Hi, When you say the car is borderline undrivable with traction control disabled what do you mean exactly?
The car is borderline uncontrollable at posted road speeds if moisture or any contaminants are present on the asphalt.
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Hi, When you say the car is borderline undrivable with traction control disabled what do you mean exactly?
The car is borderline uncontrollable at posted road speeds if moisture or any contaminants are present on the asphalt.
I don't recommend it when it's raining.Sounds like someone has a lead foot :tongue:
I'm now curious. I may have to disable TC (I've never done it in the Model S) to see what kind of power is being held back! :scared:
Sounds like someone has a lead foot :tongue:
I'm now curious. I may have to disable TC (I've never done it in the Model S) to see what kind of power is being held back! :scared:
It can be great fun. Just be sure you have an open parking lot and some room to play. :wink:I'm now curious. I may have to disable TC (I've never done it in the Model S) to see what kind of power is being held back! :scared:
On the roadster disabling T/C does make the vehicle somewhat uncontrollable .....
Thanks. Yup - I couldn't wait to see what the car could do with all of that torque. I made the video just a few days after I got the car. I'll have to wait until spring to get the car on the track though.I disagree with that as a blanket statement, but you're right in so far as it takes a good, experienced driver to handle that much power without TC. I grew up racing cars and there's a few other roadster owners who to the track regularly, I've driven he roadster without TC and its kinda exhilarating but get it wrong and you're toast. Haven't tried Model S without TC but I'd like to that at the local track or airfield with plenty of space for the first time out.
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P.S. nice video dailydriver, that you driving?
I have a small buzz at 100% and a bad one at anything lower.
I picked up our car on Saturday morning. On Saturday morning I noticed this condensation in one of the tail lights. Anyone else see this?
I'm not sure how this gets past Tesla's water testing environment. Surely that's more vigorous than a car wash?Yup after washing the car, and there's a few others who have mentioned it. Not a biggie, but it needs fixing.
This is just a generalization. A measure of HP is useless in comparing different vehicles because of factors like vehicle weight, dyno used, where the hp is measured, transmission type etc. A 500hp car that weighs a lot can be a snail. If you are spinning the tires at 60mph at the power levels you stated, you are using the wrong tires, or the car is poorly setup. I have been in 800+rwhp cars that get good bite on the street even at low speeds, too many variables. A better measure is trap speed at a drag strip.It has been my experience that anything with north of 300hp is "borderline un-driveable" or a little hard to control on less than ideal surfaces. Horsepower over 400 is mostly a high speed item with little or no use at lower speeds. Porsche's AWD turbo 99x series seem to make good use of it but I have a 550 that will literally spin the tires at 60 mph by simply rolling into the throttle in third gear (TC off of course). I've been tempted to buy cars with more horsepower (the 458 comes to mind) but always find myself asking the question "Why?".
I picked up our car on Saturday morning. On Sunday morning I noticed this condensation in one of the tail lights. Anyone else see this?
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(Emailed the "ownership" address and my DSs on Sunday and again on Monday, but haven't heard back yet.)
On Sunday morning I noticed this condensation in one of the tail lights. Anyone else see this?