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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Sometimes, but he's probably to old and feeble to remember things.
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    Politics - Quarantine Thread

    This has nothing to do with politics, but if it makes you happy, twist it however you want.
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    Politics - Quarantine Thread

    Just wait for the movie. Trump will be starring as Musk. Their personalities, including truth coefficient are a perfect match :)
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Droschke - Nice to "see" you again. IMO all these modern cars have overly complex UIs. I find BMW's no more or less complex than Tesla's. BMW probably has more settings and customization available. On the bright side, the verbal command vocabulary is much more extensive and almost everything...
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Somewhere in this thread, someone asked me to come back in 6 months and report on how I like my new EV, the BMW iX, after ownings a Model S for 8 years (biding my time until something else I liked came along and had a year or two under its belt). So I,m baaack :) tl;dr - Very pleased with the...
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    Israel/Hamas conflict

    Hey Musk, you pathologic liar and sociopath - I hope your rockets keep exploding. P.S. So glad to ne done with POS Tesla.
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    Colorado DMV registration?

    If you get the EV plates in Colorado (no additional charge), you don't need the sticker. BTW, if anyone wants a nice vanity plate, when I sold my Model S in May, I turned in my Colorado GBYEGAS plates, so it should be available. For my new BMW EV, I got EV plates, non-vanity. Had to go to the...
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    Go Fund Me for EV Charging in SE NM

    Has anyone used the L3 charger in Artesia? Reliability? I read some recent reports on plugshare of them cutting off prematurely in recent heat.
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Thank you for the kind words, Droschke. Amazing how low mileage your car is! And I thought mine was low at a little under 80K. But then mine was held hostate by the parts dept for about 10 minths of its life :( Also, not sure how you got a 90 in 2/15 and I got an 85(D) in 4/15. replacement...
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    SoCal Buzz is correct. When the car was running, I had no complaints. OK, that's not true. I had some complaints about firmware updates making functionality worse (in an AP1 car). But the bulk of my problem was service-related, many months of downtime waiting for parts, and roadside...
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Two reasons: 1. IMO the Taycan is overpriced for what it is. 2. It's range is woefully inadequate for my needs. From Nov-Apr I drive up to the Colo Rockies to ski (140 mi RT, 5000 ft net elevation gain) every week. Weather can be dicey, needless to say. I want to be able to make the round...
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    Thanks for your comment. In that case, I won't delete the bookmark for this forum :) I will try to do so. As I wrote upthread, I paid in full. No financing. I was in the finance office to do the paperwork for the registration, etc., and the sales pitch for unwanted extended service, etc.
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    There's no need to be a moderator wannabe and post a comment like this, either. Not that I need to justify anything to you, but I've been on this forum for 10 years, and the now-defunct forum that was on Tesla's site for longer than that. I made many online friends (and enemies of some of the...
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    Goodbye all; Good riddance Tesla

    It's been an interesting ride, from loving the car at first, to despising what the company has become. The Tesla was my worst car owndership experience in 40+ years of car ownership. From Rivetgate (the old-times will remember that) in winter 2015/16, disabling the car for 4 months, waiting...
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    Poor Customer Service

    Only another 2 weeks or so and I'll be Tesla free!
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    Anyone have a VHF/UHF transceiver in their car? If so, any RFI problems?

    Thanks for the info, Hiroshiy. I spent about 5 days in Tokyo, then visited Hakone, Takayama, Kanazawa, Kyoto and Hiroshima. Most travel between cities was via Shinkansen. They work so well and are so clean. Why can't the USA do that?! Beautiful country! I hear quite a few JA hams in...
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    Anyone have a VHF/UHF transceiver in their car? If so, any RFI problems?

    Hey hiroshiy - I just got back for a 2 1/2 week trip to JA. I only saw 5 Teslas the entire trip and only one HF Yagi :)
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    Anyone have a VHF/UHF transceiver in their car? If so, any RFI problems?

