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2015 Golf TDI. It was part of Diesel gate, they bought it back and I got a Model 3

Obviously driving in standing water is not a best practice, but sometimes, during an extremely rain storm you're stuck on a road and knowing how deep you can cross without permanently damaging or frying the car is useful information.

I did almost the same drive twice this month. It's funny you mention the Grants Pass stop, as it's one of the easier places to get food, it's a short walk to In N Out where we ate and to get there you walk past a Black Bear Diner. It's also across the street from a divey sports bar we stopped in...

Following up: Applied Aquapel to my windshield a month ago, hit my first serious rain on a Thanksgiving weekend road trip. Aquapel on the back window works great! Absolutely experience wiper chattering with the wipers on Auto 100% of the time 8 /. My Model 3 RWD LR is on 42.3 for what it's...

A friend (S100D) reported a 35 minute wait for one of the 8 slots in Grants Pass, Oregon on Sunday in the early afternoon. Fortunately all 8 stalls were working, one of them was busted when I came through a month ago. I-5 between Portland and San Francisco will be helped out a lot when the...

I forget how much of a bubble SF is, I see ~3-4 Model 3s that are parked outside when I walk my dog every day

That's great that you can do that! With even a moderate sized family it can be difficult to schedule with various vacation times. For me it's one of the few times a year I can see extended family members together so for me it's worth the slog

Yeah, what kbecks13 said. On the holiday weeks in California it isn't people leaving their cars in the spot that's the problem, it's basic capacity and throughput.

The I-5 corridor between the Bay & LA have been a problem the last few years and while there's more capacity I expect there will be some meaty Supercharger lines for those traveling Wednesday & Sunday. I just stopped at The Kettleman City supercharger yesterday driving back to SF, that station...

Through some more searching found a ToughPro mat that you can buy on its own for $30. Love the price, unfortunately there's no lip on the sides at all, which would be nice ToughPRO Tesla Model 3 Storage Mat

I've got all weather mats everywhere in my car except for the sub trunk (Tesla calls it the "Cargo Area" in the manual below, but that's not very descriptive). I just went on a road trip and stored a bunch of tailgating stuff down there and realized for the first time I'd like some protection...

Thanks for the update! I'm curious how this ends up, I hope it's resolved to your satisfaction and you can focus on enjoying the car!

It's absurd. It's like people can't accept that a company can do both good and bad things. Yes, it's the best EV by a mile and also they have clear and serious manufacturing and service issues and that's not ok. All those things can be true, I don't understand the urge to defend a 50 billion...

I had the same thing happen, I called service and explained a parallelogram shaped piece had fallen out of my charge port door and they sent out tesla mobile service to replace the entire charge port door, they didn't charge me. If you google it this is an extremely common problem, I'm...

sorry, which option were you suggesting for glass replacement? I read through this comment twice I didn't see it referenced anywhere.

Hey! I'm getting my Windshield replaced in San Francisco for my Model 3 (just a rock, not a break in), and a word of caution, Tesla service on the phone scheduled me to get my windshield replaced at the van ness SF location. after time passed and my appointment was two days away, The Van Ness...

Getting back on the original topic, I'm not sure what appropriate compensation would be, but I recommend looking into if your state has lemon laws. It sounds like it might be appropriate here and as a bonus a friend whose Model S had a myriad of issues got much more attention when he mentioned...

Of course you should be nice to the Tesla reps, they have a hard job and have to deal with a lot of angry people, in part due to widespread manufacturing issues. But it's not the customer's responsibility to assuage a corporation's feelings when they're the ones who've screwed up. And supplying...

It's complete bullshit and you absolutely deserve compensation. The reality is what you should do is ask for a refund and get a car made by another company. Tesla has its head up its ass when it comes to reliability and service and thanks to huge demand they don't think they have to do anything...

Holding it up or down doesn't work for me reliably. Works about half the time. Really need to *bounce* it off the bottom or top for it to trigger reliably. This post is making me think there is something wrong with my turn signals.

Most other cars just stay in place by themselves. I'm only aware of Tesla & BMW that have them return to center. Either way, the point is this being my 4th car (previous cars being two hondas and a VW), it takes way way more force to engage the continuous turn signal than I've experienced. I'm...

To engage "continuous" turn signals or auto lane change, the Model 3 requires you press the level fully up or down. For 800 miles I couldn't get it to work reliably by pushing the turn signal stalk all the way down or up and holding it there. I finally figured out that if I quickly apply enough...

I have seen it! But it’s light on details and sounds like it doesn’t matter as long as your battery has a sufficient charge. I’d rather charge and unplug, then avoid one of my neighbors clipping the charge plug. Unfortunately not blessed with a private garage.

I re-read the statement from the manual and I think you’re right. It’s the charge level itself that maximizes battery life, not the fact that it’s plugged in. In that case I think if I charge the car to 70% after using it then unplug it and leave it unplugged for a few days after charging it...

