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After driving on some truly dark roads and managed to fix the alignment issues I’m pretty sure the alignment does affect the high beam. With the alignment pointed too far down I could see patches turning off on the road quite close to me when cars were some distance away. With the alignment...

I see that full beam is on and I'm not getting flashed - so something must be working. But I can't see pixels turning on and off like others are noticing. Also I've long suspected that my headlight alignment is out. How does the alignment work with matrix headlights. Is there some feedback...

I can't figure out how to stick a rigid plastic plate on the front. Its just too curvy vertically for any of the sticky pads I have, The plate touches along the top and bottom edges only. Particularly if I don't place it any higher than the original bracket (to avoid blocking the radar). So I...

Emovis Emovis Tag UK will sell you a tag with a uk account. There is a deposit and up to £10/pa fee on top of the toll charges but ithe convenience is great. I've also heard (not confirmed myself) that you can buy a french tag from the office (far right lane) at any toll station using a UK...

if it's in the manual or clearly in the settings menu it's not a hidden feature

I don't mind telling people about the car :D Did you have to mention that the lane departure warning may go off if you move close to the edge of the lane? - or just turn it off every time? Happy to avoid chill. If it was always in chill mode that would be fine, but swapping between the two the...

Anyone gone through the IAM RoadSmart / RoSPA or similar advanced driving course in a Model 3? Any tips or anything I need to know? Obviously not having gears to change and significant regenerative breaking is going to make a difference but how does that work in practice? Is it easy to...

If you exceed the speed limit significantly by accident then you really should have been paying more attention and deserve the strong reminder. If you decide to exceed the speed limit (as we all do sometimes) and you get caught then take it on the chin. Your decision, you take the consequences...

If you receive your crit'air sticker and don't speak French it can be a bit confusing. The website is in perfect English but the letter you get with the sticker is in French only and says seemingly random things like "attach to vehicle bodywork" etc. So what it tells you (from memory as I long...

After almost 2 years my original wiper blades which were brilliant had making a streak right in front of me. So I replaced with a new set of Bosch Aerotwins. And the new blades are much worse. If the windscreen is perfectly clean then they work ok, but 2 miles down the road and the slightest...

try changing the steering option from comfort or standard to sport. As well as making the steering a bit firmer I find it allows you to be a little rougher with your “yes I’m still holding the wheel“ input without disengaging the autosteerimg. also pulling on the wheel just before indicating...

I have an emovis (bip & go) tag for my upcoming trip but - Can anyone advise on where in an M3 to stick it non-permanently so that it works? I don't particularly want to have it permanently stuck to my windscreen when I'm only going for a few weeks per year. (really prefer to keep the...

I would pay really good money to have soundcloud running on the tesla screen. Yes I can play from my phone but that means pulling over and parking every time I want to change tracks legally. (In the UK touching your phone while not parked will get you 6 out of max 12 points and a hefty fine).

Thule roof cycle carriers fit perfect on to the Tesla roof bars and they are really solid. (if you’re able to lift your bikes up that high of course.) I have 3 but pretty sure I could fit a 4th. There’s a slot in the top of the roof bars filled with a strip of foam. Pull it out and the bolts on...

Turn off obstacle aware acceleration

I have a trip to Serbia coming up and will need to rent a car. I can't face driving an ICE car and it's 20h driving from home so I have to fly (company paying) Any chance to rent a Tesla in Belgrade? I can't find anything online.

Really? I've been looking at it for 2 years and assumed it was plastic 🤣

Has anyone found a good looking replacement for the M3 wood trim which is not carbon fibre or alcantara? Carbon fibre just looks naff to me (even more than obviously plastic wood) and doesn’t match anything else in the car. Alcantara does match but I don’t feel it’s the right place for a soft...

I noticed that too

In my experience definitely yes. On collection the paint on my car was truly awful. I had a full paint correction, polish and Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra applied by Bellissimoto in South London and I would absolutely do it again. As many people have mentioned it doesn't protect against stone...

for the love of god man sit still

The UMC2 commando adaptor does have a temperature sensor. It's at the side just behind the live & neutral pins. I know because I extracted one so I could make up and adaptor with a different plug.

managed to do something similar with a 16A 240v Commando/Cee-form adaptor https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/6897756/

The UMC uses a small circuit which identifies the max current for the connector and possibly a temperature sensor. I have successfully removed one to replace the plug on a 16A (240V) blue commando adaptor - but it wasn't easy. I wanted to go directly to a16A Neutrik PowerCon mains connector...

You just need to put it in park for a second, so if you came off at a junction with a roundabout you could pause at the roundabout to stick it in park and back in drive and then get straight back on the motorway. May slightly annoy the driver behind but if it's another Tesla they'll know what...

I think the opposite. My car rarely needs charging more than once a week so why bother? I charge it to 80% then use it until it gets down to about 30-40 and then charge again. Really surprised to hear that there are people who plug in every evening no matter what. Also I don’t always park on...

