Even with the SuC set as the destination it doesn’t mean the battery will be at optimum temperature for max charge rate. It’s not a particularly powerful heater and even though the ambient termperature is reasonable it takes a fair bit of driving to heat the battery pack.
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Questions For Uk Model 3 Owners (delivery Complete)
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Even with the SuC set as the destination it doesn’t mean the battery will be at optimum temperature for max charge rate. It’s not a particularly powerful heater and even though the ambient termperature is reasonable it takes a fair bit of driving to heat the battery pack.
WannabeOwner
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I think you should have got way more than 35kW (provided you were at low SOC) - preconditioning-or-not. Might have been that stall was faulty, I've had that a couple of times, so worth moving to another stall. I no longer do "plug-in, walk-away" but rather "Plug-in, check kWs ramp up
, walk-away". On some sites the A/B stall positions are not obvious and I have plugged in, seen the kW, scratched my head and THEN realised that I was actually paired. Younger drivers won't have this problem ... I don't know the Supercharging-curve for the various Model-3s, but recommend that you record kW at e.g. 10%, 20%, ... so you know what is "good" and then will know on the rare occasion when something is not optimum.
WannabeOwner
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Just to be clear: for preconditioning to happen you don't have to do anything special on Charging Screen, but you do have to set Satnav to navigate to the Supercharger (or Satnav has to be taking you there as part of a longer journey)
curmudgeon
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The boot seal on my M3 lifts in the middle. Is this normal?
It doesn't want to be pushed down any and is unlikely to cause any problems but am off to Dublin SC later this week and would be very grateful to see another M3 boot seal fitted differently, if indeed they are fitted differently.
It doesn't want to be pushed down any and is unlikely to cause any problems but am off to Dublin SC later this week and would be very grateful to see another M3 boot seal fitted differently, if indeed they are fitted differently.
curmudgeon
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I think they only display when you’re driving. Check after half a mile.
curmudgeon
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Thanks for the answer, and that would make sense because I think tyre pressure monitors actually measure rotational speed of the wheel to determine deflation. Or something like that. I'll take a look next time I'm out.
MrBadger
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First thing after turning on ignition my current (non Tesla) car displays on the screen is tyre pressure status - bit late reporting if you have already driven off on a flat is it not?
curmudgeon
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That's probably it, I'm thinking that's why I got capped low on the InstaVolt. I'm going to try fibbing to the car and tell it I'm going to go to fleet services to get it to precondition then go to the InstaVolt instead, see what happens...
*Edit* sorry, didn't read properly! When I asked the car to navigator to Fleet Supercharger, I got a little "toast" notification saying it was preconditioning for supercharging. I just set the destination from the main map.
I believe you need to tap the speed limit sign on the screen and it will set AP to that speed.
Hmm not exactly cutting edge is it! I assume the same is true of FSD (not seen anyone mention it as a difference) Not exactly full self driving
WannabeOwner
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Not sure about latest AP in Model-3, but it seems to depend on speed. At 70 mr car does not change speed for speed limits (dashboard shows the limit change, I can press button to change to that speed), but it does change on TACC for 30 / 40 etc. e.g. if I come into a 40 from a 60. The reason that I am a bit vague is that I don't drive on TACC in the local A-roads / villages, so I'm not sure exactly what circumstances causes it to change - my assumption was that 70 MPH dual carriageway it ignores speed limits, whereas at/below national speed limit it changes for them. Certainly on my local "demo for mates" run car changes speed as I go into the 40, and back up again as I come out of it.
AP2 doesn't read speed limits, so will only tell you about fixed ones from its GPS database, which is sometime wrong by 100M or more
Do other cars in this price bracket have this then? (IDK)
Pretty sure VAG group cars do on their adaptive cruise. My point to be honest was the idea that Tesla call the top spec Full Self Driving.... I would have thought going at the correct speed was a pretty early feature to get right for that to happen.
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