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You should have accepted the dealer's offer. A dealer buying from IAAI for sale to consumers is probably dirty. IAAI's General Disclosure: "NMVTIS reporting: vehicles listed for sale and sold at IAA may have been reported to the national motor vehicle title information system (NMVTIS) as...

I recommend you reread this entire thread. It might help you focus on the right place and find resolution. This point was addressed ad nauseum. IAAI is a salvage auction that sells some non-salvage vehicles. All their inventory carries a huge caveat emptor that cars may be reported salvage...

This was almost 100% the dirty dealer's fault. There is a ton of detail above, but the gist is that Tesla sold the car at a salvage auction, and the salvage auction registered it as salvage with NMVTIS. The dealer knowingly bought the car from the salvage auction that was declared as salvage and...

Great write-up. Thank you very much for that. Glad you are up and running.

Go back and reread all my posts, and I promise you will be smarter. I don't think you understand the topic or measures or analytics here. Trust me, it is actually arbitrary and creates confusion because it is meaningless.

Ummmm. I would encourage you to do the same. Exactly what type of gasoline do you think equates to 33.7 kWh/gallon? I will save you a minute and link to a wiki page on it... There isn't one. Gasoline ranges from 32.7 to 38.0 depending on E10 gas blend to diesel. There is no gallon that is...

I'm kind of tongue-and-cheek on this. But at a summary level, it is terrible science and misleading. "Ge" is made up and fundamentally just wrong. It is literally not a "gasoline equivalent." A BEV has the same efficiency year round and because electricity does not change its energy density...

The problem with "MPGe" is that there is no "G." It is an asinine, contrived metric to try to equate BEV efficiency into something familiar for legacy ICEV-minded people. They should have made a clean break and specified watt-hours/mile or watt-hours/km as the metric. That 33.7 equivalency...

The problem is that the EPA protocol is a disaster created by morons. Tesla follows the protocol flawlessly and produces ranges that meet the EPA criteria. Reviewers get Tesla's range numbers when they simulate the test protocol. So, external verification. The other automakers dramatically (and...

I said Tesla has the highest recommended PSI I know about, not lowest. And the comparison was modern BEVs, not 60 YO collectables.

This is a key point... I think all the wheels these days come with blank center caps. I just bought some center cap stickers from Amazon.

My criteria was very simple - good looking and a reasonable price with shipping. I recommend 2 sets in case you lose or damage one. I did, and the cost to replace one is ridiculous.

Never looked. No idea.

Dude. The thread started in June and the OP bought the car in May, four months ago, almost to the day. I highly recommend you read through every post in this thread.

If they had one on the lot, I would buy it. No difference from an order. And, if the discount for a demo is material, I would nab one of those instead. The demos I have seen had very low mileage (like virtually new).

I’ll add another vote for an anomaly. Mine behaves exactly like every car I have ever driven.

“I don’t think the torque number may be accurate.” That statement alone obviates the entire video. Horsepower has literally no relationship with 0-60 acceleration. These morons don’t understand the physics of what they think they are measuring. This video is almost meaningless, beyond the...

If yours already had Chill & Sport, maybe your car already had AB. And maybe that is why it did not feel any faster. Before AB, the options are Chill & Standard, as noted above.

I did that before I got my EVSE, and even slow L2 charging is big worth it. With L1, you have to keep it plugged in almost full time to catch up for a week's driving.

This looks very cool. I wish I knew about this a year ago. I have Carlinkits in other cars for just the wireless CarPlay, they are good products.

It seems to be one of the very few topics Tesla and Musk are mum on.

I do. Following with curiosity. I have t found it yet. It is a relatively high pitched squeak that happens over rough pavement for me.

Ditto above. The Tesla UI is good, but it is a far cry from phone projection for around town use. For road tripping, the Tesla nav is king. But for all other driving, AA/ACP is better. You get used to the Tesla UI and apps.

Most automakers are moving to the NACS/J3400 plug. So the Tesla wall adapter is the absolute no-brainer decision now. I have a ChargePoint Home Flex, which is a fantastic EVSE. But if I knew then what I know now, I would have bought a Tesla wall connector.

We have hammered this ad nauseam in the posts above... Prime Sales is probably dirty. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/bought-a-model-y-that-i-thought-had-clean-title-and-found-out-it-was-salvage.304463/page-4#post-7707741

This totally sucks and I wish I could offer up some more encouragement or ideas for next steps. Lendbuzz is the holder of truth for you that could solve this... if they would only send you a copy of the title. If they won't, then you are stuck. The frustrating thing is, that does not sound like...

