2020 Q4 'M' delivery club

[Adopado]

Very interesting to be hearing about the new changes so thanks for the posts guys (even though my car is now "old") !!

 

[VanillaAir_UK]

I'm assuming you can replace their USB with a larger memory SSD, just wondered what the connection was at the car side of things.

You won't gain anything fitting larger recording media. It doesn't use the extra space. Its limited to saved (sentry auto, driving manual) clips in 10 minute chunks and the last hours recording. Everything else gets overwritten, including saved clips in time.

 

[LA13]

You won't gain anything fitting larger recording media. It doesn't use the extra space. Its limited to saved (sentry auto, driving manual) clips in 10 minute chunks and the last hours recording. Everything else gets overwritten, including saved clips in time.

That's interesting to hear! I figured the larger the memory the more could store. Does it not work as a dashcam in that respect, or just records 10 minutes when you hit the horn? etc

 

[Ben177]

That's interesting to hear! I figured the larger the memory the more could store. Does it not work as a dashcam in that respect, or just records 10 minutes when you hit the horn? etc

It does, but only for the last hour.

 

[VanillaAir_UK]

That's interesting to hear! I figured the larger the memory the more could store. Does it not work as a dashcam in that respect, or just records 10 minutes when you hit the horn? etc

Its a Tesla attempt at rushing out a dashcam, so, like many other Tesla attempts at something you are already familiar with, it doesn't work like you expect.

Yes, only saves drive footage when you tell it to save, ie press the save button in dashcam icon, or honk the horn if you enabled that feature - even the latter is a recent feature. Otherwise it only holds a buffer of last 60 minutes drive, and that gets constantly 'overwritten'.

Sentry is slightly different. It automatically saves the 10 minutes up to and around the sentry event, so normally 10 minutes of nothing useful.

As media drive becomes full, stale saved clips are automatically deleted.

So the only advantage a larger drive brings is that you reduce overwrite wear rate (only an issue on poor quality media) by reducing how often it overwrites. The disadvantage of a large media drive is that it can hold more useless clips and requires more housekeeping if you want to keep it free of stale footage.

 

[Wuddie]

For those that asked about headlights, this is the best I could do for now ..

There is no cornering or automatic corner adjustment of the headlights .

how do they compare with the previous year models?

 

[Arran]

For those that asked about headlights, this is the best I could do for now ..

There is no cornering or automatic corner adjustment of the headlights .

how do they compare with the previous year models?

How interesting. They do almost look Matrix like, as they seem to be segmented? I'm assuming there's no auto-dim on full beam for on-coming traffic?

 

[Wuddie]

How interesting. They do almost look Matrix like, as they seem to be segmented? I'm assuming there's no auto-dim on full beam for on-coming traffic?

Full beam was initiated be me, couldn't find a auto high beam option , but may have missed it.

 

[Irata]

I just tried the headlights against a white wall, they are what I can only describe as pixelated. Like lots of boxes. There is a thin dark line between each row of them. When back about 10m from the wall, the boxes of light are very well defined.

 

[browellm]

Well it's very difficult to compare but looking at videos of Bjorns compared to those it looks like the spread could well be better. Does anyone else think so?

 

[VanillaAir_UK]

There is no cornering or automatic corner adjustment of the headlights .

I wonder if they can do that later with a software update - once they got auto high beam working consistently There is auto high beam option in lights and easy access menus - in different places, one as a toggle, one as a button next to the light bar. Then its push left stalk to turn on and let it try and do its stuff. Its quite hit and miss, so convenience rather than something to be relied on.

 

[Chrisgillett]

Full beam was initiated be me, couldn't find a auto high beam option , but may have missed it.

I thought there was an auto beam on this car? Guess I'll find out tomorrow!!!

 

[Goatex]

Full beam was initiated be me, couldn't find a auto high beam option , but may have missed it.

Thanks for the upload and hope you are enjoying your new car.
The lights look promising both in terms of brightness and upgradability; what where your subjective thoughts on them on a scale from ‘these lights are rubbish’ to ‘wow, they’re bright’?

 

[Wuddie]

I thought they were perfectly fine, not dull at all, could see where I was and what was going on, high beam was bright enough too. I'd say on a par with my previous car.

 

[VanillaAir_UK]

I thought there was an auto beam on this car? Guess I'll find out tomorrow!!!

It has to be enabled. Then manually triggered with the left stalk.

 

[itzKris]

I will be, but not received a delivery date - interested to hear how you get on.

The team at Chelmsford are great - looking forward to the pickup!

 

[Ben83_M3]

Hey Wuddie,

congrats to the wonderful car, I'm eagerly waiting for my M3 here in Germany. Can you post the last 6 digits of your VIN (feel free to exclude the last three of them) and check the manufacturing date on the CoC?

 

[JHeg]

To those collecting at the moment, how far in advance did Tesla look for the final payment ?

 

[Irata]

To those collecting at the moment, how far in advance did Tesla look for the final payment ?

They told me 7 days before collection.

 

[Whoflungdung]

Tesla asked on Monday for Friday collection for me