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Some update, Gruber found bad connections (rivets) on 3 battery sheets. They will rebuild connections to all sheets while it's in AZ. Interestingly they also offer additional fixes, even including the peeling headlights 8-D So I'm pampering #190 and fixing/maintaining small things too. Looking...

Hi Henry, about 40k miles. I don't remember the exact number and the car is still at Tesla. Gruber picks it up on Monday, Yay! How's #187 doing? Matthieu

@gregd You have a very valid point, and I agree with you. Thanks @Roadster for the Gruber recommendation. I contacted them and was immediately contacted back by Pete Gruber. He is impressively knowledgeable about roadsters in general and battery issues in particular. ==> #190 is going on...

It makes sense that they would buy for parts, I guess. They are really out of them. They indicated that they'll make an offer as follows: estimated street value of the car as if running minus price of a refurb'ed battery ($14k). I haven't received a number yet though. And it would be a...

Just in case someone has some ideas. My #190 died 2 weeks ago with "Powertrain failure." I did not think of writing the error code number. This was the 3rd time I had the failure, this time luckily just in front of the Palo Alto Tesla store. It rebooted and I could drive to the service...

Original owner #190 here, ~40k miles, was charging at ~170 miles in normal mode, always garaged, only range charged a few times per year too. But the PEM or battery (not sure) suddenly died 2 weeks ago just in front of the Tesla dealer. So seems that such good charge results were not...

Ford F450 vs. Tesla.

Around Palo Alto I have a lot of pollen build up on the panels. I clean them myself using a hose and the swimming pool long brush. By looking at the instant output on the meter before/after the cleaning I see about 15% improvement. Thanks for the reminder, Owner, it's indeed the right time...

>> [I eat vegetarians] :) :) Nice!

Still, the last line... "The V-8 may be dying but we have something better coming along to replace it." Hear, hear!

Stick shift ICE cars don't creep. I've never heard they were less "secure" than automatic transmission cars.

I gave up on it a while back and just use my Android phone. I have the one that came with the car in a box in the garage in Los Altos, Bay Area. Yours for $157?

Google finds this, not sure if it's the same Neal Stanley though.

Wow, pretty good. What car was #1, Neal Stanley, driving?

Ahhhhh... Is that the Elise Krypton Green?? I almost switched my color at the last minute to get it, but I chickened out. Oww, I'd like to see it in real life, photos have a hard teim rendering the color. I remember seeing a Krypton Green Elise in Hong-Kong at night 10+ years ago and...

Heh, thanks :smile: No, it was actually taken in the spring, but yeah beautiful weather around here these days. No need for the hard top!

Mine!

Game informer says Roadster in GT5 The print version of GameInformer says the 2010 roadster sport is in GT5. They also say that it'll be out in March 10, but who knows? They have 2 images of the roadster. The cockpit is very realistic, even the crappy JVC unit looks like the real thing...

I have the hardtop but have not put it on for a while as it's still sunny enough in the bay area. I don't remember a big difference of noise between the soft and hard tops. Actually it feels like you hear the engine more with the soft top than topless. Same with the hard top. The big...

But, but, if you hit a bump with a front wheel, and this causes TC to shut-off regen to the rear wheels, won't you feel a noticeable decrease of your braking power? If this is right, I stil don't see how it would be different in a regular car. The regular car TC would start the ABS pumping the...

Ahhh, this explains a similar puzzling behavior I've been seeing several times. I'm arriving a bit fast towards my driveway and brake medium hard to slow down. Then I hit a bump, always the same bump, and for a very short moment it feels like the brakes don't work at all. Then they bite...

"The Electron Drive 5 Year Plan includes Electric Airplanes and our 10 Year Plan includes vehicles with artificially intelligent Autonomous Drive capability." OH, right.

Sounds to me like a reasonable test for daily motorway driving. I mean, we're not going to charge in Range mode everyday, right? In the video the driver seems to be keeping up with traffic so he's in the 60mph zone, at which the expected range is certainly not 240miles. I like the little...

On the 2008 Rodaster the tone is just a single beep as you put the lever in R. It does not emit a tone while you drive into reverse. Is the 2010 different?

I'd like some tunable options: - Turn off the "creep" feature, so I don't have to hold the brakes when stopped. - Change the delay of the key-fob button that opens the trunk (it's set at 3s currently.) - Allow release the break pedal _while_ the boot procedure is running. I don't...

Yep, just the driver side. I suspect that this is the model they'll put in the Euro-spec roaster too. I think it's only here in the US where we drivers are supposed to be too dumb to not know that things in a convex mirror look further away than they really are. Sigh. I just went to the...

Here is how a Euro-spec Elise 2 convex mirror looks on my roadster. I really like it:

When I was in Europe I went to a Lotus dealer and bought a euro-spec, driver side, rear view mirror replacement for an Elise 2. It's the exact same plastic mount as the US-spec flat mirror on the Roadster and it snaps right in after you unsnap the original. The mirror is convex and has...

Google found this PS3's Gran Turismo 5 Complete List of Cars - Zerotohundred.com IMHO the list is too large to be trusted.