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Just out of curiosity, what is Tesla charging these days to process the registration, collect the sales taxes, provide and register the title, and so on? Besides the fees charged by the government agencies themselves? I do not recall what Tesla charged me 8 years ago, but I understand that a...
I was browsing the Tesla used car inventory and looked at a listing for a 2021 Model S for sale in the Boston area. I was not sure if the car would be a "Raven" or a newer facelift design, so I looked at the photo of the interior to see what screen is installed, horizontal or vertical. I was...
Tesla lists some inventory used cars as having "Full Self Driving Capability." This suddenly struck me as curious. Why not advertise the car at a lower price without FSD and offer it as an extra cost add-on? Wouldn't it be likely that today's price for FSD is higher than the previous owner...
I was annoyed that my auto insurance premium did not seem to be dropping much, if at all, as my car ages and loses value. So I called my insurer, USAA, and inquired about my premium. The premium for my 2015 Model S 70D is $2254 for the coming year, about half of which is collision. my basic...
Over my nearly 8 years of experience with Tesla service, I have had mostly positive and successful interactions with my local service centers (Dedham, MA and once at Norwell, MA) as well as with the mobile service. Maybe I have just been lucky but I have never had the sort of terrible...
Just had a test drive of a new (2023) Model X. Coming from a 2015 Model S with coil suspension. What I was most focused on was ride comfort and noise, not performance or the technology.
In short, I was disappointed. The ride was on the harsh side. Probably a little better than my Model S...
Yesterday (Wednesday May 24), my phone app would not connect to the car. So I rebooted the car and rebooted my phone. After the phone rebooted, the Tesla app asked me to log in, which I thought was odd, because normally rebooting the car or the phone would not cause a new log-in. The log-in...
Thinking about replacing my Model S with a Model X and confused about the seating options. I know that there are three options -- 5, 6 and 7 seats. But I am vaguely aware that some seats fold, some slide and don't fold, and possibly some can come out. Is there a summary someplace of the...
I had the occasion a few days ago to move my Model S out of its usual parking space in my condo parking lot (to make room for company). Later in the day I went out to retrieve the car but found I had the wrong set of keys. No problem, I thought, I could unlock the car and start it with the...
My 2015 Model S 70D finally was forced into version 11 of the software this week with the arrival of firmware version 2022.8.10.1. I have not yet explored it very much but I have taken a couple of trips. One thing I noticed is that I seem to have lost recent episodes of my favorite podcast...
This morning, I heard the alarm horn of my Model S honking as I was getting ready to leave my church after the service. It shut off on its own before I got out to the parking lot so I was not actually certain it was my car, except that there were no other cars nearby.
The next weird thing was...
Does this make sense?
I have had my Model S 70D for six years, so you would think that I understand how the battery operates in cool or cold weather. But a couple of days ago, I had an experience that makes me think it has either degraded, or I have forgotten how tough cold weather can be...
Does anyone know if the seats in the "Raven" version of Model s are any different from the immediately preceding cars?
My 2015 Model S has terrible seats. I have back problems, so I am particularly fussy about car seats. I have read that the latest Model 3 seats are comfortable, and at...
I received a notification on my phone that I had left the sunroof on my Model S partly open this afternoon when I ran an errand.
But when I tried to use the app to close the sunroof, it says "Updated yesterday" and shows the message "Vehicle Connection Error." I have seen that message many...
Although I hate to be negative about a newly-revamped site that represents a lot of work, I have to say that I do not care for the new, lighter look. It follows what seems to be the "fashion trend" or lighter fonts, lighter backgrounds, and less contrast among screen objects. In my view (pun...
I was somewhat surprised but not startled to see that my regenerative braking was restricted this morning. Although the air temperature was in the 60s when I left for a short drive about 10:30 AM, the overnight low in my parking lot had been 46F according to my recording thermometer.
Hard to...
Recently, my MCU1 was replaced, and not too long after that I was parking the car when I was prompted to ask if I wanted the outside mirrors to be folded at this location. I think I had probably folded them manually.
