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I had free supercharging in my previous Tesla and so only no have had to pay for the electrons. Prior to this I really had no clue about the costs of supercharging. I saw many complex breakdowns accounting for all kinds of details, I knew it was cheaper than gas (in SoCal) but not really sure...

I bought a used Tesla from an Audi dealer. I asked if they could transfer the car on their account to me and they looked completely confused and blank and said they weren't Tesla dealers so couldn't do that. So I submitted the bill of sale to Tesla on the app and now await their review. In the...

After looking for a while for a 2021 model3 I found one in a local Audi dealership. Actually there are several of them floating around various luxury car dealers (Lexus had a few). The dealer said they were flying off the lot. I am not quite sure about that since they had the sale price marked...

I am on the hunt for a 2021 LR model 3. Ideally with eap or fsd. Blue or red would be ideal.

My car was written off by my insurance company and sold at auction. I just received an unexpected email from someone who says they are the new owner. They said they can't get the car off the tow truck. It sounds like they are very green and inexperienced at dealing with Teslas. He said he...

So in another thread I detailed my experience of crashing my Tesla (2018 RWD LR), first accident of any kind in 30 years so I guess my time had come. Now I have $37k in hand and want another model3. My 2018 had 81,000 miles and most importantly free super charging for life. I spent about $900 on...

After 30 years of accident free driving, with not so much as a fender bender to my name, the winning streak finally ended in torrential rain on the 101 in la yesterday. Hitting standing water at 60mph I started a slide I couldn't control and ended up spinning rather gracefully sliding backwards...

My car has 80,000 miles and frankly after 5 years it's not looking too bad inside. The main areas of wear are on the driver headrest, the door handle area and the centre console arm rest since these are the primarily touch points while I drive. Is there anything I can do to protect them from...

My model 3 is at 65,000 miles and whilst everything seems to be working just fine with zero problems I feel that probably it's worth getting things looked at. I had a mobile tech take a quick look at the brakes just before the warranty expired and superficially he found nothing amiss and assured...

Just witnessed a weird thing. A model 3 came to an intersection and did a sort of donut regained control and then crashed into the sidewalk curb. With all the traction control tech i thought doing a donut or drifting out even skidding and losing control at low speed on a residential street would...

My LR RWD is at 44,300miles and heading towards the end of warranty. After a lot of problems at the beginning of ownership it has been rock solid. As the warranty draws to a close I am looking at seeing what small things I should get attended to while I can. I recently had the AC investigated as...

For a while (maybe since I got the car - I don't recall), I have noticed that the air doesn't blow very strongly in the centre position on the driver's side. On a hot day I can still be sweating away while my passenger is freezing with the air running at full blast. I can feel with my hand that...

so it seems my wife who is the usual occupant of the passenger seat snapped the seat adjuster knob/button thing. The long one to move the seat backward and forward. Where one might find such a small simple little part? ebay? Tesla (I know they are supposed to sell parts now). It doesn't warrant...

I am in Gualala on Mendocino coast. I have about 120 miles of charge on my lr rwd model 3. Trying to decide if I should risk going the mountain route to ukiah or stay by the coast and go longer route to Santa Rosa, or try to hang at one of the slow desolation chargers in the area

The driver door handle got stuck open. It only happened in a specific situation, I thought maybe it could be a mechanical or electronic issue so requested mobile service. As I have been unable to get the service appointment feature in app to recognise my phone number I couldn't get a text alert...

Since a Tesla only needs brake checks, fluid/rotors etc as part of the official maintenance routine is there a reason a local trusted mechanic couldn't do that? Until The Electrified garage opens franchises all over the nation I don't really want to take my car to Tesla just for this sort of...

I know others have this issue in the past. How can I schedule service if the app always my phone number is invalid? I checked my phone number is correct on my Tesla account online. I was able to enter some random digits and that got accepted.. This happened before and I was never notified when...

I was in a drive through halloween thing last night and they asked us to turn off headlights. Turning off headlights is easy, but how about the DRL (daytime running lights?). Is that even possible while driving? I felt like a bit of a prick being that guy a) unable to operate his car as I...

I had a funny incident the other day. As I waited at the stop light by my house, confident that even my "slow" LR RWD Model3 could beat pretty much anything off the line, I thought about nothing in particular. Suddenly a car flashed past me as the light turned green, I instinctively stepped on...

Does anyone have this issue. When I get in the car and turn on the radio, when the seat moves into position from the easy entry position I get a static crackle through the speakers. Never happens at any other time though.

maybe coincidental but I have noticed that my usb flash drive stopped working a few weeks ago. I also noticed that my phone was not charging great any more from the built in charge cable. I assumed a bad connection. Sometimes I would swap the cable to the rhs port and that would work for a...

My sister lives in Oban on the west coast of Scotland. They have some kind of electric car chargers at her work as they are moving to an all electric fleet which is great (Kia Niro I think). Sustainability and environmentalism are very important to her. She wants to go all electric but has...

Just a little anecdote. I was reading here the other day how a guy was locked out of his car and had his phone kicked in the car. Someone wondered if he could have just asked his wife or some one to download the app and login for him and unlock the car remotely. Yesterday at local supercharger...

Maybe it's just me but several times now I have found myself throwing the car into reverse in the middle of traffic instead of turning off autopilot. In stop/go freeway traffic autopilot is pretty great. However there are times (like suddenly changing lanes) when I need to turn off autopilot. I...

A girl a work took delivery of a brand new wrx sti. I was half jokingly saying things like, oh that's awesome, of course my model 3 could still take you at the lights. I don't really have any idea if that's true though. I did wonder how they stack up as I imagine both cars have great handling...

