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We just had the charge port door replaced a couple weeks ago on our 2018 after it stopped working. We had to manually pry it open for a few days while we waited for our appointment. I think it took less than 15 minutes for mobile service to replace the part.

In every car with TPMS I have driven (BMW, VW, Honda, and our 2018 and 2019 Model 3s) I have had to start moving to see the tire pressure.

It’s the sensors that are controlling the sleep, not the car. They have to rotate to wake up and start transmitting the pressure signal.

I think what you’re seeing is normal. TPMS sensors sleep when the car isn’t moving for a while to extend the battery life. You have to start driving to wake them up and have them start reporting. At least that’s how they’ve worked on any car I’ve owned with TPMS. I can’t tell you anything...

Unfortunately, the Tesla rack is just painted, too, and scratches badly with use. I'd be scared to install the Taptes rack with the generic nut and no torque wrench, though. At least the Tesla rack comes with a thumbscrew and hex wrench that make it a little harder to over-torque. Better...

Just got mine installed by mobile service this morning in Maryland. It took about 1h15 and just needed wifi and the garage door opener set back up. It looks like the computers come with the latest map already installed now because 2020.12 was already there. I did the calibration drive and got...

A couple thoughts: - My wife's Model 3 seems to get get stuck sometimes trying to connect to wifi. It looks like it is connected, but my router will show several days of 0 bytes transferred. Rebooting the car clears the problem, and we'll sometimes "magically" get an update right after the...

I agree with the others—the FSD computer is definitely not available for the asking. I’ve tried and been rejected, and from other comments the NE US has been out of them for a while. Any sort of timeframe or position on the backlog would really go a long way to managing expectations.

I have Ubiquiti UniFi access points, and I ran a physical wire to it since I have an unfinished basement with a few inches of common wall with the garage. I've never tried mesh since I was able to run wires to all three access points in my house.

No it doesn't; 5 GHz is fine. What the car does seem to want is a minimum signal strength to start a download, especially for map updates; two bars or less can be a problem according to my experience. The cars favor 5 GHz connections over 2.4, and with 5 GHz not propagating as well you can end...

I don’t think that’s the case. I tried adding the FSD retrofit onto a bodywork repair planned for 3/16 and was told they didn’t have inventory to do it now.

AP doesn't react immediately when someone merges in front of you, probably with the idea that the new car might just continue through to the next lane. It happens all the time in my area with people deciding to exit from the left lane, or immediately heading for the left lane when entering a...

It does sound like the problem may just be with the IOS app. It isn't that you can't set it to any arbitrary value, it's that you can't fine tune the setting. Any attempt to move the bar slightly either gets ignored or jumps up or down ~10%.

No, I agree with the OP that it can be very frustrating and they've done something pretty wrong with the UI that it is this hard to use. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter whether I'm setting it to 79% or 81% instead of 80%, but when I'm trying to drag the bar and it wants to keep...

I don't have Geico, but my wife and I have been hit twice by people with Geico insurance. They are horrible to deal with. There could be national news coverage of one of their drivers hitting your car and admitting it on camera, and Geico would still claim it was your fault and deny payment.

You're asking Tesla service to prove a negative and that isn't possible (technically, yes, they could disassemble every component of the car and try to determine if it was exposed to water or not, but that's not going to happen). The absence of error messages from diagnostics is a pretty good...

Mine is showing 18% for the last 24 hours which does seem high. I’m on iOS 12.4 beta. Any chance you’re also on a beta version of iOS?

I had a loaner Model S (75D) while my wife's Model 3 was in the shop for a few days and she drove my M3, and I agree with most of your observations (although I liked the seats better in the MS). Hopefully the upcoming refresh of the MS will solve a lot of the problems. And what is up with the...

I meant the IOS 13 release notes, but now that I look it was actually in the Features page (iOS 13 Preview - Features): Bluetooth album art iOS supports the AVRCP 1.6 standard, which includes album art when connected to a supported car kit or speaker.

Cool! I saw that mentioned in the iOS release notes and was hoping that would be the case, but I was waiting for the public beta before risking the upgrade on my phone.

As others noted the car doesn't get the album art from Bluetooth, but instead uses the title, album name and artist to look up the art for itself. I've found that a lot of Spotify songs are titled something "<song title> - REMASTERED" or the albums are "<album title> - 20th anniversary release"...

To me it sounds like there is a hardware problem with your car that they need to address in the shop. The current FSD features (NOA, summon) can definitely be activated over the air on HW2.5 cars. Mine was active within 5 minutes of purchase (going from AP to FSD); the original AP calibrated...

Yes, the video was in the saved folder. You do need to remove the storage from the car and look on a computer to see what was saved. When I looked I found that the car recorded around 15 minutes of video over several hours. Most of them showed nothing. It was windy yesterday so perhaps wind...

I should have mentioned that I did see that thread. I guess I meant for my question to be somewhat more philosophical. I do find it hard to believe that I would get help from the police in my jurisdiction. Plus I don't even know what jurisdiction this would be: I was in a DC subway lot in...

Now that we have sentry mode I can see the people who open their doors into my car, and not have it just be the mystery that it's always been in the past. But what do I do about it, if anything? I now have video including the license plate number (out of state) of someone opening their door...

I would report it--that's a dangerous problem. What firmware are you on? I've had all sorts of problems with 2019.8.x, but nothing that bad. Just display problems, screen reboots, and just a few minutes ago a fully locked up car (no response from any controls-I had to reboot to bring it back)...

That's a huge improvement over the old browser. From Musk's tweet it sounds like they're blocking streaming over LTE though; I don't care about movies, I just want to be able to have a UI for Apple Music or Spotify. The browser would probably still be too dangerous to use while driving...

Can someone with 2019.12 browse to html5test.com from the car and see if any of the audio or streaming features are enabled in the new browser?

You were told wrong: only Slacker Plus is included. You can verify that by trying to play the same song twice in a row. Only premium will let you repeat a song more often than once every 24 hours (plus is more like radio minus the ads and with the ability to pick the starting song of a station).

We have two Model 3s...over the last couple days one will wake from the app and the other won't. I'm glad it isn't just me.

I just noticed my Tesla account page shows a delivery appointment for next Monday at 11am (ordered on 3/13). I don’t have a VIN and I haven’t heard anything from a human. Since I’m on vacation this week there’s no way I can take off from work in the middle of my first day back so hopefully I can...

Good point, they could just be adjusting output to move the torque curve around a little.

Horsepower is a function of torque [(torque lb/ft * RPM)/5252 (in US measurements)] so basically they're increasing the torque produced by the motor which has the effect of increasing HP.

Yes, same here.

I'm curious why you preheated for such a long time and to that high of a temperature. I find it usually only takes 5-10 minutes of preheating to warm up the car. Maybe 80F was related to your Cancun trip (although I would have found it unbearable dressed in winter clothes!)?

Yes, same problem with my wife (just over 100 lbs), although mostly only when she has a back pillow behind her. Moving her weight an inch or so forward seems to mess up the weight detector.

I ran into the same thing last weekend, and I'm not sure what is going on. On Saturday I drove for about 2 hours with autopilot on (over a couple sessions) and only got 1 or 2 nags. The next day, I probably got 15 or 20 nags in about 60 minutes of autopilot driving. I'm pretty sure I didn't...

Heh, I had a conversation with "Ross Barber", too!