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With 2018 model X. We like it. We've only owned a model s, December 2014, and a Kia soul Ev. So, for whatever it's worth. Also, if you have enhanced you can now get the full self-driving for only 2K more. I think that's so good deal. Already ordered it for mine. (Bought it, and set up a service...

Definitely agree with that! Sadly, it feels like that has only a slightly better chance of happening than my idea. - Elon Musk giving away over $200 million for Tesla stock?! - Spending about the same to fix service? I wonder which would make the news. It's a crazy world we live in!

Well, tell me what you really think! Clearly you have a pretty negative image towards our egomaniacle leader. (And, I would agree with you on that point.) Still, nobody's entirely bad, nobody's entirely good. At least not that I have personally seen in this world. Little things do make a...

Obviously not. And I didn't say that Tesla should increase the number of shares, rather that Elon should give away shares that are part of his compensation package. He buys the goodwill, which, in turn, would cause an increase in sales and thus value. This would be beyond the sales caused by...

If Elon wants to have his compensation package reinstituted, perhaps he should offer this. With each car purchased he gives five shares of Tesla stock to the buyer. Limit it to the first million takers or perhaps until the model 2 is released? Clearly this would result in an increase in...

I sold my December 2014 build model s with an 85 KW battery, to my brother. It has just shy of 300,000 miles on it now. Still the original battery. I will tell you that he did name it "the money pit" for a while. Still, overall worth the ownership. My current model x, a 2018 100d, has about...

There was only one person doing the 100 KW hour upgrades, Jason hughes, and he's out of the business now. You can get a hold of recell in Texas and talk to them. It's probably well worth it to talk to them anyway because you need to know what kind of trade in they would give you on your battery...

I had it done on mine too, it has to be done by the techs. If I understand correctly, the newer struts have finer linear motors, and the ECU has to be programmed to a higher count. I'm pretty sure that can only be done with the equipment Tesla has.

Yes, if you have Netflix or any video, you have MCU2. Keep us updated. I have a 2018 only a few months removed from yours. I'm watching with interest!

To be clear, I didn't actually say that I thought autopilot was trying to follow the shadows. Although I think that's a possibility. I think it's more likely that a tight turn, combined with a shadow, which lessons resolution, could be the issue. It will be fun to follow! (Pun intended!)

I believe it's the shadow. It is amazing that they're still having problems with shadows and auto steer. They even had it with ap1! I've noticed it on my 2018 model X as well. The shadows will throw the thing off all the time!

In a teslarati article they say that the new software allows a one-time setting of charge limit. As we've been asking for this for many years, I was excited about it. Has anyone had a chance to try this yet? I'm on version 11.1 (2024.2.7), so maybe not applicable to me yet.

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I was going to suggest that the radar might have been tilted a bit, that happened on my AP1 model s. But, if I recall correctly, the highway autopilot also quit working. I also had some sensors go bad and they had to be replaced. At one point I had one that slipped back into the bumper too far...

I would love to show you a picture the label, but, unfortunately, the Tesla service reps scraped it off when they were trying to get the battery back in after they had to pull it out for some service. I didn't notice it till a few days later. I think it's a rev D, but I could be wrong. It's been...

I have had my two different Tesla's turn on their cooling fans in the garage. Nowhere near close to the amount of heat put out by one of those big engines the catalytic converter etc. Not even in the same ballpark. Again, perhaps it makes a difference if you're in a hot climate.

Perhaps you've not lived in a hot climate with a large engineed vehicle. The stored thermal energy in the engine, transmission and exhaust system (catalytic converter in particular) really heats up the garage. And it smells like it too!

My Dad was an auto mechanics instructor, and shop owner, for many years. He used to say only his worst students went to car dealers. The best ones always went to independent shops. Once we finally do get independent repair on Tesla's, we'll finally have the service we need. I do miss the old...

I'm not a video guy, but if you ever put out a white paper on this let me know. I'd be very interested.

I'd have to disagree with you. The price per panel has stayed about the same, with the power going up. Solar is a lot cheaper than it used to be. Still, it isn't a panacea. A lot of things have to go together for things to work right.

I'm wondering about distributed generation, for the most part solar panels on people's roofs. If enough of that is done, does it reduce some of the need for upgrading of the power grid? I realize that sometimes things just get old, 50 years is a long time to use the same wires, transformers...

Exactly! Let the government govern, complete with fines and even imprisonment for those who refuse to act in a civilized manner, and let business do business. If each keeps their place, things work well. When the government starts to run the money, things fall apart. You basically get a more...

Markets have always existed, governments have not. That's a ridiculous statement! Do you honestly think that nobody can buy and sell unless there's a government around? Sure, they don't use currency from some specific government, but that doesn't mean they can't trade.

If you give the government the ability to give out money, you give them control. And they don't let go. Just ask any doctor's office. Kids in the government with two years associate's degrees are deciding whether or not and how much they should pay doctors for complex surgeries. This is what...

What do really do not need is government "help". They're doing enough to muck everything up right now! The EV adoption rate will work because it's a better idea. And, people get their souls soothed by knowing that they're helping the environment a bit.

