The bad thing about this misalignment I think is that it's a pretty substantial part of the car and if it's not properly sealed I can see it being a source of a lot of noise. I'm speculating though.
I had rear quarter light glass break. Autoglass, or whoever, fitted a new one. It was out by a MM or so, wind noise (particularly in back seat) was significant. They came back and replaced it, using a more senior fitter!!, and its been noise-free since then, so I can imagine any glass slightly misaligned might cause noise, and also that, for those, a noise-reduction set of rubbers may well be a significant benefit.
I'm also paying cash so I'm presuming I'm going to have to transfer all of the money for the car before I've even seen it
yeah. Somewhat unnerving sending a huge wedge of cash off to some anonymous bank account. You can send a quid, or similar, and see if the Remaining Debit amount reduces, in order to be sure that you got the account details correct etc. That normally shows up within a few hours ... watch out if your bank limits you to £10K a day, or somesuch money laundering borrocks, as it will either take a while to complete payment or you'll have to find a different payment-route.
My car is booked in for a full detail & PPF the weekend following the pickup, so I need to make sure that anything significant is resolved before then
My detailer told me not to let the Vendor touch any paint defects "
Makes our job far harder if they've tried to fix it". I was having the car wrapped, and the cheapest car in there was a Zonda, so they were basically saying "
Any brand, not Tesla specifically"
... maybe speak to your detailer about that, but might be better not to let Tesla touch any paint defects?
They said on the phone to me just now "it doesn't come as standard anymore you have to buy it on the website". However I checked the website and there's nothing about these caps
I'm, retrospectively, annoyed about this. I spotted they were missing, got the "
They aren't included any more", I went "
Oh well" and went around to stores to get a few other bits & bobs. They probably had the Hooks in stock, but i didn't think to ask, and now they are website only [but a) no longer in store and b) not yet on website] that will be a huge portion of shipping-cost-on-top
I have just charged my Car to 100% / 309 Miles - I know you should not do this too often but thought I would give it a FULL charge and then from now on, only up to 90%
Yeah, charge above 90% immediately prior to a trip. Don't stress doing it once or twice and then not being able to drive / immediately, but best to either only charge to 100% when going on a trip of, if trip cancelled, drive it down to 95% or turn on Sentry Mode and heating full blast for a bit! Nothing to worry about once-in-a-while though ... I do it more often that I care too: Set Schedule to 100% to charge early in the morning before departure. Come home, manually reset it on the Dash before plugging in - 'coz, you know, "
its right in front of me and not missable!", but forget to reset the schedule and for the next couple of mornings scratch my head why "
I must have forgotten to reduce the 100% charge" until twit-that-I-am I remember the Schedule
No reason not to do it before a trip ... and 100% charge will rebalance the cells, which can then have the benefit of correcting max range calcs, so is worth doing "once in a while" when a long trip presents the opportunity.