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PSA renewal, up to £312 from £266 last year on a M3 LR. Still the cheapest, I checked. Per Drew57's insurance, it's fully comp, 10k miles pa, +9y NCD, protected etc.

I'm confused by this discussion of the carge port not opening. If the car is unlocked and parked, just tap on the cover and it comes up. Easy peasy.

..and not because of *cough cough* Brexit. The latest drop of 3% was triggered by the so-called "Mini Budget".

Long press on voice command button to route directly to phone assistant (Siri / Android Assistant) Kickdown in Chill mode

^^ This! My Mrs doesn't understand why I'd curse at an inanimate object, but I say it makes me feel better. I'm fed up of the three loud high pitched beeps it makes when I drive past a parked car, or the "take control immediately" message (accompanied with those infernal beeps) when it is...

Dunno if it'll help, but yesterday I switched software updates from "Advanced" to "Standard". I'm on 2022.20.8 and I'm not sure I want any of this new stuff yet. I'm supposed to be moving house soon, and will have to decommission the network infrastructure to the garage at some point. I might...

Won't 2022.24.5 also be a downgrade to Tesla Vision?

My one wish is to be able to long click the voice command button, and for it to route straight throgh to Siri (or Android Assistant). My 2016 Ford did that and it was great. Like the Ford, the Tesla's voice control is piss poor, but at least I could get to Siri easily. No, "Hey Siri" is off as I...

But not the asking price, I’ll warrant. It’s too expensive now. Up 20% in 8 months.

Correction to my earlier post. I was on a previous version (2022.20.6 maybe) but this afternoon it upgraded to 2022.20.7 and my Bluetooth mic is working for calls again. :)

I noticed yesterday that the Bluetooth system's mic wasn't passing my voice along to callers - they couldn't hear me. Not had that one before (I'm on .7) though I seem to recall it's been reported already. Quite a while back. Is it time for a reboot I wonder...

3 registrations in July? It is the start of Q3 - don't Tesla plan production and delivery to be mid - end quarterly? @Mr Miserable you'd know better than me on this point.. Anyway, YTD figures look better: 21k.

Dec 21 MiC and no alarm bug that I can see/hear. Off topic but I want to raise it: Yes, software testing is seen as a last minute thing, always has been. Long periods of UAT seen as bureaucratic and time wasting, an unfashionable throwback to the olden days of waterfall design approaches. Tesla...

I successfully searched for and found a public playlist setup by a family member usung the Tesla Spotify account... FWIW..

In other news, Night found to follow Day.

Some time later... I've just asked for a price from Cazoo for my M3 LR with tow bar, 6 months old with 5k on the clock. As new condition, they quoted a mere £46,525. The same car new is just under £60k... and I would not get it until Q1 2023. Disappointed!

I have a late '21 M3 LR and test drove a MY LR at Tesla gatwick. My recollections: slower, bigger (in terms of driving experience), less agile and possibly a bit too tall as I could not get out of it without my weight fully on the seat bolster edge (I'm a bit stumpy and couldn't quite reach the...

Kickdown, yes that'd be grand. Quick, someone tweet Elon!

Actually quite subtle. I'd have said "Shortly thereafter, Germany annexed the Sudetenland" but ve must NEVER mention ze Var!

I'm sorry, I have to chip in here. When you buy a product or service in the UK, it has to be fit for purpose or a whole raft of consumer rights apply, which entitle you to various remedies. It's called "The Sale of Goods and Services Act 1982". Most people would not pay for a product that...

So it seems that the thread is getting attention from the cynical amongst us, and rightly so. I can't get excited about an extra piece of data (Predicted Arrival SoC) showing on the sat nav, and if anyone needs the "Chime on green light" feature they also need their eyes tested. These features...

That's why I chose TeslaMate running on a RPi4 that sits within my private network. And to be honest, I rarely look at the stats it shows, so I may as well decommission it.

I've been looking forward to trying Camp Mode for months. Not so sure now! One of the perennial questions is "what do you do with all the stuff you displaced from the boot in order to sleep in the car?" By which I mean "camping equipment, clothes, etc. I can see myself taking a small tent so...

Commando sockets at the ready, lads (and ladesses)!

It's getting a bit off topic round here... :D

"I'm so angry about fuel prices, I'm going to chop off my right arm in protest. That'll larn 'em!" Which is what these protestors did, in effect. Wasting the very fuel money they are protesting about, rolling along a motorway at a highly inefficient speed. You couldn't make it up.... muppets.

