Dr Taras' Model S gets customized!

[CyberDutchie]

VFX, I like this photo:

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Some people commented they don't like the wheels. I think they just look a little too busy because of the many fasteners. But that would be easily fixed by painting the ring with the fasteners black. And would make the spokes stand out more.

Anyway, DrTaras, congratulations! A fantastic creation!

 

[kevincwelch]

Completely awesome! Would love to get a photo tour of the interior.

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[yobigd20]

Blind spot monitor flashes and beeps when you use your turn signal.

So you have to use your turn signal for the blind spot monitor to work then? I don't know how they are out on the west side, but over here on the east if you put your turn signal on everyone speeds up and blocks you so you can't change lanes. I never use my turn signal for this reason...lol

 

[DrComputer]

So you have to use your turn signal for the blind spot monitor to work then? I don't know how they are out on the west side, but over here on the east if you put your turn signal on everyone speeds up and blocks you so you can't change lanes. I never use my turn signal for this reason...lol

The blind spot monitor works without using your turn signals. It will light up if there is someone in your blind spot when the signals are not activated. If you turn on your signal and someone is in your blind spot it will flash and beep too.

 

[DrTaras]

Rear parking sensors: In addition to audible sounds, there is a visual set of colored lights that is mounted so that you can see it in the rear view
or if you (old fashioned) turn your head. Here are a couple of pix...

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So you have to use your turn signal for the blind spot monitor to work then? I don't know how they are out on the west side, but over here on the east if you put your turn signal on everyone speeds up and blocks you so you can't change lanes. I never use my turn signal for this reason...lol

Same etiquette here, but 2 points...
1) If the beeping were always on, then every time a car passed by your blind spot while you were driving, it would beep
2) With a MSP, as you have, nobody will have time to block you; its called point and shoot! In fact what I do is slow down to get even with the car I'm about to go in front of, then look over at them with a nod, as if to say, see that 1.5 car lengths between you and the car in front of you? I'm about to fill that quicker than a grave digger can fill a hole! Then I turn on my signal, give it the gas, err, accelerator, and I'm there. Then I look in my rear view with a smirk. Lastly I look to see if they are pulling out a gun or an iPhone to take pictures of my cool 2-tone Tesla! Hoping its the latter! :scared:

 

[Arnold Panz]

Dr. T, I want to compliment you on the amazing job you did with your customization. While it's obviously not for everyone, you took a huge risk (those "during" pictures scared the crap out of me! Not anything I could ever do!), and created a truly unique MS. This blows away the customization you did on your Roadster, which I remember seeing on that TV show where you won for having the coolest car.

Congrats again on your one-of-a-kind MS! I think it's great that you were able to do this and have such reliable, trustworthy people to do this work for you.

 

[BryanW]

Anything in particular? I've been posting interior shots along the way. Were you looking for something that you were waiting on a 'finished' shot?

Well, perhaps I missed the 'final' pictures of the interior. All of the interior pictures I remember seeing were "in progress" or closeups of specific parts.

I guess I was hoping for some wide angle pictures of how the interior as a whole came together and looks in the end.

 

[artsci]

It's all personal taste. I hate the Bugatti, it just looks like random excess to me. The model S workover isn't to my taste, but it has a well defined and distinctive american muscle car feel. Since you could argue that's what the Model S is, I think it works.

Surely you mean wretched excess. The Bugatti is proof positive that good taste does not necessarily accompany great wealth.

