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My Model S: I've had it!

Discussion in 'Model S' started by ohmman, Aug 15, 2017.

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  1. buttershrimp

    buttershrimp Click my signature to Go Mad Max Mode

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    Love it
     
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  2. ErnieG

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    OK I'll bite "Sunshade King" can I get a sunshade for only the front portion of the Sunroof?

    Ernie
     
  3. Rusty1

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    I agree. I haven’t enjoyed a car like this since I was a teenager. I look for opportunities for a road trip. My wife and I took our M3 to Nova Scotia this summer. 3,000+ mile road trip from TN. We enjoyed every minute of it.
     
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    Tenasse to Nova Scotia ? Wow!
    How did u like NS? It's beautiful.
     
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    We loved it. Beautiful place.
     
  6. IanMcL

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    I, too have had several conversations with interested folk. Usually as I charge. Real interest from passers by, keen to learn and understand.
     
  7. ohmman

    ohmman Plaid-ish Moderator

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    Well, I passed 5 years a few days ago. I tried to time it so I hit 50k miles on the 5 year anniversary, but I missed it by 4 days. I wasn't terribly committed, or I'd have taken a 100 mile drive to make it happen.

    I just want to reiterate that this is still the best car I've ever owned. It survived a potential replacement by a Model 3 and it'll be in my garage for the foreseeable future.

    Excuse the dust and reflection!
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  8. buttershrimp

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    Can’t believe you didn’t nail the 5 years and 50,000 miles exactly on the day.... my OCD can’t reconcile the disturbance in the force
     
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    A few years ago I definitely would have. But I’ve chilled out a tiny bit since then. It was still tough. :)
     
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    Like the post, encouraging even with the AP problems. I too enjoy driving the car more than any other I have ever owned and that includes the 2019 Corvette ZR1 which I sold.
     
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    OMFG your avatar moves his eyes, I thought I was having a flashback. :eek:
     
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    I sold (privately) my March 2013 S in March 2018 (5 years old) and it had almost exactly 100,000 miles on the clock. I was a great car.
     
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  13. dark cloud

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    We want full-self driving first before full-self communicating.
     
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    Oh that I so wish we didn't have a row of trees to our southern exposure. We we bought here 6 yrs ago it was my intent to put solar on the roof. I didn't realize one shadow essentially shut down output current. The two most aggregious trees are on our neighbors land and they are huge. Currently our electrical costs are 20 cents per KW.
     
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    Goodbye, evil Tesla :D
     
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    1. how did you get that Speedometer on the screen
    2. If you can put panel on the West side of the house you get 88% of the solar energy that a Southern Exposure produces, on the east side you will get 85%, on the north 70%

    Ernie
    Second Model S, first totaled on I-5 Grapevine 50 car pileup 3/19
    Airplane BE36
     
  17. thecloud

    thecloud As rhythm raced inside, the ship came alive

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    1. That's the classic speedometer display for a Model S without autopilot hardware (roughly, those built before the last quarter of 2014.) I've always thought it was a shame that Tesla doesn't give AP cars the option to show that speedometer display when driving the car manually.
    2. If your Model S was totaled in that 3/2019 pileup on I-5, are you the gentleman pictured here?
     
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    Yep that's me, got a 1/4 scratch on left hand when the airbag deployed. Frame was damaged when the Toyota came down resulting in my 2017 90D being totaled. Visibility went from 1/2 mile to 0 in a matter of seconds, fortunately I had already started slowing down, but the guy behind me made it to the shoulder before me and I was in the wreck.
     
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    I don't have solar yet but it is on my to-do list in a few years. My understanding is that if shadows are a possibility then you get micro inverters on each individual panel which enable power generation from the panels the sun reaches. If you run a string inverter then yes, like a string of xmas lights in series if one bulb goes the whole strand goes dead, and the panels produce no current.
     
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    I've talked to people and they advise against it. At certain times of the year I have full sun on the roof for at least a chunk of the day. There's a second problem, It would never pay for itself. I'd rather encourage our electrical co to go renewable. A friend of mine put up a 28KW or really large system on his house. Maybe it was 20KW and $28,000. He claims he charges his car for free. I explain, no you prepaid $28,000 to charge your car. So that is a key point, do the math. If I were in my 30s and had a sufficient employment radius, in other words close to a large employment center, where I could buy and plant myself for decades, sure. I'm retired now. Frankly, I am not certain wind wouldn't be the better alternative. Wind blows at night and when it rains.
     

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