We're still talking about driving, right?My inlet had so many pubes in it after my vic trip…. It all washes out
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We're still talking about driving, right?My inlet had so many pubes in it after my vic trip…. It all washes out
Someone get Dronus some hair clippersGood to hear you made it back. Looking forward to the trip debrief!
Plenty more bugs out there, they just did a reorg and are good to go.
My inlet had so many pubes in it after my vic trip…. It all washes out
So final leg of the Barossa Odyssey, Glenelg to Canberra (with an overnight at Shepparton)
couple others were paid charging and required a type 2 cable. I hadn't really researched this prior, was surprised though that the front desk don't carry a cable which they could loan out
As far as timings, I'll get all that together for the entire trip but there wasn't any considerable difference to driving an ICE vehicle.
Yeah, that's funny now I think about it, last couple of CBR to BNE trips we did, we broke up with a night in Port Macquarie mainly because it was getting a bit tiring doing the ~14 hours straight. I did it straight in the Tesla last year and found I was so much less fatigued.I find the lack of vibration and no “engine” heat in an EV makes driving far less tiring. I did a solo SYD-MEL return trip recently and was a bit apprehensive about how tiring it might be, but I found it easy-peasey.
I do CBR BNE many times per year, we stay in Newcastle especially if we leave Canberra late in the day. Also a RWD (20” wheels so terrible efficiency lol), quick charge in Campbelltown if you leave Canberra with a full charge and then charge at the hotel in Newcastle while you sleep (gateway inn Newcastle has 3x free Tesla destination chargers). Then an easy 8.5 hour drive to Brisbane on day 2 with the usual charging stops.Yeah, that's funny now I think about it, last couple of CBR to BNE trips we did, we broke up with a night in Port Macquarie mainly because it was getting a bit tiring doing the ~14 hours straight. I did it straight in the Tesla last year and found I was so much less fatigued.
We are going again in July, so not sure if I'll do that straight through or break it up. It is much better breaking it up and not having to drive into the night though. If it was an ICE vehicle without the Tesla level of Auto Pilot, I'd definitely be breaking it up, no question.
Yeah, like to stay a little further north than Newy, but will look at it when we plan the trip and decide if we are stopping or not.I do CBR BNE many times per year, we stay in Newcastle especially if we leave Canberra late in the day. Also a RWD (20” wheels so terrible efficiency lol), quick charge in Campbelltown if you leave Canberra with a full charge and then charge at the hotel in Newcastle while you sleep (gateway inn Newcastle has 3x free Tesla destination chargers). Then an easy 8.5 hour drive to Brisbane on day 2 with the usual charging stops.
Back to your road trip… did you get a lot of stone chips from the country drive? I collected a huge one on the front fender down near Warrnambool somewhere, thankfully it’s due for a respray anyway due to a minor accident. 45k on my model 3 in 2 years and it has collected quite a few stone chips all over the place - inc the bonnet, windshield and side doors.
Since you used AP so much, how were the auto wipers? I don’t use AP anymore due to the dry wiping. Still use TACC however with a quick disable of the auto wipers each time!
I also have a type 2 cable, resisted for a long time but finally bought one due to apartment living and the rise of BYO cable chargers. It’s actually proven to be very useful, but we’re about to move into a house so I suspect it will be gathering dust soon
Interesting, definitely hasn’t been the case for my 2022 model 3 so I wonder if there is a difference somewhere.Yeah, like to stay a little further north than Newy, but will look at it when we plan the trip and decide if we are stopping or not.
Just got her fully washed yesterday, got one very small stone chip on the bonnet just next to the Tesla T, also got a decent scratch under the rear passenger door from a stick that flicked up.
Got out fairly unscathed, which was surprising given the state of some of the roads. Had a semi that must have been carrying sand and gravel hit a bump while passing me at 100kph got an absolute shower of sand and stones, so was surprised that didn't seem to cause any damage. Another semi on one of those small sections of road which is basically gravel with a small strip of bitumen in the middle, pulled right over as far as I could, but he wasn't slowing for anything, roared past at 100kph flicking all the gravel and stuff up, will have that on the video. So was quite happy how it held up. I did get it ceramic coated just before we left.
For AP and wipers, I had one or two dry wipes leaving ADL, the windscreen was absolutely filthy though, like I was struggling to see through it at times, so had to go to a servo to give it a good clean, so I don't fault the system for that. Other than that no dry wipes, I've had hardly any since 2 or 3 version updates ago. The wiper performance in the rain was faultless also, caught that in the national park in the part 2 video, rain was coming in showers of all different strengths and the wipers were adapting to it perfectly, was really impressed. Actually had to come back on camera as I'd given them only an OK grade in my first comment but quickly saw as the rain changed how good a job they were actually doing. I finally made the switch to one tap for AP, so no TACC anymore for me.
Yeah, with the results I hear varying so widely, I definitely would not say it's solved by a long shot. Clearly they need to work on it, and from comments I've seen from senior engineers in Tesla it seems to be a focus, but it's coming to a point where if they can't make it consistently better than rain sensors (which are also far from perfect) then they probably need to throw in the towel and just retrofit them. I'm fairly confident given all of the things these teams have achieved that they'll get there, I just hope it's soon! I've just been lucky the past couple of months that they've been really good, I was getting dry wipes every few days before that.Interesting, definitely hasn’t been the case for my 2022 model 3 so I wonder if there is a difference somewhere.
Although it was so bad for a while I am now scared to use it. I always keep a wet cloth and squeegee in the frunk on long drivers for the inevitable dry wipe on a bug filled windshield haha.
Clearly they need to work on it, and from comments I've seen from senior engineers in Tesla it seems to be a focus, but it's coming to a point where if they can't make it consistently better than rain sensors (which are also far from perfect) then they probably need to throw in the towel and just retrofit them.
It is but are they perfect? I've never had a rain sensor that works perfectly in all levels of rainfall, especially when the level of rainfall is changing often. In fact when the Tesla system is working right, it's the closest I've seen to being able to quickly adapt as there are sudden harder falls and then when it eases off again and even as you go under an underpass etc. The problem is that it's not consistent.Which is quite ridiculous, really.
What other car companies expend a lot of time, effort and “focus” on making their windscreen wipers work properly?
Is the answer zero?