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    Troubleshooting list for door handles?

    Anyone know if there is a "troubleshooter" for the Tesla door handles? Like, "If the door opens when the door handles present, it's likely this" or "door handle won't present"? In my case, my 2014 Model S driver's door has a Gen 3 door handle (it was replaced 3 years ago), and it sometimes will...
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    Where to get wheel studs for Model S?

    Just to follow up on this... When I went to pick up my car, after being told they couldn't do it, I spoke to the mechanic directly. He seemed to get what the issue was (he knew about the Fords that have the funky 2-piece lugnuts like Tesla, that are a poor design -- there was a class action...
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    Where to get wheel studs for Model S?

    Just an update (venting!) on this. I brought the case to the local mechanic, whose receptionist called to say they couldn't get "the part" -- but couldn't tell me any more, so they may not even have looked at it. My inspection sticker expires at the end of the month, and the tires are in...
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    Where to get wheel studs for Model S?

    Any ideas on whether the lug studs would likely need to be replaced? The issue is with the outside of the lug nuts (as appears to be common with early Model S's),
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    Where to get wheel studs for Model S?

    I've got a 2014 Model S, and was going to have 2 new tires installed, but the installer pointed out that several of the lug nuts were stripped. He said to go to a trusted mechanic and have them take care of it. My local mechanic can get lug nuts, but not the wheel studs. They are happy to take...
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    Disabling explicit lyrics... doesn't

    My issue isn't aggressiveness: the Tesla says explicit lyrics are disabled, but it is enabling them. As in no songs with explicit lyrics get blocked. It's kind of like the difference between autopilot not working well on side roads (to be expected giving today's technology) versus turning it on...
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    Disabling explicit lyrics... doesn't

    I was happy when Tesla introduced the option to disable explicit lyrics in streaming music in v9, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working. I've got a 2014 Model S. I assumed it was an issue with Slacker not realizing the songs had explicit lyrics, but with one song I am aware of, the...
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    MCU replacement new or old?

    Just as an FYI, I just got my MCU replaced ("MCU not measuring supplied HVAC rail voltage properly"), something the service center noticed when attempting to do a coolant flush. It's MCU1 (based on teslatap.com/mcu which shows "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; GNU/Linux) AppleWebKit/601.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)...
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    Homelink auto close reliable for you?

    Just a reminder: it seems that if there are no radio waves on the icon (either when it should automatically open or close, or manually), it appears to be a bug in the software (which *is* in .40, but .42 seems to have fixed for many/most people). If the radio waves appear on the icon, it's...
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    Homelink auto close reliable for you?

    I have confirmed that this (either opening/closing not working all the time when it used to, or being unable to open/close manually) is a bug with the 2017.40 code (obviously it isn't our imagination, but it is nice to confirm), and has nothing to do with radio waves. Specifically, when...
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    MS sometimes not recognizing driver from keyfob

    My wife and I both drive our Model S, each has our own keyfob, and each has our own driver profile. But, it seems like perhaps half the time the car doesn't realize who is who. I'm not talking about when we are both entering the car, I'm talking about when I'm going to the car, and nobody else...
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    Homelink auto close reliable for you?

    Just in case it wasn't clear, there are 2 issues that seem to have been introduced: [1] Auto-open failing. You come home, the garage door doesn't open as expected. For me, this is something that used to happen occasionally, now a lot. This is the tricky one; it sound like a bug, but hard to...
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    Immediate and fatal 12V battery failure

    The diagnosis that was passed on to me was 'front driveline failure' and that it needed to be replaced. I'm guessing that is the drive unit.
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    Road trip woes

    The rental company coordinated with Tesla, and sure enough, they had the rental transported over to where I asked, and swapped with the loaner. It may have added perhaps an hour to our driving time, but much better than what I had feared. And it was charged to 100%, which was very nice.
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    Road trip woes

    That is a great point. If the car won't drive, how can I be expected to return it? Obviously either delaying a trip a week (if it takes a week) or needing to return 800 miles after the trip (again, assuming it takes longer than my trip) isn't something that can be expected of a renter. In this...
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    Road trip woes

    So 3 weeks before our trip to see the eclipse, our first road trip in the year we have had our Model S, a branch breaks through the windshield. Safelite and/or the insurance company completely mess up, and it isn't done in time. I rent a Tesla (from a great company in the Boston area, who I...
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    Immediate and fatal 12V battery failure

