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While making a three point turn, my front right control arm snapped. Tesla says this is not covered under extended warranty because they claim it is excluded under the "expendable maintenance" terms. I had the manager point to a specific word in the agreement that made it not covered. I asked if...

tl;dr: Set your controller and/or wireless adapter to X mode or X input. That is the hidden trick that gets Tesla to recognize the controllers as if they were Microsoft/XBox kind of controllers. I just upgrade my 2016 Model X 90D to MCU2 as well, and managed to get the 8Bitdo SN30 Pro+...

Yeah, not really "2 factor auth" if I can get an access token without the second factor via their API. Just re-linked my account with EV Car and it didn't need the second factor at all. Not super confidence building that there is a loop hole here.

When my garage door opener died, I replaced it with a wall mounted one (Chamberlain RJO70) as I figured it would be cheaper to get a wall mounted opener than to pay for any damage of the wings bumping into a ceiling mounted one. Now I when I back into the garage I have no worries, as literally...

I've had a Model X for 4 years now, and the few accessories I found useful: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072JJXZX1 Middle row holder of toys. I have two small kids, so this doesn't hamper leg room for them, and it is a dumping ground of toys. Easy to reach back while driving to hand it to...

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Try to go completely without touching any door for a full day, nor have any passenger touch any door. With automatic doors enabled, you can open the driver side door anytime with double-pressing of the top of the keychain. Do another double press, and it opens the passenger side (only after the...

Those are some nice numbers... I have a 2016 X 90D with ~36k miles that used ~14MWh for an average of 401 Wh/mile during the life of the car. That is with lots of long highway trips while fully loaded up with kids and their stuff. This past three months I averaged 375 WH/mile. Only times I see...

I've been using the X for three years. I have not hit anything with the doors, even when parking near cars, poles, etc. And I get the experience as I live and park in NYC, so poles anywhere on the street, low ceiling height in parking garage everywhere, and people who ignore parking lines in...

I've found the best way to get a human at a service center is to be as friendly as possible to your SC rep, and keep up the relationship with them via email. At the two SC nearest to me, I've gotten a point of contact at both that I can email as needed. For one of them, I even have their...

If the original poster was referring to the front door soft-close latches, I just had my 2016 Model X's door latches both replaced while my vehicle was in for different service. While having a 2016 Model X loaner with updated latches, I mentioned how much nicer they were than my car's, and the...

Happened to be driving at twilight during the early summer. Didn't get a chance to fully wash the car until a week later since we were on a trip, but I did take some windshield cleaner to it in the morning with a towel. There is no evidence of this appearing on the paint at all. You should be...

Looking good, not operational yet.

Or he charges at the Paramus NJ location and is used to some chargers just being poor. I know I've shown up many times in the past to 8 empty stalls and some only go to 50 and others will do 110. Recently it has been much better there, I don't remember getting stuck at a bad charger in a while...

Every loaner Model X I've used has had that with the rear seats, from brand new to ones with 15,000 miles. Thankfully I don't have it, but if I did, I'd expect it to be a common warranty issue since I've already documented it three times with their loaners.

The reason other car's blind spot detection (BSD) uses little alerts in the mirrors/side pillars and Tesla's doesn't even have it is because most other companies use radar for their BSD while Tesla only has a forward facing radar and relies on (really high quality) ultrasonics around the car...

In hot weather, it is probably the chargers themselves in the racks that are overheating which is causing it to charge slower. Jumping between 1A and 1B means you are still using the same charging hardware. Try swapping to 2A, 3A, etc. I've been at superchargers where a number (1A+1B) at the...

I came back from a vacation knowing my car's 12V battery died half way through (it had 200+ miles and left unplugged) because it wouldn't respond to the mobile app while I was out. When got back, keyfob failed. Called Tesla, they sent out a guy to pop the hood with me, and hook up a charger to...

What is the vampiric battery drain of this device? I stopped using teslalog.com specifically because of that (around 10-15 miles/day), but that polled the car instead of aggregating and then pushing clumped data like this device (hopefully) does.

The biggest point of range mode to me so far is that if you have it turned on, it won't attempt to heat the battery pack except with waste heat (so won't turn on the battery pack heaters). In middle of winter when you have the car cold soaked all night and not plugged in, that is a significant...

I would be interested as well. I got my camera installed to the front window only, and have not had time to run it to the rear yet. I am in manhattan.

There is a notification in the dashboard at the bottom if your key isn't in your car. I often have my key in a pocket with my work badge, which often can act as a blockage so while I'm driving the car will randomly think the key isn't in the car anymore.

Finally got around to taking pictures during daytime of the Diono car seat in the middle seat in the middle row, next to an infant carrier. Works great. I even tested it out next to our old reverse facing convertible car seat, which will be our second kid's next seat. Once our second kid is old...

I use the Diono in the middle, and installed with the seat belt and the top tether there is very little movement with the car seat. It fits within the width of the middle seat, so the side seats have 100% movement for getting people into the rear or for having an adult sit next to the car seat...

Youtuber ChrisFix has some nice videos. I followed his Permatex video, but he also has one for the Rain-X kit too.

If you really want it removed, Elon said any Tesla service center will remove it for you if you ask. Elon Musk on Twitter "Also, Tesla service can remove front trunk liner if you don't use it and improve performance further"

Now that they've updated their 2017 wish list locations, how goes the Bellefonte supercharger? Would love to have it operational before the first PSU football game this fall.

Pretty sure the risks of autosteer in tow mode has more to do with the fact their machine learning assumes that every car is the same dimension. Adding a trailer of unknown length, width, height, and weight would completely invalidate their machine learning. With how much compute power goes...

Depending on which transponder you have, yours might be strong enough to place wherever. I have this version of the EZ Pass, and before I mounted it anywhere I held it by hand going through gates. Worked when I held it pretty much anywhere, so I stuck it at the very top of the windshield, an...

I follow ChrisFix's Super Clean Your Windshield method, and that works great on all the glass and rear camera for me. Rain-X always wears off too easily for me.

This past Sunday in NYC, I didn't get any regenerative breaking until I was about 20 miles into a drive. It was in the teens all day, so pretty cold. Previously with 40s temperature, I had at least a tiny amount of regenerative breaking at the start, so was surprised I had completely none. Side...

I just printed this on a Lulzbot TAZ 5, but it doesn't fit the Google Store's USB A->C cable. My USB C end is 12.3mm wide while the opening in the print is 10.7mm as printed. Any chance you could enlarge this model a bit for me? Specs for the USB-C end of my A->C cable: 12.3mm wide, 6.5mm depth.

I have an infant seat in the side position (uses the lower anchor point) and a convertible car seat facing forward in the middle (uses seat belt, no lower anchor points). Works great, as we leave the rear seats flat 90% of the time so the stroller is easy to put in/take out, and still lets an...