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Can we remove our radars now, since they're not used anymore?
- Thread starter GtiMart
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_Redshift_
Member
As title says... If that sensor isn't used anymore, I would possibly remove it and reduce weight. A lighter car is a faster and more efficient car
Amazing, we would save like 2.2 lbs! I’m rushing to the service center right now.
_Redshift_
Member
You clearly have no idea how little weight difference it will make.
Yes, Germans located the battery to the back, but that’s to achieve near 50-50 static weight distribution. Tesla comes with a rear biased static weight distribution. Decreasing front weight will make that static weight distribution more skewed to the rear. However, given how little weight we are talking about, it will not make a dent.
You would not be able to notice the difference.
Though I do like the fact that some posters like you take weight distribution and lower curb weight seriously. If all car makers (cough cough, Porsche, with their Taycan, and MBZ with their EQ line) took the issue seriously, we would have lighter cars.
_Redshift_
Member
It’s very easy to remove the rear bumper. Drive fast through a flooded street.Sounds easier to tear the front bumper off and go digging after the unneeded radar unit.
iwannam3
Active Member
The radar is shooting out particles photons in the electromagnetic range at the speed of light so there must be an equal and opposite reaction slowing the car . F=MA so the force is equal to the acceleration times the mass of the particles emitted by the radar.
Silicon Desert
Well-Known Member
BINGO. I see the OP is serious, so I will be serious by saying if OP goes to pee being driving, he/she is actually save more weight than the radar takes.
The OP (me) was serious but was thinking the sensor weighed a few good pounds. I was clearly wrong.
_Redshift_
Member
Don’t beat yourself up!
Removing weight is a good idea. However if you can’t do it, try and get the static weight distribution close to 50-50. (BMW pursues this more than anyone else). It can do wonders to neutral handling at the limits.
My E46 BMW was gem of a car when it came to nimble, neutral, planted feeling at the limits. You felt you could push the car very confidently to its limits without even losing traction. Until, the front end gently started to squeal, and let you know, ‘hey, this is close to what I can do!’.
Beautiful feeling, driving that car.
Model 3 is no slouch. However, the feeling is not as planted or confident, at the limits. My Model S, forget it. I tried to push it hard around the corner when new, and it so rudely broke traction, without warning, and at the rear, I nearly peed myself. No more, not on a $90k car!
Call Marsellus Wallace. He knows how to contact the Wolf.
