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Just waiting to hear on the Wipers dev team. Thoughts and prayers…

Here you go: https://maps.dft.gov.uk/ev-charging-map/index.html North Yorkshire is in the top 20% of the UK. Also, apparently Yorkshire is not the North-East. A bloke from Gateshead told me once, so must be true.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/05/uk-installs-record-number-of-public-electric-vehicle-chargers Article from yesterday. 6,000 new chargers added in UK in first quarter of 2024 taking total to 60,000. The highest rate so far, and a quarter of those are rapids. Led by...

Yeah!! Go the whole hog and open up everything Musk. I reckon I could totally stick a tail-first landing on a Falcon 9…

I use these off-site ‘valet’ parking, like the official Gatwick ones. I use the Tesla app to disable Sentry only once I see that it has been moved to its off-site location. This is often some hours after drop-off in the multi-storey. My logic is that any misdemeanours are going to happen...

This is the MOT centre or service centre instruction set. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/en-us/GUID-46D867B1-1956-4EBA-8EF1-C3375E062102.html It assumes a Beissbarth Headlight Tester, Model 815 is being used.

Here’s the self service procedure https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/en-us/GUID-29CF03C8-9755-42C2-B45B-6B61900806B0.html However, given your concerns- I would dig out a crisp £10 note and go talk nicely to your local, friendly MOT centre and ask them to use their headlamp...

Anything useful in the error message? Otherwise, trying in another browser might be worth a stab.

Junior salesman’s first quarterly bonus burning a hole in my pocket as I walked down Tottenham Court Road, as I recall.

I graduated onto a PocketPC running TomTom in 2003. All plumbed in for charging. Between that and the disembodied voice from the ‘TraficMaster’ it was basically a vision of the future shoehorned into a Vectra SRi 😁

47 years old, and today I learnt that ‘gas tumble driers’ are a thing!

Yours looks like mine, and yet rather than smile, I still find myself wondering “who used the 8 units on-peak!”

Interesting to note. Incidentally, how would a non-towing capable towbar be indicated to a subsequent owner? Is the vehicle data plate on the door sill (or wherever it is) different on a factory-fitted towing-capable Tesla?

Also noted this past week that there seemed to be acknowledgment of non-Tesla’s taking up multiple bays in real-time. E.g. ‘16 chargers, 8 vehicles charging, 6 chargers available’ implying a couple of 3rd party vehicles tying up two bays. Could have just been unavailable chargers, but this...

Yup, I had this on 24.8.4. I discovered the BT on/off resolution after exhausting all other options including deleting the wife’s phone🙄

We’ll probably end up losing the functionality before some get the update at this rate! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/02/uk-government-review-headlight-glare-drivers-complaints

Ah, ok. I didn’t experience that crash-out. I was on the Apple iOS app.

What’s the specificities of the sign-up error? I successfully migrated from Go to Intelligent Go last week, dumb charger and leased Tesla. Skip the remote-key bit, and get to the test charge. Took two goes to get the test charge, but sorted in 10mins.

Absolutely agree. My comment was frivolous. The train PoC is an odd application, given trains travel to pre-defined, limited locations via set routes. The electrification of lines via track or o/h cables seems trivial when you’re building out the rail infra anyway. Would love to see hydrogen...

It’s 2035 and the car resto tv shows viewing figures have fallen off a cliff. Wheeler Dealers now has the mechanic every week saying “it’s either the battery, the motor or the body computer” before plugging in a laptop. They then have to pad out the remaining 57 minutes.

Hydrogen charging points may need a bit of attention…

https://service.tesla.com/docs/BodyRepair/Body_Repair_Procedures/Model_Y/HTML/en-us/GUID-769C9625-76EE-467B-B756-C9032AC2B99A.html

Just moved today from Go to Intelligent Go. Anyone got experience/ knowledge if I need to email separately to get the Export moved from ‘Lite’ 8p/unit to ‘Export’ 15p/unit? Or will Octopus move me over to the higher rate now that I’m eligible? (When we went from Flux to Go, it was automatic)

This would appear to be the most environmentally friendly approach. On the flip side, we’re on our third BEV. The previous Tesla is on the road somewhere still, so someone is ‘doing their bit’ and driving a BEV rather than ICE The car before that was a petrol-hybrid, so someone is driving that...

Yep, finally reaching the point where we export more than we import (albeit the cars have hardly moved last week so minimal charging). Now starts the conundrum of if and when to switch back from Go to Flux🤔 I’m yet to find a comparison app that also supports Export (neither OctoAid nor Compare...

Pfft, 110 days! We’ll be sitting in the back seats of our Tesla’s being robo-chauffeured around by then.

