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  1. scottm

    Supercharger pre-warming whine

    We did a navigate to nearest SC, and when we got closer to it, the car pops up the notice that battery warming is happening. I put the energy consumption graph up and verified, yup, that's a lot of juice going in to heating the battery. As it did this, both myself and my wife could hear a...
  2. scottm

    UMC and red ring

    I've got a gen1 UMC and charge at work all the time... literally, all day, every day.. for years. Same 120v pedestal every day. It has a local 20A breaker on it. I can draw 16A easy and voltage stays nice at 120+. Occasionally when I plug the UMC handle into the car I get a red ring, and a...
  3. scottm

    If Taycan so can we!

    Porsche Taycan Did 2,128 Miles In 24-Hour Nardo Endurance Run Porsche has done something very 24 hr of Le Mans like... Posed the question: How far can you go in 24 hrs when everything else is pretty much unrestricted (closed circuit). The car is allowed to go as fast as it can. Drivers are...
  4. scottm

    Dog mode has a bug

    It was reported and Tesla is going to fix it. I have a dog and sometimes use the mode, which apparently works only if you do / don't do specific things with HVAC controls. Does anybody have a better description of the problem and what I should make sure I'm doing to use it right, and what to...
  5. scottm

    Most common trim fastener sizes?

    I would like to stock up on a variety of fasteners so when I'm doing panel and trim work, I'll have some on hand for the inevitable breakage of the odd one. Push pin rivet clips body trim plastic thingies... Is this a good kit of sizes encountered in model S: Auto Fastener Clips Plastic...
  6. scottm

    Air suspension always acts like is, or is it new?

    I swear I used to be able to set the suspension height to Low and have it stay there for my whole trip. And the auto-lowering, once triggered, would also keep the car on Low for the trip. But more often than not, now when I check just before arriving the car has returned to Standard height by...
  7. scottm

    Hey Tesla, ditch the (bleep) V9 software

    Give us V10 already. Or at least V8 UI in the meantime. That is all.
  8. scottm

    Fresh Xenon bulbs after 4 yrs makes difference

    If you've been running on original bulbs you may not have noticed the degradation over time. I only learned Xenon's decay over time with quite a bit in the first couple years. I probably had about 85% brightness on the originals. I pulled out the originals after 160,000 km and installed new...
  9. scottm

    "3 dot" menu won't swipe, fix found accidentally

    Maybe a one-time freak thing but if this happens to you too... here's how to recover. Situation: you may notice the 3 dot menu with no dot solid (selected) all dots are hollow empty circles. This is illogical because clearly the default stuff is showing normally in that space so at least one...
  10. scottm

    Charge level slider in App... only increase, not decrease?

    V3.8.0 on 'droid. First time I've encountered this... I increased my charge level accidentally a little to high. 100% I want to slide it back down to 90%. I can't move the slider that way. Close, re-open app, issue still. Getting my wife to try on Apple version of App. To see if it's...
  11. scottm

    Charge port makes soft putt putt sounds

    Sometimes the car makes this very soft putt putt sound at the charge port door, as if it's trying to open with a feeble attempt. Over and over for several minutes. It will stop after a while. I'm wondering if this is part of Teslas fix to address port door opening issues in cold weather. By...
  12. scottm

    Hope the new Roadster is not autonomous driving

    Not only would it not be fun to have a Roadster drive itself.... But seems people are starting to reject the thought of it... Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars And our great race on this planet can't even fully wrap their minds around EV's ... Anti-Tesla...
  13. scottm

    Unused wire connectors in rear doors

    I've got 2 connectors taped up and not connected to anything in the rear doors. These are both 2pin connectors. I don't have premium audio and don't have the extra lighting package... my guess is one connector is for more lighting ... and the other is maybe for a second speaker, I only have the...
  14. scottm

    P D N R in a Tesla should be E F N B

    Traditional P for Park D for Drive N for Neutral and R for Reverse doesn't really fully apply or best describe EV actions as in Teslas. I thought the UI for human driving could use a language touch up and bring things into this century! Here's the idea: The indicator sets an expectation for...
  15. scottm

    passenger visor mirror delivered cracked

    Anyone else coming across cracked mirrors, or has cracked one mistakenly by doing something to cause it? Is this an overly fragile item of the car?
  16. scottm

    I really wish model S would stay unlocked like my model 3

    Now that I've got both and living the differences... I give the model 3 the nod for respecting what user commanded "unlock" means. It means: unlock the car and leave it that way. Model 3 respects this. Just stays unlocked like it should. I have no phone key connected to the 3, just a card...
  17. scottm

    was internet connection flakey / missing for you today?

