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Great points. What I had in mind was things like the stiff power cord which is difficult to maneuver around the poorly placed bollards and the cabinet and bend to meet the car. Also so many ways for things to go wrong given the number of steps, no instructions, extra hardware, and no feedback...

Good grief it takes a lot of tricks and futzing to get CCS to work! Tesla mobile service did a fine job installing the retrofit, and the technician was right to have me test L2 charging before calling it done. Next you should to test CCS charging and set up the needed app(s). CCS lessons: *...

The "Connect" button on the screen is just for the BT phone/text/audio/contacts connection. If that won't connect, you can try re-pairing it, but indeed it might point to a BT hardware problem requiring service.

By "reconnecting" do you mean deleting and re-adding the phone-as-key connection? That can help. Also search for relevant threads with tips like not having the phone in your back pocket when approaching the car. A thread or two suggested renaming your phone's bluetooth if needed to remove...

Tesla software 2024.14.6 has a Playlist option in the Bluetooth section of the audio controls. Any clues on how to make and use a bluetooth playlist? (I'm not finding anything in the Owner's manual, TMC, or the web.) It'd be great to have the touchscreen select from the Pocket Casts queue and...

Web search result: Tesla diagnostics I'd file a service ticket to have the hardware checked out.

The car doesn't remember the playback position into more than the current audio source, unless 2024.14 fixes that, but 2024.14 does make it easier to drag the playback position. Good point! So Samsung's downloadable brochure or spec sheet says their T5 and T7 SSDs handle 0℃ to 60℃ = 32°F to 140...

2024.14.6 fixes the problem where you try to skip back 2 steps in your Bluetooth podcast stream and instead the car would switch audio sources. It was rather disorienting. That bug bit me earlier today. Now I have the fix!

For music + dash/sentry cam video, I use a Samsung 500GB portable external drive. It's plenty. I allocated maybe 80% for video. camelcamelcamel says the T7 varied in price $50 - $95 over the last 3 years. Note: The car has no "safely remove drive" feature so be sure to pause SentryCam before...

This part of the UI is confusing. (BTW my 2020 M3 is now good at detecting which phone key is unlocking the driver's door.) Each phone key can be set to select a driver profile, and each driver profile can have a preferred BT device to connect to for phone calls, text messages, and streaming...

Welcome to the club! Premium connectivity is also great for traffic info. You can use an SSD in place of a thumb drive. Either way, get a large capacity drive and format a partition for music and a partition for sentry cam. There are forum posts on how to set up the partitions, the audio file...

Do check the laws in your state about cases where you're required to report the accident to the police, DMV, or insurance company.

Wouldn't that get old fast?

FSDS drives 42 MPH in a 35 MPH speed trap zone here (near Tesla's Palo Alto engineering offices) and drifts left onto the double yellow line, both mistakes requiring overrides. It sticks to the right side in a concrete funnel merge, which dangerously invites oncoming traffic to pass you amid...

Is the mini-player still visible at the bottom of the visualization panel, and can you still drag its top line upward to access favorites?