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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Bought with my 2015 Model S. Wheels, tires, and TPMS mounted - no center caps, however. 2 wheels are clean, 1 has mild curb rash, one has a fair bit of rash. Two tires have 9/32" tread remaining, two have 6/32 remaining. Pick up in NYC metro area or Catskills / Albany. $1200.

Four 18" OEM wheels, with Nokian Hakka R2 snow tires used one season - tread depth 8/32 remaining on all 4 tires - TPMS sensors, center caps. One wheel has very minor curb rash, 3 have moderate rash. Pick up in NYC or Catskills / Albany area. The very best snow tires available for your MS...

Full set of mats from my 2015 Model S, purchased in late 2015 and used continuously since then. Vacuumed and lightly hosed down. In good condition, have a few mud stains that you can scrub out or pressure-wash off if you want your mud mats to have no mud on them...for a while. Borders have a...

I have delivery of a Y scheduled for the 30th. My Tesla account is now nagging me to complete payment. Unfortunately, it appears the only way payment is accepted is by "Plaid", which tries to reassure me with some generic fluff about FULLY ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS then expects me to fork over...

Thought I had a set at a good price but eBay pulled the auction - must have been a scam. Now I have snow tires ordered for the 19" wheels and...no wheels coming. I'm more than willing to pay fair value. Will pick up in the Northeast (just about anywhere) saving the hassle of shipping, or will...

We're trading in an S for a Y. We have a second set of wheels for the S with one season old Nokian snowtires I would like to move across to the Y. I know the wheels themselves are not compatible. The 19" S wheel takes a 245/45R19 tire. The 19" Y wheel takes a 255/45R19 tire. The size...

I just filed NHSTA complaint number 11365827. In a nutshell: all my exterior lights just turned off while driving on a twisty, limited-access road with no shoulder (Garth Woods section of the Bronx River Parkway, for those of you in the NYC area) in the dark. Head and tail. Neither high nor...

Just had my S85D in the (Tesla approved) shop to repair damage from a low speed sideswipe while parked. While it was there they sent the car out to the Tesla glass/paint shop to replace the windshield for a pre-existing stone chip. About halfway home my wife got a ⚠️ and a low tire pressure...

My S85D with 70,000 miles on the clock is now charging so slowly I'm having to add multiple hours to my plan for any trip that requires more than one charge stop. Took about a 1,200 mile trip last weekend, trying to arrive at each SC with under 10% for high charge rates, but by 20% SOC the car...

This supercharger has 8 stalls. Of these, 4 are currently damaged somehow - the button on the handle opens my car's charge port but the connector won't engage. These are marked with paper, taped-on "out of order" signs. The other 4 stalls are in use. Meanwhile here is what my car says. It...

Chargers 1A, 1B, 2A at what I have to guess is the lightly-used Salamanca SC.

Plugged in around 60%, charging at 31kW. There are only two other cars on this entire bank of 18 "urban" chargers -- I would expect around 50kW at this charge state. There's a big solar array here and a state-subsidised microgrid demonstration project; I wonder if they're interacting with the...

Is it regional, or time of year, or...what? Multiple service centers in the NYC area are showing appointments available within the next week. A welcome change from just a few months ago.

Looks like 9.0 broke Slacker streaming - this is what I get *after* I click the "Use Tesla Account" button.

My car's had some odd symptoms the past month or so. Finally the reason became clear yesterday when it flashed a low coolant warning on the IC. The warning went away but I've seen this before - one of my radiators had a slow leak at one of the seams and after a couple of weeks of low coolant...

My 85D has just over 50K miles on it now. It's seemed for several months as if charge rate has been tapering off sooner and more dramatically. Car's sitting on the Yonkers supercharger right now. It's about 60F outside, and I rolled in at about 15%. Charging stayed at 75kW ("urban...

I'm looking for a prefab post or pedestal (ideally, a fairly short one) I can use to mount a v2 HPWC. I assumed my options would be the same as for the v1 unit I installed a few years ago, but it seems like that's not so. For example all the Clipper Creek pedestals/posts now have big bold text...

I just saw an advertisement -- here -- for "SmartCharge New York", a Con Edison-sponsored program which claims to reward EV owners for charging off-peak (with beefier rewards, during the summer months, for never ever charging on-peak within Con Edison's service area). Rewards seem to basically...