Yes, I was a fool for trusting Tesla. But, they were offering feed loaners here as of last month. So, I guess it caught me by surprise. Which is itself surprising as much as I read these forums. Guess I was just venting.

@buckets0fun with what do you disagree? The fact of the cost, or that I am upset that it's not free anymore? Something else?

A time saver that people don't consider is the standard gas station stop. It's still 5 to 10 minutes. Obviously it varies by person but if that's once a week, and let's go for 10 minutes because it's easy math, that's 500 minutes a year. Even if we cut that in half to 250, that's over 4 hours. I...

My service appointment was coming up so I contacted the service department to see if I could get a loaner, since it would be an all-day repair and we have dropped down to just the one vehicle. Now I'm told it's $100 a day for a loaner unless it's a warranty repair, where they leave it free...

Is it accurate to say that you have never, even once, taken a long road trip in your Model X? We put 230,000 miles on our December 2014 Model S, most of it was superchargers, and love the road trips. Original battery as well, by the way. We've already gone from North Carolina to Washington State...

Additionally it was not for sure that Tesla was coming out with the cyber truck anytime soon. I think a lot of people were buying the F-150 lightning simply because they didn't think that any other truck would be available. Now that the cybertruck is actually starting to find its way out into...

I'm sorry, I'm not sure where I read it. It wasn't that you change the address, but rather that the Google pin for the address is a long ways from the garage. Whoever was writing it was able to go online and change it directly within Google. Tesla only uses their data, not their API. At least...

I read somewhere, may have even been on this thread, that the home address can be off by quite a ways depending on how much of a driveway you have, and where Google has you. If you upgrade your Google point for your home address to be close to where you actually park your car, some of these...

Good points all around, except for that one. Tesla was going to have to raise wages no matter what. Inflation is a reality, as you already pointed out, and they have to raise the wages of their employees to match. I don't think it had anything to do with the UAW strike at all. In fact it's...

I would most certainly not want to put all my eggs into one (broken) basket. If we know anything about human nature it is that it needs constant checks and balances. No matter Elon's intelligence, or his lofty goals, he has significant limitations. Arrested development and a Messiah complex come...

I thought you were correct from the beginning, and we are nearly there right now. But, I think you might not be right this time. S and X sales were apparently at a 5-year high last year. They don't really need to do anything to increase sales right now. I could see the y and the 3 going down a...

Congratulations, you and the other unhappy folks have managed to chase off someone who could probably be helpful to us. I doubt he'll watch TMC that much anymore, if at all. Not sure what your goal was in any of this. Clearly you weren't going to get anywhere with all your haranguing ...

Be nice to have this new place for the eclipse in April, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

I did not think any 2016 has the capacity for full self-driving. Does it have the cameras on the fender Wells and b pillars? You can put the new MCU into the older cars, as I did with my older model S. But again, I'm pretty certain that's AP1 only. Still a good system for the highway! Just not...

If you bought the plan after he sold the company you're in better shape than those of us who bought it beforehand. This way the people who bought the company are definitely on the line for what they sold you. I can't be sure that they're on the line for what Jason sold me (around 2 years before...

He didn't say he was paid nothing, he said he did not exit in the black. In other words, he lost money at this entire endeavor. Have you never read a non-disclosure agreement? It does not necessarily have anything do with the transfer of money

Some airline pilot with a 2013 S made the trip close on to 10 years ago up the Alcan highway. He said welding shops were his friends. He called ahead to each of them and bought all the necessary adapters. This would be before I bought my model S, maybe 8 years ago? He enjoyed the trip but I do...

Ant carrier quick well enough to tell, but my 2018 X developed a kind of almost clunking sound. Turned out that whoever had replaced all the suspension parts in the front, with something third party, hasn't tightened all the bolts properly. Does the charge me $100 to torque them all to the...

I fear the moderator should probably move this to a different area as we are far off topic. But I would like to focus on this one statement of yours. It makes me ask two questions. Are you going to throw away all the wisdom that people with six seven and eight decades have just because they...

You are correct, I did have a typo. Medicare, not medicaid. Voice to text and all I guess. That, is about the end of what I can agree with. Medicare is required unless you do have the wherewithal to purchase very expensive insurance outright. A very small percentage of the population can...

And again, since you've raised my ire, look at the assumption of that statement about 70 year olds. "People are just too stupid to take care of themselves so we the government, the great intelligent and overriding overlords, who know everything, and should do everything for everyone, will take...

I'm already on social security and the mandated Medicaid. It is one of the worst things that our government has done. If they had simply passed a law requiring people to put that same amount of money into any sort of investment each month, it would have been dramatically better. I will see...

I have never heard of them doing such a thing, in person or on these forums.

I'm beginning to believe you are correct. Sad though. Setting up a system that could easily move it in and out and use it as a power wall certainly seems to make good sense, but then this is Tesla. :) Hopefully they'll have an option to swap it out for the season at service center, sort of...

In fairness, there were no cars that had the one pedal driving to a stop, as you're speaking of, at that time. Tesla only used induction motors, rather than permanent magnet motors, so brakes had to be applied to get you all the way to a stop. And, everybody called what they did have one pedal...