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    My new 2024 Model S LR

    Picked up car. Happy with delivery. No front bumper camera.
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    My new 2024 Model S LR

    Congrats. Husband picking up his Model S on Monday. Yes a few things to readjust to after his 2017 Model S. I’m going to miss his Alcantra lining and the front passenger seat adjustments that I think they took out. He also had the sunroof in his 2017. At least he gets back the ventilated seats I...
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    Powerwall Placement in a Garage Question

    Not sure if this helps at all but we had our solar panels and PWs installed in 2020, but before the newer codes were being discussed so not sure how things have changed. Here’s a few photos to show what we had done. Garage at time of build before drywall installed. The other side of our...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    I’ve been wondering how members are doing with their Solar/PWs in Texas and the southern states right now and it’s only June. How is it working? Did you have enough of each to get you through to power enough of your house until the sun starts replenishing next day. Gotta think with all these...
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    Poll: How many are still using original 12V Battery that came with the car?

    I voted Yes today but my 9/2018 LR AWD Model 3’s battery just yesterday put up an alert and mobile is coming out today to replace with new and do my rear seat harness recall (just got notified that part came in and I could schedule). So almost 5 years. Battery estimate was $120.96 ($113.20 with...
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    SpaceX Starship - Orbital Test Flight - Starbase TX

    Only screen grab I had from that timeline…
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    SpaceX Starship - Orbital Test Flight - Starbase TX

    Starship started it’s flip…waiting for separation… Long wait and just no separation until…. Oh no…unintended disassembly 😖 Still quite the achievement to celebrate On to the next one. Congrats SpaceX. A thrill to watch in my lifetime.
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    SpaceX Starship - Orbital Test Flight - Starbase TX

    I know I couldn't appreciate the size of it, but it was pretty amazing to see it launch. Too bad something went wrong with separation but exciting up until the point of the revolving flip. I was watching on my phone and took a couple of screen grabs for the casual reader here not having time to...
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    Brighter deeper color. In afternoon sun my first solo photo posted of it was taken around 4pm. Maybe it has more blue undertones to it that give it a richer red to my eye, less orangey maybe. The photos don’t do it justice and were taken on my old iPhone Xs Max which is still a good camera but I...
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    The two Ultra reds I looked at (one was in showroom) were 507789 and 508480.
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    Had breakfast down there and these were taken around 10am. For all of you without a nearby store.
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    Sort of, but now more like a fine red wine with nice under tones.
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    Maybe I’ll drive down that way tomorrow. No promise but weather report looks good and sunny (then another atmospheric). So if I go down what do you want to see? That is of course unless some lucky new owner in Bay Area who ordered with black interior beats me down there and drives it home 😉.
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    I wish I had taken a few more pics when there and more in direct sun. And believe me the old red is drab compared to the Ultra. Enough cars in lot to compare. The new color is silky, satiny, sexy. Great depth of color. Big wow. I get the comments on the calipers but damn this is a gorgeous color...
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    Model S Ultra Red Waiting Room

    At Gilroy, CA store/Svc picking up our Model S in for some yearly maintenance and couldn’t help but see this in the lot! Not a red fan in general but this is pretty stunning to see. Definitely get you noticed!!
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    Amazon recommendations for cordless tire pump?

    That’s EPAuto btw not EAPro 🙄
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    Amazon recommendations for cordless tire pump?

    I have a Model 3 and bought this one from Amazon. Reasonable price. Nice features like LED light, lit display, storage bag, various tips. Has auto shut off when selected pressure is reached and overheat protection, meets Amp specs for the car. Been using since 2020 for my Model 3 and husband’s...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    If a passenger were to grab at the wheel from the driver they wouldn’t be pushing it to the left (direction car veered off cliff) but you’d be pulling wheel in direction of you the passenger (to the right and Not off cliff). So don’t see that as a defense in the slightest. I read they wanted to...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    Of course and all the witness statements and video and physical evidence (or lack thereof in case of brake failure or lack of FSD activated and a cause) will be heard by a judge or jurors and determination made as it should. But rationally looking and considering the scene I don’t think it looks...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    Husband has been arrested and in jail on murder etc charges. Given the wife was conscious at the time paramedics arrived I thought given the early reports of it being intentional on the driver’s part that the wife had made a statement. That was the case. From news reports now she made it clear...
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    Welp finally happened to me…windshield stress crack

    I had a strange glass defect appear in my 9/2018 Model 3 in the Spring of my last warranty year. Definitely wasn’t there before. One day in March I noticed a bright glint of sunlight when checking my rear view mirror. Didn’t immediately check out but when the sun would hit the rear windshield at...
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    Why Do Teslas Eat Flash Drives?

    Flash media has a limited read/write ability (it’s destructive) and drives not designed for dashcam/high read-write usage will eventually stop recording sooner than later. Found that out early on in 2018 with our first SanDisk flash drive not high endurance. My experience is the files would...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Feels good here and nice to see more battery charging happening for a change. Understand from weather report Mt Hamilton and ranges around there experienced snow. Happy to be warming on valley floor. News from Santa Cruz mts and other bay and Calif locations looks bad though with road...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    I think setting reserve comes down to what your primary goal is. For us, having battery back up available to get us through a long outage (with lights, refrig/freezer, power to run gas furnace fan and gas water heater) is our primary goal. The winter decrease in our overall yearly numbers of...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Wow are you in the mountains or just in an unlucky area with power poles/transformers down? I don’t think anyone here has lost that many hours of power. Hope you got to soak up some of that sunshine today.
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    Supercharger invoices no longer available on tesla.com

    On an iPhone app, you have the export feature as well.
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    Supercharger invoices no longer available on tesla.com

