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Not a surprise, the folks at ServiceHelpNA pushed me off to my local Tesla service center. That's kind of where I started. Deja vu? Catch 22? We'll see.

I e-mailed a specific request to [email protected] and I'll see what happens.

I have made some laboratory-grade radar pass-through measurements on a new AP2 Model S in the dealer showroom. The new tech windshield has no measurable loss of radar signals, while the original metal coated type is a radar disaster. The service techs at the Tesla store only know that the...

I had an "almost" lock-out issue a month or so ago when parking at our local play house for a night of theatrical entertainment. The car refused to unlock and wouldn't auto-present the handles nor respond when pushing on the handles to pop them out. I tried putting the fob at the base of the...

We've experienced this, too. No fun when trying to get in the car :mad: It's some sort of radio frequency issue involving, perhaps, cell phone sites. Our 2010 Porsche Panamera also had one of these issues (since fixed) that seemed to happen in the same places. Porsche engineering tried to...

I'm quite sure that Audi's and other "Blind Spot" warning systems use two wide-bandwidth FMCW microwave radars operating in the 24.150 GHz ISM band. They are concealed behind the rear bumper covers and are pointed at an outward angle from each rear corner of the vehicle. They are all...

Well, I'm not a wild-eyed daredevil. I drove my Panamera Turbo across central New York to Boston in a blizzard right after Christmas 2011. The car was equipped with the same Pirelli Sotto Zero Serie II winter tires that Tesla provides on their winter tire/wheel set. I drove between 55 and 70...

Nice find! This forum has a wealth of great knowledge coursing through it. I don't know how else I might have run across "Ferritic Nitro-Carburizing, or FNC" for brake rotors.

For getting under way, RWD and rear weight bias are a good combination. Not only is there more mass concentrated over the drive wheels (like FWD w/front weight bias), but the suspension's weight transfer onto the drive wheels under acceleration (squat) helps even more when starting from rest...

@Doug_G Maybe you're used to relatively flat terrain. Where I live, we have serious grades to mount. I gave up on RWD when my BMW 750iL with real winter tires couldn't get up my driveway. I tried to back up and take a run at it, but after a few deteriorating cycles, I ended up in my front...

I agree with your observations. Traction control only makes the best of what traction is possible. In a 50/50 Front/Rear weight balance car, only 50% of the available traction is available to one set of wheels. In an AWD car, 100% of the wheel traction is available. Front-wheel-drive cars...

Bingo -- we have a winner! I'm an RF engineer and agree completely. After I looked at our car closely, the fact that the metallic coating is absent only in the area covered by the plastic mirror area cover is important. The only place for RF transponder signals to pass through the windshield...

Ours switches on and off with demand. The only problem is it can't keep up with demand. We have a Roadster 1.5 -- the price of being early adopters.

I'm very interested in your observation. How can you tell where the coating boundaries are located? Do you need a flashlight or just sunlight? I've had a long conversation about the windshield coating with Tesla, mainly to do with radar detectors. They assured me there would be no windshield...

Our HPWC showed up today! Model S VIN 01380 delivered 09 Jan 2013.

You should be so lucky. Do you have a panoramic roof? If you do, the transponder may be communicating through it in spite of the coated windshield.

Our window was December 7-21. Actual delivery was January 9.

Who just received their HWPC and when was your Model S delivered? Still waiting on our HWPC with a Model S delivery date of 09JAN2013.

Thanks for the explanation of what happened while the car was in the garage at home with her purse nearby. I suspected as much. Why would it act the same way when she came back to the car in an office tower garage after a 90 minute meeting?

I had a conversation about our right-front door spontaneously unlatching with the Chicago (5 hours away) service center yesterday. They promised to pull logs from our car via 3G, analyse the results, and formulate a plan of action. This morning, my wife reported that she set her purse down in...

Our Model S (VIN 1380 - 4.1 - 1.19.31) had the same thing happen while inside our garage last weekend. In our case, it was the right front door that was ajar and the handles were extended with the puddle-lights illuminated. It happened about 10:00 AM after having exited the car about 9:00 PM...

^^^ This!

Roger that! AT&T's 3G data service is chronically under-provisioned. Instead of fixing it, they're building out their 4G network to take load off of 3G.

Thanks Chris. Our car (R#44, VIN 1380) was delivered about 10 days ago. Maybe our HPWC will show up in a few weeks.

Chris, When was your car delivered?

The App approval may only take a short time, but MFi approval can be an exquisite experience. If the iPhone app is going to use Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (and not 4.0/LE) to be compatible with iDevices before the iPhone 4S, one must jump through the MFi hoops. It can be a real, agony producing, pain...