    To get the messages in text, so people in need can find this thread: Car Needs Service - Car May Not Restart Car Needs Service - Unable to Start Car 12V Power Low - Car May Shut Down Unexpectedly Battery Power Very Low - Heating and A/C Reduced Air Suspension Needs Service - Contact Tesla...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    I got a response from the EPA yesterday. The answer is #3: the EPA runs a test from a fully charged battery to depletion, and then uses AC kWh's to determine the Wh/mi. So presumably if you could magically stuff electrons into the battery without any loss, 320Wh/mi would be accurate. This does...
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    [Claim recanted] Autopilot blamed for accident in Minnesota

    link “to the best of my recollection, I had engaged the autopilot system, but then I had disengaged it by stepping on the accelerator. I then remember looking up and seeing the sharp left turn, which I was accelerating into. I believe we started to make the turn, but then felt the car give way...
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    [Claim recanted] Autopilot blamed for accident in Minnesota

    Here is a Google map of the intersection. The report says that the driver was approaching the intersection and turned on AP. [1] AP isn't designed to handle intersections. This is something I believe nearly all Tesla owners that use AP are very aware of. [2] With this intersection, you can...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    For me, there are two reasons to worry about the EPA estimate: [1] Today, I drove about 28 miles, and the car reported 310Wh/mi. Is that good or bad? Before this thread, I had no clue. Now that I know that 295Wh/mi is (reportedly) hard-coded as the EPA estimate, I know I did very close to the...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    It's not a scam, it's a benchmark. It isn't perfect, but it's the only one we have. Specifically, people often use the rated range of the Tesla. In my case, it's 265 miles. So if I start at 80% and I've driven 50 miles, and it says I have 160 miles rated range, how will I know if I likely have...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    Here's what I am thinking. All I really care about is how my driving compares to the EPA. I cannot tell what my expected range is with the Tesla, like I could with the Volt. But I can see Wh/mile. So I will ignore the EPA kWh/100mi (Wh/mi). The EPA 265 mile range matches (I believe) what the...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    I think the recent posts explain #1: Tesla's 295kW is lower than the EPA's values because it does not factor in loss from the wall to the battery. That's unfortunate, though -- why bother having a value other than the EPA value and calling it the EPA value (to the point where they have a...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    That is very helpful. It reports that the Tesla uses 295Wh/mi as the EPA rated miles (which matches the 284Wh/mi I got, which was really somewhere between about 270-300, because of rounding). So, assuming the 295Wh/mi is hard-coded to produce the EPA-rated range, that leads us to [1] where does...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    One site states 81.5kWh (e.g. it should be advertised as 81.5 not 85), with 77.5kWh usable (so that charging to 100% and driving to 0% is really charging to about 97.5% and driving down to about 2.5%, to prevent the battery from getting destroyed). But even so, the EPA numbers would suggest a...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    Yes, it is a guesstimate. But why does the EPA guess 370-380 in one place, guesses 320 in another, and Tesla says the EPA guesses 284? Sure, sometimes we can do better than 284, and often it will be worse than 380. But with a gas car, if the EPA says 24MPG city and 30MPG highway, you don't see...
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    That I get. My actual Wh/mi will vary. The problem is that we've got 3 different numbers that should be the exactly same, but are not.
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    Remaining range is not based off past history, according to the manual. Rated range is "Based on EPA testing", ideal range assumes 55MPH, flat road, etc.
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    Help understanding Wh/mi (EPA vs. displayed)

    I've had my Model S since August, and am still having a bit of trouble getting a sense of how much energy I'm using. With my old Volt, it was easy: at the end of a trip, you could see miles used, estimated miles left. If I drove 25 miles and had an estimated 10 miles left, that's about 35 miles...
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    When will summon do this?

    In August (and perhaps before/after), the main Model S page stated "And our new Summon feature lets you "call" your car from your phone so it can come greet you at the front door in the morning." I'm guessing most people (myself included) didn't realize that meant "... so it can move forward or...
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    Green/red lines in navigation

    I'm surprised I didn't notice it before. The reason I suspected non-Google data is that it seems incomplete (e.g. missing a chunk of road in one place going one direction, but not the other, and the lines stopping abruptly where you would not expect them to).
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    Green/red lines in navigation

    At some point since v8, I've noticed that the navigation screen sometimes has green (and occasionally red) lines on roads. Is there any documentation for this? I searched the forums, but didn't find anything. I haven't spent much time trying to figure it out, but it seems that the red...
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    AutoPilot Bug

