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I'll have to try to keep an eye on this one's progress. It is only 5.5 miles from my house (Concord chargers are 9 miles from my house). I should be able to get some pictures once construction starts.

Seconded. This is what I use - and I have it over PPF. Works great and looks great.

You can find more information in the manual, but the difference - from what I remember when I set up mine - is that one of those modes is for a device that has a "learn" button on it (like a lot of garage door openers do) and the other was for when you have to "copy" the output from an existing...

As others have said - there are a ton of them in California where I am. You can't count them. When I first got my Model S in 2017, there were hardly any and we would actually WAVE to each other. Now? Pretty much every 12th car on the road is a Tesla. I was at an intersection in Monterey a few...

Isn't the standard answer to remove the mod, then see if the issue persists? If it persists, it is the car that needs repair. If it doesn't, it was the mod.

Nice write-up! On the wipers - I don't think they get much better from here. Tesla's hubris made them decide to use cameras for what everyone else uses an infrared sensor for. When we first got my 2017 Model S it did not have the automatic wiper function (but it was promised as coming soon). It...

You might test that charging from the generator. Many generators don't output the cleanest wave form and the car may not accept it. Best to test that out before having to rely on it.

That does look very nice. I'll have to think about doing that for ours. I did put red metal valve caps with the Tesla logo on our MYP - and they also nicely go with the red calipers.

I did it twice in my 2017 Model S (sold that this year). Once for a trip that was Supercharger sparse and once when it seemed to get some earlier than expected degradation as an attempt at calibration (which made no difference BTW). Never on our 2018 Model 3 so far and also never so far on our...

You can carry a valve stem extender. I had this exact problem after putting the MagBak RimCases on my MYP Uberturbines. Now it is actually impossible to inflate the tires with my portable 12v inflater since it has that type of "over the valve stem" connector with the toggle on the top to tighten...

The circuit that you used as a guide used a 100w 5 Ohm resistor. You used a 2 Ohm resistor. So you were pulling a lot more current.

BTW, in case you didn't already do this - if you are sure that the key that was lost is, in fact, gone - you want to remove it as a key. Just in case someone happened to find it and happens to know which car it is for (like if they found it next to the car in a parking lot or the like). In the...

I'm also FSDb - but 2023.32.4 - which is newer so I don't believe it is accurate to say that 2023.27.x is the latest (mine is also a 2023 MY). After 6 years of owning Tesla's though I can say that releases can seem very random. Even having two of them in our garage they are often on different...

No, really - rip the CD (or a bunch of CDs) to your computer as MP3 format. Then follow the instructions to repartition the USB key in the glovebox so it can do both dashcam and USB media, and copy the MP3 files from the CD to that. That is so much better than fiddling with physical CDs and then...

Actually, since he got a brand new vehicle, the only port that allows you to access a drive (for media or for sentry mode videos) is the port in the glove box. This is why people that want to store videos from sentry mode or save dash cam video AND want to use USB media have to repartition the...

Mileage from the top of the screen you cannot trust at all. It is based on EPA rated miles which you will pretty much never see. You might get that range if you were at 70 degrees ambient temp, only one person and no cargo in the car, and going down a slight 1% decline the whole way. Many people...

You weren't on just TACC if you were using lane keeping (or lane centering) - that's a function of Autopilot. 10% is fine; range anxiety in new EV drivers is a real thing. But you'll get used to this quickly and will stop panicking (and yelling at your wife) when you miss a charger. Agree with...

It popped up asking me to login a few days ago. I told it to use the vehicle account and nothing happened. I wasn't actually going to drive that day anyway, I had just gotten in the car to get something from the glove compartment. So after telling it to use the vehicle account a few times with...

Right; that was what I exactly what I was telling the original poster. That he would have to ignore that enough charge notification and let it charge more on the final stop. 20% is much less that I would go on our typical trip. For example a few hundred miles from home to say Santa Barbara. I...

Yes, completely agreed. With the phone in your pocket, if you are close enough to touch the vehicle it should unlock fine. I often leave my phone on a shelf in the garage about 4 or 5 feet from the car and that is close enough to allow me access. It really should not be an issue at all with the...

That's an easy fix. I had to do this too. Leave the name as Erin. Add a nickname in the nickname field and put Aaron. That will work. My wife's name is Cherie - not pronounced like Sherry. So I had to do the same - name stays as Cherie, but the nickname field has "Sure E" and that works.

Yes, you not only get automatically routed to the chargers, but the screen will tell you when you have enough charge to continue the trip. It is quite amazing how well that works. The one thing I wish it would do is allow you to specify how much charge you need when you arrive. It acts like you...

I haven't seen a reliability issue with this myself. I do have the honk on lock set so that I can be sure of it. At home, I walk into the house and hear the horn almost immediately. Out and about I get just a bit farther away and it locks. The only time it "failed", it was me - user error - I...

All of my prior ones (my 2017 Model S, my wife's 2018 Model 3, and my brother in law's 2018 Model S) have been at about 4 years and got the warning. Each was replaced by service within about 2 weeks and we never had any issue using the vehicle. Like another poster said above, I've had lots of...

I'm not sure if you are using Android or iPhone - but you can make it work with a nickname for sure on Android. I would assume that iOS has a similar feature but I don't know what it would be called. I had this problem with my wife. Her name is Cherie. Does not sound like Sherry. And of course...

For the 11 kw at your work - that's a good test. The fast chargers and superchargers are not as they are not AC and they bypass the AC to DC converter (charger modules). You can end up with a failed charger module and still be able to supercharge, FYI.

