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Today the model S is advertised with much more range than the former 100D. Has a real independent benchmark been done to check what the real range gain is ?

Thanks, that was it, I had to reformat in a PC... The reformat option in the car seems totally messed up.

I use dashcam & sentry recording on a 64GB Samsung USB for a while. It worked (quite) well on MCU1. I recently upgraded to MCU2, it still worked fine, and I used the embedded video player a few times. A few days ago, the recording icons disappeared. I tried rebooting, unplugging/replugging, and...

Given the cost in Europe and usual cost differences between countries, expect something such as 400USD

If it happened that a tire model had a 100% probability to explode in normal use before reaching the maximum specified wear, I'm sure there would be a recall...

Conventional automotive radars (non phase array) like the on you have in your Tesla in the front have exactly this square form factor

Looks like plain radars to me, not phased array, especially since there are two of them with a small angle between, which would be useless with a phase array radar. This is a plain classical automotive radar: Continental Automotive I don't know how the car pictures above give any clue there is...

Do you have a part number / offer screenshot? This could help other people requesting it in SCs which do not have the info yet...

I will ask my service center for an offer

In Europe, service centers now offer a MCU2 upgrade with FM. I don’t know in other regions, though.

We now have the option to upgrade MCU2 with FM in Europe, I don’t know in other regions.

They weren't in september, but according to some posts in this thread, they do now.

I was upgraded to MCU2/AP3, and I can see the traffic lights on ICU, while I did not purchase the FSD option.

2700€, without radio.

Spotify was OK until v8, but since v9 it’s a piece of garbage with MCU1. MCU2 is your only hope.

No, this was an AP2.5 I'm super happy with the upgrade, by the way. Now the car really feels finished and working as it should: Everything, especially keyboard is responsive Voice commands mostly work Planning a long trip using nav takes seconds instead of minutes Sentry works and is now...

Hi, We just received an update (2020.36.11) which enables automatic red light stop in Europe, in Autosteer mode. Does it alert and/or automatically brake without Autosteer, if one is trespassing the red light? Thanks!

There is no such thing as snow tires (except maybe studded tires), but winter tires. And you don’t need snow or ice to make winter tires useful, below 15C/59F they are more effective than summer tires. At those temperatures summer tire rubber is too hard. Winter tires are made of a softer rubber...

Here, on an Audi owners forum, an user got a response from its service center: e-tron Battery Inspection I have looked for official Audi warranty documents. I have found this: https://www.audi.co.uk/content/dam/audiadaptive/PDFs/FV-Audi-New-Warranty-Terms.pdf However, I couldn't find any...

I'm almost sure I've seen this rate, but now you make me doubt...

The SoC in % has no physical meaning anyway... It's only a user-friendly feature for knowing where you are between the full user-allowed charge (defined as 100%) and the empty user-allowed discharge (defined as 0%) The only thing that matters is the voltage. How 0% and 100% voltages are defined...

No. You can charge at least up to 180kW

Point 2 is basically bullshit, and the article contradicts itself... If you take the article figures, the Audi e-Tron has a 9.2% reserve, while the Long Range S has a 6.1% reserve. OK it's smaller, but more subtle than "Unlike other automakers such as Audi, Toyota, or Mercedes, Tesla gives...

What? Long range plus is 69k$ only?

I didn’t say Tesla uses google maps tiles. Only that it streams the display maps from some server. Try scrolling in an underground parking with no cellular and no WiFi, you shouldn’t have maps. Unless this changed at some update, I’m sure it was the case at some point.

No, except if by "before" you mean one hour before.

Nantes, France

The map is downloaded on the fly using cellular network, you may just have had a poor connection.

I have DDR kit for PPSB (Deep Blue Metallic) After applying the paint match is perfect, but the extra thickness make the repair visible (which is perfectly normal and why the blending solution is for). But after blending, the touch up paint looks rough and not polished, and its surface aspect...

I will recheck as I don’t use radio, but I think there is no FM and no DAB. Yes, HW3 but I don’t believe it changes anything in Europe.

I was not proposed to keep the screen, and this may be bad since the previous one was de-yellowed three weeks before the MCU2 retrofit, after 1 year wait... I might suffer the return of the dreaded yellow borders next summer.

I just had MCU2 retrofit in Europe. Now voice commands really work great. With MCU1 they were super slow and totally unreliable. Also, planning a cross country trip (800km) now takes about 5 seconds, versus 5 minutes before... Just for this, it was worth it. Other features are icing on the cake.

I just had my MCU2 retrofit done! Now I have working voice commands, and planning a long cross country trip takes seconds instead of minutes!

Glass expert here! Car glass is a quite complex thing. First it has to be safe, so it’s either laminated (two glass panes bound together by a polymer sheet) or tempered. In either case the challenge is having a smooth curve without waves. For a windshield it’s always laminated (to ensure you...

This whole test is stupid! I was expecting proper autopilot behavior comparison, but the only thing they compare is user interface related, ie MCU. The nag time is a simple timer set for legal reasons, and has nothing to do with hardware performance. Really nothing interesting there.

Well, that’s purely speculative and there is no evidence of any difference between AP2.5 and AP3 for Enhanced AP so far... The fact is, Tesla pushes its AP3 hardware upgrades for free everywhere. There is a reason for this which is not related to a car feature or performance, as it wouldn’t be...

Yes! On the other hand, is there any benefit in having HW3 if you do not have FSD?

I do not have FSD. Yes, the commercial offer includes AP3 upgrade at the same time.

No, it’s not shown in the app or the website.

AP2.5

France, about 2700€

Yes!! The SC called me back with an offer, parts are ordered.

My service center called me back, MCU2 upgrade is available for my MS in France. The cost is approximately 2700€. I scheduled an appointment for it. They will do HW3 at the same time.

Hey, I just had an information from my service center manager that they will offer a FM/DAB retrofit later on for people who did the MCU2 upgrade. This is in Europe though. You should ask other SC to check if they have the same info.

WTF is Jensen Huang doing in a Mercedes add? He is not supposed to be a selling superstar like Lewis Hamilton...

I have tested the iOS app widget this week. I have read in an old post that the widget should not wake up the car in any way as opening the app does. However, every time I swipe left the phone screen to the widgets page, it first shows the previous range (with a « X minutes ago » tag), then...

It would be interesting to know what the failing MCU does to the passenger airbag lock or to the kid door safety. If the car is drivable but one of those two features get disabled without any warning, this would be a safety issue. As a parent of young kids I have always been concerned by these...

Well it clearly states that driver must ACTIVELY prove he is ready to take control by responding on at least two different stimulations, at least every 30 seconds. I don’t know if this is L2 or L3 but it doesn’t matter. It means two nagging systems with a 30s delay are mandatory. Independently...

But, by reading carefully the document, it clearly limits that lane keeping systems must work only at speeds below 60km/h and on divided highways. Thus only in traffic jams. It states, however, that this will likely change in the future. "In a first step, the original text of this Regulation...

A lot of false information and BS has been spread about this regulation. The only proper way to discuss it is reading the document. For instance, the eye monitoring is nowhere mandatory. But, two "driver availability criteria" must have been passed in the last 30 seconds in order to keep the...