It snows in Ottawa a fair amount. Before I leave my outdoor parking spot at work, especially on snowy days, I warm/defrost the car through the app, which is awesome. On the days when it has snowed a lot (more than an inch), I brush off the snow before I hit the road, and this is where my car mildly annoys me.
In an ICE, you unlock the door, start the car and let it run and keep defrosting while you scrape off the snow.
In my model 3, as soon as I open the door to grab my snow brush (haven’t needed the scraper yet!), it turns off the climate/defrost mode, and the car usually locks itself while I’m brushing the snow off from the passenger side.
it’s a pain in the backside to have to pull out the phone, open the app and put defrost back on while brushing snow off the car. OK, maybe it’s a very minor inconvenience, but it still bugs me.
Thankfully, I don’t have this problem in the mornings at home, since the car has warmed itself up in the garage and charged itself before I leave. No complaints there - just another reason why the Model 3 is awesome!
Am I missing something, or do we need to ask Elon for a ‘snow clearing mode’ that keeps the climate/defrost on until we’re actually sitting in the car? Anyone else have this same problem?
In an ICE, you unlock the door, start the car and let it run and keep defrosting while you scrape off the snow.
In my model 3, as soon as I open the door to grab my snow brush (haven’t needed the scraper yet!), it turns off the climate/defrost mode, and the car usually locks itself while I’m brushing the snow off from the passenger side.
it’s a pain in the backside to have to pull out the phone, open the app and put defrost back on while brushing snow off the car. OK, maybe it’s a very minor inconvenience, but it still bugs me.
Thankfully, I don’t have this problem in the mornings at home, since the car has warmed itself up in the garage and charged itself before I leave. No complaints there - just another reason why the Model 3 is awesome!
Am I missing something, or do we need to ask Elon for a ‘snow clearing mode’ that keeps the climate/defrost on until we’re actually sitting in the car? Anyone else have this same problem?