 

[DrTaras]

Cautionary tale below. *All Al&Ed's stores are not created equally as they are franchised; independantly owned and operated. *Not that the others are bad, it just that Elie's store in WeHo is at a*completely* off the chart high level of quality and service. *You deserve not having to think about the hassles! *Check out this TMC cross post:
Collision warning, radar detection, window film paint armor installed on my S - Page 8

After Jason (dadaleus) showed me his installation last weekend at his home (Thank You for that), I went on Tuesday to order the mobileye, blind spot detection/warning and Cila Jet at Al&Ed's WH from Elie. I will post after installation impressions. To be honest I went to another Al&Ed's close by (Vista) on Monday and the guy told me he would do that too even for a cheaper price, but had the impression he had never done it. So now to the service that Elie offered me not knowing that I was elsewhere, because I live in San Diego and I have a trip to Germany coming up from LAX, he offered me to drop off the car with him get a ride to LAX to dropp me off and he will pick me up at LAX to get the modified car no cost attached. And he will charge my car with his charging station he is using because he like me has also a BMW Active E that he is charging at work - super. Because I was already thinking to by a transportable generator and take it with me when parking that long time at the airport to make sure when the battery is drained to charge up that much to get to the SC at Hawthorn Airport.*Peter

 

[dadaleus]

Ian,

Re this:

1) Wow, I love this center console plastic piece Elie's team made for you. (Elie, if you're reading this, I'm going to hit you up for one of these along with the blind spot detector next time I'm in LA. I don't get up there much anymore unfortunately/fortunately.)

2) Which device is shown on the left here with the two dials on it?

 

[vfx]

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2) Which device is shown on the left here with the two dials on it?

Moo?...

 

[dadaleus]

Moo?...

I was thinking the same, but no, Al & Eds just told me it's for Ian's audio upgrade.

Ian, where did you put the LED for the Escort? I'm having the blind spot detectors and parking sensors installed next week, and I may ask them to move the LED.

 

[vfx]

I noted a green LED hanging down in front of the gauge cluster.

 

[DrTaras]

I was thinking the same, but no, Al & Eds just told me it's for Ian's audio upgrade.
Ian, where did you put the LED for the Escort? I'm having the blind spot detectors and parking sensors installed next week, and I may ask them to move the LED.

Correct on all the above 4 posts...
All the way to the left is for the audio. Controls how much bbbbbase I want, as well as audio inputs between the Tesla radio, the DVD & the iPod connector.
The middle is for the MobilEye & the right is the radar detector & laser shifter. The green LED remote warning light is, indeed as VFX mentioned, hanging down, like a stalagtite (or is it a stalagmite) very close to where the speedometer is.

 

[AustinPowers]

If your looking for honest, I hope you really enjoy the car, wheels look like Ben Hur would have them on his EVIL chariot, think the two tone wrap destroyed the elegant lines of the car, the forward rake of the body is gone, I'm no stylist so enjoy your work.

Agreed. Sorry DrTaras, I love your posts and the effort you put into this car, but though I like some/many of the alterations (especially the brushed aluminium wrapped parts), I don't like the overall look of the finished thing. I would have wrapped the hood and trunk with brushed aluminium too. Then again, I have never liked two-tone cars, be it a shoddily tuned subcompact or a factory-made two-tone Rolls, Veyron or Maybach. Every time I see a two-tone coloured car I just go "yuck". Sorry.

 

[A-E]

anyone got a link for those rims? They are sickkk...

Please contact me directly at (310) 854-5454 for special pricing on Forgiato wheels for Tesla owners.

 

[Rodolfo Paiz]

The final product is definitely not something I would have done, as I don't like to call attention to myself or my car in that way. However, it is also just as clearly a thoroughly planned, elegantly designed, and professionally executed piece of work that must be respected for its quality and coherence even if one's personal tastes differ. I'm very impressed with the project.

 

[DrComputer]

I'm having Elie install a few of the things that Ian had done next week (Radar/Laser detector, blind spot monitor, front and rear parking sensors, customs floor mats). We'll see what he comes up with under my cubby to display those items since I won't be getting the MobileEye. As other's have said Elie has been more than accommodating. I have to fly out of town next week for business so he is taking the car while I'm gone. He is even having me driven home after I drop off the car so I don't have to bum a ride off of someone... that's service! I'll post pictures of my upgrades once they are done next week. Sorry for hijacking your thread Ian.

 

[bhuwan]

What do they charge for front and rear parking sensors?

 

[DrComputer]

What do they charge for front and rear parking sensors?

If you contact Elie he will happily give you information on pricing for all of the items you'd want.