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Funny, that is exactly what I had been saying back when I decided to order my Model 3. I would never even have thought of getting a Tesla if BMW had simply done what they were best at back in the day - building cars with great handling that are fun to drive, combined with comfort and the right...

Absolutely. I too am not the biggest fan of the Model 3 design, but the new BMW front design language is even less attractive imho. My favorite car design-wise is still my old E46 330 coupe. I love that design. The combination of the E46 coupe exterior and the Model 3 tech would be my dream car...

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've now gotten used to some of the new aspects of V11. Some I like, some I don't. The one thing I really hate still is the missing trip info tab. That's like a sore thumb every time I drive. Just out of curiosity I have scheduled a test drive with the...

As for the wipers, another piece of anecdotal evidence from today. On perfectly dry conditions my wipers suddenly activated and went like crazy. They had completely smeared the windscreen before I could turn them off. I then had to spray the windscreen again to get rid of that and afterwards...

But then it will be years before mass adoption, won't it? I mean, which currently available BEV, especially at the price point of a Model 3, offers even close to 400 miles of real world range per charge? After all that's almost 650 kilometers. My 2019 Model 3 LR gets about 350 kilometers per...

Thank you. If I had connections to someone high up in the German car industry I might try that ;-) Actually, there already are a few extremely well engineered and more or less attractive German BEV models. Problem is they are, as per usual, several price brackets above the Model 3 or Model Y...

Sometimes I can only shake my head at how you go about ignoring or shrugging off valid criticism. I have read all the replies in this and many other threads on the subject. Some I can kind of understand why people talk themselves into thinking something that is more complicated is better for...

Why do fanboys like you never address the issues mentioned by those who give valid criticism? No one of the "V11 haters" said the car was bad overall because of it, or that Tesla as a company was doomed because of it. All we said was that for the first time an update brought with it more...

The auto-sensing wipers were one of two things I have hated on my Model 3 right from the get-go three years ago. They never work like they should. Just yesterday evening I was driving through the rain, constantly changing conditions, from slight but annoying drizzle that immediately filled the...

Just got another software update. Now what you described works. So just like I thought we apparently were on an intermediate version until now. This is definitely more convenient than having to look through the whole climate settings menu. Not as convenient as under V10, but a step in the right...

Tried it, to no avail. Did a complete reset, still nothing. Maybe Germany is on a different version of V11 Every Model 3 driver I know or have simply met and talked with recently while charging absolutely hates the new version 11. I have yet to meet a single person who has anything positive to...

May I ask, how do you access this screen? No matter how much I try, I can't get this to show up. Incidentally, lack of documentation is another major flaw in the Model 3 imho. I would use voice commands as much as possible, but since there is zero info what commands you should use it is trial...

Pity that for the German language version voice commands other than music search is pretty useless.

Exactly, one tap more than necessary. Plus for the second tap you now have to look down to find the defogger or defroster or heated seat buttons among the now cluttered and complicated climate control mess. Again, why? Why make something MORE COMPLICATED than it was? Where the heck is the...

This! @john5520: since when does one need to constantly check tire pressure? Whenever I get my tires changed (summer tires around Easter, winter tires around October) they fill them up anyway. I once or twice stopped by a gas station in between to do a check on the pressures, but they had...

Other than radio stations now and then I mainly use Spotify for most of the time.

Exactly this. I wouldn't mind a change in the UI if it made things easier, or safer, or better to use in general. All of the changes in V11 I have seen so far have unnecessarily made things more complicated and less user-friendly. The question is why? Where is the benefit in any of these...

Unfortunately this doesn't work with mine. No matter where or how much I click, drag or swipe, there's simply not the reaction shown in your example.

Have you actually driven any of the current competitors? I have, and from that experience I can attest that several of the ones I mentioned are serious alternatives, and right now, not in 3-5 years. I'm meeting other BEV drivers at charging stations all the time and we share experiences and...

Actually, where I live there are several viable competitors. Take the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or the Kia EV6 for example. Similar range. Some specs are better than Model 3/Y, some are equal or a little worse, but overall very comparable. Then the Skoda Enyak, the VW ID.4 and the MG lineup. Or the...

Well, I have had my car for almost three years now and have witnessed lots of changes to the UI. Some I liked, some I disliked, but the overall direction I never disliked - until this time. Up to V10.x the lower icon bar in the home screen had all the vital buttons in it all the time...

Same here. It's such a pity that Tesla doesn't seem to ask people beforehand what they think about possible changes to the UI. I mean it should have been pretty obvious that easy access to something safety-related like defogger/defroster/seat heaters is more relevant than customizable buttons...

I too haven't commented in a long time, but this update gave me reason to do so again. I can't stress enough how much I absolutely HATE this update. Not one (to me) useful feature added, but so many tried and trusted things removed or changed in ways that imho don't improve upon the previous...

