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This decision makes me cringe so bad. I can't wait for the parking sensors to join autowipers, autolights and TACC on the list of things that are worse than on my 2015 Golf. If this decision was really made in good faith why wouldn't they wait until they had developed the software before...

Oh yeah I'm well aware it affects radar cars, I have one. But it's got much worse and there have been a surge in complaints in the US where they recently switched to vision only: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/tesla-phantom-braking/ So tesla are clearly trying to do more...

Isn't this linked to switching to vision only in the US. I'd be worried if my car didn't even have radar. Until Tesla give up on trying to do everything with vision it's not going to get fixed. This problem essentially doesn't exist with the TACC on my 2015 Golf that is only using radar. It's...

Yes I think those are the main differences. The RWD is very good value IMO and has its own major pro of the LFP battery so you can charge to 100% of the time which is really nice, no faffing with charge limits and you have your full range every morning. It's also more efficient than the LR (I...

My car turned off all of my lights while driving in fog, how is that not a problem?

Not being able to turn on the wing mirror heaters without the rear window heat was a problem for me today doing a long drive in temperatures that kept fogging up the mirrors. Does it not use a lot more power or is it not really significant? And is it ok for the heated rear glass to be left on...

Yeah I feel like normally the running lights at least were always on all the time which is why I didn't expect it to turn them off/didn't really think I'd need to turn off auto. Maybe a software change or something to do with the conditions today.

Yeah I will obviously use the lights on manual now. I think it's just bad software decision to not change the lights to manual when you turn on the fog lights. In my Golf I pull out the light switch to put on fog lights but just leave it on auto, I presume this is essentially turning off the...

Very foggy this morning so I turned on the fog lights under controls, 20 minutes later down the motorway in patchy fog I realized all my lights had turned off including the fog light. I assume the "auto" lights were turning off in a brighter areas and therefore turning off the fog light...

Ah my bad I have a RWD I put AWD by accident in that last post, I shall edit it

I totally get it, my Tesla was my first new car so I had much the same situation in convincing myself it was justified as a replacement for my second-hand car. And to be fair if the sound quality is very important to you I don't think the sound system is as good as it should be on a £40k car in...

Maybe controversially I would offer the opinion that if you're losing sleep over this then just get the RWD - especially if you don't really need the range - it is a very big expense and the RWD is undoubtedly better value for money if you want to justify it to yourself. Paying £7k extra solely...

You do have a 60kWh battery. 270ish is the EPA (US) range and that is what the car uses. The ranges on the UK website are the WLTP standard which gives higher (and much less realistic) numbers for range. In practice, the actual miles you get will be even less than 270 which I assume you've...

Yes the new cars are made in China. I don't know about the trade-in prices so won't comment on that but some key things with the new SR+ (or "Model 3" as it is now called) is that it comes with LFP batteries so you can charge it to 100% all the time, no need to charge it only to 80-90% day to...

I'm well impressed with the range on my Q4 2021 SR+. Done 1000 miles since picking it up and getting avg 240Wh/mi and with the new 60kWh battery around 230-240 miles of range although it's been quite mild temperatures this year. I normally drive 75-80 on the motorway. Was expecting to have a...

Yeah, I think the blindspot camera is a bit of a gimmick, you should be looking outside in the direction you overtake not left at your screen in the opposite direction to the overtake. Tesla couldn't have put it anywhere else really: if it covered your app/map on the left it would be the most...

My brand new SR+ had the headlights pointing very far down when I collected it, only illuminating about 1 car ahead like you say. Driving at night right after picking it up it was very dangerous and I had to stop to adjust the headlights multiple times. Don't drive it like that if it feels...

Yeah definitely getting old Android vibes (lol) but it's the usability that worries me more. Surely they should be optimising to reduce total screen clicks while driving, this seems to be going the other way but I guess we'll see. Auto heated seats could make a lot of sense but it's still nice...

Yeah the UI changes don't look great... Why make the bottom bar customisable but not keep the existing options of heated seats and heated windows? I haven't ticked the advanced updates thing, will I get this update is I'm on 2021.40.6 and I do an update? The app is showing I have one.

In case anyone else with the problem I have had since this update with the app being in farenheit on Android, the discussion here prompted me to check my language settings in the phone system settings and English (United States) was above English (United Kingdom), reordering them fixed the...

This matches my experience in terms of the quality and like you I was expecting better after reading comments here. I think they've got it to a point where from a few metres it's fine but if you look very closely it's still not great. I honestly think a lot of people are just not noticing or...

I'm on Android and since a few days ago the app switched to displaying temperatures in farenheit. Anyone else seen this? I've checked the car is still in Celsius and tried toggling it, I've logged out and reinstalled the app. I'm assuming it's related to this miles/kilometres bug although mine...

I had no changes, at collection they activated the app when I got given the card keys and it immediately gave me all features after logging out and back in

When you open the sliding center console compartment, in the wall of that compartment facing the front of the car

Yes it did, I ordered on the 13th Oct and originally had delivery scheduled for the 9th Dec so fingers crossed yours will too!

I agree it doesn't look too bad in the photo, the curvature makes it hard to capture the misalignment. But basically, the panel gap on one side of the boot is about 4mm and more like 7mm on the left. That alone isn't so bad and you probably wouldn't notice unless looking for it but where the...

Picked up my Blue SR+ this morning from Thorpe Park. So much fun to drive home - I test drove a Performance and was worried the SR+ might disappoint but it's so quick so no regrets there. One very minor blemish that will easily polish out, but was disappointed by one bad panel gap on the left...

Oh yeah if you're charging at 2.4kw you'll only get 9.2kWh in the off-peak or 12% of a LR charge so it definitely makes less sense to switch

Don't forget you will only be able to do what your charger allows (normally 7kw) * off-peak hours, so my Bulb (lol) tariff it's 4 hours of off-peak a night so 4*7kw is only 28kWh, so only 38% charge on a LR or 46% on an SR+. Even with that, when I did the maths and it's still way cheaper to...

I think 275 is probably about right. My understanding was real world on the old SR was around 250 max range on the display. So if were seeing 275 that would definitely indicate the new battery See this thread for old battery max ranges: Your Model 3 Maximum Range?

I'm pretty sure this is wrong. The car doesn't display the numbers you see on the website, you'll never see the WLTP number

So that's 275mi full charge which to me sounds like it's the new bigger battery. Be good if someone who knows more about expected range on an older Sr+ can confirm

Given Tesla seem to be rolling out the rear heated seats and steering wheel to all cars with the hardware I'm pretty sure you will get these. I think it's just a case of the updates to enable them not being on the delivered car. It's the battery size that I'd be more concerned with checking...

Cars and vans available for private use – when a benefit charge is incurred (480: Chapter 11) Section 11.13: I think that is the justification that a personal car insurance policy for a car owned by the company can be reimbursed by the company. But even if HMRC turned around and said you had...

Putting the V5 in your personal name has a number of benefits, insurance is definitely easier to obtain as lots of insurers expect you to be the registered keeper, plus if you ever were to sell the company car to yourself there would be no need to change the V5 and therefore the number of...

No text but the URL link works now for me but with the wrong location... Mmm maybe best to wait

So when we have our cars how can we tell what motor or battery size the car has? Is the only way via some sort of diagnostics tool or seeing what actual range we can get? Doubt I'll ever be able to time 0-60 accurately, maybe that's what Tesla is counting on...

Also got my VIN this morning, SR+ Blue/Black ordered 14th October. No "J" in my VIN that previous commenters have said indicates the new battery (or motor?) or is that no longer what we're thinking? Either way, I was happy with the stats when I ordered and this is part of buying a Tesla it...