    Have you ever tried or considered a through the glass mount?
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    New "Mandatory" Colorado EV Plates are coming

    I got a decal almost 8 years ago. It's somewhere in the glove box and has been the entire time. Denver has more serious problems than non-display of EV decals.
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    MCU1 or MCU2?
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    Please specify the update version, and MCU1 or 2?
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    Seems to me that the lower end of the market would be a good spot for Tesla to morph into, as they're into quantity, not quality.
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    Whitex - He's great at start-ups, but sucks at maturing companies. As you can see from my sig line, I've ordered a BMW iX as my next EV. I joined a couple of BMW forums and it's interesting that many of the iX owners were early adopters of Tesla and despise what the company has become, just as...
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    Too bad there hasn't been an upgrade to CEO2 :)
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    Poor Customer Service

    At least calling is an option. :)
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    Poor Customer Service

    Oops. What kind of fluid is that?
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    Roadtrips from the Denver Metro Area

    Suggest waiting for ski season to end before you do weekend mountain drives. There's no problem doing the I-70 route across the state, Vail, Aspen, etc.
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    Poor Customer Service

    Get used to it. Worst customer service of any company I've ever dealt with.
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    Go Fund Me for EV Charging in SE NM

    Hopefully Coming Soon from EA has the conventional meaning of those words and not Tesla's :)
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    I can no longer recommend Tesla. Their Service is the Worst

    This morning, I got a survey from Tesla asking about my recent repair experience (car out of service for almost 6 months, waiting for a replacement air strut). Why do they even bother? Are they looking to see how they can make the customer experience even worse than it currently is?
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    I can no longer recommend Tesla. Their Service is the Worst

    There wasn't much of a charging network when you bought your first Tesla, was there?
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    Got 2022.8.10.11 Software update today...

    I got it yesterday. Haven't installed yet. Does it break anything?
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    Recent upgrades to Refreshed 2016 Model S

    I just got it today. What's new and what did they break this time?
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    Well, gang, I finally got my car back a bout a week ago. Only 6 months to replace an air strut! In the meantime, I started shopping for a new vehicle and put a deposit down on a BMW iX. The vehicle is so well-built and fitted compared to my MS. Also, the underlying engineering is so well...
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    I can no longer recommend Tesla. Their Service is the Worst

    Or we can jump ship and never look back. Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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    I can no longer recommend Tesla. Their Service is the Worst

    That's like a line out of one of the stockholder meetings. Someone asked Musk in the Q&A what he is going to do about the poor service problem and he responded, "the best service is no service."
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    Finally got my Model S back after being held hostage for 6 months by the (backordered) parts department (air strut replacement). Anyway, they updated the software and I notice that there is no longer a + and - "button" to change map scale. I can do it with the finger pinch, but then I lose the...
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    I can no longer recommend Tesla. Their Service is the Worst

    Then they'll have to call the vast majority of their service centers Atlantis :)
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    Go Fund Me for EV Charging in SE NM

    Depnds if Xcel uses real time or Musk time.
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    AP1 ONLY Please -- life after 2018.50.6

    My car is finally out of service mode, held hostage for 5 months at the shop, waiting for a replacement air shock. I'm expecting the car (AP1 MCU1) back in a few days. I see there's an update waiting. I'm currently on 2022.8.10.1. Does the current firware break anything or should I do the...
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    Don't get in an accident in your Tesla unless you like waiting for repairs

    The shop just notified me that my 5 month wait for an air shock replacement is finally over. Truly pathetic. I'll be selling the car in the next few months and be done with Tesla forever.
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    Poll: Should Musk resign as CEO of Tesla?

    The Twitterverse has voted him off the island. How about the Teslaverse?
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    Thanks very much for the time you spent on this. I passed the info along to the shop and hopefully this will get the ball rolling. Sure seems like Tesla's parts system is AFU'd, not updating to an active, available part.
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    That is the part on the report I got from State Farm. I will double check with the shop tomorrow. I was in contact with the 057 guys and they told me all 4 air shocks must match exactly to function correctly. I'm looking for the complete strut (driver's side, rear). From the State Farm list...
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    Part # I need is 6006352-07-B Searched ebay and don't find an exact match from a reliable seller. There are several -C parts which claim to be good for the 2015 85D air susp.. Does anyone know for a fact that the -B and -C are interchangeable?
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    There's more than one source of rivets. For example, a search on rivets at Fastenal brings up 1500+ entries.
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    I will contact the shop tomorrow and check into that. I recall when rivetgate happened, the Tesla-approved body shop said they couldn't use parts from third-party vendors or their Tesla certification would be revoked.
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    Has anyone sued Tesla over back-ordered parts and repair delays?

    I was wondering if any of the old timers would bring that up :) Hope all is well with you, Mr. Hammer. For the rest of you, in early 2016, I needed a quarter panel replaced and it took 4 months because of back-ordered rivets. Back then, it was the old "they're a new compnay - give them a...