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Thanks to your remark I found the TSB on the Internet. I then called my local (NL) service centre and they confirmed that this should be the definitive solution for my car. However, they told me that there's a run on the parts for the TSB and that they have to be ordered against the vehicle's...

No, it's not a Raven. Interesting to hear that there's a TSB on the subject - I didn't know that. Thanks! "I believe someone else already linked you to in another thread." This is my first post on TMC in 5 years, so I haven't been sent any links of the subject before today. Do you have a link...

Hi, I have an MX from Sept 2018 and it has had this problem since new. It's related to the TACC and can be induced - if you're brave enough - by sitting behind a truck with the TACC engaged, then briefly accelerating hard towards the truck, overriding the TACC, then taking your foot off the...

Hi all, I've owned an MX since September 2018 (our second Tesla) and have recently passed the 50000km milestone. However, since delivery I have had recurring problems with vibration and grinding noises from the front transmission. So far Tesla has replaced the front half shafts 5 times and I...

VdV Eindhoven this afternoon... [emoji4][emoji4][emoji4]

We do use the seat heating but it doesn't help if there's a cold draft blowing through the car. Plus, there's the Goldilocks effect with the seat heating in this sort of weather: the lowest setting has little compensation effect for the errant climate control, the middle setting is too warm and...

We drove to Geneva and back last week, after V7 had installed. I haven't noticed any change in power consumption c.q. range, but I have serious problem with the climate control. With V6 I rarely changed the temp from a setpoint of 20C and never touched the settings. With V7 I had to mess around...

5 mins later it was.

Name & shame: this ******* is blocking a very heavily used charge point outside our office. I HATE this kind of behaviour.

Hi Herbie, Ok, understood. It is indeed a pain as that location is occupied by my toll pass for the french motorways. But c'est la vie - haha. Cheers, Robert.

Hi LastNLSig, I followed your excellent instructions and successfully installed my Blackvue 650. The only problem I have is that the Blackvue doesn't get a GPS signal. It has been suggested that this is due to the camera unit being placed directly under the mirror and that the windscreen...

That's an absolutely necessary relief!

You said it!

Only the photo's I uploaded, ie that Calais side complete and the concrete bases in Folkstone.

It's right outside the main departure terminal at Folkstone, in an area that is signposted "Charging Station". The photo doesn't show the cable ducts, which were off to one side. Work is is a very early stage. The Calais version has four SuC stalls and 2x Chademo/CCS stalls. It wouldn't surprise...

Yup. Is always on. But the traffic info display on the map was an innocent little red blob and there was no rerouting suggested. But then i don't trust the rerouting of the S's nav, which is why I run TomTom in parallel. That and the speed control warnings from TomTom

Fewer traffic jams or better onboard Nav. Just lost 60mins on the E40 due to a very bad jam. No warning from the onboard Nav. TomTom attempted to redirect me but I noticed too late and sailed past the exit it wanted me to take, scratching my head and wondering why it wanted me to get off the...

Looks like they're building an SuC at the UK end of the channel tunnel.

Hey guys, I just arrived at the Euro Tunnel terminal at Calais and there are four brand new supercharger stalls here, right outside the shopping mall. I connected up but they don't seem to be working just yet. Still, a pleasant and, eventually, useful surprise.

At the moment we're down in Provence, removing the contents of our house prior to selling it. Yesterday the removers turned up and worked like madmen to load everything into a container on their truck. The truck will then head off to Spain and it will be a few weeks before our stuff arrives in...

Excellent. I always wondered...

What the hell is the i8 doing in this list? The 10 best electric vehicles

Yes. I'll take a photo on the way back, if you wish... BTW I told Supercharger.info about it a while ago, but they have not acted.

Indeed. 8 at Orange also working. Macon still 2 temp stalls. We did Lux - Nancy - Nuits St G (busy & slow) - Macon (no food after 2pm! Grrrr) - Viennes - Orange - Dest. Went to Macon for lunch & a full charge aiming to go direct to Orange. But in spite of what it says on the Tesla website...

The work on building a permanent SuC at Chasse-sur-Rhone has started. Still just a big hole in the ground... I confirmed this with the Ibis hotel manager.

Excellent idea. Will check it out. Thanks!

Anyone got any experience with or pointers to charging tips for Croatia? We're heading to Sukosan in the summer and I'd like to take the Tesla. But Sukosan is at the limit of typical range from the nearest Supercharger. Any advice gratefully received. Rob.

