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I've been driving my 2021 Plaid for the past 3 years, no issues to report. Only came back to the forums because I wanted to see if it was an upgrade or a downgrade to get a '24 Plaid with Tesla's new promotions hahaha.

The regular S has a front motor and a rear motor, the Plaid has a front motor, a rear motor, and an additional rear motor, which is the third one... unless you count from the back to the front 😉

The Plaid is absolutely not for the "average driver". The extra money for the third motor (which is the only actual difference aside from software) above the regular S is by all means excessive, unnecessary, and unjustifiable by any account. But that's not why they make it. The acceleration of...

They finished the work on it, now they have to wait for the local utility to do their safety check and/or any work they need in order to complete it. When this SC was new, that took 6-8 months before they got around to it.

It depends on how much the dealer knows or is willing to listen. Back in the day it was a bunch of paperwork through Tesla and a very manual experience, nowadays it's 10 seconds via a webform. You enter an email to transfer ownership to, they click an accept link, and it's done. A lot of them...

Thanks! We ordered it in white because we knew we were gonna wrap/dip it and why pay extra for a factory color you're not gonna see, but when we got it we started to notice there were SO MANY other white Ys on the road we would play a game of counting them when driving around, hahaha.

I helped a friend who used my setup dip his car, then did mine and I will give this one bit of advice to those who are looking to try it that I've discovered: The taping and masking process will be the majority of your time, and it will be the largest determination of end result quality. Yeah...

Was a little over a thousand dollars, but that cost also included the sprayer & compressor which can be used for future projects as well.

Let it warm up in the sun (or use a heat gun if it's cold out) to get it flexible, and some 99% alcohol in your sprayer

A few years if you take care of it. It's been about a month since I did it and it's in great shape still here.

Indeed, DipArmor is almost like an epoxy sealer that goes over the top of the other layers and gives it sort of a protective shell. Obviously not as protective as PPF but it has a more paint-like feel and a bit more of a shine, plus you can ceramic coat it if you want to get even closer to a...

Thanks! It looks even more dramatic in overcast lighting. Although I don't have pics of my Y that show it, DYC has some great shots of it on their Audi (link fast-forwards to 9 minute mark to just show the glamor shots)

@yeslak’s looks to be a different, more deeper green.

I promised my wife a fun color for her MYLR, but upon seeing what wrap jobs were running these days, I decided to go with dipping instead (plus we can do another color more easily in 2-3 yrs when the car is ready for a new coat). Set up a tent in the back yard and went to town, haha. Also did...

Been driving past here since seeing this post originally, looking for any indication it might turn out to be true. It would be perfectly in between Paramus and Springfield, but I haven't seen any activity to prove it. Anyone hear anything with regards to this?

I'm on my fifth Tesla. The first one, a 2017 S 100D, was awful. It had so, so many problems and spent months in service until they finally bought it back and I gave them one more chance. The replacement (a 2018 S 100D) was as good or better than the 10 BMWs I've had, and when I replaced it with...

A 2021 S and a 2023 S are more related than a 2021 and a 2020 S as many things changed in 2021, but I agree "Refresh S" would be a more accurate term than "new".

For a week or two I was pissed that this functionality was removed, but I found out I had accidentally turned it off, haha. If you click the box with 3 dots in it (maybe looks like a traffic light?) you can toggle live traffic view (as shown in the pic). You do need to subscribe to premium...

Just got 2022.36.20 this morning, which is FSD Beta 10.69.3.1, so it looks like they're not quite ready for larger distribution of v11 yet. Regardless of any FSD improvements that may or may not be contained, it's very nice to get finally get some of the updated features like Energy stats and...

Caraoke finally came to the new X and new S with version 2022.36.4, I have no idea about the timeline for Witcher, though. FSD beta people will have to wait until these features are merged into the FSD beta branch.

Hey all - I've had a number of Teslas and despite their infamous customer service reputation, I love everything I have from them, and the few problems I have experienced have ultimately been resolved. I'm considering adding solar to my house, and of course Tesla is the first provider that pops...

Picking cash first even if you intend to finance is actually the best option, and what I've done for all of my deliveries due to the fact that the delivery date can continually get pushed out and lead to repeated hard credit pulls when the offer expires and needs to be renewed. This allows you...

It's definitely a personal preference thing. There's plenty of twisty and narrow mountain roads around where I live, and after driving the S with the yoke for a few hours it was easy to settle into. Now, looking for the capacitive horn button is another story 🤣

From what I've heard, the US DOT hasn't approved dynamic lighting systems yet (although I haven't heard any updates in a while on this - could be wrong), despite a number of (European) manufacturers as well as Tesla now including it with their cars, so it's disabled for the time being. Whenever...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/2021-s-has-infrared-sensors-cameras-in-upper-console.232078/ There's infrared illumination for the cabin cam, so ambient light shouldn't be necessary.

I mean, CNN has been known to entirely fabricate stories before if it suits them (or more likely suits someone who has paid them). They're sadly far from unique with this in today's media landscape, and it really isn't anything new... unfortunately though, many people don't know this.