Yep I'm convinced that most of the providers have got it spectacularly wrong. it's going to settle into predominantly just 2 different charging needs: Overnight/all-day ~7 - 11kw ac charging on virtually every residential street e.g. Lamp-post chargers. Used once a week by those who don't...

Think you're getting a bit too paranoid. I go slow(ish) on gravel tracks and keep away from the edges of country roads etc where possible and haven't had a stonechip in a year of ownership. That's with ceramic coating - no ppf. And they can fix a stonechip while they have it in the shop. I do...

Transported? Just drive it. They're going to have to fix up the paintwork anyway especially if tesla have washed it with the same kind of gritty rag as they did mine. And you get to do a bit more of a thorough inspection, calibrate the cameras, have a play around etc. Just ask them what they...

So now I have: Octopus Electric Juice ChargeMap Bonnet Tesla Superchargers And there are many more overlapping networks of networks. Some of which will have different prices for the same chargers. Some charge by time and some by energy used. So is there any good way to find the best charger...

I use it because it costs me next to nothing and the car won't be super hot inside when I go to use it. I also have a theory that high temperatures in the car causes the plastic to release volatile compounds which settle on the windows and make them smeary. I can't think of any other...

So the second picture shows the extended mudflaps so it wasn’t clear to me what you get

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement for an original pre-fitted 2021 M3 front mudguard? (not the extensions that came in the boot) one got broken while having to manoeuvre around someone stuck in a car park and an impossible to see corne of a kerb. anyway I’ve looked at several...

It's mostly useless on UK roads but in mainland Europe it works like a charm. Maybe it's something to do with the UK road layouts, or the fact that drivers here are all doing different speeds and pushing up into every tiny gap. I'll be sad when it goes.

Although if you've accelerated up to that speed then the battery must have room to put that energy back in.

Doesn't sound right - plenty enough thread on mine and I don't think there's an easy way to install them wrong as long as they fit snugly onto the correct rubber pads and the bars are installed thick edge to the front. However, while the bolts on mine are all the same length, I have heard that...

Superchargers are all CCS (plus a Tesla DC over type 2 plug which won't work with the M3), most other chargers are Type 2 (cable should be in the car - check on pick up) The vast majority of European cars now use type 2 so you're unlikely to find a charger that doesn't have that option. Note...

It is on according to the app. Turning it off and on didn't do anything. Then I remotely vented the windows, unlocked and locked it and turned the full climate on for a while, shortly after I got a notification about overheat protection being activated - so one of those actions re-enabled it...

I have to park my M3 in the sun for days at a time. I'm dismayed to discover that the overheat protection only stays on for 12 hours. The car interior can reach absolutely ludicrous temperatures even with reflective sunshades in all the windows - And I don't even live in a particularly hot...

Now would be great if the Tesla battery level appeared in the regular iOS battery widget alongside my phone, headphones and watch.

Quite pleased as now I don’t have to be the mean parent and tell my son he can’t play games while I’m driving.

Is there any way to keep the climate on auto but reduce the max fan speed a little? The fan is just way too loud on auto but as soon as I try to turn it down it goes to manual. At least 2 other cars I've had have allowed you to do exactly this? Ideally to it could automatically reduce the fan...

If I understand correctly you scan the tag with your phone which then triggers the option in the app? how is that significantly quicker than hitting the button on the widget? If it is quicker surely the app/widget can be improved?

parallel park works well for me. If its a longer space its possibly quicker than I can do it. Shorter spaces it shunts forward and back a lot more than necessary and makes me very nervous it's going to scrape the car but hasn't done yet. Complex, curved spaces etc it makes a mess of but guess...

I gave NoA a good try for several months but found it to be a total pain and turned it off. It never suggests lane changes at the appropriate time. Either way too early or way too late and with no consideration of how busy the traffic is around me. Half the time it's begging to move left when...

Yes this is exactly the problem - it takes ages - so long that I wonder if it's broken. I can understand that you can't just unlock the charge port when you unlock the car. If the charge hasn't finished then you need to do something to stop the current flow before you pull the plug out. But if...

Don't worry - I'm always in chill mode press the flap? - does that work to unlock the plug so I can remove it? Will have to nip out and give it a try

"You can also press the charging handle button to open the charge port." FFS I really don't care. It's not a "handle" it's a plug. And mine doesn't have a button but if it did I would know. And it wouldn't look like that picture because that's an American one. Just unlock the god damn port...

This just confirms that I was right to cancel my Tesla appointment and pay for a professional detailer to fix the paintwork. (Think they used a Brillo pad to wash mine before pickup.) I love the ceramic coating. Every wash it comes up like I spent an hour waxing it with no effort at all. Only...

Not only that but when you share the destination it seems to just share the name and not the precise co-ordinates. The car will sometimes find a similarly named place somewhere completely different and take you there. Fortunately the first time it did this I knew it was wrong by the first...