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Adirondack has been great so far!

ABRP is great. It gives you a decent understanding of battery usage, where your Superchargers are, and allows you to play with variables (passengers, luggage weight, temperature, wind, elevation changes). Once I've planned out a route I'm happy with, I'll tend to build it into my Tesla nav...

Plenty of hotels have an onsite charger these days, Plugshare is your friend to find these. You'll need the J1772 adapter, and sometimes a Chargepoint card - but they are still mostly free and you wake up with a full battery in the morning. Generally, the I-95 drive is a sea of mediocre fast...

Anyone else’s FWD freak out when you try to open front and FWD at the same time?

This has actually recently happened to me. I check in to an otherwise ordinary Marriott in a small town, and find a J-1772 charger in the parking lot. Charger has an alarm-type keypad on it, and a big sign directing you to the front desk for the code. So I ask for the code (after checking in...

Dude, either pay $150 for the room like the rest of us or use a Supercharger. Free electrons are great, but what you’re doing is stealing something that does not belong to you, and is provided as an amenity for paying hotel guests. This is no different than if you snuck into the hotel lobby in...

My yoke is peeling and it’s starting to annoy me. There are plenty of posts about the problem and the possibility of getting it replaced under warranty. I never liked the material anyway, so seems silly to just replace it with the same sandpaper vinyl. Has anyone found a place that makes...

Turns out you get pretty used to the phone key. As a result I also downsized my key ring, and still manage to forget it pretty often! I only ever take the fob when I know I‘m going to valet park the car. But even then every valet knows how to manage the card. Unless you have some really good...

Tesla sells them online - currently for $175 a pop which is annoying because I got 2 included with my MX just 6 months ago. I recommend buying one of the aftermarket rubber cases for them which makes it harder for the buttons to accidentally press in your pocket. Some of the aftermarket online...

MX is pretty wide - the placement of the wheels takes a bit of getting used to. The sensors are your friends and if you listen to them you will not have a problem. I too curbed my wheels while being stupid. Found a great local guy reviewed on a TMC forum, met him in the back of a sketchy car...

Buc-ees stops are the highlight of any roadtrip…but it’d be hard to get out of there in 30 minutes. Your car will be ready long before you are. It’s a huge store and there’s too much to see / eat / buy. They are going to need a massive number of stalls, and need to think about idle fees here...

I’m getting this also, but ONLY for the first drive of the day — like it’s still warming up or something. After the first mile or two it’s gone. Only “flaw” in 3 months / 3k miles is a loud creak in the driver‘s seat — happens whenever I take my foot off the accelerator and regen kicks in. If...

Driving a MX daily for 2 months and I am an excited kid with a new toy every time I get into the drivers’ seat. Works great for 1, 2 or 4 people. 6 is tight for long stretches but doable. I miss armrests and keep confusing the horn/wiper buttons, but it’s still an amazing car.

This guy does amazing work. Paul completely fixed some baaad curb rash - my wheels actually look better than new. Tesla wheels apparently have a crappy coating, which helps keep him in business. He also mentioned that he’s gotten a lot more Teslas since the OP 3 years ago. Definitely...

Wow. Any damage to the car?

Fast charge and super easy. This one is right off I-87, clean bathrooms, picnic tables outside and really good ice cream. Stewart's is really limited on food, but we found a great deli called Pelligrino Imports 5 min away and got HUGE sandwiches to eat while we charged. Charging was done...

This is NOT a great neighborhood, and too far off NY-27. I charged here Friday lunchtime, and had to contend with a homeless dude smoking a joint right next to my car as I was unplugging. Too isolated at the back of a run-down mall in an otherwise seedy area. I definitely wouldn't suggest...

You only have 3-4 weeks, but with your proposed route won’t have time to actually see anything. This is WAY too much time in the car unless you have 3-4 months to see it all. American highways are *mostly* long and boring with not much to see. And if you’re doing it in summer, much of the...

A month into ownership, I really like the yoke, including the buttons. It was incredibly well thought out, but requires a bit of a mindshift from the way we’ve been driving before. I also spent a long time adjusting the yoke position to get it right. That’s not to say my hands don’t...

This isn’t a perfect science…yet. We are 100% beta testing a new way of living, and it will take time before there’s convenient and fast charging on every street corner. PlugShare and ChargePoint do have somewhat better descriptions of where the chargers are hiding, so worth making notes in...

Been driving my new MX Plaid for about 10 days now, and I’m very impressed with call quality and sound. I was on calls from the car all morning today, including while at a very loud Supercharger, and nobody even asked/noticed where I was. I came from a pretty loud ICE SUV so the difference is...