I have found, however, that the car folds them prematurely, before I have...
Last week was the 4th anniversary of the activation of my home charging set-up at my condo, so I thought it would be interesting to see how much energy I had purchased from our local utility, Eversource. (I live in eastern Massachusetts.)
I charge the car (a 2015 70D) with a Tesla Wall...
My car is parked in the sun in my parking lot and it is a warm day. I decided to check if my cabin overheat protection was working (I know it is set to 'on' in the car) so I opened the app. The app reported an interior temp of 117F, which concerned me because the COP is supposed to keep the...
In the past few days, my 2015 Model S has displayed two messages I had never seen before. The first time, it said the parking brake did not engage when I parked it, and warned that the car might roll away. This struck me as curious because I would think that the PARK feature would hold it in...
In the past week or so, i have had 3 instances in which I have gotten into the car to find the instrument cluster off, and it does not seem to start. With the Coronavirus restrictions, I have not been using the car every day, so that may be a factor. But I don't recall a case in the past when...
My spouse and I were on our way home from Cape Cod after watching my grandson play in a hockey tournament yesterday. it was quite cold, low 20s (F) and windy. On the trip down to the rink, the heater worked fine. The trip was more than 60 miles, plenty of distance for the cabin to heat up, or...
When I got into my car today for a short, local trip, the audio system would not play one or two of my usual podcasts -- I got 2 or 3 loading errors. That is not uncommon, so I figured that maybe I was in a poor reception area or something. So I tried to play one of my usual music channels on...
I want to install the Tesla app on my wife's Motorola Android phone because she needs to borrow my car while hers is in the shop.
But when I search for the Tesla app in the Play store, I cannot find it. There are dozens, maybe more than 100, other apps that the Play Store displays when I search...
An installation of V10 firmware (2019.32.12.1 per the phone) has apparently stalled on my car. It was set to begin the install at 2 AM, the phone reported it was 60% complete at 7 AM, and it is still at 60% nearly 4 hours later. I need to use the car so I tried a manual reboot to no effect...
We were driving into Boston for a dinner on Friday night, and took the Jamaicaway. I have often wondered how AP would work on it. The curves are tight and the lanes are narrow, headways (distance between cars) are often short. Based upon my 4 years of driving with AP1, I have never tried it...
An acquaintance wanted to see if he and his wife could fit their recumbent bicycles into a Model S, so they asked me if they could do a test in my car. We did, and it worked. They carefully protected some exposed surfaces in my car (the carpeted backs of the rear seats, and the back of the...
Last weekend, my spouse and I were on I-95 in northern Massachusetts, moving along at a moderate speed in fairly heavy traffic (doing perhaps 45-60 mph), in our 2015 Model S70D. We were in the second lane from the left on a 4-lane section. A major exit was coming up on the right, a short...
Does anyone know for certain whether or not, and if so how, the Model S HVAC system might have been upgraded over time?
We all know that Tesla does frequent improvements without telling us, ranging from minor to possibly more significant. But I wonder if the HVAC system has been improved from...
My car picked up a nail this morning so I need to get that looked it. It is holding pressure for now so it might be possible to plug it. The nearest tire dealer that I have experience with is the Hogan Tire place in Westwood. I used to bring my Mercedes there. Anyone had a Tesla serviced...
I made an appointment for my third annual service for my Model S, at Dedham. Shortly after that, i got a call from the Dedham Service Center, advising me that the scope of the annual service for year 3 was such that a mobile technician could do it. I asked if they can rotate tires, answer yes...
In the past couple of weeks, I have gotten numerous "vehicle connection errors" when try to preheat the car in my condo parking lot. So I am unable to start the HVAC, and in the current cold spell this means a very cold cabin and a cold battery when I go for my first trip of the day...
On Sunday night about 11 PM, I checked my Tesla phone app to see how much charge my car had, because I had forgotten to plug it in when I came home. The screen did show my car was unplugged but I decided the 59% was plenty for what I had to do the next day. I live in a condo and the car is...
