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Again, what's causing problems here is Tesla failing to meet 10 years of its own promises about what Autopilot and "Full Self Driving" could do. Other manufacturers have full hands-off-wheel capability on highways and Mercedes even has hands-off-eyes-off in slow highway traffic. Still waiting...

They should have resprayed the entire side of the car, at least. That would be standard at any body shop around here that's high enough end to be Tesla certified. If they did less, Tesla probably told them to in an attempt to save money. Just make them repaint it entirely.

Indeed. Believe me, after 8.5 years here I get the fanboy vibe and I probably shouldn't even get into this, but - if, in 2024, a brand new Tesla rolling off the line could deliver the level of driving automation performance that was promised for my first, 2015 Model S in numerous written...

For those who don't want to dig through every comment in the Reddit thread: Mission & College Terrace, which is a private road - so the city won't tow it Car's been there since 2018-2019 and appears to have been moved one time, in 2019. Nobody's got the VIN yet

Did you actually look at the graph? There's at most a 25% increase in efficiency over the past 10 years.

This is objectively false. Depending on panel type, the increase in efficiency since 1995 (28 years ago) is about 2X. Source: Efficiency of solar PV, then, now and future – Solar photovoltaic

Definitely needed - look at all the news reports of Tesla owners being carjacked while charging. I mean, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of reports of it right here in this forum over the years!

Where he lives, there may very well be a separate circuit per parking space for an engine block heater. If so, if the management approved it could probably be converted to 240V for EV charging.

You'll lose range every night with this setup - 1.4kW (120V at 12A - the most you can draw from a 15A outlet continuously) is considerably less energy than the battery heater will dissipate in subzero temperatures. The car will prioritize keeping the battery healthy over preserving range and...

Yeah, and you didn't have AAA or some random operator tow it - Tesla arranged the tow with their supposedly certified and authorized tow company. Who they paid - not you. They're the one with the contractual relationship with the tow company and the responsibility to recover for damages; from...

Under 2017 and later code, SEU 8 gauge and larger uses the 75C ampacity even in insulated walls.

Under 2017 or later code, 6-6-6 or 6-6-8 copper type SE cable (type SEU or SER but NOT type USE) is another acceptable alternative. It is rated for 65A non-continuous or 52A continuous. This is new for type SE larger than #10 under 2017 and later codes - it was not allowed before. Not the...

Does your car actually draw 10kW from 80% to 90%?

It's unlikely that your electric service from the utility is actually 125A. Are you sure you don't have a 125A panel on a 200A service? If so, installing a separate 200A service switch, probably near the meter, to feed the panel and a charger is the right way to do this.

I understand there are tires which manufacturers call "performance snow tires". I am telling you that if you expect that they will give you dry-pavement handling like a true performance tire (a "summer tire", not an all-season) you are going to be extremely disappointed.

It's just not a thing, if you want summer tire levels of performance. There are a few tires like the Nokian WR I mentioned earlier which will probably match the dry pavement performance of the stock all season tires but I don't think you'll do better than that - and these "all weather" tires...

My personal view is that the Sottozero is an acceptable snow tire but not a great one by any means. I don't really even think I'd prefer it over something like the Nokian WR, and you could run those year-round. The (studless!) Hakkapellitas and the Blizzaks are a cut above.

This is a bad idea, especially if you live or travel anywhere they salt the roads. But even sand and gravel will give your sliding equipment a real beating. Take a tip from a professional skier on this one and carry your gear inside the vehicle if at all possible - or in an enclosed top box if...

My brother's Y s Fremont built. Possibly China yes, Fremont no, for these?

Unexpectedly my Y offered me FSD yesterday. Driving down from the Catskills to northern NYC: * Good on local roads in the Catskills. Good on trunk roads like NY 23. * Nav in this version keeps picking fundamentally insane routes (e.g. NY 100 from Hudson to Yonkers rather than any of the...

My brother ordered these before they marked them as incompatible with 2023 cars. He confirms that they do not fit.

Nonsense. I've had Subaru, Volvo, Volkswagen, and Saab upgrade parts for me with the appropriate parts from newer model years - at my request, and expense, in all cases. If the part is listed in their database as superseding or as "fits model years...<your year>" standard industry practice is...

I believe what you write about FUSC cancellation if a 3rd party dealer is involved , for a car of this era, is true only if at some point Tesla has held title to the vehicle after the original owner. Doing it in other cases would almost certainly be illegal. In this case it sounds like the OP...

Be careful: there are counterfeit Square D breakers out there. Several large busts over the past few years.

Of course. Who would be so foolish not to?

Don't be ridiculous, he bought the vehicle from Tesla, and it was Tesla that failed to provide the wheel lock key on delivery. How could that possibly be anyone else's responsibility?