Yep, I knew beforehand that Tesla is philosophically opposed to features like HUD and phone projection. And I knew that the MY and M3 do not have a traditional instrument display. I also knew that the MY and M3 do not have Sirius XM - a feature I used to use a lot. After driving the car a while...

This statement is a non sequitur fallacy. Who said nobody was backing in? I back in every time unless circumstances prevent it. This has nothing to do with the few times I have to back up and wish I had an additional layer of safety protection. Do you back into angled spaces in directional...

I know. Don’t care. Many people wouldn’t know, and some might care. That was my point of using AM/FM as my illustration.

True, but at the same time, there are certain questions that one might never think to ask. In a market where every premium car has blind spot, rear cross traffic, and surround view, it never occurred to me to research that in a Tesla. I knew about lack of Sirius XM. But the unavailability of...

This was my same reaction when I got my Model Y home - I was stunned that it did not have surround view, rear cross traffic, and functionally inop blind spot. With a car brand so closely aligned with advanced imagery technology, I assumed it would have all that and more. So, it will be out the...

You rotate the tires multiple times during their lives to always keep the treadwear balanced.

I just learned that Hans Zimmer helped BMW develop Iconic Sounds. I cannot wait to hear them all.

That is key info... You should be able to get that worked.

So, if NMVTIS is clear, all the other documentation are clear, and IAAI did not have any salvage announcements, then it is probably a Tesla admin issue in their database. You mention "seller's tesla insurance and Carfax..." Was the seller not Tesla? If not, then it passed through another set of...

My quick sta My quick questions to help sort out your options… First stop: look up your VIN o this link to see if you have an NMVTIS salvage record. VINCheck® Lookup | National Insurance Crime Bureau Did you buy the car from IAAI or through a used car dealer? If IAAI, are you a licensed dealer...

Yep, reinforcing your point. That earlier post didn’t make sense.

It’s highly unlikely that Tesla will do another monster price cut. So, going forward, buyers ought to be pretty safe. Further, what is mind blowing, is that used 2022s in my market are selling for mid $40s or higher. Why are people buying a used Tesla for $48K when they could get a new one for $47K?

That’s the max. 350 kW chargers are rated at 500A. A 400V battery charging at 500A is 200 kW.

It’s all good. Tesla can manufacture V4 superchargers almost as fast as all the other BEV carmakers combined can sell cars. So, Tesla will likely outrun the rush.

Well…. Tesla is selling new ones for $47K after the federal subsidy. So a 2 year old used one would be worth a lot less than $47K. $35K is actually pretty good.

Not liking something because they are ignorant is not the same as doing something wrong. Nobody has pointed out where Tesla did something wrong. This is just one collective rant about not liking something they don't understand. Deep down, the people who understand what EPA range actually is...

It makes the number meaningless to consumers trying to use it to make a purchasing decision. If they do that, then just throw it out and no longer require anyone to test and publish EPA. The Taycan is a case study of this level of stupid. Porsche's used to be horribly understated; now they are...

IMHO, this is one of Tesla’s biggest weaknesses. I don’t like that you cannot dial back regen on highways. Makes highway driving much more tedious. Hyundai is one of the best - it is super easy to move between OPD and various levels of regen. Makes real driving a breeze.

That post has nothing to do with PDI and industry PDI quality. That is an anecdote about a potentially unscrupulous dealer and car abuse.

I am talking about standard practices and process more than anecdotes. Most premium franchise dealers do a thorough pre-delivery inspection that goes over every aspect of a car before before a consumer sees it. If they see finish, fit, mechanical, etc. issues, they resolve them before putting...

Agree. I am simplifying. I think there are two major issues: 1) that manufacturers can choose either the 2-cycle or 5-cycle test; and 2) that manufacturers can then arbitrarily reduce the EPA range by any amount they choose. Then, layer-in the general population ignorance that assumes BEV range...

Nope. Edmunds' test is explicitly designed to mimic the EPA range test. From their website: "Edmunds begins with full battery charge and drives an electric vehicle on a mix of city and highway roads (approximately 60% city, 40% highway) until the battery is almost entirely empty. (We target 10...

My personal impression is that Tesla is crowdsourcing final quality inspections to consumers. Franchise dealers do the final quality checks and resolve everything before they put the cars on the lots. Tesla lets their buyers do this. The upside is that they do fix everything, and this probably...

I do think I understand your points, and your last statement is based on a false premise, factually incorrect, and leads to the false conclusion you state as your point. Tesla's EPA ranges are the most accurate (based on Edmunds' external tests), and if anything, other manufactures should be...