pitch from MPs to protect those with no access to home charging from high pricing, but at the same time laughable that HMRC apply 20% VAT to public charging but we only pay 5% VAT on home electricity bills, so 15% disparity is being driven by the government itself! Surely a key...

sorry, I somehow failed to attach photo with first reply, here you go.

Only one photo I'm afraid, should have taken more but the weather didn't lend itself to spending much time outside! Good fun though, would go again and had been ages since our previous visit.

Yes, we moved from Agile back to Go after about 9 months of significant savings starting with first lockdown last year, but simply cannot make a cost case without having solar nor battery, and never easily being able to shift usage entirely away from Agile peak. Savings over Agile since moving...

Only one thing I really miss from my previous Passat GTE; the super comfy front seats. I'm in the apparent small minority who struggle to get truly comfortable in the Model 3, the fronts seats are nowhere near as good as the Passat. It's the one thing that might detract me from getting another...

I've noticed discrepancies between battery % shown by car/Tesla app and Teslamate when the battery is very cold; the car will show a blue portion of battery capacity that is effectively not available until it warms up for self-protection purposes I assume. Therefore I guessed Teslamate always...

A black mark against Tesla Leeds from me; last Friday lunchtime I pitched up at the Leeds SuC (just outside the service centre) for a quick splash-and-dash, only to find all eight stalls occupied but only 6 charging. Tesla had actually blocked 2 of their own SuC stalls with what looked like new...

Same for me, and I find you don't need to wait for the app to fully wake the car (at least with iPhone); even while app is 'greyed out' and still waiting for car wake up fully, you can still navigate to charging option and open the port. Like the sound of this, which of the third party apps is...

Thanks Dave, I just tried this for the first time and it works perfectly, great guide! There are only a couple of minor points I found: - rclone config option for gdrive seems to have moved from 13 to 15 (at least in my install, I run Docker via openmediavault on my pi); I also used 'Option 3'...

I also found my Audi of 15 years ago was superior for auto-wipers (and auto-headlights for that matter) than both our Nissan Leaf and our Tesla M3. I think VAG just cracked it, and engineered a dedicated sensor solution and software logic that works pretty much all the time. It seems Tesla...

Thanks, a great Bjorn video, I hadn't seen that one. Certainly reinforces my view that these settings should be set-and-forget, if the settings screen at least gave you a delta change figure when you adjust them it would be easy to return to where they were set originally (but assume this was...

Thanks for getting back to me. I have read this as well, and tried this last night parked in front of our garage door. The lights moved up a decent amount and then back down to where they started, which leaves me to think they are right at the bottom of their range already. Moving them up...

Thanks. That sounds very odd IMO. Every car I've owned in the last 20 years or more has had manually adjustable lights to cope with load (even our Leaf can do it), and given the fact that Tesla has LED projector-type lights and the fact Tesla say no manual adjustment/stickers are necessary...

I ask because my headlights seem to be at the very lowest limit of their range even with just me in the car, and it only gets worse with extra passengers. Once the nights began to draw in and I actually started using the headlights more, I noticed oncoming drivers flash me quite frequently...

Re. tax breaks, I think the government have recognised the problem and already started to level the playing field when they removed plug in car grant from PHEVs (or at least they effectively did by increasing the minimum electric-only range to de-scope pretty much every PHEV being built)...

Yes, it's a pretty painful picture at the moment, with only 2% from wind and coal filling in nearly 7% gap, but at least solar is 9%. Shows that we have some way to go before we can fully remove coal when the wind isn't blowing. G. B. National Grid status

I sometimes think Tesla assume you should feel grateful that they let you buy one of their cars :) I got mine as a company car so frankly I've no idea yet how I'll be able to pay should I want to extend beyond the free connectivity, since the car doesn't appear in my web account as it belongs...

That’s my understanding; my UK Model 3 LR comes with 12months, the SR 30 days. This is how I remember the Tesla web page describing ‘partial premium’ interior of SR vs ‘premium interior’ of LR since I first began researching the model 3, so not a recent change. How long have you had your car...

That's interesting, I noticed mine are rather high, and with 4 passengers I get plenty of oncoming cars flashing me. I raised a service request due to the warning in the manual; this is still a few weeks away, perhaps I'll give this a try too. Surely it should set self adjust at the start of...

This is the correct link to reliability review I think: https://www.whatcar.com/news/2020-what-car-reliability-survey-executive-cars/n20054

I received my Taptes USB Hub Pro yesterday (ordered 6 July, so 3 weeks in total, not bad). It's got a nice soft-touch front finish, I've not taken it apart, but reading the instruction sheet that comes with it suggests that there are two USB hubs split left/right across the two external and one...

No, so I was a bit surprised seeing as mostly FSD seem to be getting it first.

My M3 LR AWD had its first update this afternoon (it's a week old today), from 2020.20.12 to 2020.20.17. Just got home and it's started downloading 2020.24.6.4, wasn't expecting it quite so quickly after the previous update!

Well, no joy on the USB-C or wireless charging front for me, looks like it left the factory before the start of June. Not a massive deal though, couldn’t be happier with it, absolutely amazing car and only the tiniest quality issues to niggle about; very relieved!

I reserved my Model 3 from inventory on 5 June (I’m in UK), and I pick it up on 30 June; I assumed it wouldn’t be possible to build and ship in those timelines and get USB-C etc. (I was originally offered 24 June as my collection date), but my VIN is 733xxx so maybe there’s hope!