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I had the alarm installed today and found two undocumented issues. First, when the configuration is updated to activate the alarm it changes the way overheat protection works. When the Security Alarm is on Cabin Overheat Protection is greyed out. I checked a Model X without the new sensor and...

I use a Sandisk 256gb drive and partition it into two drives. One is 16GB for the Camera and the other is 240GB for Music. I have 4000 songs on the drive in FLAC format. It works fine. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07857Y17V/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have used a clay bar to clean the glass with great results. It takes some work but you get an amazingly clean window.

You need to partition the USB drive first. See [V9] How to Format USB into 2 Partitions for DashCam and Music [Windows]

I have a 2015 model S. When I purchased the car there weren’t any autopilot features, only promises to add the capability in the future. Then as part of one software release we got most of level one autopilot. It was amazing and very scary at first. Many posted that it would be recalled because...

I have my MS set to lock when I walk away from the vehicle. Each night in my garage, when I plug my in MS, I walk behind it to get the charging cord hanging on the wall. Before I can plug it in the car locks. Even if I open the charge door when I walk by, the car shuts the door and locks...

I have 6000+ songs on USB which I play most of the time when driving. Because there is no support for playlists I first tried to create lists by genre and re tagged all my songs so I could fake playlists. This did not work as the Media player used Gracenote genre and not mine. As FLAC can have...

I keep all my music in Apple Lossless format with embedded album art. I used XLD on a Mac to convert about 6000 songs to FLAC for use in the Tesla. Prior to 8.0 some of my songs did not display art because they were not in Gracenote. I noticed recently that my album art is being displayed. I...

I sent Tesla feedback with the request to add back the letter picker on the song and artist lists. I agree with the rest of the list. FLAC on USB is the best sounding source and it should be easy to select a specific song. I have 6700 songs in FLAC on two 128gb micro USB drives and now it is a...

I purchased my MS last October and it had been updated to have an LED license plate light. I ended up returning the light I purchased fro Abstract Ocean.

My SC told me that green painters tape can lift dirt from the fabric.

I use this. I keep it in the little space under the center screen. It works great to remove the fingerprints from the screen. Leather Model S Screen Cleaning Pad

I have traveled the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel route many times using autopilot. It drives it better than I do. In the tunnel, I tend to hug the center line to avoid the wall. This puts me closer to on coming traffic. Autopilot centers the car in the lane and does not drift when cars...

I have the UHFS and love it. I am very picky about audio and have spent a lot of time perfecting home audio. I have 20k songs in my library all in lossless formats, many encoded from high resolution digital or quality analog sources. I put 128gb micro usb drives full of FLAC music in the two...

I have this mount and love it. The magnet is the ball between the dash mount and the phone mount. A thin piece of metal mounts to the phone and is attracted to the magnet. I prefer to put this metal disk on the case as it leaves my phone untouched. They provide two disks so if I replace the...

I retired recently at 56. Last year, I bought a P90DL and it is by far the most expensive car that I have ever purchased. When I got out of college I bought my first car. I bought a modest car and took a 3 year note. After paying it off, I kept the car for three more years and made payments...

I received a map update and noticed a change on RT 13 in the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland. The road has many divided sections, but before the update, autopilot was restricting speed. With the new maps I did not observe any restrictions when it shouldn't. Maybe the reason for the map...

I go the update message at a rest area in the middle of a 5 hour trip on the Maryland/Virginia boarder on the Eastern Shore. I connect to WIFI in my garage and have not seen the update. I was surprised that it came in the middle of a trip on LTE. The nav computer was still routing the trip...

WH/mi: 346 90% range: 227 Wheel size: 19 Ludicrous: yes I asked at SC to check the battery last month and they said it checked out to be in the 90th percentile of Model S batteries. I have 7100 miles and have had this 90% since December. Delivery was Oct 1st.

I have developed for IOS but am not an expert. The button controls use events which trigger when the user does something. Code get's triggered by the events and nothing happens until the user does something, like press or release or move off the button. There may be a way to loop while the...

I worry about the safety of the change. My car loses wifi connectivity when it leaves the garage. It still tries to hold it with one bar and does not switch to cellular until I leave the property. Communication is limited during the transition. For example, I have a hard time turning on climate...

I just replaced all 13 lights including the glove box. I had premium lighting so it was just pop and replace. Took 30 min. for all the lights. The toughest was the trunk lid light as it was the first one that I removed from hard plastic. The key was to start prying at the recess on the end of...

My BMW 335i had run flats. The BMW would wear out the inside edge of the rear tires even when properly aligned. Before I realized this I was fooled by the visible tread on the outside edge of the tire. I appreciated the run flats when my tire blew a 1 inch hole at 70 mph. I heard the tire...

