Maybe someone from Tesla will browse this thread and take the gripes back to the design team? Yeah, wishful thinking.
Keep it clean and constructive.
I took delivery of a Plaid on Wednesday, June 30th. I've had a week to drive it and experience some of the "bugs" in the refresh model.
1) The media player. How can this be such a mess? It took years to get the media player sorted on my previous Model S and it seems like I'm starting over again.
a. Playing from USB. Using a well supported 32GB USB drive formatted as FAT32 using native USB-C (no adapters). Little tough, physically, to plug in. Maybe felt around the ports need trimming? Once in, seems to read well. No problems there. The problem is the USB drive seems to randomly disappear when I leave the car. The resulting behavior is that when I return, the song I was halfway through is no longer waiting for me. The media player simply states "select source". I can bring the sources back up, USB is always there, select USB and start with a new song. Many steps, fairly frustrating. I haven't heard the end of most songs since I got the car. It does this randomly. Sometimes it is fine. Doesn't matter whether I park in my garage all night or at Lowe's to run in for 5 minutes. Doesn't seem to matter if I leave in running when I leave the car or hit pause before departing.
b. Streaming (using Slacker) is flaky as before in my previous S. Sometimes switching songs takes forever. Just spins looking for the next song, sometimes it identifies the song and spins trying to start playing it. Maybe a failure in the Slacker service or maybe a failure in the mobile connectivity of the car. This occurred in larger cities (like Houston) and smaller cities (like Lafayette).
c. Volume management. I assume it is trying to perform adaptive volume. I tried to find a way to disable it and was unable (might be time to RTFM). I get in the car, set the volume to 5, start a song, drive away. Sometimes it increases volume based on speed, but almost always decreases volume when coming to a stop, usually below the volume I set on onset of driving (like down to 3-4 from 5). Almost every time I get in the car, the volume is set to 2-3 regardless of where I set it before leaving the car.
2) Drive line vibration. I can feel a slight "drive line" vibration under certain circumstances. It is fairly recreatable by driving on a really smooth, straight, level road at about 30mph and lightly pressing the accelerator. It exhibits this behavior until about 45mph and goes away. It doesn't do it (that I can notice) under hard acceleration. It feels a bit like the front drive shaft imbalance issue that Telsa recalled on the Ludicrous models a couple years back.
3) Gear selection. Yeah, the gear selection is a PITA. I don't like swiping the screen and the selection buttons below the charging pads don't seem to work with any consistency (maybe RTFM?).
4) Signals. The difficulty in using the turning signals promotes bad behavior (not using them). There is no 3-flash mode. You are supposed to be able to light press and hold for controlled flash or hard press for constant flash, but the difference between light and hard is random and almost imperceivable for human touch sensitivity control. Aside from this, sometimes mashing the signal buttons doesn't result in activation. I am now in the habit of looking at the DIC to determine whether or not the signals engaged.
5) Headlight button on yoke. This button is smack dab where my thumb tends to rest when using the yoke. I end up flashing the person in front of me with every bump. That button seems to be very sensitive. Maybe it should be a double click or hold to flash?
6) Side mirrors. This was an issue in my previous S and was corrected at some point likely with a firmware update. I set the angle and direction while in reverse and it works a couple times and then randomly stops. Not sure if this is a profile setting, but it should be. When I set the mirror angles, it doesn't prompt me in the usual way (like when you change seat settings) to save the profile.
Likely more to come...
Keep it clean and constructive.
I took delivery of a Plaid on Wednesday, June 30th. I've had a week to drive it and experience some of the "bugs" in the refresh model.
1) The media player. How can this be such a mess? It took years to get the media player sorted on my previous Model S and it seems like I'm starting over again.
a. Playing from USB. Using a well supported 32GB USB drive formatted as FAT32 using native USB-C (no adapters). Little tough, physically, to plug in. Maybe felt around the ports need trimming? Once in, seems to read well. No problems there. The problem is the USB drive seems to randomly disappear when I leave the car. The resulting behavior is that when I return, the song I was halfway through is no longer waiting for me. The media player simply states "select source". I can bring the sources back up, USB is always there, select USB and start with a new song. Many steps, fairly frustrating. I haven't heard the end of most songs since I got the car. It does this randomly. Sometimes it is fine. Doesn't matter whether I park in my garage all night or at Lowe's to run in for 5 minutes. Doesn't seem to matter if I leave in running when I leave the car or hit pause before departing.
b. Streaming (using Slacker) is flaky as before in my previous S. Sometimes switching songs takes forever. Just spins looking for the next song, sometimes it identifies the song and spins trying to start playing it. Maybe a failure in the Slacker service or maybe a failure in the mobile connectivity of the car. This occurred in larger cities (like Houston) and smaller cities (like Lafayette).
c. Volume management. I assume it is trying to perform adaptive volume. I tried to find a way to disable it and was unable (might be time to RTFM). I get in the car, set the volume to 5, start a song, drive away. Sometimes it increases volume based on speed, but almost always decreases volume when coming to a stop, usually below the volume I set on onset of driving (like down to 3-4 from 5). Almost every time I get in the car, the volume is set to 2-3 regardless of where I set it before leaving the car.
2) Drive line vibration. I can feel a slight "drive line" vibration under certain circumstances. It is fairly recreatable by driving on a really smooth, straight, level road at about 30mph and lightly pressing the accelerator. It exhibits this behavior until about 45mph and goes away. It doesn't do it (that I can notice) under hard acceleration. It feels a bit like the front drive shaft imbalance issue that Telsa recalled on the Ludicrous models a couple years back.
3) Gear selection. Yeah, the gear selection is a PITA. I don't like swiping the screen and the selection buttons below the charging pads don't seem to work with any consistency (maybe RTFM?).
4) Signals. The difficulty in using the turning signals promotes bad behavior (not using them). There is no 3-flash mode. You are supposed to be able to light press and hold for controlled flash or hard press for constant flash, but the difference between light and hard is random and almost imperceivable for human touch sensitivity control. Aside from this, sometimes mashing the signal buttons doesn't result in activation. I am now in the habit of looking at the DIC to determine whether or not the signals engaged.
5) Headlight button on yoke. This button is smack dab where my thumb tends to rest when using the yoke. I end up flashing the person in front of me with every bump. That button seems to be very sensitive. Maybe it should be a double click or hold to flash?
6) Side mirrors. This was an issue in my previous S and was corrected at some point likely with a firmware update. I set the angle and direction while in reverse and it works a couple times and then randomly stops. Not sure if this is a profile setting, but it should be. When I set the mirror angles, it doesn't prompt me in the usual way (like when you change seat settings) to save the profile.
Likely more to come...