Hehe, not even needed thanks to EDR black boxes… pedal inputs all recorded prior to an impact. https://topix.jaguar.jlrext.com/topix/service/procedure/199953/PDF/88533fad-afde-4589-9f32-4476afd4d333/en_GB

It’s very kind of you to offer, but how will we ensure you’re present at the superchargers that we’re headed to, so that we can avail ourselves of these services?

As an aside, I saw that ‘before and after’ example on notateslapp.com also and thought how unhelpful if was. One is Santa mode on a day background, and the other is night/dark mode! Also signalling in the opposite direction 🤷‍♂️

I know exactly the lighting spread that you refer to, with the uptick to the left that will sweep across oncoming traffic as the road bends. The surprising thing for me is that I’ve never been flashed, or indeed had any car in front show annoyance. Whilst it’s clearly throwing light in that...

Ahh, ‘Fiscal Drag’ our chancellor’s not-so-secret weapon to balance the books. Seems he’s realised that people actually like the idea that they drive a ‘luxury’ car or have become so successful that they qualify for higher-rate income tax. That or we feel churlish complaining about such things...

Interesting timing, given it’s sunny and windy out there today. Sun doesn’t even set till 18:08 today.

It’s great for around town and parking. I’ll steal hers in preference to the MY if heading to the shops. It also turns in the width of the road thanks to better steering lock and v short wheelbase unlike the MY barge.

@Drew57 . Your story did take me back to my recollection of the Stellantis dealership that we dealt with when buying the 500e. Left me feeling that the death of the physical franchise model can’t come soon enough. If they make a car-themed version of The Office, they could start there for...

Aww, you didn’t get the soft-top? Love ours (La Prima convertible in Ocean Green/Blue). Even got the roof down on Saturday when I was allowed to steal it for a run to the shops:) Cracking little car, and my wife gets some quite sensible longer journeys out of it with a stop for a cuppa and a...

Maybe we could have a whip-round and see if Elon would throw some mirrors up into orbit for us? https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Mirrors-in-Space-for-Electric-Power-at-Night-2012.pdf

Out of interest, @KennethS did you set these up with the internal ‘master/slave’ so that they don’t both max out at the same time? I have one Gen2 and also a 3rd party ‘Easy Wallbox’ that’s hobbled to 2.4kW. It’s always been on my to-do list to swap out my non-Tesla charger for another Gen2 and...

Was there an update that officially declared it improved the lights or introduced an auto-calibration? Reason I ask is I drove in the dark yesterday immediately after I’d done a software update. It may be just because I’d been reading this thread, but I thought ‘uh,oh - these lights look set a...

I’m wondering if any roll out of matrix functionality via OTA updates to the legacy fleet will first require a ‘proper’ calibration and levelling of the existing system. It’d be no good turning on and off individual pixels if they’re pointed in random directions. Whether this could be...

Agree. We have a number of the light-up speed signs locally now, they typically show 29mph as I trundle past with cc set to 30 in the MY. My previous Lexus was comedic in its speed under reporting, took a while to realise why I was being overtaken in 40mph areas for dawdling. Still it was...

I keep hopefully putting mine into Car Wash Mode. Come back 30 minutes later and it’s still filthy. Can’t see any difference whatsoever. Must be another one of those features that works great in California, but gets nerfed for those of us in the UK.

Can’t help with a specific, I’m still running the OEMs. I did have some amazing Dunlops on my Lexus that had the most incredible kerb protection built-in. There was a rubber lip that protruded slightly, and it folded over the rim upon kerb impact. Saved me half a dozen times at least from...

There are a couple of junctions on the M40 northbound that have caused this behaviour in my car since I got it in late 2022 when using AP. The force required to correct the cars trajectory was sufficient to cancel AP, and has occasionally also triggered the car to slow abruptly. As it was...

Sadly it never matters in the South-East. One turbodiesel rwd German marque will come to a halt on a slight incline. Then another identical machine will attempt to go around them, bouncing off the rev limiter, and block the other lane. Other than the occasional Yaris or Panda passing via the...

Another example: Notchy steering on the MY’s that were made in 2022. Lots had steering racks replaced, despite it starting with one software update and ceasing with another.

Anyone know what happens if you were to press the button again 2 minutes after you honk the horn (or pressed the button immediately after the event)? Do you then get 8 mins prior to incident; the incident; then the 2 minutes after? I‘d check myself, but it’s coooold out there;)

It’s lazy journalism that allows this stuff to go unchecked and unchallenged. Yesterday all the major papers were quoting the Chancellor verbatim with his cute “… and domestic oil and gas is four times cleaner than imported oil and gas.” Anyone that paid even a cursory interest in GCSE or...

Tesla should just add this comment verbatim to the release notes and user manual. It would save us a lot of heartache and disappointment.

Interesting 🤔 I had naively assumed the air suspension in the X would be superior in every case.