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Excellent. One comment: electric snowblower. See K-man’s YouTube posts.
Can I get a link?
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Excellent. One comment: electric snowblower. See K-man’s YouTube posts.
Excellent. One comment: electric snowblower. See K-man’s YouTube posts.
Hah. Now that's a point. I installed a backup 14-50 [see sig] on my 100 A circuit to the HPWC's so I definitely have a feeder for an electric snowblower.... Hm... Anyone want to purchase a fossil Ariens?
Thanks for the report!
PS: Of course we haven't had snow in NoVa worth digging out the snowblower in three years now....
i did not expect my Model 3 problems to generate so much legit discussion.
literally scoured google
Aaa!! I've been Rick Rolled! Heard that expression before, now I can say it has happened to me.
have you considered using it to make money on Turo or similar?
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This picture suggests otherwise: it's just a cap on a little tank of fluid, like every car I've ever seen. Ok it's an S not a 3 but that's only cause I didn't keep looking for a 3, but one of the videos that did deep dive into the car showed leads me to believe no big change there - and why would there be, it's tried and true.
Flushing the ABS bits is likely a different story, much like most modern cars - you need special magic to activate the pump to remove fluid from that sub system. That said, in all the cars that had that which I have owned and maintained, flushing the main system seemed to be fine (a little ABS activation via brake pedal/driving trickery) but of course, to each their own for their own car..
Today marks the completion of a 2-year wait for a Model 3. It's been a really long wait. So much anticipation. I've literally scoured google daily for Model 3 news for 2 years. And now there's a Model 3 in my garage, and I didn't think I'd have that many problems, but I do. Here goes....
1) I have this Hyundai Sonata that I dunno if I should keep just in case of the apocalypse. Maybe gas is easier to come by than electricity when anarchy reigns?
2) I'm so rarely going to drive that Sonata - having a hard time deciding what kind of insurance coverage I should put on it.
3) I only have a 2-car garage and one spot for visitors on the driveway. The S and 3 are now in the garage, and the Sonata is now relegated to the guest spot, so when people visit, they have to park on the street.
4) People are stopping me to ask about the car. I'm an introvert; can everyone just leave me alone?
5) Need to figure out what to do with a bottle of brake fluid, couple containers of antifreeze, and some 5W30. Maybe I'll donate them to my mechanic. Least I can do for taking business away from him.
6) Inspection sticker is always a challenge. His software doesn't seem equipped to handle the lack of ODB emissions data, which means a longer visit with him just fiddling with his computer.
7) My snowblower runs on gas, so occasionally I have to run to the gas station to fill up my gas cans. If I end up selling the Sonata, do I go to the gas station with the Teslas? Parking at the pump with an EV just seems so wrong. Do I park the car elsewhere and stand at an empty bay with my cans?
8) Here's a short video with some of the strange sounds I've been hearing from my Model 3, both while driving and while parked.
9) There's a gigantic panel gap between my driver-side front door and rear door. I probably could see it from Mars - oh wait, the door's open.
To all the bloggers and 'journalists' who come to this forum cherrypicking threads for bad news to put in your Tesla hit pieces, this is a big F U to you all. You've just been trolled. For those of you who don't know better than to use forums to draw conclusions, please do yourself a favor and read up on selection bias.
Going to spend some time with the car and will be back with some real feedback shortly.
It will be far easier for me to charge from my solar array than to try and pull gas from an underground tank. The SunnyBoy inverters have a secure power option that allows me to charge even if the grid is down. Granted only about 20 miles a day but that is better than nothing.I’m tapping the underground tanks and other abandoned vehicles.