    I had a grumpy internet today (hollow bars with a slash) for most my drive. And hey, I'm noticing some new radio interactions.. driving near wifi hotspots that my car doesn't even know (not remembered with security creds) sometimes the cellular connection just turns off as shown by absence of...
  18. scottm

    wifi now turns itself back ON each drive cycle

    Used to be able to shut off wifi and leave it off. Had it off for years. Sometime fairly recently, seems Tesla made a change so that turning wifi off is not sticky. It turns itself back on next drive. Even says so on the dialog for turning it off. Hmph.. I kinda hate this because it seems...
  19. scottm

    EAB included in every model 3 or not?

    I searched and there's precious little on "EAB" in model 3 forums. Maybe I've got the acronym wrong... I'd like to know if emergency assisted braking is available on the car if we're not buying any of the optional software at time of purchase? Basically if impact is imminent then have the...
  20. scottm

    What's this sensor?

    This is located in the frunk and is affixed to what I'd consider to be "the back of the bumper". As you can see, mine is cracked. It was torqued on too tight and over the years has crumbled the plastic mount holes and cracked the sensor casing... revealing what looks like a coil of wire...
  21. scottm

    HVAC A/C error, pressure loss, refrigerant type?

    My car periodically started giving me a popup and error, that has turned into a perma-error. I had Tesla teleport a repairman into the wires of my car and he came back out and told me "low pressure sensor". I pulled the frunk bin out and see the A/C compressor sitting there with oily stains...
  22. scottm

    Limited A/C and Battery Cooling

    A week ago I had this message and warning triangle visit and stick with my car for a day. Reboots and even power cycling the car did not shake it. The instrument cluster had a perma-pop up yellow warning saying the same thing as what's shown here on the console. The console had the red...
  23. scottm

    Clear nubbies on charge plug pins don't matter

    When cleaning my UMC chargeport plug I noticed one of the pins had a broken off clear nubbie thing, missing from the end, as shown on the right hand pin below. It seems not to matter in the operation of charging. Also please admire the clean shiny silver contacts.. you should have seen the...
  24. scottm

    v8.1 2018.6.1 64efac and now no Nav ?

    Got this update last night and applied it. v8.1 2018.6.1 64efac Release notes seemed the same as last update, so not much new, maybe bug fixes. Or introducing new bug as the case may be? Even after rebooting both cluster and cosole... Navigation won't make a route from car to destination...
  25. scottm

    Tesla S non-compliant with lighting regulations in USA

    It bothers me that my S won't keep the parking lights on when I turn the switch to parking lights, and I leave the car. As soon as I open the door to get out... they go off. Tsk! tsk! tsk!... this right here is Tesla's error. Sometimes I just want my car to be marked at dusk, because, you...
  26. scottm

    Motorized chargeport retro-fit to Classic model S?

    Anybody successfully install a newer style (motorized) charge port into an older car that had the pop-open-only door? This is all pre-facelift era stuff I'm talking about... maybe the motorized door has gone through a couple generations since, I don't know. But you'd know if you dropped...
  27. scottm

    New "stay-on HVAC" versus battery level, while charging in extreme cold

    Ran an experiment today with results that may help others through this cold spell. Check out the new stay-on heat after parking feature that got released recently. After putting the car in Park, press the climate controls pop-up and you'll see it there on the bottom "stay on" slider... chose...
  28. scottm

    Sometimes I want headlights staying on when I'm out of the car

    I don't use the "keep headlights on for a while after exit" feature. All I want is to be able to manually keep headlights on when I'm the only person with the car and I need to step out and do something, like get the mail at the side of the road. Or shine my lights on a person changing a flat...
  29. scottm

    What's your SC cross-over point? Mine is 58

    Everyone knows charge rate drops at superchargers as the battery takes on higher state of charge, right? Well, I noticed that I have a pretty consistent cross-over point of 58. This is the number where charge rate equals state of charge. So I see 58 kW charging at 58% charge. This also...
  30. scottm

    I want the model 3 washer nozzles

    I want those model 3 windshield washer nozzles on my model S. (In fact I'd settle for a whole model 3, but if I can get pieces at a time.. I'd start with this). I see model 3 nozzles mount on the wiper arm... There's a really good chance they would fit on a different wiper arm.. Like model S...
  31. scottm

    Replacing front upper A-arms

    Turns out it's possible to do this yourself in your garage with one jack, but two jacks makes it better. I had upper ball joint play on one side (passenger), called while checking alignment. The ball joint is part of the A-arm and not separately replaceable so I ordered 2 new A-arms, and...
  32. scottm

    A loud crack! sound (body / panel flex) once per drive cycle

    I get ONE sharp loud crack! sound when I pull out of my work parking stall and take a turn or hit a bump that puts different stresses on the chassis/body. It sounds like it's coming from the B pillar on passenger side somewhere. Crack! sound is like a stone hitting the windshield. Then...
  33. scottm

    steps to pull 12v battery ?