All joking aside, I am really looking forward to doing a test drive one day just to see how this steering wheel is going to work in the real world. I wouldn't dismiss it outright, but I am certainly curious to see how they pulled it off. Plus, my Model 3 is named K.I.T.T. for a reason... :)

I wonder how you can manually adjust the wiper (speed, single wipe, etc.) without a stalk/button for it. Going by how terrible the automatic wipers are in their current iteration, this would be a big concern for me. After all, other than the missing auto-turning headlights it's the thing I...

I must admit I almost never use AP as it simply doesn't work properly in German Autobahn traffic. It just acts too jerky or timid or overconfident depending on the situation. I never feel safe using it unless there is almost no traffic (which is extremely rare on our crowded roads). Plus, speed...

Same here.

I have to admit I like the look of the older design much better - and am very happy it's the one that I have.

With our garage door as well as the gate to the driveway of my parents in law auto-open as well as auto-close works a treat. It didn't work at all when I got my car though, and was terrible and buggy after one of the first updates. But ever since there was a dedicated update sometime in...

This can't be true for Germany at least. There are far too few Tesla vehicles on the roads over here for such a statement to make sense. Especially as most of the times for me the orange and red lines have been suprisingly accurate, even in our local area where there are less than ten Teslas in...

I'm on HW 2.5 and have as yet no indication on when or if at all I will be getting HW 3. The only game I sometimes play in the car (usually when waiting in a car park to pick up some family member from shopping, an appointment or some activity) is 2048 as it appears to be the only one I can play...

I would like to know that as well. Also, the speed limits indicated by the system are wrong quite often. Especially zones with low speed limits like residential areas are hardly ever shown correctly. Is this a problem that Google can do something about or is this something that Tesla can...

Me too. The sound of the Enterprise going to Warp would be awesome. And quite a good idea for the next level after Plaid Speed too. Warp Speed!

The funny thing is in the app my car is now shown with winter wheels, i.e. the 18-inch wheels WITH Aero covers. The change happened when I set up the TPMS after the wheels had been changed from summer to winter. I don't understand why Tesla doesn't at least sell the Aero covers as optional...

Is this software activated? I ask because when my car was in our local service garage for winter tire change and was up on the ramp I saw the speaker holes on the underside of the front bumper. I didn't even know that cars delivered in March 2019 already had this. Or probably those are just the...

I will have to look this up. But I definitely remember that when I ordered in Dec 2018 the picture on the order page showed the winter wheels WITH Aero Covers. Now of course it is shown without them. Pity I didn't request to take my set of winter wheels home with me when the car was delivered in...

I must admit to me all pickup trucks look fugly to begin with. In light of that I think the Cybertruck at least looks futuristically fugly. Plus, it is so radical that it might win over more and more people over time. Often things that look controversial in the beginning start to grow on people...

I just got my 18'' winter wheels I had ordered with my Model 3 and which had been stored at Tesla's official wheel storage partner and went to our local (non-Tesla) service station to get them installed. When we opened the package I was surprised to find that there were no Aero covers included...

I always wanted the fob, but since my phone (Honor 8X) has started working better as a key (it still fails to work now and then though), I have given up on the idea of buying one, especially when I heard that it can also have its issues.

Just to chime in, with our Model 3 this feature is a complete hit or miss. More often than not it selects the wrong profile even if just one of us is driving. Just a few days ago I went to work and wondered why the seat position felt a bit strange (my wife and I are of similar height, so the...

Thanks for the heads-up. Didn't know that. Pity really. Several of my friends/colleagues with Model 3s were looking forward to it, just like me. Ah well, will just have to wait and see how things develop then.

Are there any owners in Europe who actually got Advanced/Smart Summon with the V10 update (32.11)? I have got the Advanced AP / FSD package, yet didn't get Advanced/Smart Summon with the V10 update. Strange. Is this US only as for now?

I bought the white carbon fibre centre console wrap from Abstract Ocean and am very happy with it - even though I didn't do too great a job installing it myself. Then again, the nice support lady at Abstract Ocean sent me a replacement free of charge, which was great service.

I thought Fox news was mandatory in all cars sold in the southern states... :p

I didn't even know my car had a cowbell mode. My kids rather ask me to use fart mode when their friends are along for a ride. I usually oblige. Hilarity ensues ;) A friend of our youngest once said to me "best car ever" after experiencing it. If only every car had fart mode - imagine that in a...

I got this update yesterday, but like others I didn't notice any differences. The release notes surely were the same as on the last update before. The Google maps data appears to have been updated though. Haven't noticed any changes in the way the car behaves yet. Which in itself is a good...

Today it worked. No idea why. But the important thing is that it worked at all.

Unfortunately it still doesn't work. I can browse the web using WiFi without any problems as well as play songs on Spotify. But when I return to the update page it still tells me to connect to WiFi in order to be able to start the update. Strange.

I've got a strange phenomenon too. My Model 3 told me an update is available and I should connect to my WiFi. It usually autoconnects when in our garage so that was the first strange thing. I had to connect manually which worked without problems, but whenever I tried to update since it always...

Are there different software version for the US and the rest of the world? I ask because to my knowledge I was never on anything like 2019.15.105. I am currently on 2019.24.4, which was delivered two days ago. The app on the phone (Android) was also updated recently (to 3.8.6), but I wish I...