Recent content by kgvickers

Thanks!

Thanks. That's about 8 miles from my home. Might have to go take a look.

Where is that truck?

$776/3376 miles = $0.2298/mile. Thanks for posting your experience.

I love the ability to shift between R and D while parking or "un" parking, and I know the OM says it's ok and is permitted below 5mph. But lately I'm getting a very disturbing noise from somewhere in the left/front area of my 2019 Model 3 Perf when doing this maneuver. The sound is hard to...

Yes, I searched (maybe not well enough, just yell at me). My coolant level was below the line on the bottle when I bought the car years ago. Foolish me, I didn't bug the service center about it in the few visits I had with them. The level has not changed over years and I've not been able to...

I charged here on Saturday, 16 March. While the charging was fine, I didn't feel comfortable leaving my car to find a restroom. There were several sketchy looking gents just wandering around or laying on the walkway in front of the businesses.

When I've got to cut it close I always monitor the energy app: My experience is that it works really well and lets me know if I should slow down some. You mentioned that you were planning to limit the AC use. Slowing down a few mph will have a much greater impact. Also, check your tire...

Interesting discussion. I have a '19 M3P and my 50K ownership is showing about 260 whr/mi. Of course, when screaming on the freeway at 80+ mph it's considerably higher consumption. I've been thinking about getting the longest range version of the MS available, IIRC, that's around 400 miles...

I've had my M3P since Sept '20. Love it, love driving electric. And I don't mind the supercharging breaks on long trips. What is boring is that since most of our road trips are on i20 to same campground in North Carolina, I have to visit the same 5 or 6 stations on the trip. Some diversity...

I regularly see the Tesla mobile connectors for $150 on facebook marketplace. the Gen 1 is good for 40 amps, the Gen 2 is good for 32. Only rub is you'll need a NEMA 14-50 outlet but that's easy enough to install. My home charging setup is a Gen 1 mobile EVSE with a NEMA 14-50 in the ceiling...

Over the last two days I replaced the compliance arm bushings on my 2019 M3P. I ended up needing to pull the fender well covers so that made for easy access to the side cameras. I've had the glare issue discussed in this thread so I decided to tackle that while I was at it. Since I don't have...

Finally installed the Suspensia bushings. Pretty easy with a 20 ton shop press. Steering response is definitely better. Now to see if they hold up long term.

Last week I was exiting my neighborhood and making a gentle right hand turn with gentle acceleration - basically what I do every day. But on that day, I heard an abrupt, odd sound that I think came from the front - left area of the car. Not metal on metal, I really thought I'd had a front left...

Got the Suspensia bushings from RockAuto. I've not pulled the arms from my car so I can't compare them side by side, but I'll comment here on what I find. As another experiment, I'm considering filling the voids with JB Weld ...