Okay! I dont mind using my phone, but I am wondering if spotify will still work on the screen as it did when I test drove the car? And if voice commands would work. Sorry, hopefully that makes sense!
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Okay! I dont mind using my phone, but I am wondering if spotify will still work on the screen as it did when I test drove the car? And if voice commands would work. Sorry, hopefully that makes sense!
Knightshade
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He's not saying run spotify on your phone.
He's saying use the phone as a wifi hotspot for the car to gain internet access, then keep using the built-in software on the car.
The car doesn't care where it gets its internet access from- if you don't wanna pay Tesla for theirs, you can provide your own.
(though you'll have to turn Wifi on in the car each time you drive it)
Knightshade
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My understanding is this was implemented (quite a while before they had pay-for-LTE at all) because folks would be on wifi at home, pull out of the garage, and the car would take too long to drop the weak wifi and hand over to LTE so folks would be waiting for streaming to buffer and other annoying stuff- so dropping Wifi when you go to drive was a fix for that problem.
DeanP
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Using Spotify thru the car requires premium. Using Bluetooth thru your phone is free.
willow_hiller
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As I said before, you can also connect your car to WiFi and use Spotify through the car without Premium connectivity. You just need to provide the WiFi through a mobile hotspot yourself.
DeanP
Member
Understood, you're absolutely right. I've used mine to download updates. You might have to monitor your data usage if don't have an unlimited plan.
they could put a auto-connect option, my amazon auto does wifi over BT.
If you have a Premium Interior (if you purchased a new Dual Motor or Performance 3), it comes standard with a Premium interior (which includes Premium connectivity). Otherwise, the answer to your question is in the second post in this 50-page thread:
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When I get my Model 3 in about a month, I’ll have free Premium Connectivity for a year. Once that trial is over, and if I decide not to subscribe to Premium Connectivity, I know that I will need to be in range of WiFi if I want to stream Netflix or the internet. My question is, will my car still have to be connected to WiFi in order for it to respond to my Tesla app controls from my IPhone? Or is that functionality still considered the ongoing Standard Connectivity?
Like many other motorists, enthusiastic about the advent of a decent sensible all electric car, I placed an order for a model 3 at the first available opportunity, I.e. 1st April 2016. This was the first possible date for UK adopters.
I paid the huge deposit of £1000.00 against the car, sight unseen. In fact , in those days, there were no production 3s built, so it was a real leap of faith in placing an order at that time.
Subsequently to that, Tesla asked for a further £2000.00 which I duly paid.
My invoice refers to Premium Interior as included. But now Tesla is telling me that all cars ordered after September 2018 must pay 100 dollars/month for the Premium Connectivity even though my original order was in 2016.
My premium connectivity now no longer works.
Does anyone else have a similar experience and ,if so, what progress have you made in reversing their decision.I would be interested to know if you think this is honest practice. Especially since much has been made by Tesla of the underhand purchasing strategies used by Legacy auto manufacturers.
I paid the huge deposit of £1000.00 against the car, sight unseen. In fact , in those days, there were no production 3s built, so it was a real leap of faith in placing an order at that time.
Subsequently to that, Tesla asked for a further £2000.00 which I duly paid.
My invoice refers to Premium Interior as included. But now Tesla is telling me that all cars ordered after September 2018 must pay 100 dollars/month for the Premium Connectivity even though my original order was in 2016.
My premium connectivity now no longer works.
Does anyone else have a similar experience and ,if so, what progress have you made in reversing their decision.I would be interested to know if you think this is honest practice. Especially since much has been made by Tesla of the underhand purchasing strategies used by Legacy auto manufacturers.
Your April 1st 2016 "order" was just a reservation, not an actual order. In mid 2018, Tesla announced that cars ordered before July 2018 would have free premium connectivity for life. If you didn't actually place an order before then, then you have to pay for premium connectivity.
DopeGhoti
Active Member
you might want to double-check what you are being told. Premium Connectivity subscriptions are $10/month (which is reasonable to some), not $100/month (which is less likely to be so).
AdamMacDon
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