    I believe that is different, and is used to detect things that are always there (road signs, bridges, etc.), not cars. The whitelist is referred to as a "geocoded whitelist", so "if you are at coordinates X,Y going northbound, and the radar detects a big object in front of you, it is something...
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    Model S with 3 kids

    One thing to be aware of is that some booster seats may not fit. There are some threads about booster seats that are not quite as wide as traditional ones (the BubbleBum being a popular choice).
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    Prank in AP right through a red TSL

    This forum isn't going to help him. He already got in trouble for allegedly not giving a homeless man $145K he raised for him, after giving him $100 on a video and showing that he spent it on other homeless people (that video, it is alleged, was faked).
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    Prank in AP right through a red TSL

    Moronic is right. Someone could submit this to the California DMV (or police), and he could get into some pretty hot water. He even has his license plate clearly visible in the video. Although I did not actually see the red light, the reaction of the girl combined with passing a stopped car...
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    Model X driving forward when in reverse?

    This happened to me today. I left a parking spot, just briefly going into reverse to get closer to the car behind me, and went into drive to keep going. When I realized the car showed that it was in reverse, I was sure that was in error. But looking back, it was an incline, and I figure I must...
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    Autopilot now $3k. Why?

    If you take a look at the used Model S market, there seems to be a big price difference between those with AP and those without. Occasionally there are cars that *appear* to have the AP hardware (which would just be a $3K, oops, $3.5K upgrade to flip the switch). But you're running a pretty big...
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    Tesla Model S CPO Website - Now Live

    They are extremely rare. When I started looking about a month ago, the last CPO sold with AP had been in December. That's around 8 months with none of them coming on the market. I was lucky to get an alert from ev-cpo a couple weeks ago, and got one (~$63k). A couple others followed within a...
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    Autopilot now $3k. Why?

    Here's another thought: What if there are too many people ordering with AP? They may well be using telemetry from non-AP cars to improve AP. After all, what better source of figuring out the correct way of driving than tapping into Tesla owners who are driving without AP? Sure, some are...
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    How Does Autopilot Sense "Hands on Wheel"?

    OK, we've got people who insist it is positioning (e.g. a slight movement of the steering wheel by your hand, the same thing that it detects to know to move the wheels when AP is not used), torque (very similar I believe, seeing how fast the steering wheel is turned), and pressure sensors (your...
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    What Swag did Tesla give you at delivery?

    I just picked up my CPO Model S yesterday, and got the gift bag with umbrella, mug, pins & pens (making sure to have one pin/pen for each of us).
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    EV-CPO.com CPO Consolidator support thread

    Same here! I wanted a CPO Model S with AP at a decent price, knowing it would be nearly impossible to find. Less than 2 weeks ago, I got the E-mail alert. Now I have a Model S in my garage! So count this as yet another "Thank you!" Waiting was definitely not easy, but as any Tesla owner will...
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    Model S - Auto Insurance

    +1 on USAA. I haven't even bothered looking at other insurance companies. The cost at USAA to replace a 5 year old Volt with a 1 1/2 year old MS (worth more than 4 times as much) was only about 25% more.
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    What to look for at CPO delivery?

    A bit late, but I believe I have the answer. It sounds like Tesla doesn't disclose previous service records, period. But in this case, the drive unit appears to have been replaced as part of the reconditioning. That information they do seem to be willing to give CPO purchasers.
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    My CPO (and disappointments) Experience

    It depends on the circumstances. If you are picky and there you don't like the normal wear and tear on the car, you give up the deposit. If it goes beyond normal wear and tear, Tesla would have to take care of it or return the deposit. That's because with a CPO you agree it will have normal wear...
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    Trade in value and surprise accident damage?

    That's a different beast. Tesla doesn't sell non-Teslas. They have to sell them via auction, to a wholesaler, whatever. So they can't give you any more than they can expect to get at wholesale. Compare that to a Tesla, that they can resell at retail, and make a profit on.
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    CPO wait times in SF Bay Area?

    Another interesting tidbit. My CPO is listed as "Used - Previous service/demo vehicle". And the Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement shows 170 more miles than the original CPO listing. So it looks like Tesla decided to sell the car, listed it, but kept using it as a demo vehicle until a sale went...
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    Tesla Model S CPO Website - Now Live

    If you look closely, at least from the recent activity, there are only a few people posting of issues (most of the posts are replies, updates on the issues, duplicate postings, etc.).