I drive my LR in Chill Mode all the time unless I am showing the acceleration off to someone who has never experienced it. Chill Mode is just so... "chilled". I love it. I tested the Performance model and it was really really quick, but the LR's no slouch either. Each to their own I guess - I...

I've seen pictures of the tape gone yellow on a white car, looked cr@p. So the advice about templating them is good.

What can I say, other than time will tell...? I am not able to see the future but I can make predictions based on common sense. I would like Bonnet to succeed but I cannot see the value add in their offering now that they are the same price as other networks.

A cynical man might surmise that they try to limit you to 50kW chargers because slower chargers tend to be cheaper (for them). Either that, or their app is buggy. It's all academic now, anyway. Since the price increase I won't bother with them, and I suspect most people would agree. Give it a...

Not sure why you're complaining about Tesla Service. No questions asked and my car is booked in. Sure, sometimes it is harder than it might otherwise have been (not my experience, but I acknowledge that others have had different experiences). But compared to going into a traditional dealer and...

My Dec 21 LR White / White with tow hitch is now £59k. I think I paid £51k, which I thought was too much at the time. I never thought I'd ever spend over £50k on a car, that being a kind of psychological barrier fo rme. But I sold two other cars in the roaring second hand market (thanks, Cazoo!)...

I tried to find a Bonnet afiliated charger yesterday whilst driving from Salisbury to Chichester. Seemed that they were all 50kW, better than nothing but I needed a more or less full charge 15%-90% so was not prepared to wait an hour. Ended up at the Superchargers at Havant, paying the full...

Yeah, forgot about the trailer logo, well reminded. I like to test mine too but I can't see a way of testing the brake lights if I'm on my own, other than wedging a plank between the foot pedal and seat to hold it down. It's not always easy to find something reflective to put behind the trailer...

I should just about be able to get my free £15 charge at 20p/kWh when I drive to Salisbury on Satuirday. Then cancel my Bonnet account.

Me neither. So the party is over!

It will have a purpose (maybe safety critical) so removing it is probably not a good idea. Relocating it? Better. My Dec 21 LR has always made this noise on hard acceleration. I have sensitive ears and can hear it quite clearly. To me it sounds like an elecrtocinc noise, such as is made by...

Ha ha careful what you wwish for Dilly!

No so, at least not yesterday when it got the exit wrong on a roundabout, but also wrong if counted counter clockwise. And that damned label got in the way again...

Yes. I have an iPhone and I found CarPlay (in another vehicle) to be a step backwards for my use cases. Anyway, what's more likely - carPlay coming to Teslas or UI improvements? I would not bet on the foirmer!

Dagnammit! Driving down unfamiliar routes and relying on TeslaNav, as you do, I noticed something really annoying. On the approach to a roundabout, suddenly there is a label on the map in blue, that covers the roundabout so that you cannot easily see which exit you need to take. It seems to...

Musk has often said that Tesla is a tech company rather than a car maker. Or, he is saying it's a tech company that just happens to make cars. So why would he sanction passing over close integration, and hence control of the car's systems to a competitor like Apple? He wouldn't, it'd be...

Look, you don't need CarPlay taking over the screen to be able to access music on the iPhone. Ford Sync 3 does it just fine wwwithout using CarPlay (though it does have it). So why in heck can't Tesla implement music search and selection via Bluetooth? It does show the playlist once selected on...

The manual says the indicators blink faster when there is a connection problem. Regarding the adapter, there's no need to spaff £66 on an overpriced L shaped unit. I use one of these and it fits easily with nothing too near the road...

Well that's jolly useful. Just signed up. Thanks!

In other news, "Night found to follow day"! That said, I did skim it as I read the BBC news every morning, despite it not being at all unexpected. This was more interesting: How easy is it to drive across Wales in an electric car? but no surprises there either (spoiler: It's crap in Wales if...

About beeps. We have that on the boot close and I for one think it sounds horrid. Can't explain why, it's just harsh and somehow uncouth. I'd brefer a bong type sound. Anyway, I would hate it to make the boot beep noise when locking.

I like it. A sort of quiet "toot". It's not loud enough to wake the neighbours.

Yeah, I did think that but the car buyer is buying the car, not the SuC. I think the effect of such a headline would be that owners of other EVs would not use SuCs (once opened up by Tesla). Which is good for us....

It's about reputation. If a non Tesla car goes up in flames while supercharging (on an open SuC) the media won't be having a field day saying "Tesla car goes up in smoke". The word Tesla would be substituted for another brand. So, they are protecting their brand reputation by blocking salvage...