The core question I have is, when the manual says– "When plugged in, Model 3 wakes up when needed to automatically maintain a charge level that maximizes the lifetime of the Battery." What is the Model 3 doing that "maximizes the lifetime of the Battery". And by not leaving it plugged in, am...

My current usage is no driving for several days in a row (occasionally, rarely, more than a week) and then driving ~120 miles in a day. My current charging strategy is any time i driving more than a dozen miles I’m charging it to 70% (~220 miles) per Jeff Dahn’s Recommendation, then unplugging...

This is my intuition, would love if someone had a Tesla source that confirmed there's no long term problems with this approach.

There have been a thousand threads on the question of the optimal charging strategy. Inevitably (and reasonably), someone will point to the manual, which reads: And as the manual notes, the Model 3 uses energy for system tests and recharging the 12V battery. It's also a DIRE problem if you...

Yep! From the linked page: "Under Mac OS X, start PhotoRec (ie testdisk-6.13/photorec). If you are not root, PhotoRec will restart itself using sudo after a confirmation on your part. Sudo will ask for a password - enter your Mac OS X user password." Direct mac download link here

I used to work in filesystems, and a handy (though moderately complicated) tool to recover media is PhotoRec (link). It's especially useful because it just examines the drive for things that look like media, it ignores any filesystem data. Which means it can be possible to recover media even if...

I think I'm going to brave it and attempt aquapel on the windshield, some preliminary reports are the auto windshield wipers work better in v9

If you bring up TuneIn and scroll to the bottom in the middle of a screen is a "Sign In" button. Once logged in, TuneIn will show your favorites.

Honestly would love a mode that was Sport mode under my control, Chill mode under autopilot. If I'm in Autopilot I probably just want to chill, listen to a podcast/tunein, and eat up some miles.

0-60 in 5.1!!! The RWD Tesla is incredibly quick, whether or not the claims of longer range are true. Reading the forum you'd get the idea that the car only had two wheels or something. Unless you plan on regularly driving in the snow/ice or at the track I can't imagine it'd make much difference.

One thing I really like is that the two back mats have an interlocking overlap portion to keep them aligned and looking neat.

Fun project! Great stuff

My Tesla floor mats arrived today! They have a combo of rubber spikes and several velcro 2" circular areas on the background to keep them in place, works really well, they're extremely solid. They're not overly thick like a lot of aftermarket solutions. The rubber is extremely pliable and...

And you were right! 11 days after I made the appointment they called me to say they don't do windshields. I called the glass place they recommended in San Francisco and they gave me a quote of $1083.

Follow up now that the poll is closed. Total votes: 61 52 (85.2%) didn't notice any change in the auto-dimming mirrors pre and post tint 9 (14.7%) Noticed the auto-dimming mirrors getting darker after tinting. Almost 1 in 7! Of those 9 3 (4.9%) thought it was still safe 6 (9.8%) thought it...

Has anyone applied a hydrophobic treatment to the rear window? Are you happy with how it performs, are their any caveats to consider? Since there is no rear windshield wiper I was considering applying Aquapel to the rear window and possibly the roof, but I haven't found many examples of people...

Some formulations of Ceramic coating needed to be baked onto the care to cure, it was just part of the process, this was more common when coatings were new. A lot of them would require you bake the car for an hour after application before wipedown. CQuartz "UK" is a reference to the weather in...

I noticed you're also in California, have you always tinted your cars? Ever gotten a ticket of any kind? (car looks great btw)

Changed my vote from no->yes as I got the notification for the update last night

Huh, that's weird. I recently made an appointment to replace the Windshield for my Model 3 in the Bay Area (San Francisco Van Ness). Called October 6th, I drop it off October 19th. We'll see if they turn me away.

My car didn't come washed either, honestly I'm still pissed about it

PPF is expensive and seems like overkill. Never needed it, not sure why it's suddenly crazy to not have it. I did the Ceramic coating myself. First time, DIY with a buddy. Wash/Decon/Polish/Ceramic took us about 8.5 hours and we'd never done it before. Since he had a DA polisher, spent <$100 on...

I like the looks of these mats. The white seamless backdrop photos look terrible, but the installed photos look pretty good. The lip isn't as significant as some other mats, but I'm mostly worried about rain, mud, and drink spills vs snow, so I think we'll be ok. I don't want mats covering the...

Really appreciate your input! I agree there's a big difference, which is why I worded the first response as "I noticed no change". I've been surprised at the # of people who report no issues as well, given the frequency of reports I've run into on various forums. I'm not getting mine installed...

Would love to heat from the people who voted that tint hindered their view! What kind of tint? What %? Which software? I’m sorry your mirrors ain’t working right but I’d love to know your configuration!

Learn something new every day! Just found out about the Siri integration myself