    I'm changing front upper suspension arms and in order to do passenger (right) side, the 12v battery has to come out to make a space allowance for a suspension bolt to slide out. This is a 2014 RWD car, so it's got the nose-cone, pre-facelift, with the 12v battery in a very awkward spot. I've...
  34. scottm

    Is there a trick to wake car from passenger side?

    I can't believe I haven't encountered this use case before... but here it is. Driving solo up to a supercharger... get out plug in the cable. Now I want to recline in the passenger seat and maybe use my laptop from there... (no steering wheel in the way) so I hop into the passenger side...
  35. scottm

    Tesla S windshield fits in back of Tesla S

    Some things you just gotta know. And this is one thing that is possible. Fills the whole back and my dog had to sit on the floor behind the front seats, but she was OK with that. Once unboxed from its Tesla packaging you can carefully lift and fit it in the back of the car with seats folded...
  36. scottm

    fob profile weakness or bug?

    I have turned off the auto-present on my handles ... because I work around my car too much in the garage and it gets a bit tiresome having the car get all excited for no good reason. So it's not like I'm missing the auto-present feature. Good news, it's profile specific, my wife likes...
  37. scottm

    You live on a hill when...

    you see negative Wh/km consumption
  38. scottm

    HVAC UI design sucks

    Jason covers it quite well over at Jalopnik http://jalopnik.com/this-first-look-at-the-tesla-model-3s-dash-controls-is-1797857601 Yes the car is barely born.. and I bet this HVAC UI was a proto just to get the stuff working in the car.. And somebody said, "works well enough, leave it". It's...
  39. scottm

    Does X have auto-open rear hatch?

    I'm dreaming up a wanted feature over on a S forum for my hatch. Wanted: auto-open rear hatch But does X already have something like auto-open rear hatch? For when you approach the vehicle all hands full of groceries, it just opens hands free. Touch nothing.
  40. scottm

    Wanted: auto-open rear hatch

    What I want to add on the rear hatch is a hands free opener to make it ideal. It's usually easy enough with hands full removing stuff, to press the close button with a pinky finger or whatever... but approaching the car loaded down fully with grocery bags makes it hard to use fob (still in...
  41. scottm

    Stereo Volume no longer drops when door opens.

    Hoo-ray. Stereo volume used to diminish as soon as driver opened the door. Now it stays constant. Just noticed today. Can't say when that change happened, pretty recently tho, I think. Or I'm a slow observer on some things. Is there an unofficial release notes addendum being maintained on...
  42. scottm

    front upper ball joints

    It's ball joint time, starting to feel some movement... mechanic estimates 10 - 20 mil movement of upper ball joint. I have been feeling increased "wander" or "rut following" behavior on the highways... car has 100,000 km on it. Are there any improved (stronger / heavy duty) or aftermarket...
  43. scottm

    Auto-present handles OFF touching rear handles does nothing

    Normally I leave auto-present handles ON all the time. In this mode sometimes the car will not present handles. Like when it detects I'm hanging around the car too much and stops auto-presenting cycling all the time and finally gives up, leaving handles tucked in. When this happens I can...
  44. scottm

    Here's what happens jacking when not in Jack Mode

    Turns out, nothing horrendous. Only air suspension folks would care about this thread. After jacking up a front corner to change the wheel seasons over... I noticed the whole car was sitting at a "very high" type of setting. Thinking that's odd, I always have Normal height selected for garage...
  45. scottm

    TPMS pop-up took a while

    This year when I changed over tires to summer set, I drove around for a day, regular commute (with long stretches up to 110 km/h) .. and was expecting to see the pop-up advising me TPMS needs service (a reset) ... but it never came up. After putting 60+ km round trip on the car, just parked it...
  46. scottm

    Charge port LED pixels, off-color

    I notice now one of the LED pixels around the charge port is not doing the right color. I think G of the RGB triade is either totally out, or gone marginal / intermittent. Anyway, it's noticeable on most charge port colors that indicate various things. Shows up on the white ring of "open" and...
  47. scottm

    Mirrors folded for higher mileage

    Sometimes late at night on open quiet hiways when I'm cruising and want to get highest range possible.. one of the buttons I reach for mirror folding. I figure it reduces frontal area a bit and probably helps. (wikipedia) Side mirrors[edit] Side mirrors both increase the frontal area of the...
  48. scottm

    Weight gain of a fully charged Model S

    My son is a physicist so we did the math. My model S weighs about 2 - 3 micrograms more when fully charged. The range of weight here acknowledges there is somewhat less than 85kWh battery and somewhat more than 70 available to me. I don't have a scale to prove it... but interesting...
  49. scottm

    -20C charging 120V, Range Mode must be ON to keep going

    If I park the car when I get to work and it's -20C and do my regular 120v/16A UMC charging ... with Range Mode is OFF the car will charge for a while then quit as the battery gets colder. At some point it just stops, and the chargeport ring will go dark blue. If I park the car when I get to...