Recent content by kc1953

Warranties are just an insurance policy. If you can afford to fix catastrophic failures out of warranty then you shouldn’t buy extended warranty. If you can’t afford or don’t want to face cost of catastrophic failures, then buy extended warranty.

I mostly charge at home, but do road trips 2-3 times a year. Over last 12 months I have charged 72% at home and 28% at superchargers.

The basic autopilot based autosteer function to me is a parlor game….not really very useful. The traffic sensitive cruise control, however, is very useful. I never use autosteer as it seems more of a hindrance than a help.

After driving a model Y for two years, when I see the interiors of Audi, BMW and Mercedes EVs, while they are very luxurious, there is just too much going on and I think it would be distracting as a driver. Same holds true comparing the German EVs with the S and X I think. I guess I’ve grown...

Take it in to service center (make appointment first) and have them fix it.

Nope. Don’t even think about really doing it. Wood dash trim is bad enough!

I know. But in my opinion they are ugly.

What fun would that be?🤣

What I would really like is a way to open glove box without going into screen menu or going through left scroll button. The left scroll button (pushing down on it) to get fan and other settings is nice but you still need to briefly take your eyes off road to see what you are doing, so that is NG.

Isn’t the real advantage of the Tesla MMI the integration of navigation and supercharger network. On road trips it is very useful and you dont have to use third party app on phone such as plugshare or findabetterroute to figure out where to charge.

I deleted Plaid as a payee and changed password. I’m probably getting a lot of junk email as a result of Plaid accessing my account but, it was easy, and when I took delivery in Dec 2021 the ability to do ACH from Bank account was not transparent. At the time there was a severe shortage of...

Getting tires at any dealership/Service Center, ICE or EV is always more expensive than going to a reputable tire installation company, such as American Tire for example.

That’s a fair point. That’s why I would want to see comparative metrics, and a larger sample size is preferable. But I have had P-Zeros on an Audi SQ5 (my pre MY LR SUV) and on my current Mercedes c43 amg cab. They are very good tires.

It depends on how much better tread life the Pilot A/S has, and how much quieter the P -zeros are. Unless you are taking your MYP to the track I would choose quiet and efficiency over performance. But key for me would be the relative quiet vs relative tread life metrics.

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