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Tire/road sounds are more obvious in a Tesla than they are in ICE cars. One of the first things I noticed when first driving my M3 was all the noises I'd rarely heard when driving my much noisier ICE car (a heavily modified Subaru STI that legit gave me tinnitus from years of putting up with its...

Was this car in a collision before you bought it? Hard to imagine an M3 with 2500 having issues like that straight out of the factory.

I decided to check the status of my service request, and saw that they changed the quote. When I replaced the same window a week ago, it cost a little under $1200. The quote they just updated for the exact same procedure is now $2230. No explanation or justification, just a different price this...

Here's a funny story. My M3 has been sitting in the garage since I drove it home from the service center after having the top glass replaced. I've been traveling for work, and the car has literally not moved since I parked it over a week ago. Last night I did my normal "dry bath" where I wipe...

I just had a cracked top glass window replaced, and despite having no obvious signs of impact they insisted it was a rock chip crack. I have a post here asking for advice around that incident, but it's not safe to assume they'll always do the right thing.

On one morning two weeks ago I heard a loud pop sound from my garage and came out to see that the top glass was now cracked on my Model 3. The car was parked in my heated garage the night before. I'm guessing the popping sound was the glass breaking on its own. I know with 100% certainty that it...

Unannounced assumption? With all due respect, I'm not quite sure what that even means, especially since I'm pretty sure this is what you'd call a clearly "announced" assumption: I never said "ICE cars are, in every situation, more convenient than EVs." I very much narrowed my perspective so...

There's little difference between plugging in a super charger in freezing weather than putting a gas pump nozzle in your ICE car, aside from the extra time needed to swipe a payment card. Oil changes suck, as do all the other routine maintenance tasks that the complexity of an ICE requires -...

I agree. That time could come sooner if consumers stopped being so dogmatic about their praise for EVs and started demanding better infrastructure. And we'd still be using leaded gas if the automakers had their way. US congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, giving the EPA the authority to...

I read the title of this thread and immediately agreed. Then I read the replies, and I'm left wondering why so many people are anti-improvement. It's the same old thing - someone says "this thing about Teslas could be better" and a ton of other people interpret that as "this person is attacking...

I drove next to what looked a brand new McLaren yesterday. I don't know the McLaren lineup that well, but I'm guessing it was either a Senna or a Senna GTR (because of its enormous wing). What an incredible looking and sounding car. After beating it off the line from a stop a few times the...

Not a sports car, but I was driving a not-very-stock 2006 STI since 2006 before getting my M3LR this year. The STI has been modified over the years and is without question a fast and nimble car on the track, or anywhere. I've not dyno'd it in a while, but several years ago I went on a "HP"...

Several people in this thread, including myself, have given specifics on what they find wrong with the UI. I don't agree. Parts of the UI are coherent and consistent. But a lot of it just seems thrown together. Like the cards under the rendering of the car itself. That mechanism seems to be...

On these forums, I'm not so sure it's that easy to be a critic. But to answer question in a way that I anticipate won't satisfy you: I'd make it effortless and effective. Thing is, I'm not Tesla's design team. They're a company with a $1T market cap. They can afford to invest in the UI, just...

No one in this thread has said Tesla isn't a valuable company. They've said Tesla is an awful software company. Tesla is not the 4th company to have a market cap over a trillion. Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon are currently on that list. Facebook has been there...

I could see that being a "feature" when sitting idle. But not as a surprise while driving.

Mine was crashing on 2021.32.21. I just updated to 2021.36.5.1 but haven't tried loading the manual yet. I can try later today to see if it's fixed.

Last night I was sitting in my 2019 M3LR waiting for my wife to grab a few things from a store. Suddenly the car changed to the Easy Entry profile. I'm pretty certain I didn't do anything to switch profiles. I switched back to my profile when my wife got back, and while driving home it switched...

Even if every other auto maker was worse (or better), why does that matter? If Tesla was the kind of company that did things equal to or slightly better than other auto makers, we probably wouldn't have Teslas.

I'm not so sure of that. I think Tesla, more than any other car manufacturer, has proven that they do listen to customers. I can't recall specifics at the moment, but I know I've seen Elon respond to tweets where customers asked for features, and they were implemented pretty quickly. Maybe that...

Maybe your argument works If Tesla only has one developer. But it has many teams of developers. More than that, it has developers who specialize in things like machine learning, and others who special in implementing interfaces. The Autopilot team alone has over 300 "super talented engineers"...

I wish it were that easy. It's always in my view. I think with time I'll tune it out, especially as I learn what can be ignored on the screen and what shouldn't. This is basically what I've done. I printed out the manual and just have it handy in the car. I know, a paper manual in a Tesla is...

It's not unique to the Tesla community. Any community with early adopters of new ideas or tech tend to get defensive when hearing criticisms. As early adopters, they put up with the bugs, the flaws, the growth. They also put up with having outsiders think that backing some crazy new thing is a...

Without a doubt, designing a UI for a car, let alone a Tesla, is an enormous task, and won't ever be finished. I've worked professionally on similarly sized systems with their own constraints and needs, and can appreciate how hard it is for UI designers to wrangle everything. I'd sincerely...

By "multimedia control unit", I assume you mean the touchscreen. The irony with that is when I try to access that manual on my touchscreen, the screen stops responding and my AC turns on full blast. Apparently it's a widely known issue, and fixed in current firmware. For me, this happens with...

I just got my first Tesla (a 2019 M3LR) after wanting one since seeing the original roadster in person. As a new owner, I keep finding myself searching for "how to do x", since the documentation doesn't always seemed aligned with reality, if there is any at all. I found this forum by searching...