The screen in my 2015 S85D was replaced under warranty about six months ago when its onboard storage failed. That service visit was a bit of a cluster and some things got done in a hurry -- I had to bring the car back the next day for some re-fixes. Unbeknownst to me, it seems that at that...

It appears very likely that Tesla vehicles are impacted by Blueborne • armis specifically CVE-2017-1000251 which is a remote-code-execution hole in Linux kernels from 3.3-rc1 (October 2011) through today. I'm not sure it's possible to completely disable Bluetooth on my Model S (@JonMc, would...

I had one of those "AP moments" yesterday and it really got me thinking. We measured the kid -- she's been waiting literally all summer -- at just over 54" in her sneakers and off we went to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone, since she's finally "this tall". Traffic was awful but both Waze and...

I know the Mobileye marketing stuff touts traffic light detection and that this was originally expected to be an AP1 feature. I also know every time any of us have thought our cars independently braked for a traffic signal there's been some other explanation. But I'm wondering how sure we...

This one baffled me for several drives until I finally got it. They put the browsing back how it was in 7.x, of course -- kudos to them -- and they made songs play in album order again (hard to give anyone props for undoing such a stupid bug, but, well...), but: Browse to an album by artist...

We're looking at taking a long early-winter ski trip to Quebec this year. The new superchargers along I-87 (Plattsburgh and Queensbury) make it realistic to get to Montreal over the Adirondacks, even in winter, even driving at traffic speeds, with stops not much longer than the necessary...

On my way to work today I was sideswiped by a concrete truck who changed lanes to avoid another construction vehicle. Thank goodness nobody was injured and only the truck's tires and mud flap hit my car, so damage was minimal -- it could have been so much worse! In fact, damage was so minimal...

So far so good with 8.0 except the music player. I cannot imagine what they were thinking. I can only guess nobody ever tested this UI with anything but streaming media. Like many owners, I have a USB stick in my car with several thousand songs on it. The old music player UI browsed these...

I drove US Route 9W yesterday from near Kingston, NY to the Mid-Hudson bridge. This is a four-lane, guardrail-divided, non limited access road with occasional stop lights. Similar to the road in the Florida crash though there are few or no cross streets without stop lights. Autosteer limited...

I wonder what others here think about what happens when cancelling autopilot while speed restricted on a non-divided highway. Example: I am traveling at 60MPH with autopilot engaged on a 2-lane road. I enter a 40MPH zone as I pass through a small residential area, and the car displays the...

Somehow these reports always get suppressed. Maybe they make local news before they're hushed up by the fanboys. It's high time NHTSA did a systematic investigation. This car smashes right into the side of another vehicle despite an alarm and warning lights. Supposedly the car's safety...

21" Wheels with OEM tires - New York Our S85D was a showroom car that came with the original 21" wheels. We do a lot of snow and rough-road driving and prefer 19". We thought we had these swapped for a 19" set last summer, but when the other party showed up, it turned out someone had stolen...

I may be in a position to have aftermarket adapters made, at least in small quantity. Not super eager to start cutting apart my spare adapters (and I don't have spares for some) to figure out how they signal max amperage to the UMC. Has anyone done this yet?

Pulled into the Newburgh supercharger last night and found a bright white cone labelled "EV Parking ONLY", with reflective tape for good measure, smack center in each charging spot. This supercharger's in the parking lot of an Italian restaurant; walked in and on the front door was a note...

I get tremendous use out of the autopilot. It's a fantastic feature. I do a lot of long solo driving and now I get home happy and calm, instead of mentally exhausted. But there are characteristic situations where it doesn't work well. Things to watch out for. Things I wish someone had told...

This morning my nav system sounded like Max Headroom on several occasions on my way across town. I've never noticed that before -- is this new with 7.0? Is anyone else hearing it?

21" WHEELS WITH NEW TIRES FOR SALE OR TRADE - New York Our P85 was a showroom car that came with the original 21" wheels. We do a lot of snow and rough-road driving and prefer 19". Two of the wheels are *new*. Two of the wheels have been "reconditioned" by Tesla -- one shows some tiny...