Mine is a 2015 with AP1, and I'm worried they may have changed the windshield glass with the refresh. I know that the Model X windshield doesn't have this problem and will even work with radar detectors. It may be that they now use the same type glass with the refresh Model S's as with the Model X. Maybe I need to compare to the pre-refresh Model S.
I'm sure that would work, but I wouldn't want to try taking the car apart and screwing something up. Do you know how to take the nose cone off?
The manual I was given access to on My Tesla only shows directions for the refresh version that doesn't have the nose cone. Tesla calls it 'towing eye' rather than tow hook, by the way. If someone has the pre-refresh manual maybe they could post those directions.
Isn't YouTube wonderful. Never occurred to me that it would have a video for this. But after watching that one, I went on to some others and came across this one. He mentions sensors that need to be disconnected if you're going to fully remove the nose cone, but what I found interesting was his method for removing the nose cone using his butt. Seems kind of a brute force way to do it. Has anyone done it this way?
Unfortunately, it doesn't do me much good on my 2015 model. It does look like they've gotten rid of the type of windshield I have. When did you get yours? On a related topic, by any chance to you also use any radar detector? That's another casualty of this windshield.
I just picked mine up a few weeks ago. According to the folks at the service center, the new windshield started around Thanksgiving of 2016. I don't use a radar detector... I can't think of many times during my 15 years in Miami when there's been light enough traffic to speed.
Did he say 'all Teslas'? Because X's never had the issue and that manual recommends putting EZ Passes (etc) at the top part of the windshield, and many (include Tesla loaners) have the 'velcro' tabs back in the corner, as below. But S's were supposed to be different. So, now I'm confused.
