Firmware 5.8

[AlMc]

Does anyone else think this two day roll out is strangely aggressive? Suspiciously so...

IMO it is because one feature (not mentioned in the download notes) is it appears if you have air suspension the car will not lower to the lowest setting at highway speeds anymore. Need I say more.

 

[brianman]

Does anyone else think this two day roll out is strangely aggressive? Suspiciously so...

I have mixed thoughts on this.

1. With 5.6, owners were clamoring for them to get around to rolling it out. And they finally started to open those gates, but still not as quickly as some one. Part of the "promise" of 5.6, was to enable even faster rollouts with wifi. With 5.8, they're testing and proving out that possibility. Good thing.
2. With 5.8 -- as discussed in the branch thread -- there's discussion about Low no longer auto-engaging at high speeds, without an option in the car UI to retain the old behavior. This has a potential impact on range of the vehicle and thus is potentially "somewhat troubling" for those that have long range trips planned in the near future. Good PR thing, maybe a short-term bad thing for some owners.

If they included a setting in 5.8 to retain the old behavior, then #2 would be a pure good thing rather than a mixed bag.

I'm not saying they should have held 5.8 for such a setting, I just hope that it comes soon in 5.9 or whatever.

 

[Raffy.Roma]

@brianman

Agree with your point 2. As I said in another thread IMO this is a "quick fix change" to work out the situation immediately but I am sure that in the future Tesla will find out a better solution allowing the air suspensions to lower again at high speed.

 

[Doug_G]

Still on 5.0. Feeling left out. :-/

Still on 4.5. :crying:

 

[FredTMC]

@brianman

Agree with your point 2. As I said in another thread IMO this is a "quick fix change" to work out the situation immediately but I am sure that in the future Tesla will find out a better solution allowing the air suspensions to lower again at high speed.

agreed...

 

[Discoducky]

Where has the option to keep the car in the center of the map gone with 5.8?

 

[SCW-Greg]

Still on 4.5. :crying:

It's a trap Doug. A bunch of us just jumped off the 5.8 cliff.
Deny that urge now, stick with 4.5 as long as you can.

 

[NigelM]

I think this is a more serious issue, perhaps some of the lower VIN cars have hardware issues with the WiFi....

VIN 282 here, no problem connecting with a 16 character complex password.

P.S. I'm on v5.6 still

 

[napabill]

Tess has been sitting, all alone, in the garage all month. When I left her, she had 4.5. What happens to the 5.8 update if the 5.6 update is sitting waiting installation?

 

[bosgig]

This is based on only one observation, but the time lag for the charge port to engage when plugging in seems to be gone with 5.8.

 

[Eggplant]

@bosgig

Yup! I was just about to post the same thing! Plugging in the charge cable is back to 4.5 quickness.

 

[bosgig]

@Discoducky--If I'm understanding you correctly, just hit the map mode toggle (always north vs. car-orientation) once and it will recenter you. No more dedicated button.

 

[Merrill]

Just downloaded 5.8, previous had 4.5 so skipped 5.6. Interested to see how the vampire loss plays out.

 

[SCW-Greg]

New style:

Also notice the difference between the odometer and the trip meter. Apparently the car thinks it went on a trip 1 mile further than the car actually went. lol

Yeah, the trip odometer variation has been reported many months back, on previous OS versions. Believed to be a rounding thing that the main odo doesn't worry itself about.

 

[roblab]

Doesn't look like the clock font has changed. Never can see the clock first try. All other cars I have ever owned with digital clocks had at least twice the size.

Some of us old farmers have old eyes, and the sweet young things that do the programming don't see any reason to enlarge the clock font.

 

[Wattson]

Now that they've added wiper maintenance mode, I've learned the wipers only lift a little ways away from the windshield, and they snap right back (don't hold themselves away from the windshield). I was hoping I would be able to stand the wipers up to make cleaning the windshield easier, but no dice. Wiper maintenance mode helps a little bit, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped.

Just adding to the learning with wiper maintenance mode, wipers have to be in the off position on the turn signal stalk before wiper maintenance mode will work.

 

[Lloyd]

I noticed that after the update, I had to disconnect and reconnect the Iphone connection. That took several attempts also.

 

[efusco]

Just wondering, has anyone with standard suspension gotten 5.8 yet, or is this preferentially going to air suspension owners to expedite the lowering disable feature?

 

[Mark Petersen]

Just an note it took 2:30 houses to upgrade the software in my car EU 5.6 -> 5.8
I had set it to upgrade at noon and forgot abut it, wend driving and parked the car at a rest stop 10 km from home
Came back after 10 min and the car was updating, waiting in the car for it to upgrade so you can drive home is annoying

 

[Eggplant]

I'm standard, and I got it early today. Seems everyone is getting it.