Autopilot in v10 is just getting better and better. One nice feature would be if it could be nice to motorbikes lanesplitting. I like to be nice to motorbikes on traffic on the freeway in la and give them a little space. I would normally pull a little to the side of safe to do so. Would be cool...

Another day, another article about people sleeping while driving in a Tesla... Are people doing this consciously, are they deciding to do this or are they just driving whilst exhausted? If they were driving a different car would they be falling asleep behind the wheel due to tiredness. If this...

I don't know if it's possible on iOS but on Android it would be really handy to have a shortcut/widget that I could just tap to start the car cooling and/or unlock. Too often I find myself coming out of the mall or supermarket and realising I forgot to start the AC in 100F sun. By the time I...

Just a funny little anecdote today. Dropping my kids off at elementary school today I overheard a little girl in her minivan shout out to her mum, "Tesla!, Look Tesla!, Tesla mummy, Tesla!" Kind of funny since Tesla Model3 is absolutely everywhere here in LA so it's not exactly a rare sight but...

I feel like there just be surely some mistake (in my best Sean Connery voice). It's a bit odd because when I checked the controls in the car, overheat protection was on. This was midday in Los Angeles at the weekend

I was recently on vacation in Italy and now that Fiat owns Chrysler there are Jeeps all over the place. Rather incongruous to see these large rugged cars in the tiny medieval streets.. but I digress. I rented a car from Hertz and was given a Jeep rather then the Ford Grand C Max I requested. As...

I am slightly confused as to how sentry mode stores it's videos and retains them. I left my car for 2 weeks in my drive while on vacation. I left it plugged in with sentry mode active. I thought it could act as a sort of security camera whilst I was away incase people walked up my driveway for...

Kind of a dumb question but anyway. The model 3 is absolutely everywhere here in Los Angeles. The garage at work is stuffed full of them. I still give a cheery wave, let them into traffic in front of me etc. but I have to admit I feel a little less "special". My cars have always been a bit...

I often think that the best way to know a car is to wash it. It is only when you was the car yourself by hand that you feel the lines of the car, the change in form and see little design details. First off washing the Tesla is so much easier than many other cars. The very simple smooth body...

Does anyone have this? The base of the wiper blades looks like it's been at the bottom of the sea for a while. It's all pitted. I don't remember when I first noticed it, maybe during the winter when I was NYC. Is this normal? Could road salt do this? Should I take to the SC? Doesn't seem right...

Does anyone know of a good cooler that can fit in the trunk? Although the trunk is large, especially with the covered space, the opening is a little small and no matter how I try I can't get a cooler in, unless maybe I lower the back seats and put it in that way. I am sure I could take the car...

County of LA has launched a competition to find "the safest driver in LA". There is an app which monitors your driving.. fairly simplistic, monitors acceleration, gforce, speed, phone use etc. and rates you. There are $500 prizes and grand prices of 10k or more. Anyway I thought it might be fun...

Bit of an edge case but has anyone found that BBC radio stations are no longer working in the car? I just get loading error message when trying Radio 4 or Radio1. Tunein on my phone or desktop plays them just fine.

One disadvantage of the tesla phone as key is the inability to push a button and find your car underground. If you have ever parked deep in some multi level parking lot and can't quite remember where this is kind of a big deal. Am I doing it wrong or is the phone app useless underground. As far...

My wife and I have a constant battle about the ventiliation in the car. She has very particular requirements for the air. As a passenger in a normal car she can just set the vents as she likes. In the Tesla though it seems to forget her settings each time we start a trip. Does the car save the...

I have about 15k on my car after 8 months of ownership. The drivers seat is already showing signs of creasing, and lumpiness. Compared to my Volvo leather seats its wearing way worse. I ask concerned if it's like this with less than a year, how will it be in 5 or more years. It's this normal...

As I was throwing my car around some turns at some speed, I was thinking about what an amazing driving experience the M3 is. As more and more people get to experience what incredible acceleration is like in an average car, being able to drive almost on rails through the turns, an interface that...

I did a highly not scientific acceleration test before and after. I was getting around 4.8-4.9 seconds on my single motor before the update. Afterwards it seems closer to 4.5/4.6 Funny thing is, it feels very subjectively to be closer to when I first got the car in July. Shortly after I got the...

I had a near miss the other day. I always use my phone to unlock my car and never have an issue. I went out for a hike at the weekend and dropped my phone in a river.. it was still working after I fished it out but the battery was dead...Fortunately my keycard was in my wallet. I wondered if...

I drove 360 miles each way from White Plains NY to Montreal for the holiday weekend. Autopilot performed flawlessly on the way up, perfect weather. barely touched the pedals or wheel the whole journey. Of course charging was no problem. Stopped at the absolutely massive 20 stall charger at...

Should I expect to lose all data functions (sat nav directions, slacker etc.) when I cross the border to Canada?

I just added a USB drive to activate the dashcam so this maybe a known feature. When the car is driving the video recorded looks great and as expected. What I didn't expect were clips of video with an image that looked like it was taken with a decent telephoto lens when the car was parked...

Thinking about taking a weekend trip to Montreal. Has anyone done this, any advice on charging, weather etc.? Good idea.. bad idea?

I was looking at a video of the Taycan motorised charge port and the thing that struck me was how huge the socket and connector is. So many pins! How is that Tesla can create such a svelte simple connector whilst others have a bunch of pins, sometimes even double stacked like CC? Are Tesla just...

I was planning to drive my car across country but that will no longer be possible due to time constraints. Does anyone have a recommendation for a transport service from NYC to LA. I have a few quotes, around $1500-1800 for covered service. I had my car transported by Tesla from LA to NYC and...