Recent content by SpareHeadOne

To the best of my knowledge the original Tesla pad had a single coil because that was a complaint aimed at it by people who had previously used a third party mat designed to fit into the original console. It's entirely possible that this is a newer version or those original reports were...

My previous car would do 800-900 miles on a tank so I could mostly go where I wanted and back without refuelling. I understand your point, but in the UK at least not all rest stops have charging facilities and not all charging facilities are any where near rest area (Tesla's site outside of...

iTunes will allow you to purchase tracks that you can then download (unprotected) and/or stream on your devices. iCloud Music Library (iTunes Match) will match your own songs (e.g. from CD) that are available in iTunes to buy and allow you to listen to them on other devices, but it will also...

Not so, my PW doesn't discharge during off-peak unless the grid goes off - so with my car set to charge during that time the battery is not depleted. Presently it will charge the car from excess solar, but only when the grid is off which is annoying. Broadly speaking I would say that the...

No, the TWC will only provide power in the schedule that you set, with the exception that if it loses WiFi connectivity it reverts to being a "dumb" charger and will provide any power that the car asks for. It's also worth noting that it seems to switch summer/winter time on the US dates rather...

2022.40.4 installed overnight on Friday for me, then on Saturday I did ~170 miles with intermittently rainy conditions and the auto wipers were hopeless, a massive step backwards from 2022.36.6 which seemed to be pretty flawless for me. I don't know if I'm brave enough to try AHB again on that...

I swapped from a December 2020 LR (last ones to come out of Fremont, first ones with the double-pane windows) to a June 2022 LR and I would say that the new Chinese one is noticeably quieter and feels more refined. When the ranger came to fit my Homelink module he said that the Chinese ones...

Seems to have resolved the car not sleeping on 36.2. Definitely a good one for me, I lost 4% on the worst day - when the car was just sat in my garage.

Try "Joe Mode", it makes the chimes quieter for passengers.

Installed on my M3 on Friday morning. Tesla coming on Tuesday to replace the LV battery and see if we can get the car running again. As updates go, it's not been my smoothest :eek: As far as I can tell the update completed, then I got an alert saying the car was powering down due to a problem...

Might be worse than I thought. I've just seen a post on Twitter from a pub owner showing his latest quote for electricity prices; the unit price has gone up from 15p/kWn in May to 97p/kWh from September; a little over 6x the price. Obviously I have have no idea how much refineries pay per unit...

I'm not going behind the paywall to read this, but I'm willing to bet that one assumption they are making is that petrol and diesel prices will remain the same. Unfortunately for them oil extraction, transport and refining all use electricity so I will be very surprised if there isn't at least...

2022.24.5 dropped for me last night, just had a play with the new profiles feature. You get a new profile on the car for each account that the car is associated with (in addition to any profiles you already have defined in the car) rather than associating an existing profile with your account...

Interesting, I've never had a car that allowed iOS library browsing via BT and I know that the reason used to be that only the A2DP had been implemented and not (I think) AVRCP. I guess that changed and there is another reason why some manufacturers don't allow or support the browsing. Having...

If my memory serves me correctly the iPhone provides only hands free and audio streaming capabilities via Bluetooth, so you can use the car as if it is a telephone headset and/or a Bluetooth speaker, but you cannot browse any media on the device as it isn't supported. That's a limitation of the...