AT&T is famous with me for under-provisioning the data side of their 3G network. I switched from AT&T to Verizon when I purchased my most recent iPhone because AT&T would let me talk, but not surf whenever I was in a big city -- LAX, SFO, ORD, MIA, LGA, etc. I HATE AT&T 3G service in large...

I think the "problem" is two-fold. 1) The vehicle sales & registration laws for each of the 50 states and the provinces of Canada are of a bewildering variety. Car dealers have waged a very successful war against the Big Three auto makers from days gone bye and the source of their power...

The whole registration process here in Ohio was painless apart from the manual labor involved. Tesla FedExed the MCO before the car was delivered. I took the MCO to my county clerk of court to get an Ohio title issued. I paid the sales tax (~$6700) was issued the title, walked next door to...

Lo and behold, it's HERE! Wife is getting the introduction to her car as I write!!!

They must have scheduled your delivery before ours. Our car was loaded so as to be last off the transporter. Since they couldn't guarantee when the truck would arrive and my wife had a non-optional afternoon commitment, they are going to deliver it tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM -- I hope. Edit...

Can't do it in Ohio yet, either. Paid ~ $6,700.00 cash (saves 2%) sales tax this morning while getting a title issued against the MCO. Tesla can't do the trade-in subtraction from the purchase price for tax calculations because they don't have an Ohio car dealer's license yet. I suppose they...

Our VIN 1380 is going to be delivered tomorrow morning. Or, so they say. It's been a long frustrating road and maybe we'll be at the end tomorrow!

VIN 1380 still somewhere between the cracks. No delivery in sight.

Maybe our cars are on the same truck? We're in Cincinnati, too. I've been told lots of things similar to what you've been told and expect (not really) our car to be delivered next Monday or Tuesday (maybe). We're R#44, VIN 1380. Anybody that has an earlier reservation number can complain.

I have to agree. The whereabouts of our Model S (VIN 1380) has been difficult to pin down for the better part of a month. Our original window was quoted to us as 12/7-12/21. It's still MIA with previous bait-and-switch delivery notions made and superseded. It seems Tesla is completely...

I just talked to my delivery rep and he advised that a low-ball offer from AutoNation was the norm. It's quite a premium for the "convenience" offered. :mad: Since Tesla doesn't have a dealer license in Ohio, I can't get the trade-in offset for the sales tax obligation. It's going to cost a...

The January issue of most all car mags will go to subscribers about December 5-10. Newsstand sales will follow the week after.

http://www.valentine1.com/gps/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxy7gGG-JlI

Right, I was speaking of the most common integrated units that don't cost over $1,000.

The GPS feature will work less well if the detector is positioned under/behind a metallic-coated windshield. The metallic coating blocks the GPS signals just as effectively as radar or cell phone signals that try to come through the windshield.

As R44, we were moved from "November" (MVPA indication in August) to "November/December" when I called a few days ago.

Metallic-coated glazing essentially "shorts-out" radio signals trying to pass through it. Conduction is the enemy. I think the glass vendor is conforming to Tesla's specification for solar-rejection glazing. There are two ways to do this: 1) Silver-based atomically-thin metal coatings and 2)...

Are all the windshields constructed in the same way? I assume a windshield-mounted radar detector would have problems if the garage opener does. Could you please describe the coating cut out size and position in more detail, please. Would the cut out in the coating accommodate a radar detector?

I called Ownership Experience earlier today to find out why Roadster Ranger service had dropped off the end of the Earth (waiting for a month+) and to complain about being shifted from the Chicago (5-hour drive) to New York City (14-hour drive) service center. After a pleasant "Gosh, I'm so...

Performance 85 kWh, blue, body-color roof, 21" silver, tan, carbon fiber, no spoiler, tech pkg, studio sound, parcel shelf, twin chargers, & HPWC.

I'm fascinated by the numerology regarding order sequence. We're #44 of the "R" reservations and haven't been contacted about delivery, but haven't pressed the issue, either. When we were completing the on-line order confirmation, the web feedback said delivery expected in November. Not a...

I was repeating my desire to know what I was buying before signing a MVPA. Obviously not a reasonable request. Some people take this as sign of negativism. So be it. My post count may be low, but my sign-up date sure isn't July 2012. After some professional bashing by a July 2012 poster, I'm...

You're right. I made a mistake thinking that we were all here to exchange information. Apparently real experiences are trumped by theoretical views with no actual experience. I was offered all sorts of reasons that my experiences shouldn't bother me by persons who had not had my experiences...

No, I'm not sure at all. Perhaps there is a resistor divider chain that slowly "leaks" the cells into balance and would not compete with the high-current charging episodes?