Well well well it's been awhile, friends! Reading through 60 pages of this thread made me chuckle at the range of topics and frequency with which some resurface. You all are awesome!
I thought I'd share some more of my experience I took delivery on 9 Nov. I've been home about 3 days since then traveling all over. We've got 2700 miles on the car already which I pretty impressive given I put barely 2k miles on my last car in an entire year. This car is fantastic and amazing on road trips. A major upgrade for us! Here are the fun parts:
- The day after delivery, and the morning before we venture out on a 1400 mile trip to PA/NJ, I noticed a blue puddle under the car while I was sitting in it in the driveway and garage. I dismissed it initially but then decided to google the issue. That came back with either washer fluid or battery coolant. For the latter, it's an immediate service appt and can happen on new builds. Crap! I hadn't used the washer fluid so why would it be that? It's probably the coolant. Buuuut I don't see new leaks and I REALLY wanna drive it on this road trip. I added it to our existing service appt (for the rear door PPF install omitted at delivery) and asked about its drive worthiness. No response. We hemmed and hawed and after some risk analysis I said "let's send it." and we took the Tesla. Fortunately, we had no issues! The service appt (which occurred at 2400 miles) found the coolant to be fine, so maybe it was just overfilled washer fluid. Dodged a bullet there...
- Supercharging: Took some getting used to because I was using ABRP. Be sure to navigate to the supercharger from the car. Sending the location from apps doesn't set preconditioning. We saw one lady try to charge her RAV4 Prime. I told her it wouldn't work. She was disappointed. At that same stop in PA, a trucker ask about range and such then tried to tell me our car was just as dirty because it's running on coal electricity anyway (so you're admitting coal is bad?). We cordially stated some additional facts on that matter thanked him for stopping by. We waited for 20 min at only one supercharger in PA on our second road trip, but given that was around Thanksgiving, the increased volume is to be expected. But the chargers in NY/OH/PA will need upgrading very soon. Most were 50% or more full.
- Autosteer: We spent the first road trip steering at night like peasants because of the terrible auto high beams. On the highway they're pathetic and blind people indiscriminately. On the next trip we realized that you can turn off the auto high beams at night after turning on autosteer. So at night there's one extra step to use autopilot...press the left stalk forward after you engage autosteer.
- Cabin: quiet, speakers are great, ride is firm but comfortable. Heated seats and steering wheel are AMAZING! and keep from needing too hot of a cabin.
- Normally, splitting the eight hour drive with my wife to visit family wipes us. In the Tesla, I did the whole trip and really didn't feel fatigued at all!
- Still waiting on those Tesla Shield mats I ordered in early February. The frunk (great cooler in the winter, btw) and trunk ones are here. The lower panels fit nicely. The back is about an inch short in all dimensions. A bummer, but not a deal breaker.
- I don't think I'll need a matte screen protector. No issues with glare so far.
- We got our NEMA 14-50 installed today! $785 for a 70' run. Upgradable to 60amp in the future if I wanted to hardwire it. Now we charge faster than snails!
- I still haven't checked that I have the tow hitch I ordered...I should probably do that.
- We'll likely order delivery far less often. Because I want an excuse to drive!
I missed you all!