Normally an apocalypse would be bad but it’d make me not worry about dismal TSLA performance so everything has a bright side.
oh that's awesome, i may have to look into doing this, but I have 150' of sidewalk to clear, in a tight parabola shape, so a 240V extension cord will be a real drag. I wonder how many battery packs this will take...Didn't care for the toy electric snow blowers they have in the stores, - I've gone through several of the plug-in models, and my current one, a 15 ampere "SNO-JOE" (the biggest Snow Thrower that is electric that you can buy) is barely enough for light snow. Heavy Western NY Snows require my recently completely 'HOME converted' 3 horsepower 240 volt model (at full load, it draws 13 amps, but can draw upwards of 35 amperes prior to stalling - while developing 7 1/2 horsepower). Base Snow Blower is a 23 x 24" CASE (dual stage), with an automotive style 2-speed gearbox as well as an extremely rare DUAL input Augur, and no belts anywhere - the power take off from the 3 HP motor (3450 RPM) is a single chain drive.
Wasn't sure it would work so just got a "Smith & Jones" (Chinese) $115 motor from Harbor "JUNK" Tools. Had to shroud the air-inlet with a
old rear seat VOLT floor mat to keep the Snow, Salt and water out of the windings and centrifugal switch.
Last month's unbelievably HEAVY snow killed all the gas snow blowers on the street. Was watching people run them and they constantly had to either restart them, or severely 'back off' on the snow. Mine just barrelled down the sidewalks with my 200 foot cord and the snow went flying away - but I could tell the unit was 'just on the verge' of stalling - but it worked! My neighbor 2 doors down who sold me the SNoBlo minus engine couldn't believe how much power the thing now has.
I could tell the machine was WORKING since when I was done after around an hour, the motor seemed Luke Warm whereas it was usually stone cold. Its Overload protected, but the 20 degree F air is blown right past the protector, preventing it from tripping it is so darn cold.
In case anyone is wondering - I plug the unit into my Tesla 14-50 receptacle since its at the front of the garage anyway, where the snow is.
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ROFLMAOToday marks the completion of a 2-year wait for a Model 3. It's been a really long wait. So much anticipation. I've literally scoured google daily for Model 3 news for 2 years. And now there's a Model 3 in my garage, and I didn't think I'd have that many problems, but I do. Here goes....
1) I have this Hyundai Sonata that I dunno if I should keep just in case of the apocalypse. Maybe gas is easier to come by than electricity when anarchy reigns?
2) I'm so rarely going to drive that Sonata - having a hard time deciding what kind of insurance coverage I should put on it.
3) I only have a 2-car garage and one spot for visitors on the driveway. The S and 3 are now in the garage, and the Sonata is now relegated to the guest spot, so when people visit, they have to park on the street.
4) People are stopping me to ask about the car. I'm an introvert; can everyone just leave me alone?
5) Need to figure out what to do with a bottle of brake fluid, couple containers of antifreeze, and some 5W30. Maybe I'll donate them to my mechanic. Least I can do for taking business away from him.
6) Inspection sticker is always a challenge. His software doesn't seem equipped to handle the lack of ODB emissions data, which means a longer visit with him just fiddling with his computer.
7) My snowblower runs on gas, so occasionally I have to run to the gas station to fill up my gas cans. If I end up selling the Sonata, do I go to the gas station with the Teslas? Parking at the pump with an EV just seems so wrong. Do I park the car elsewhere and stand at an empty bay with my cans?
8) Here's a short video with some of the strange sounds I've been hearing from my Model 3, both while driving and while parked.
9) There's a gigantic panel gap between my driver-side front door and rear door. I probably could see it from Mars - oh wait, the door's open.
To all the bloggers and 'journalists' who come to this forum cherrypicking threads for bad news to put in your Tesla hit pieces, this is a big F U to you all. You've just been trolled. For those of you who don't know better than to use forums to draw conclusions, please do yourself a favor and read up on selection bias.
Going to spend some time with the car and will be back with some real feedback shortly.
Hopefully soon Tesla will come up with a Tesla Snowblower + Lawnmower P10D with autopilot. No more clearing snow in blizzard and mowing lawn under the hot sun.