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No one ever said service tech's were knowledgeable on suspension upgrades... It was actually a service tech who told me about the issue in the first place. I was casually telling him about my troubles, and he was like "yeah, most 3s are like that". There was a large thread on it on the Tesla...

This is super common with the model 3. I believe that almost every single one has an offset shift due to rear subframe. I know that the companies that make custom wheels for the 3 are aware of it. Ive seen more than a couple 3's (mine included) with a roughly 3-5mm shift in the rear subframe...

Almost as she sits, tails, markers and headlights have since been tinted. 18 M3P, chrome trim removed, sand blasted and painted satin black. 285*35r19 X 255*40r19. Front fenders rolled flat with slight pull. MPP Coilovers.

$550

Sorry..... Wheels are located in Mission Viejo CA. I might be willing to deliver/meet depending on the request.

Selling a set of 19" Vertini RF1.1 Wheels in gloss black in a Tesla Model 3 fitment. These will fit all variations including the Performance with performance brakes (they have the pocket milled in the center bore for the 3mm lip). Wheels have TPMS and include splined lugs with lug key...

I bought an inventory car and enjoyed EAP for 13 months until Tesla trued up their accounts and took it away. I gambled when AP went on sale that I might get to keep EAP and didnt buy it. 20/20 hindsight now says I should have, but I estimated there was a good chance I would get to keep EAP...

Everything should go on sale occasionally. Its the American way. Call it the Economic Impact Sale.

F80 M3 Makes a LOT more power than advertised and is probably making on the order of 485hp. Just browse around at stock dyno plots. I love my P3D, but I would certainly rather track an M3 for the following reasons 1) a tuned F80 M3 makes WAY WAY more power than a P3D. 2) you can ride that...

NYR..If you are SO dissatisfied with the color and materials resistance to staining, and you buy 4 figure suits, go spend the $800-$1000 to reupholster your whole car, in whatever material and color you want. For heavens sake, try to be a little less of a troll. I just did the front buckets of...

Sourced yes, designed no. And dont be obtuse, the steering stalks dont affect efficiency. I guess you are surprised then, because they are. The calipers are OE supplier sourced, but the operation of the master cylinder and control of the pads is unique to Tesla as far as I know.

Sounds like you got snookered on your suit.

I think it really comes down to the fact that Tesla set out to build electric cars. They threw away all the assumptions and started clean. Everything from the design of their wheel bearings to seals to aero, to inverter efficiency. Everything. The rest of the car companies cant keep up because...

The most rock solid vehicle I have owned from an interior fit/finsh perspective was a ford. I owned a 2015 F150 and it was far and away the quietest vehicle I have ever owned (among Ford, Audi, MB, BMW, VW, Tesla, Subaru and Honda). No rattles, squeaks, vibration, nothing. All despite running...

For the most part the seats are hard to stain and easy to maintain. There are however certain things that stain the white seats and become impossible to completely get out. I love the look of the white seats and my stains are currently under my kids car seats. My Cybertruck wont have white...

I put a bench seat protector under my kids car seats. When I took the seats out to clean I realized the seat protector had stained the white seats from the dye in it. I have tried: Mothers VLR Griots Leather care Diluted bleach Magic Eraser Folex Stain Remover 3M Marine Vinyl Cleaner Meguiars...

A few vehicles I have owned that I thoroughly enjoyed Driving: Porsche Cayman 2.9 6mt, 2008 Subrau STi Hatch, heavily modified. 2007 BMW 335i, tuned. 1997 Ford Probe GT, heavily modified (350+fwhp), 1972Porsche 914 2.0, 1992 Mustang GT, full hotchkiss suspension, various year Suzuki SV650's...

If you read up a few posts you will see I am at 258 at 90% charge and have ~18K miles on my car. Ive been at 258 since around 15K miles. Battery forms a solid electrolyte layer when you first charge it which becomes thicker to a point, reducing charge capacity. If the battery is well managed...

Yeah, I completely agree. I would only use it every single time I press the accelerator o_O

My car displays 258mi at 90% charge. 0.9*310 = 279. 258/279 = 92.5%. I have 18K miles on my car. When I charge to 100% it reaches what the car says is 98% and then refuses to charge any more no matter how long I plug it in. So for a full charge I am really down about 10% on capacity if you...

Because its faster. Stock RS7 is close to a half second faster in the 1/4 mile. A very lightly modded RS7 will run low 10's in the quarter and trap 130+ mph. A heavily modified one will run 9's and 145++. Compared against 11.6ish and 115 in the P....no contest. Guy down the street from me has...

YMMV. Speaking of mileage, how many miles do you have on your car?

I enjoy my 3 but smoke anyone it cannot. Ive lost to an RS7, an (I can only assume lightly modded) RS3, and an M5. With all of the exotics rolling around near my work (pulled alongside a Mclaren Senna the other day) there are a great many I could play with but not necessarily beat. Nevermind the...

I agree that the interface for the wipers sucks. Love nearly everything about the 3, but give me wiper and full headlight controls on the damn stalk, please.

I paid 71,500 for a Performance with performance upgrade, white interior and grey paint. -$7500 federal, -$2500 state -$5000 back from Tesla in exchange for FUSC. SO $56,500. Last I checked my combination is $58,990 - 1875 federal -2500 state = $54,615 Only $1,885 by my math. If you divide...

The AWD is putting down some serious power. That it is trapping close to the same speeds as the performance is just bonkers. I have a Performance with staggered 19" wheels, one of my colleagues has an AWD on aeros. Yesterday we got on the freeway together. I had left work at 95% SOC, her at...

My response is usually "At current gas prices, its equivalent to driving a car that gets X mpg, but has 475hp". Or "depending on the price of gas its equivalent to driving a car that gets 35-65mpg" Or my favorite "Its like driving a Prius, only it looks good and does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds"...