I just had a firmware update to 7.1 installed while in for service. The advisor did not know what changed as it was just a fix without release notes. Today, I noticed that the first nag no longer lowers the volume of the radio as it did when 7.1 was first released. If you ignore that first nag...

I have written alot of software. If I were programming AP, I would have it remind me to hold the wheel when it's confidence is low. At really low confidence the software would ask their drive to take over immediately. I wonder if TM tweeked the software to better recognize when it might be in...

I have had the same problem. I updated all the genre on all my music to create large groups of similar music to play together. I found the same thing that the MS did not use the new genre. As I looked for a reason I found that FLAC files have their own kind of tags and can use two types of...

It is best to put the inverter close to the battery. The 12v side has high amps while the 110v side has 1/10 as many. At 12v, the wire resistance adds up quickly causing voltage drops. Keeping that wire short minimized the voltage drop. The high voltage wire should be protected with a GFI at...

Tesla recently sent me an email announcing Ranger service within 50 miles of Virginia Beach and Richmond. The nearest service center is 200 miles from Virginia Beach.

I used Optimum No-Rinse car wash for the first time this weekend. While I would not use it every time, I thought it did a great job. I could wash the car in the garage with very little mess. Great for cold winter days.

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The accelerator is designed to respond in a very smooth and linear fashion. This provides the ability to creep forward slowly and smoothly control power at any speed. Launch control could reprogram the pedal for maximum acceleration. If you were stopped setting launch control would let the...

The MT article mentioned launch control which some people have interpreted as mistaken description of the MaxPower setting. Maybe the MT car had an option for launch control that allows the faster times. This could be provided in the suggested OTA update

Any fix to this problem. It has occurred every night for the last 3 nights at 10pm when my delayed charging starts. Other than the message on the iPhone, It is not causing any other problems. The car still charges successfully. I plan on calling Tesla tomorrow. My car and HPWC are only one...

The tires on my 26,000 lbs motor home have lasted 60,000 miles. I don't think the vehicle weight or what you carry impacts tire wear. Tires have different compounds, some are soft and give better handling. I get less than 20k miles on my BMW tires. Different compounds can give better...

I was surprised by the amount of information about the sensors the new interface displayed. It not only showed the position of my car in the lane but also showed the left/right position of the car in its lane in front of me. The curves in the roads are displayed which gave me confidence in it's...

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I took delivery last week of a P90D and went to install LED license plate lights. I had read that the incandescence bulbs Tesla used were warm white and could be updated to match the rest of the LED lighting. The new MS already had LED lights and does not even have screws to remove the bulbs...

Most of the comments about V.7 have to do with the information displayed on the DI. This is more about information presentation rather than about user interaction. In general, information only has value if it changes behavior that in turn impacts something meaningful. For example if displaying...

Buy a MS now. As a BMW owner who just picked up a Tesla, I can tell you that I can't wait to sell my BMW which up until I got my MS was my favorite car ever. How quickly we forget.

When I put the order in, I added ludicrous mode and felt I needed to trim some options as this car cost 3 times more than any other I have ever purchased. I removed the spoiler and the 21" wheels because for the way I drive they would not add much value. They do look cool though and I knew I...

I think the model S looks better. I wish the would have made the black area on the Model X emphasize the T more by bringing point lower. It would break up the white area more and be very distinctive while setting a brand standard around the Tesla logo. The model S could follow suit. Electric...

I am someone who regularly suffers from post-purchase anxiety. It is not the big decisions I worry about, but the little ones like should I get air suspension, what color, do I need a center console... Since my test drive six months ago, I have read your posts and learned enough to be...

In a September 24th review by Henry Payne of The Detroit News he states that the P90D's display is "Enhanced by the latest chip from Silicon Valley's Nvidia, the screen responds instantly... crisply detailed as my desktop computer"...

I ordered my P90D​, which will be delivered next week, with 19" rims. I did test ride both sizes. I have always had performance tires on my cars and I may order the 21" wheel set from Tesla if I feel I made a mistake. I can order the 21" Turbine Wheel and Tire Package for $5,500 only $1,000...

This debate reminds me of the issues companies had measuring the output of amplifiers. Most amps are measured in watts. Manufactures competed by publishing increased watt ratings in response to demand for bigger amps. Stereo amp manufactures added the output of there two channels together to...

My MS completed production on the 9th and is in transit. My delivery date is now between October 7th and October 21st in Devon PA. This date is consistent with what the product specialist told me when I ordered even though the computer at that time estimated end of September. He said the...