Your car isn't too old. USB data for music worked fine on 2015 cars. Plug a thumb drive with some tunes in, satisfy yourself that they just forgot to plug in the wiring when they did your new MCU, make them fix it.

Note that when they crippled Supercharging on an entire generation of vehicles in Batterygate, they dramatically reduced those cars' likelihood of being resold in private transactions and put a big dent in this issue for themselves.

And the experience of early AP1 adopters should make pretty clear that, entitled or not, nobody is getting a refund. Tesla is a company with a great product and seriously questionable business ethics. They have more money than God but they're not going to hand over any of it to anyone deceived...

Considering every Model S purchased in the AP1 era came with a ridiculous bundle of highly public claims that these very same AP1 cars would do stuff even the FSD beta can't do now - anyone who has traded in an AP1 car can let you know the answer is a very emphatic "no".

Yeah, the coldest places I drive are also often the ones with the worst cell coverage. Uncool.

When I tap the map, I now get the globe icon for satellite view, the stoplight icon for traffic, and a new pin-drop icon to hide business names. The lightning bolt icon to show chargers used to be right there in that stack; now it is gone.

Having to take eyes off the road, enter a submenu, and click twice to fire up the defroster is flat-out dangerous. Unbelievable.

The lightning-bolt icon is gone from the nav map since I installed V11. How am I supposed to see chargers other than those the nav might already be taking me to? In winter when the range estimates are way off, this is kind of a big deal.

130 is considerably lower than 150. But in the car, the older Drummondville SC shows as 150 while the newer, nearby St. Eulalie shows as 250. Or so I thought - double checking now but the V11 UI has AFAICT removed any way to show chargers on the nav map! Infuriating. Either way, we travelled...

Traveling through Quebec this past week. Have been carefully preconditioning the car every AM and following the nav's recommendations for supercharger stops. Car has been spending a lot of time preconditioning before each SC - maybe an hour of drive time - and burning a fair amount of charge...

I owned an AP1 Model S for 5 years. It was much, much smoother.

Seems unlikely they will address it "ASAP" since that could have started by having the employees at Paramus - who were definitely there this morning - take down the "go to Woodcliff!" signs as soon as those four chargers at Woodcliff went dead...

Stopped in at Paramus, big signs saying 8 chargers were now open at Woodcliff Lake. It's 10 minutes away and only a slight detour from where I was going, so I headed over there to give it a spin. What a mistake. Only 4 chargers were actually active -- no signs on the broken ones of course --...

The mats are presently buried in my storage locker, but I'll see if I can dig them out sometime in the next few days. Thanks for your interest.

You might consider the Nokian WR G4 if you can get it in your desired size. Snow performance approaching that of the Sottozero, low rolling resistance and fairly quiet. Actually marked as a traction tire, if you need that. Hard to find in Tesla sizes and expensive. But a great tire.

When we put the rear seats down in our Y, the lower left quadrant of the display is blocked by a large fasten-seatbelt diagram that claims whichever seat's folded down is actually occupied and the belt's not fastened. This is utterly stupid. Our S did not do this. I have never owned a car...

I called them in October, knowing they were short stock on tires and TPMS, with a focused question about running the nearly new 19" Nokians I was taking off my Model S on their narrower 19" wheels they sell for the Model 3. Specifically whether there would be clearance issues with the brake...

Just moved from an AP1 S to a brand-new Y with "FSD". I love the car and the automation is great. There are some oddities. The most obvious is that autopark consistently leaves the car 14-16 inches from the curb when parallel parking. On either side. Well into parking-ticket territory...

Can't decide whether to pull the trigger on snow tires for your MS? Let me make it easy and affordable for you. I would like these out of my garage. Ready-to-go set of 19" wheels with Nokian Hakkapellitta R2 snow tires. Will throw in a set of SCC Z-Chains, never used, that fit these...

I just installed the Tesmanian mats in my new Model Y. They arrived a week before the car did so they sat in their box for a while. The two larger mats (rear footwells, trunk) were folded to fit in the box. Despite the instructions in the box saying to lay them flat for 24 hours before...

Note that a tire's load rating is given for that tire's max pressure as printed on the sidewall. There is not a whole lot of headroom between the GAWR numbers for most Tesla configurations, regardless of model, and 2 times the stock tires' maximum load spec. I wouldn't be tremendously...

They could ship a hybrid capacitor / battery system to take charge at a higher rate and transfer to the battery while rolling. There seem to be a number of patents in this area, as well as some built applications in very large vehicles - at least one technology-demo locomotive used this system...

Now asking $900, since refurb wheels with no tires are $800 (plus considerable shipping) on eBay. A steal at the price, even if you just strip the tires off and use them for winter wheels.

Now asking $1400 for the set - I'd like them out of my storage space this winter, not next. Will throw in a never-used set of SCC Z-chains. Which you are extremely unlikely to ever need in a Model S with Nokians, but, just in case.