Mark Z
Active Member
I have mine at the ready for quick access. Faster than a visor and covers more area when needed.Hey! that's the answer!! Have Tesla supply ball caps!
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dwebb66
Member
Hey! that's the answer!! Have Tesla supply ball caps!
Tesla gave me one when I reserved my X, maybe that was part of the plan ;-)
Bradleybang
Member
I drove west today at about 3.30 direct into sun on Highway 24 from Walnut Creek. Visor worked fine and it also can be moved to side window as direction of highway changes.
aesculus
Still Trying to Figure This All Out
Say what? Anyway the ball caps should be given to everyone in pairs when they pick up their cars for this reason.
And BTW I have a roadster (non Tesla) and the top never goes up for shade. It's a hat and sunglasses always.
Zroiron
Poodle Pack Leader
Just dropped almost a thousand dollars to replace our windshield in the S because of a damn rock! I'm so gun shy now that I refuse to be within 500 feet of any vehicle that does not have flaps over the rear tires! Coal rollers and big 4x4's are especially bad!
Investigate a zero-deductible windshield rider. The insurance company will likely offer it, and you'd be surprised at how little it costs. The last two times I've asked to have it added, I met resistance followed by a quote of "0 extra dollars". Worth looking into.
Roamer
Member
I thought the smooth glass over the top was an engineering decision in the never ending search for ways to reduce drag and wind noise. The point of max pressure and flow is the top of a normal windshield. That also happens to be where a drag inducing break, in the highest pressure airflow, occurs across the entire width of the car, in a traditional design. Tesla moved the seam from one of the highest pressure areas to one of the lowest pressure areas of the roof. So maybe the sleek smooth glass was an engineering and design solution that then required tinting and unique visors to make it work.
Think coefficient of drag is not important. Here is energy use, while heading west at Palm Springs, on Friday afternoon (Jan 16th 2016), into a 30 to 40 mph headwind. At 75mph I was plowing thru the air at over 100 mph. You can see what aerodynamic drag does to energy use.
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Those of you who have a Model X (or who have access to one):
Run your fingers along the interface between the windshield and the A-pillar, up high. Do you notice that channel?
What could be the purpose for that channel - it exists on both sides of the vehicle - other than to provide an anchor slit for something like a sun screen/shade?
***Thanks to Roamer for having pointed this out***
Run your fingers along the interface between the windshield and the A-pillar, up high. Do you notice that channel?
What could be the purpose for that channel - it exists on both sides of the vehicle - other than to provide an anchor slit for something like a sun screen/shade?
***Thanks to Roamer for having pointed this out***
K-MTG
Sunshade Captain of TMC
Bradleybang
Member
Pictures are hard. Inside angle is tough to shoot and outside reflection of top of windshield gives reflection.
K-MTG
Sunshade Captain of TMC
Bradleybang
Member
about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch.
Another weird thing. Red glare from raindrops sitting on windshield. Shows where the tinting gets deeper.
Mark Z
Active Member
i checked the channel on Model X and compared with the windshield of Model S. They appear to be similar.
K-MTG
Sunshade Captain of TMC
Do you think they planned on leaving a opened channel to accommodate a sunshade or is it just part of the design as you mentioned it is similar to the Model S.
Mark Z
Active Member
While I am not the one to answer about the design of the channel, I will bring up one item found in Elon's Model X.
At the September Fremont Model X event, we saw items in Elon's trunk. The answer from Tesla personnel was that it was a sunshade. The trunk was later closed and no more demonstrations occurred of how Elon's "Trunk Load Floor" would raise on an angle when the trunk hatch was raised.
I have waited to order, configure, take delivery and receive repairs. I certainly can wait for a sunshade, but most likely won't use it.
OT: A passenger on a recent road trip used his visor to shade the sun from his side. One problem, it was no longer shading the sun from the driver's eyes. I won, and the passenger had to put a paper into the side window to add more shade. A sunshade would help such situations. The Tesla visor cap will help as well.
goneskiian
Active Member
And that's not even mentioning the fact that Elon's center 2nd row seat had a fold down arm rest. They really shouldn't have had Elon's X on display if they didn't plan on it being just like everyone elses.
pvogel
Member
Not that I saw. The only middle arm rest I saw was on a six-seater founder X used during the rides outside where they had a middle row center console.
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goneskiian
Active Member
Mark Z
Active Member
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it, but it was the slickest trick in Elon's vehicle. Only late in the night did someone pull down the center of the back of the center 2nd row seat to magically have an arm rest appear. If that feature had been included in all 7 seat Model X and had I known about it in advance, I might NOT have a 6 seat version today! Here is the link to the photo from aija SigX 649:
6 Seat vs 7 Seat Options
I am pleased to report that my post that followed the photo still applies, except for the absence of that arm rest in other Model X.
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pvogel
Member
I suspect those first 6 founders vehicles had seats made by the company that wasn't able to deliver in quantity on time and led to Tesla doing the seats themselves.
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