Recent content by jddaigle

It probably depends on your particular local Service Center(s). I know I had mobile service come out to replace a faulty frunk latch earlier this month.

Here's the relevant section from the service manual: https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/en-us/GUID-C8386735-A188-4FBC-96C4-3061572D605E.html You can get replacement parts here if you can't repair the issue: https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs

What year is your Y? How many miles? The gearbox fluid doesn't have a maintenance interval, but I wonder if there is a temperature, fluid level, and/or fluid quality sensor that's giving a reading indicating that the fluid is low or not doing its job. If it were me, I'd reach out to your Service...

Those look like molding flanges (where the material injected into the mold squeezes out between the halves of the mold). They're usually trimmed off but those might have snuck past. Just a cosmetic thing.

Mobile service came on Friday and replaced the latch; the original one must have had something wrong with the seals in the microswitches that allowed water (and electrical contact cleaner) into it. I did get some adhesive-backed EPDM rubber weather stripping from the autoparts store and made a...

How did the car handle the transition from the US cellular network to the Mexican one? I've heard of people driving from the US into Canada having a period of no connectivity while the car's modem figures out it needs to switch networks.

Yesterday we had an unusual (for Colorado) 36 hours of heavy rain and snow. We were out and about driving both of our Model Ys and all seemed well, until this morning when I woke up and looked at my phone and saw to my horror a text from my neighbor from 4:30AM saying that one of our car alarms...

Yeah we got 9% off our white YLR last month, and it was a ‘24 Austin build. FWIW our other YLR was purchased in January and is Midnight Silver, not Stealth Gray, despite also being a 2024 per the VIN and our purchase docs. Also Austin-built.

He's their one-man marketing and PR team, got to take everything out of his mouth with a huge chunk of salt. This is probably an attempt to get people who are waiting and waiting for the best deal to make their move, but given the oversupply they have I would be very surprised if discounts...

Before I got my YLR I'd been driving the same car for almost 12 years. At first I thought I'd never be comfortable in the Y, but after a few weeks I started to get used to it and now I'm just as comfortable in the Y as I was in my old car. I purposefully didn't fiddle with the seat settings...

Most of the time I drive less than 10 miles a day so I don’t plug in every night. A couple of days a week I’ll drive 40 or 50 miles for work. My charge limit is set to 60 and I usually plug it in when I get down to the low 40s. We do take longer road trips every month or two and for those I aim...

Huh, maybe that was something that was true for a while but changed. Not like Tesla gives us a heads up every time they change something anyway :P

I like them on ours too, they've done well in the cold, on a couple of snowy drives over Rocky Mountain passes, and are great in the dry. Nice and quiet and the ride is comfortable at 42psi. Hopefully they don't wear to quickly or unevenly.

I'm still seeing inventory being discounted up to 10%, thought that's 10% off the new MSRP ($1000 higher than in March). But if you don't need a car now it's probably worth watching and waiting to see what happens as the quarter progresses.

Really? I've seen that cited here and elsewhere.