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This is a great tool, thanks for doing this! One question/suggestion: Is there any way you could filter out the Hazards and show only Police, Accidents, and Construction? Along the Interstates (in my area anyway), there are dozens of Hazards reported, and most of them are simply cars stopped...

I think that your last idea is the simplest and easiest. - - - Updated - - - I don't think that any of us know this with 100% certainty, but I'm personally very confident that Tesla's Battery Management System is designed to take these worst-case conditions into account. I wouldn't (and...

If possible you should charge all the way to 100% at your home and the Supercharger (and maybe even at the track). The 20 mile drive from your house or the Supercharger to the track should be enough to bring the battery up to operating temperature even if the outside temps are in the 40's, and...

Artsci might be referring to this version, dated 8/8/2014. https://db.tt/bkxykVic

It polls the Tesla servers directly using the same username and password that the iPhone app uses. But it is independent of and does not require the iPhone app, and it does a whole lot more than the iPhone app, such as performing scheduled actions and sending notifications for a variety of...

VisibleTesla app, in the UI forum.

If you want to listen to a collection of songs by different artists, then yes, that is the best solution. That is the closest thing to a playlist that the Tesla currently supports.

It all spends upon the Play mode. The Model S currently has only an extremely basic USB play mechanism. If you access your USB by Artists, and choose All Songs, you can play All Songs by that Artist. If you choose By Album, then you obviously only get the songs from that album. If you All...

I received an email from Tesla a few hours ago saying that the Tampa (Brandon) Supercharger is now open. Yay, as I'm headed down there in 3 days!

Yeah, I agree, but that's really a common statement, at least in my region. I took my P85 to the Friday Night Drags at Atlanta Motor Speedway every Friday all summer, and gave several thousand people their first look at a Tesla. (This was in rural Georgia and not California, so Tesla's are...

I used astsci's layout but tweaked the graphics and text a bit. I got them printed on glossy card stock at overnightprints.com for about $0.32 each. The hi-res version of mine can be downloaded from https://db.tt/IEUHLGyh

I went to a car show in Newnan, GA, today; I had to park in the center of the lot, and it was really hot, over 100-degrees w/ no clouds. I had my usual posters in the trunk & frunk along with postcard handouts and a couple of drag-racing trophies I'd won over the summer. I left the AC running...

I've now done eight weeks of 1/8-mile races at the Atlanta Motor Speedway Friday Night Drags, and after three first-place wins in the Factory Street Class for points, I've been bumped into the Domestic Class. That class allows bored & stroked motors, headers, intake mods, hotter cams, etc., and...

I was at the weekly Friday Night Drag races last night and had my car parked in the grid area waiting to go on the track for practice runs. Many people at these events have never seen a Tesla before, and one guy asked to look under the hood, so I opened the frunk as well as the rear to show him...

Hodginator: It also depends a lot on your road surface. On grippy asphalt, I can hardly get a chirp from my P85 tires even w/ TC-Off. In a concrete-surfaced parking garage, or on a drag-strip's concrete burnout lane, i can easily leave 50-ft long rubber-marks, spin the tires to shreds, &...

And it's an especially nice safety feature when you do a Car Show Event. Just plug in your cable to the car with nothing attached to the other end (just coil it into the trunk), and then you can have folks sit in and play with all the touchscreen functions w/o worrying about them possibly...

The $2500 audio upgrade doesn't buy you any increased functionality other than Satellite radio and arguably better sound quality w/ improved speakers and a sub-woofer. Shuttle and other improvements should be coming in future software upgrades. Right now the closest thing you can do to a...

Yep, that's just the way it works right now.

Actually I discovered during the second week that the Mustang GT I had beaten in the finals of the first week WAS the 420 HP version. That was a close race, he got off the line faster than me, but I caught him before the end. During the second week, I beat a 1993 Corvette very easily, and then...

Perfect, that's just what I was looking for. Sounds like I should work on getting my own reaction times more consistent before worrying too much about the state of charge! Thanks again. - - - Updated - - - Right, the consensus seems to be that a 100% full battery pack could be slightly...

Thanks dhrivnak, that's really helpful. Do you happen to remember about what level of charge you were working with during these runs?

43 psi, but I only know that because I just checked :smile:. I just take it in right off the street with no special prep. Yes, I get a good bit of wheel-spin, even with traction control on. Which seems odd, because I get very little on the street. I'd think that a track should be stickier...

I believe this question may have been asked before, but I couldn't find it. Does anyone know if there is any difference in the maximum acceleration of a P85 depending on the battery level? In other words, will the car run a faster 1/8 or 1/4 mile with the battery at 100% versus say 85%...

I ordered one yesterday. As I got through scheduling the car for a tire rotation and underbody shields installation, they asked if there was anything else, and I said oh yeah, I want to order a rear camera. He asked, "don't you already have one installed", and I said yes but I need another...