    I’ve been accessing my charging invoices periodically through my phone App and it’s always as far as I can remember been there in the driver’s Account/Charging/charging history section. Actually don’t know if I ever looked for it using my laptop and the Tesla.com website. You guys probably are a...
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    Teslas in Movies & TV

    Saw a blue Tesla on Monday evening, 1/9/23, during the 3-part NCIS, NCIS:Hawaii, NCIS:LA event. Car was parked on the street but don’t recall which particular show it appeared on. Given how many Teslas are in California I’m not surprised to see them pop up in background shots since many Tv shows...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Sorry you have been impacted by the rain/flooding. I thought of you knowing the area had roads out and flooding. I was awoken at 5am by torrential rain and strong wind gusts here hitting the windows. Can only imagine how bad it was there getting dumped on first before arriving here. Heart goes...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Back on Storm Watch. Thankfully it looks like our projected rainfall tomorrow has been reduced and glad we are on higher ground. Early projection had it coming straight at us with 5” total and strong down pours. With these storms coming in one after the other we upped our reserve to 80% after...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    People Magazine reported just a number of minutes ago that the doctor was arrested at the hospital so imagine the complaint will be in the news soon and maybe shed more light on how they arrived at intentional.
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    Read a story today that they were a two-Tesla home. I still feel for the authorities to come to that conjecture they also spoke to the wife in the hospital. Everyone was conscious after all and wouldn’t you think they’d ask her what happened, maybe tactfully even asked the kids what they...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Back on Storm Watch. No end date/time on app showing. My husband got a text about it coming on and something about until storm is over.
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Mine’s off right now. Was surprised to see it not extended. At 97%, minimal house draw. I’m pretty sure this area is expecting high winds tonight. Apple’s weather app (info from National Weather Service) indicates High Wind Warning until 10am Thursday and Flood Watch in effect. I know the Tesla...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    People Magazine had this article on him. https://people.com/crime/father-who-drove-tesla-off-cliff-radiologist-passengers-wife-kids/
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    Electrek today has an article on this with comments from the husband’s employer. He is a physician there in Southern California. That was a shock to me for some reason. https://electrek.co/2023/01/04/tesla-driver-intentionally-drove-car-off-a-cliff-family-miraculously-survived/ The article...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Well sitting here at home checking mail and had some lights on still in the room I’m in. Saw them briefly flicker so checked app. Yep, power went out here. Rain has stopped in our area and everything is calm. Maybe a tree went down or a larger area problem. Located in south Santa Clara County...
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    Mobile Repair Experience

    Part inventory has been a problem for a while, but shared by many manufacturers. My husband is waiting for a charging cable (iPhone) for his 2017 MS. The one that they had as a replacement that was installed fairly recently was manufactured wrong forcing the cable into a bad turn unlike the...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    The Storm Watch high winds trigger for us has been indicating upcoming winds from early this a.m. until 2pm today (same as yesterday for us, did save screen shot yesterday when it activated 😁). Given how they are saying the worst winds will be later this afternoon and overnight I’d think it...
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    Tesla goes over cliff-pacific-coast-highway-California-miracle survivors

    From photo I saw of the car it was either a Model 3 or Y’s door handles clearly visible. The rescue team had already worked on extracting the passengers with the jaws of life having said all the doors were crushed in and couldn’t open. Also saw early video or a photo of someone moving inside and...
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    Will California and West see Storm Watch in the next few days (2022-12-29)?

    Storm Watched kicked in today and charging our powerwalls. South of San Jose south Santa Clara County.
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    Navigation going bonkers

    I drove today using Nav several times to check and my route was correctly listed. Even going north on 101 to San Jose and going on 85. Ok on map route drawn and in list.
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    Using Navigation Destination on App

    My husband’s car is on 2022.36.2 (my car is not so don’t have the feature yet). I did notice when looking at his car in the app that the destination and arrival time were now showing (he uses Nav frequently to enter a destination). Nice feature for anticipating arrival home for dinner. Use to...
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    New owner… I wish someone would've warned me

    My M3LR recently turned 4 years. Have to say I still enjoy it as much as when I just bought it. Love the quiet, uncluttered interior and managed to keep it that way. Kind of recoil when I see other cars’ interiors. Of course love the instant acceleration. 4 years no smell of gasoline or exhaust...
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    Navigation going bonkers

    Yeah that’s beyond maximum speed of my LRM3, but maybe possible with rocket thrusters like the Roadster 2 was rumored to get? … unless … Could this be a new software update 🧐 ??
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    Navigation going bonkers

    Husband took my car a bit ago and was still seeing bizarre routing. But he did comment that the travel/arrival time was pretty much right on.
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    Navigation going bonkers

    Husband cracked up laughing capturing this screen shot the other day when headed on 101 N to Los Gatos. Talk about the long way. If you are familiar with the area, you’ll notice the route in the Nav to be traveled in the list isn’t even shown being taken on the map. Wow covering 89 miles in 23...
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    Navigation going bonkers

    Mine started yesterday. I typically use Nav to a known destination to see travel time or avoiding accident backups on the highway. Trip had me rerouted in ridiculous ways, on and off exits and reversing direction I needed to go in, plus took a 20 mile trip to 86 miles. Navigation still messed up...
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    Tampa FL area forum members- thoughts and prayers

    Have some relatives on Tampa coast and the eastern side so watching streaming news from there now. Thinking of all of our Florida TMC members as well and wishing all to emerge safely from this. Hope your panels survive the winds and your powerwalls keep your lights on. News from Tampa Bay Fox...
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    2022 Model 3 LR - Hit a deer

    Sorry to see both of your deer encounters. Really stings too with so few miles on the car. You guys aren’t alone though as I’ve read about a number of deer impacts. At 70mph that was some hit and sure frightening for the wife. Glad the car protected everyone while taking the brunt of it. BTW the...