Picked up my Plaid MX today — kudos to the Mt. Kisco NY staff who helped me out and advanced the appointment by 2 days. I arrived early and was out within 30 minutes. Plenty of staff milling around to help with paperwork, vehicle settings and moral support. Given the crap customer service Tesla...

Yeah, my delivery appointment was set for 5/29, but they emailed me that the car is expected on the 24th and I should upload insurance ASAP so they can “pull you forward if available.”

In the event something was catastrophically wrong with the vehicle, I would refuse to sign the hard copy sales agreement. I’ll sign it AFTER I’ve poked around with seats and screens. Anything cosmetic can be dealt with as a service item later, I understand the risks and am willing to take it...

I attended one last night on Teams. They play a PowerPoint deck and answer questions in the chat. Even the audio part of the presentation seemed to be pre-recorded. If you’ve been hanging out on TMC while waiting months and months, you probably know 95% of it. Reminder to install charging at...

342xxx - not sure what this means for headlights, but I don’t care. Going to have this car a while and I’m sure it will get some aftermarket mods eventually. Congrats on your LR too!

Just got a VIN on 6 seat Plaid. White/White/20”/no FSD. Ordered back in Feb when a few people were getting Plaids way faster than LRs. EDD showing as Memorial Day weekend, not quite sure how that will shake out, but I’ll be there whenever they can get me in. Mt. Kisco NY delivery. No real...

Plaid EDD finally moved from October to May 26-June 13. I guess I can finally cancel the MXLR that’s been delayed for the last 10 months…

If you don’t understand why a CEO posting a photo of a mass murderer in any context is horrifyingly offensive, I urge you to learn more about the Holocaust.

Mentally ill people get a free pass to post Nazi pics? Give me a break.

Because of the Nazis, my family is a LOT smaller than should be. So yes, this meme is wrong, disgusting and justifies not buying a car that will put money in his pocket.

I don’t post photos of a Nazi dictator on the internet, so respectfully disagree.

There is no reason - none at all - for a tech CEO to post the photo of a dictator responsible for mass genocide. And terrifying that the post has over 100k likes. But I guess some right wing nut job will order the Model X I‘m about to cancel. I won’t give my money to this kind of a...

Can’t wait to hear how the bros will defend the “Man of the Year” posting Hitler pics on his Twit feed. This is just too far. I cannot stomach this kind of pure hatred.

….and Musk just posted a Hitler meme…on the heels of the Joe Rogan stuff. I’m really about to pull the plug on my Tesla order. Really uncomfortable by the politics, the mental instability, and everything this gentleman’s brand is coming to represent.

Expect to be inconvenienced and lied to by Tesla employees. March is probably unrealistic for most.

Sheer brilliance — and well needed after a week of utter frustration with the Fremont Muppet Show. I emailed my SA today to let him know that the March EDD means I’ll be walking to work — clearly he couldn’t be troubled to reply.

Must be hard to talk when your lips are permanently grafted to the rear end of your “idol.”

It’s one big piece of the puzzle for sure. As a country, we have a shortage of 80,000 truck drivers. I work in supply chain, and it’s absolutely brutal out there. Rates are 2-10x pre-pandemic numbers, waiting times to get freight hauled can be days if not weeks. It’s bad everywhere, but the...

No. Musk is too busy tweeting about Joe Rogan (which is kind of creepy if those aren’t your politics) so I don’t think there’s much effort being placed on expediting our cars.

Can’t wait to hear what excuses the Fremont Muppets make for this latest screwing over the clients!

Ah, but does anyone believe it?

Not at all how the sales guy aggressively sold me on this car last summer. I was very clear I needed it by a drop dead date, and he “promised” me he would make it happen. This was my intro to a new car brand. Coming from BMWs and Mercedes, where dealers tend to have the inventory to back up...

Seems like 1 year from order until delivery is probably a reasonable estimate for most of us. That’s what was inferred on my last call with a Tesla manager. Truly no consideration that we ordered cars based on when we needed them to live our lives. EDDs are truly meaningless, because Tesla...

I think most of us would happily fly to CA right now to take delivery and drive home cross-country, if it would get the car sooner.

Quite a few threads about this one: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/reveal-your-vin-before-it-appears-on-your-account.154122/

Anyone finding VINs in source code anymore?

My 2 favorite ICE rentals: 2012 Merc E Class on the Autobahns from Hamburg to Frankfurt 2021 BMW 7series on the Florida Turnpike from Miami to Orlando Was able to average the same insane speed for both trips...one quite legal, the other thanks to Waze...:oops:

More inconsistent information from Tesla: Web chat agent told me that my car was in final build status and she would have someone local call me regarding delivery. Got a call 20 min later from a local manager (boss of the SA who doesn’t even reply). Really nice guy, and genuinely apologetic...

Communication and some actual customer service would go a long way. But for months they’ve been pretty clear they could care less about us.