They include the mobile charger with cars that were ordered (not delivered) before they announced it would no longer come, if you order after that announcement you'll no longer get one. As for the USB stick, every Tesla comes with this (specifically for dashcam usage).

I got the ODB2 Y-adapter (I think it's mentioned earlier in this thread) and created a wiring harness that taps the power output from it over the driver's footwell to an RJ-11 power cable. It worked great for about 3 days, now it just powers on the R7 and then it immediately shuts off. It's odd...

Lol the BMW dealership where I've bought a handful of cars doesn't give me too much gruff and keeps inviting me to all their events. I show up to them (because I like cars, and free food lol) and they ask me when I'm going to come back. I tell them to call me when they have an all-electric M5 CS...

In the US, the fee is a standardized transportation fee. In theory, the cost of transporting the car to sell it should be part of the price, but due to abuse of fees by mfrs and dealerships, the cost to transport a car is now standardized everywhere (even if you pick up at the Fremont CA factory...

Yeah, there's a lot upsides to Tesla not using the dealer model, but even after buying my 5th Tesla I still miss the fanfare and circumstance when you'd buy something nice at a traditional dealership. Everyone likes to have their ego stroked, and the extra attention they give if you bought the...

If you do have a great relationship with them, maybe try to see if they'll buy it back from you (very unlikely for the amount you paid, but hopefully only a few thousand less). It sounds like they sold you a dud that someone offloaded onto them as part of a trade-in. If I was in your situation...

And in NJ, EVs have zero sales tax, but adding it after the fact it will be 6.625%, and registration is a flat fee that does not take vehicle price into account, so the decision heavily tilts towards prepurchasing here. It's not quite that simple though... I paid $8k for FSD, which will have...

I'm just wildly guessing about this, but I imagine most SCs have a "goodwill budget" where they can - at the managers' discretion - provide goodwill services to customers. They may have exhausted it (if indeed it even actually exists).

It is inconvenient, but it's not exclusive to Tesla, BMW does this for any of their performance cars, as well as Porsche, Benz, etc. They have to sell the car with the tires that got their advertised specs, which ends up with tires that are more specialized for a certain environment.

I've had mine set to 85% and usually let it go down to around 40% (or sometimes as low as 20) before charging. Might bump it up to 90 now?

I think most will open the door for you if you ask nicely, but sometimes finding a person who isn't doing 5 things at once and can take a few minutes for you isn't the easiest at a Tesla store. Surely they won't let you test drive it until you accept delivery though, which is unfortunate...

It seems as if they pushed a change in the VIN issuing system recently that was... not good, haha. I've read of at least a half dozen people on here reporting they were assigned a VIN that didn't exist. Before that, a few people would have a VIN disassociated from their account but it was...

#107 was just delivered to me today. A couple months late is pretty good by Tesla timing, hahaha.

If it isn't actually covered (or doesn't have sun shining into it directly), then I'm gonna say there's a problem with it. Either that, or the refresh Model Set (of which you have one) have IR illumination for the cabin camera which perhaps if not pointing out into the cabin could blind the...

Honestly this makes the most sense, they're long overdue to show some love to the RHD part of the world.

IMHO the tempest in a teacup about the yoke is overstated. Some people don't like it, some do, others really could care less. I adapted to it pretty quickly and have no problems single-handedly spinning it with one palm in a tight parking lot, and anything else you need to do hand-over-hand it's...

When Elon sent that memo about how they should no longer prioritize getting cars out at EoQ "at all costs", because well, it was costing too much, I rejoiced. They could instead focus on building cars correctly, not quickly. It seems though that some of the managers are still in the EOQ rush...

I'd be interested to know how many plaids they've sold in total. There isn't a super large market for $150k cars and honestly I'm surprised it took them a whole year for supply to catch up to demand. A quick googling tells me that BMW sells about 500-1000 7 series a month, Mercedes sells about...

That's odd as you really can't buy a Tesla for anything *other* than MSRP at time of order. Regardless, you don't want anything to do with a car that has "a problem", it's much better to wait a few more weeks and get something factory fresh. What I would do is show up at a service center, in...

Track mode is exclusive to the Plaid vs the LR (it's the least they could do), but they could've absolutely tried harder to differentiate. The P100D vs the 100D had even more differences, in that the the 100D only had "Chill" and "Normal" acceleration modes, vs the P100D's Chill/Sport/Ludicrous...

I did a Plaid launch yesterday (with battery preheat, Cheetah stance, the whole 9 yards..) with a friend from out of town, I don't often do them (due it not being a spontaneous thing, it requires a bit of setup), but damn if I don't say "holy *sugar* this was totally worth the extra $40k" every...

One of two reasons: A) They're too busy (and somewhat disorganized) and haven't gotten around to it. B) They know damn well they said that early cars only needed wheels and tires but now know they need the brake upgrade and don't want to have to give away a few thousand carbon brake kits. I'm...

I guess there's hope that mine will arrive soon-ish (perhaps in a week as it travels to the other coast).

Anyone here get in on the 4/20 limited edition set ( Tesla Tequila Limited Edition Set )? The confirmation email says "expected to start shipping in May 2022", but in classic Tesla fashion it's quite past that with no other info... I expected it to be different as it's being handled entirely by...