Thanks for the VERY prompt response! . Yeah, I'm ok with AP1, but I'm puzzled why I have an AP menu and settings if it's not enabled. Maybe I'm trying to turn it on wrong?Sorry to hear of your situation. Yeah, in 2014 everything was still very alacarte. There were hundreds of permutations on what hardware was included in the car configuration. Over the years Tesla gradually rolled more into the base package. Towards the end of 2018 the base model started including everything, pretty much leaving colors and wheels (and seat configuration for MX) as the main options. As it is today. But anyone shopping for used Teslas from before 2018 should look carefully at what it has and doesn’t have. As you are painfully learning.
Only cars built after September 2014 have autopilot hardware. And just to clarify, that is AP1 which is a frozen-in-time system which is different from the current autopilot which started late 2016 and continues to change with OTA updates.
I quickly watched a YouTube video and I think the car was a 2016 but still AP1, and the cruise control stick to turn it on seemed reasonable, but it didn't do anything. Newer cars seem to have it enabled by using the right scroll wheel on the steering wheel?
Admittedly I really haven't researched it much till now, but now it's a matter of figuring out how it should work and be enabled on my year/make/build and not on a much newer model that the majority of people have.
I love the forums but think that maybe there should be a "vintage" section for older models like mine, pre-2018, that have so many caveats and quirks!