:smile: I think (hope) you're right! I was surprised by how much quicker the Tesla was than everyone else in the unmodified class, especially against the Z51 Corvette.

That's really good to know and a bit inspirational. On the "Friday Night Drags" Facebook page, a nice picture of my car was posted lined up against the (gorgeous) Z51 Corvette, and someone recognized my car as a Tesla and later posted that it won its class. The next post said "It won't next...

I think the Tesla traction control was one of the biggest advantages, keeping wheel-spin to a minimum while hurting performance very little, so I left it on all night (I'd actually be scared to turn if off). Only a couple of cars beat me off the line with quicker reaction times, but I passed...

This was on the opening night of the season on May 9, 2014. Won every match in the Factory Street class for naturally aspirated :wink: production cars. Also won all my earlier practice runs, including against a beautiful 2014 Z51 Corvette. These were 1/8 mile drags, so it was kinda...

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Nice chart WarpedOne! Where did you find that?

Ok, no problem. Here are both Pages source files zipped together, they use Helvetica, LiHei Pro, Gill Sans MT, and Helvetica Neue fonts: https://db.tt/hW98RyrU

Thanks guys. It's hard to make decent generalizations on the technical info like charging times and cost, etc., without getting too bogged down in the details on a poster. But I'll be happy to send the source files to anyone who wants them if you PM me. I did them in Pages (iWork '09), so...

This is a great poster and I used a version of it at my first car show. But in watching people view the poster, I noticed that it had too much info and text for most people to absorb. So like several other folks here, I tweaked it a bit to reduce the amount of text, and I increased the text and...

That's awesome Gizmotoy! Since I'm a klutz with a Dremel, I was very concerned about slicing into the cable while cutting the ears of the bracket off. Also, if you 3D print a new bracket, you could potentially add a little tilt into it so it might capture a portion of the lower valence lip for...

Ah, nice to know; thanks for the additional insight. "Add for Clearcoat" and "Blending and Feathering Paint" were indeed listed as separate line items on my estimate.

You will be shocked by the repair cost. I did something almost identical to my car, and it cost $1,910 to sand and repaint the bumper (Multicoat Red) and replace the damaged (Tesla) Paint Armor pieces at the authorized Tesla repair shop. I paid the $500 deductible and let my insurance pay...

Agree re the Alcantara being a purely personal preference. It came w/ my P85 at the time, but I would have paid extra for it if necessary. Saying that it is not cost-effective if you have the Pano roof (because there's less square footage of coverage there) makes no sense to me. From the...

Perhaps, but it's the same amount of time as my Mercedes and previous BMW and VW. Probably copied over directly from the Mercedes switch gear. Of course, Tesla could change that via an update if they wished.

You do know that if you just lightly tap the lever up or down it will flash the turn signal 3-4 times and automatically stop, right? No need to ever manually cancel the turn signals for a lane change.

Maybe I'm the only person to whom this wasn't intuitively obvious, but I just discovered a neat trick (new for me) when browsing by Artists or Songs on my USB drive. Everyone can see the narrow column of characters to select the first letter of the Artist or Song, and I always just touched on...

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I forgot to take into account that the rear camera looks a bit downward as well, so that's why the rear bumper is visible in it. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks much for the preview instructions. Have you considered or tried mounting the camera on the lowest portion of the grill so that you might be able to see the bottom "ledge" in the camera view to give a little better perspective on where the front of the car actually is (similar to the way...

The way I recall it described is to look at the option strike closest to the current price at the nearest expiration date. Add the prices for the corresponding Put and Call together, and you'll get an estimate of the maximum price swing that the Market is expecting. So as of close today, with...

Link to the original CR article: 2013 Car Brand Perception Survey | Best Car Brands - Consumer Reports

I hear ya w.r.t. to spousal preferences. My P85 came w/ the now-optional Premium Lighting at the time of my purchase, and I do appreciate it, as it makes the interior a bit brighter and more comfortable at night (for me, just my personal prefs). I doubt that it's worth $1K as an option now...

Please add me to the list. Thanks much!!!

I had mine replaced with a refurbished unit at 6,000 miles. FWIW, my Service Adviser told me he thought the refurb might be better since any particular problem area had been specifically addressed. My new unit is MUCH quieter than the original, as-in completely silent at any speed (other than...

I believe that the old data are cached based on the filename. If you change just one character in the name of the files whose tags have been updated, the car will recognize the updated metadata. That's been my experience at least.

Amazon has a 50-ft one for $189: NU-CORD 94561E 50-Feet 50-Amp Rv Extension Cord - Amazon.com and a 30-ft for $100: Amazon.com: Camco 55195 50 AMP 30 Extension Cord with PowerGrip Handle: Automotive I asked my wife to get me the 30-ft for Christmas, so I have it but haven't seen it out of the...

Dang it, you're right, I missed a good opportunity for some scientific research there.