Ohh, I think if there is one thing we can ALL agree on, its that your and SlimShady's positions are CRYSTAL clear And all it will take is about 30 ish seconds and a cell phone to prove or disporve that the P3D- is or is not limited to ~145mph.

Its like watching two guys boxing... only they are blind and don't have any arms....

There is no denying that even a C7 is a much more visceral car that is roughly on price parity and matches the performance of the P3. Short of that, you have to step into a used something or other, or invest in modifying a car. For example, a tuned RS3 will run circles around the P3, it has...

Its a balancing act right? I mean, at anything less than highway speed the P3 is about as fast as it gets in everyday scenarios. Today I stacked up with a slammed 911 Turbo S Cabrio. Had the guy gone full street racer on me and used launch control it would have been over, but given rational...

$35K Subaru STI with $25K in mods will give you a low 11 second car that will trap 130+mph and absolutely rape the P3D at highway speed. Source: me Agreed, hence my previous post where I spoke to that exact point. THe lack of a transmission and instant torque make the P3D comically fast at...

Only this: I dont ALWAYS obey the speed limit. I could leap a pair of semis and a half dozen cars on a reasonable stretch of 2 lane in the Subaru without thinking about it. Stack up, 4th gear, pull out, grab 5th and pull back in a few seconds later at 135mph and not be sitting behind an 1/8th...

Its funny, around town the P3 is comical in how fast it is. I mean, how do you not laugh when you are rolling to a light and it turns green before you stop and you nail it and your guts try to invert on you? However it still doesnt feel very fast at speed to me. My old STi had a lot more pull...

Ive only lost to two cars playing stoplight hero in my P3D. One was a new M5, the other a bonkers RS7. The M5 is CONSIDERABLY faster than the P3D. A car rated by BMW at 500hp with AWD will easily keep pace with the P3D. Mostly because it will be making a LOT more than its rated 500hp. I think...

I figured I would leave a soggy diaper sitting on the dash to ward off any would be miscreants. All kidding aside, Id definitely empty the car and pull the seats down. My preference is for Kettleman because it is actually on my buddies route to mineral king on the 46. Id also like to top the...

Anyone ever parked their car here in one of the non charging spots and left it overnight? I am going backpacking in Mineral King and meeting someone coming from Paso, Its a convenient place for him to grab me. Alternative is the train station in Hanford which has overnight parking. Its too tight...

In the real wold the Haldex works very well. When it is well programmed it is fast, has efficiency benefits and places the primary drive at the front wheels which is boon for most average drivers with less than stellar car handling prowess. Like I said, and take it for what it is, as I generally...

Ok, before We go back and forth here, I have actually owned and driven all of these systems in the real world, my understanging of them is both technical (im a mechanical engineer), theoretical, and empirical: 2008 Subaru WRX STi Hatch 2015 Audi Q5 2014 Bmw X3 2016 GLC 300 4Matic 2015 Ford F-150...

2017 Ford Focus Electric which I owned a whopping 11 months. Well leased, and then made $2400 on all said and done selling it to Tesla. I might be the only person in history to lease a car for 36 months, get rid of it at 11, and make money. While I miss CarPlay, the P3D is a little bit faster...

Its not actually that impressive and I fully expect it to be easily capable of those challenges. Any Haldex systesm Gen 3 and up (VW etc), Audi Quattro, Subaru symmetrical and several others will be capable of completing all of those tasks. I am guessing that BMW's X drive and MB's 4Matic...

Yup. The squeeze and pull is counter intuitive. Anything counter intuitive is enough to prevent a kid from doing something while your back is turned for a second. Not to mention it would take a deliberate effort, versus simply grabbing the gear stock in the tesla while trying to pull themselves...

You dont have to depress the brake and hit the start button in your highlander? Or press/squeeze the button on the gear selector and pull the selector towards the rear of the car? Its markedly different. My 2 year old flailing about could accidentally get the tesla moving. It would take a...

Alan - super unlikely that you saved me or mine from an accident, but i guess the point is I'll never know now. So take heart, you have at least on parent's sincere thanks for posting and notifying Tesla (two if you count my wife).

This discussion should not be centered around letting a child do x y or z. It should be centered around the existence of the risk. As an attentive, reasonable and intelligent parent of two small children all I can say is this: Sometimes, despite your very best efforts and attention, your child...

Depends. When costco started selling diesel I started waiting. However when filling a 40 gallon tank, and a 22gal aux tank, the $20-40 savings are worth the 5-10 minutes of my life...sometimes. Funny costco comes up..pretty much the ONLY gas stations where everyone is forced to pull forward and...

Ok, so short answer is no, you cant read. Or perhapps you can, you are just incapable of engaging in civil interaction without COMPLETELY misinterpreting what everyone around you is saying. Dude what kind of drugs are you on? I agree that the leaf is garbage, did you see my earlier post? I was...

All he needs to do to actually make it look amazing is get rid of the ugly aeros, delete the chrome, de-fishbowl it, and most importantly, learn to park. Then you wouldn't even notice the late 90's chameleon color scheme that was so popular with over the top cars 20 years ago.;) In all...

He didnt say that at all. He didnt use the words Liars or Hurting. Can you read? So much hyperbole. Someone who is wrong is not categorically a liar. Maybe ignorant/misinformed etc. and whats your definition of "hurting"? The gravity of the debate? Its a mix of opinion and...

I LOVE my M3, but a Tesla Fanboy I am not. I also loved my Cayman, Subaru STI, Q5, X3, F150 and even my Focus Electric. I loath my wife's Atlas, didnt care for her 328i, Didnt care for the transmission and engine in the GLC 300, had issues with the Tiguan...you get the idea. When it comes to...