Completely agreed. Doing a calculation of gas used when warming up a car, adding in the costs to run block heaters, and then calculating that against preconditioning an EV is a useless exercise. Nothing takes anywhere near the energy of actually moving the car as you'll quickly see when driving...

They all do this. I have some nice video of my wife's model 3 showing a phantom 18 wheeler doing a dance repeatedly slamming into her car while some other vehicles dance around nearby. Every time we pull into our garage with either my 2023 MYP or her 2018 Model 3 we get displays worse than what...

I can see how that would think it is a truck - not that it should, just comparing with what it does in our normal garage. When we pull in my wife's model 3 (with USS) we get the normal "ding, ding" about the sides of the garage and then, when we get near where she parks, the display shows a...

Also you are comparing two different things - real world miles on an actual drive vs. EPA rated miles. When your friend says they are at 280 miles on an 80% charge - that is just what the display says and it is just rated range. And, you could actually achieve that if you had 1 person in the...

I've never tried parking in a tight garage like that and I don't have to drive in with the mirrors folded like you will, however I do pull in with my passenger side mirror within 1/2 inch of the rubber gasket like thing installed at the edge of our garage door. It isn't hard for me to do that -...

It really won't provide any protection from what I saw. The first decent length trip we took in my 23 MYP we got curb rash at the hotel. Did not hear anything (like rubber or metal scraping) when we parked, but got out and saw the rim right against the curb. Backed it off and wanted to scream or...

It seems more random than that. I really never navigate to home - or at least all the way to home. For example on a trip, I may tell it to navigate to home, but by half way back (or on long trips the last charging stop) I know the rest of the way so I turn it off. And yet it has most of my...

Yeah, I don't know where they make up those numbers. However, for me - my car before a Tesla was a 2005 Toyota Camry that got about 30 MPG. Every single time I run the numbers I find I save quite a bit on power vs. fuel over that car. Two weeks ago we took a minor trip - 750 miles round trip and...

Doesn't your utility provide information on how much power you use at various times? If so, it should be much more comprehensive to simply look at what they provide. For example, our shows monthly and daily usage and has a "download" button to get hourly data in a csv file. The visualization...

Stopped here on Tuesday the 5th at 2 pm. Only one spot available. We took it, but it wasn't working right - 17 kW at 23% with a preconditioned battery on a mild day. We waited just a few minutes until someone left and took that spot. Still only got up to 107 kW - likely because the utility is...

Here's ours. The first wall connector - to the right of the picture - was installed in 2017 for our 2017 Model S. The second wall connector (on the left) was installed in 2018 for our 2018 Model 3. As you can see, we recently sold the Model S and now have a 2023 MYP there. The wall connector is...

You'll only miss the screen above the steering wheel for a short time. I just went from a Model S to a Model Y and it took very little time to adapt to that difference. The Y currently has two stalks - one for shifting, one for turn signals. The refresh 3 (Highland) that is about to come out...

Nice review! I just got rid of my Model S with FSD and got the same car you did 2 weeks ago - the blue MYP with hitch. I transferred the FSD, but honestly I never found a use for it before. I never even cared for the lane keeping (too many micro corrections and doesn't handle variable curve...

I just got my Model Y the other day and just drove it to get PPF and ceramic on it this morning. My result was similar to the photo above where it shows the car right on top of the obstruction, yet it is a foot or more away when you get out. I had done an FSD transfer from my older Model S. Both...

I don't know about the specifics for that Austin plan, but I would just add that the wall connector is also safer as it has sensors and electronics in it that will slow the charge or shut it down in if it senses the wires are too hot. A 14-50 will happily let you burn your house down as long as...

Picked up a custom order MYP today in Vallejo CA - Fremont build - both Matrix headlights and HW4.

Would have been nice if this site was up yesterday. It looked like the last photos still though - no change. We had to charge at the V2 existing site yesterday and did have to wait (only 1 minute though) but of course we were paired so even with a pre-conditioned battery at 13% we were getting...

All I can say is that I would be pissed off if the car's navigation sent me to a valet only location. It is one thing if I plan a trip to go somewhere valet. But using the vehicle's automation and being routed to one unaware would be upsetting. Hopefully Tesla has smarts in their backend systems...

Good call Bruce. My wife was headed from the East Bay area down to the LA area recently and she asked me for a pre-trip routing for minimal time charging. I used EVTripping to get that, and it had her go to this Copus Rd. charger. And of course it was powered down. Fortunately she had no problem...

Stopped here yesterday afternoon. We have been visiting the San Diego area all week and had some free time in the afternoon to go hit new (to us) chargers. We did not realize how out in the boonies this one was. But it is a nice stop with a grocery store (with restrooms) and a restaurant...

Took a day trip down from the SF Bay area to Monterey today. On the way south, both Gilroy chargers showed as online and working and the nav display showed the number of available chargers. We had not been to this one before, so on the way back from Monterey we decided to stop there. The nav...

Pulled in about 9:30 AM. I was the only car here (there were 3 at the old Concord charger). I live only 9 miles away, so this was just a "I charged here" stop - SoC was nearly up to 90% and the battery was still cold. Working fine and it seems the folks who normally fill the other charger may...

I stopped by this morning - just needed to get out of the house for a few minutes as I have been inside all week. Still not powered up, but the cones have been removed from the stalls and all of the cones are now arranged around the conduit in the pad for the megapack.

I stopped by today to see if there was any change. Visually no changes, but the original Concord charger (right next to this new one - separated by an unpaved strip with bushes only about 10 feet apart) is shut down today as "temporarily unavailable" and there was a work van parked at it...