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The lease is up on my Model 3 in September and I'm planning to just buy a used model outright given that the lease costs massively outweigh any salary sacrifice saving (assuming the insurance isn't £20,000/year). In the price bracket I'm looking at I can have a 2022 Model 3 LR, or a 2019...

I just get “Loading Error” when I try to play any station. No data connectivity problems elsewhere (ie Apple Music works). Discovering just how bad the quality is on DAB at the moment.

Since updating to 2023.12 the constant micro-braking during a lane change has got exponentially worse, with the car now braking hard during 90% of lane changes (to the extent that for half a second the regen bar goes fully green). I don't know why it's doing it but it's been happening since...

Any idea why the energy consumption on my M3 LR has jumped from its usual 230 Wh/mile to more than 550? It’s got 23,000 miles on the clock and I’ve never seen it this bad. Giving a range of less than 100 miles at 65mph which is going to make my trip home fun. For info - nearly all my driving...

If you use TuneIn over DAB to listen to BBC stations you might have noticed that a message comes over the broadcast every 30 minutes or so saying that the BBC is pulling their streams from TuneIn. This is because TuneIn won't provide the enhanced demographic data of listeners. In return for...

All the pre-loaded speed limits on my Model 3 have vanished. It'll still read them from road signs and gantries when it's in a good mood, but anything that was drawn from the maps is missing. Map version 2022.40.something. I wasn't offered it as an update (sneaky download in the background) and...

Twice now I've had an unpleasant situation in slow traffic where Autopilot starts brake-checking HGVs that are close behind. There's nothing shown on the display to suggest that there's a reason for panic-braking, and it happens continually even with traffic in front a long way away. Basically...

Attention shoppers: Newport Pagnell Superchargers are inaccessible at the moment as the services are co-opted by workers as a base of operations. Barriers and cones up from 8pm. Would be nice if they were flagged as such on the map, or even on the gantry signs (which ironically all said...

Not entirely sure that it's linked but I had two of the worst phantom braking events ever experienced in my Model 3 while on the M1 today. Both were triggered by the new gantries placed as part of the smart motorway network near Nottingham. They seem to have a lattice-like structure and this...

I remember there was some discussion about Tesla only allowing the Boombox app to work while in park. I was messing around yesterday and noticed that the list of "summon sounds" has vanished completely. Being able to annoy my neighbours by playing the ice-cream van sounds was one of my favourite...

Anyone with AP knows that it can have a tendency to get upset when passing HGVs that are straying too close or slightly over their lane lines while the driver takes a dump or cooks breakfast or something, and the violent phantom-braking and aborts when changing lane towards and HGV with EAP...

Has anyone gone down the E.ON road for solar and battery? Seems to be very little actual information about things on their website.

Looks like the parallel parking mode of autopark is broken or disabled in 2021.44.30. Doesn't even spot spaces now, let alone attempt to park in them. Spent ages playing around in local car park after it failed to recognise the space outside my house it's spent the last four months parking...

How loud is the fan meant to be? It sounds like a table saw at full speed. Video below has a sample.

Got my UMC plugged in at a friend's house for a top-up. Not used it before but noticed that that the plug and socket are noticeably warm to the touch. Does this happen to you? My thoughts are leaning towards a fault in the socket. I don't think it should be getting warm at all. Reasonably...

Might be UK specific but summon (stupid summon, just the forward and backward bit) has stopped working on my Model 3. Would you mind testing on yours to see if it's a bigger problem than my car / phone? It goes through all the stages of being about to move (releasing parking brake etc) but then...

The basic forward/backwards summon on my Model 3 has stopped working. I hear the parking brake release but then all that happens is the steering twitching a bit. It used to work perfectly and would thread the car into tiny spaces. 😕 (It has EAP with smart summon but that's never worked, and...

Although Tesla maps use Google Maps on the surface, the underlying data is provided by TomTom (you can sometimes see this when the planned route diverges slightly from the drawn map). TomTom maps are nowhere near as up-to-date as Google or HERE, but there's an easy fix here...

Does anyone know why does the range display (ie next to the battery picture or when setting the charge level) of the Model 3 LR show 330 miles as a maximum, when the website says 360? Do they use different calculations?

I guess the answer is "no", but is it possible to reduce the speed that auto-park goes at when parallel parking? It's surprisingly, uh, "confident" on my M3, which caught me out because most people who tested it online spent their time complaining about how tentative it is. Touching the brake...

Needing to buy a longer charging cable for my M3. Will be exclusively for home use on a single-phase 7kW charger. Any recommendations for online sellers, or is it easier just to pay the premium for the Mennekes version directly from Tesla? Needs to be 7m+ but 10m probably too long. Thanks!

Thinking of changing to a Model 3 LR for the 200 mile commute to work (fortunately only three or four times a month). At the moment I have a Volvo with the very capable pilot assist system. It looks like autopilot is pretty similar except for the fact that it disconnects every time you change...