I got a message earlier today that the site could not be reached, so I closed the web page and came back a few hours later. When I clicked on my saved link, it took me to the blog page instead of the forums. There was a big block across the top of the page that said "LOG IN" in red letters, so...
I was listening to the podcast "Plug Your Ride" today, and heard the hosts criticize Tesla for "lying" about their car's range. It was the second week in a row they have made a similar comment. I was going to write them an email, taking exception to that language, and maybe tell them that EPA...
I drove past the Dedham store today about 4 PM. from what i could see from the street, it looked as if there were dozens of people in the showroom and in the delivery center, maybe 75-100 people in the areas i could see. So, it looked very busy.
I am not curious enough to leave my house and...
I recall quite a lot of news/chatter about Tesla owners volunteering at some Tesla delivery centers at the end of Q3 to help out with the last minute crunch. Have not heard anything about that for today and this past week, for Q4 crunch.
Is it happening? Any volunteer efforts? What's it like...
Driving south on Route 1 in Dedham this morning, I was surprised to see a large number of what looked like brand new Tesla cars in front of a now-closed former car dealership on the southbound side, at the corner of Pleasant Street. Looking at Google Maps street view, it looks as if the site...
About two weeks ago, I demonstrated the Santa Claus Easter Egg for my sister, in my 2015 70D. While we were using it, I tried to use the voice command to enter a navigation request, but it failed. After a couple of tries, i wondered if it was related to the Santa Claus display, and tried to...
Before version 9, there was a setting to turn the Ionizer on or off. the text in the user manual said, "Ionizer: If on, the air ionizer freshens the air in the cabin."
I cannot find such a control in the settings screen under version 9. I did a search through the latest manual and found no...
I have been keeping half an eye out on the CPO prices, mainly because my lease is ending and I am thinking of buying my car, so i want to see how the buy-out price compares to the market. The CPO prices seem to have been about the same, until this week.
Maybe it is my imagination, but it seems...
About 12:30 Eastern, my streaming audio, internet radio, and voice commands (at least for the Bug report I was trying to make) all stopped working. Plus I could not reach the car from my mobile app. This is similar-sounding to what some people reported a few days ago when the servers...
For models S and X, the specs on the Tesla web site list the width, track, wheelbase, length, and ground clearance. I think they used to list the height, but no longer seem to.
But on the Model 3 specs page, there are no similar dimensions. The weight seems to be the only dimension listed...
Last weekend, I managed to smear some sunblock on the top-most material of the inner side of my Model S's door, what I would call the "window sill." See photo. (I was at an EV event held in the open sun.) My guess is that I leaned on the window sill while talking to someone who was sitting in...
We are driving from Dedham (MA) to Philadelphia tomorrow. The question is where to cross the Hudson. We have done the trip before and always seem to get miserably tangled up in the traffic across the Hudson. Our last crossing, a year ago, northbound on a Sunday night, took literally hours to...
I have noticed what I think is a new form of misbehavior by the audio system since the installation of the latest software update (2018.21.9 75bdbc11) a few days ago.
The misbehavior occurs with the audio system playing a particular channel of streaming music. The song ends. It cues up the next...
Today I received 2018.14.2. What is possibly curious is that I had been on 2018.6.1, and never received 2018.10 or 2018.12. The release notes mention only the new location for the owner's manual link, and the additional controls for the phone app (hood and trunk).
So, I would like to assume...
As someone with a leased Model S and a Model 3 reservation who needs to decide which car to choose soon, I'd like to know how well the Model 3 HVAC worked in winter, if there are any owners who live in the snow belt and got their Model 3s in time for a good test. I'd particularly like to hear...
This winter, I tried to track my car’s energy use, to quantify just how much more energy the car uses in winter. We live in the Boston area, so it gets reasonably cold here, but not nearly as cold as in the upper Midwest or Canada.
I started tracking my energy use in November. Meteorologists...
I thought I had seen everything in terms of audio glitches. But yesterday I experienced one I had not seen before: The audio application displayed information (channel name, song title, artist, album name, and album art) for a different song from the one that I was hearing. Everything was...