In the last three weeks I've travelled around 5000km in the UK, Germany and France. First was a trip from Eindhoven to Manchester and back. A few days later I had a business trip that took me to Ulm, Munich, Regensberg, Munich, Friedrichshafen and back home. Last Wednesday to Warwick in the UK...

Message to the uninitiated Just because a car HAS a supercharger doesn't mean it can USE a supercharger...

Last month I ordered and paid for the keyring dongle from Plugsurfing, but to date I've not received it, which is a pain because I'm travelling at lot in Germany next week. Last weekend I sent Plugsurfing an email via their contact page. No response. On Thursday I phoned them and spoke to a...

Flawless trip to Manchester a couple of days ago. SuCs: Gent, Maidstone, Northampton. 30 mins charging at the first and last, only longer at Maidstone because I needed lunch. Was alone at all three. Local hotel has a free type 2 7kW charge point. The only downer was the horrible jams on the M1...

I can assure you, I'm the only person with app access to my Tesla, 'verdacht' or not!

1: Don't give the wife access to the app c.q change the password ahead of time. 2: Turn off remote access when heading for a date. 3: Use Airbnb to rent a Tesla for the night. Plenty of ways to achieve the desired goal.

The first serious conceptual competition for the S. But I'll bet that the eventual price will make the S look cheap... If James Bond drove an electric car, it'd be this Aston Martin concept

No need to register. EVs do not pay the charge. I've driven around London with no problems.

Terrible trip to Wilnsdorf this morning, 5hrs to do 240km. Greeted with this sight when we arrived...

Good point - forgot I took one....

There were 3 (!!!) P85D's at Urmond at 10am this morning. All three were x-ZPL-xx registrations. My apologies to the owner of the red one for all the greasy paw prints I left, after having drooled over it for a while. The sports seats look pretty good... Anyone from here?

You can find my spreadsheet here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56093827/Tesla%20Trip%20Provence%20Feb%2015.xlsx It contains all the data from our most recent trip to Provence and outbound data from October - somehow I managed to lose the return data from October, problem with Excel on my...

Indeed. I'll have to get some stickers...

Just back from Provence. The only real problem is Nuits Saint George. We arrived there at 12:30am this morning to find both chargers in occupied by NL Tesla's - but only one charging! Grrrrr.... No one to be seen in the hotel so I asked at the desk and they were very helpful. Called one of the...

From the spreadsheet you can see that I started the Metz leg with 363km typical range. We were 2 adults, a 12yr old and medium amount of baggage. I don't use rated km as they bare little relationship to reality. The EV tripplanner figures are very close to my actual figures, apparently. There...

I've driven Urmond - Metz a couple of times now, the last was last Saturday. This is my trip log, the 2nd column is for the Urmond - Metz section: Summary: 240 whr/km. Range on arrival 36km. Average speed point to point was 100kph, which essentially means that I drove at the speed limit the...

Good to know for next time. But several of the drivers at Nuits were planning to do just what you said, move on to Macon. So I didnt want to risk being at the back of a queue there as well. Took total 1.5 hrs from arrival to departure, including 60mins charging. Now at Chasse sur Rhone. Quiet...

Pffff... Since I was second on the SuC I'm only getting 155kph... Gee, this is going to take a while. (Don't like the 6.1 feature that if you have your range displayed in Km, the charge rate cannot be shown in kW. Annoying as I find the range display in percent not very useful)

Was at Nancy at 9am, three Tesla's connected when I got there: white Belgian, grey Belgian, Red French. One of those yours? If so, then we said "Hi!"...

Now at Nuits St Georges. Different story: two Teslas charging, two waiting. I'm number 3, number 1 will leave in 20 mins, so the wait will not be too bad. Number 4 will have a longer wait as both 2 and 3 need a big charge. They really need to speed up getting more chargers setup here... Rob.

Arrived at the Metz supercharger at 8pm this evening. One other Tesla when I arrived. But there was some kind of fault, the SuC didn't like having two Teslas connected and kept throwing one or both of us off. The other guy eventually gave up, which was fine for me as it worked perfectly with...

Fine here. Never use DAB, it's pathetic.

Tilburg looked at my wipers today. The motor needed replacing and I gather they have changed the wiper blades and "made some adjustments in the software". I'm curious to know whether they work better now.