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I'm not great at maths and wondered if the hive mind could help us calculate whether it's worth our while installing a second PW. Here's some info: We have had PW2 since December 2019. In that time, we've generated 18.8MWh of solar energy from our 5.2kW array. 30% of that has gone into the PW...

A few weeks ago, I had an option to charge the car off solar when there was surplus solar coming in and the powerwall didn't need it. Three little dots appeared next to charge info on the app. Tapping that enabled me to toggle solar charging on or off. If that wasn't there, I could nip into...

Here's a vid of the issue we're facing. Frunk seems to unlock, but doesn't release. I do have EVOffer's (was TeslaOffer) auto frunk installed, but I'm wondering if the actual Tesla latch has failed. Warranty expired two months ago of course. Any suggestions?

We have a 2019 M3 in average condition which apparently is worth around £20k for trade in purposes. Since we bought it, we've unexpectedly got two children (surprise adoption) and can see that we'll need more space in the car on family holidays esp in a few years when the kids are bigger. We're...

MOT coming up on the 29th and the rear tyres won't make it. Front tyres have a bit of wear left but I'm wondering if I should do all four now or the rears now and then the fronts sometime in about 6 months or so. Better deals on 4 tyres though ... but then I'd be throwing away 2 decent tyres...

picked up a chip pretty much centre of passenger side of windscreen. options are repair without insurance will cost £207 with Autoglass repair with insurance will cost £10 with Autoglass (NCD not affected but I assume Churchill premiums will be) leave it for now, claim if it gets worse Anyone...

will be driving through northern Spain in a few weeks along the coast between Santander and prob as far as Cudillero before heading back again. Just wondered whether, if I have the Tesla schuko adapter, charging at guesthouses through their domestic sockets will be straightforward? Would be...

Had a powercut earlier this evening. Initially, my desk lamp died. I thought the bulb had gone, and halfway through unscrewing the bulb, the rest of the house went off. Whole neighbourhood was out for about 10 minutes, although the PW did restore our power within a minute. I was under the...

While out and about, came back to M3 today and it told me that it had updated to v11.0 (?) even though it was not connected to wifi. As a result it seems, all driver profiles have completely disappeared. The car is operating as if I'd just picked it up as new i.e all default settings. Incredibly...

Noticed that you can advertise your home charger for hire on ZapMap and a few days after it appeared on the map have already had two requests for charges from visitors to our seaside town. Anyone else hiring out their home charger or thinking about it?

In a few weeks, we'll be at our first campsite with the M3 and we've booked an electric pitch. This is in the UK. As we've never camped with an electric pitch before, I just want to ask advice here about charging the car. The site are fine with us doing so. Do I need an adaptor to charge and...

So, what's to stop anyone rocking up on our drive and plugging themselves in for a charge when we're, say, on holiday? Any solutions out there to help prevent access to a Tesla wall charger other than vigilant neighbours?

In any other car I've driven, if I'm indicating right, e.g. at a roundabout, and then want to shift the indicator to left, all I do is press it all the way down and voila, it moves from right to left. In my M3, it simply cancels the right indicator and means I approach the exit with no...

So since getting the upgrade both my wife and I are having trouble with the car not recognising our phones. Not consistently... just inconsistently enough for it to be a PITA. I find that hitting the unlock icon from the app always works though. Had these issues maybe a year ago and they seemed...

Just wanted to give a massive thumbs up here for this set of four duffel bags. They're pricey but my goodness they are worth it. They fit the Thule Motion XT roof box. Thule 800603 GoPack Set (4Xduffel) You get a set of four heavy duty bags that are identical. I've seen on here someone...

Had my two year 'service' yesterday. £205 all in and £70 Uber credit instead of a courtesy car for the 5 hours it took them. Seems to be standard at Newcastle now. The only thing they picked up on was that the minimum tyre tread depth they measured was 3mm and they recommended I get new tyres...

Does anyone else suffer from your powerwall not figuring out how much energy you might need in the next 24 hours on the time-based control setting? For example, we switched to time-based the other night because the weather looked grim the next day. When we woke up, we had a grand total of 19%...

Anyone know if the branded Tesla 3-pin charge cable is waterproof? I'm thinking particularly of the bulky end bit that lights up when you plug it in. First time I've plugged it into a outdoor garden wall socket so just wondered if I can leave it out in the rain OK. Cheers

This is THE most tedious aspect of having our Tesla. Please Elon, allow us to change the amps remotely rather than having to head out to the car. Please pile in to lend support so that this somehow makes its way onto Elon's radar. Cheers.

Almost killed us all the other day. With autopilot on while driving on a major dual carriageway, I leaned over to the baby who was in his car seat behind my wife in the passenger seat. He'd dropped his blanket. She couldn't reach it so I had a go. As I turned my body, my right leg caught the...

So, tomorrow we need to transport 3 children under 6 in the car for the first time (emergency foster care has kicked in). We've been given three car seats (only one of which is isofix). Because of the width of the seats, we can't fit them all across the back seat. One has to go in the front. I...

What is the engine (?) fan doing when the car is parked on the drive, climate is off and not charging and hasn't been used for hours/days. I've noticed this a fair bit and just wondered. It must drain the battery.

So, after chasing up why our Backup Gateway didn't do its job when the grid went down on Nov 20th at our place, it turns out that it was because just before the cut, the voltage dropped super low. All the lights in the house flickered and fizzed twice and then, boom, I lost 4 hours' work on a...

Configuring a new router, I stumbled across an IP address I didn't recognise. Lo and behold, this appeared in my browser: It seems to be a way to configure the Gateway which we had installed with the Powerwall 2. For those not in the know, the Gateway is meant to prevent the house losing...

Last night we set the car to charge from midnight to 80%. We also set our powerwall to advanced mode to top it up for our energy needs today. TeslaFi tells me the car charged as normal (found another use for it!) but because I forgot to switch from solar trickle charging 5A to the 16A from the...

For the last three or four updates, I've noticed that the car/app tell me to connect to WiFi to start the download. We never change our WiFi password and so I'm wondering why it does this as I keep having to enter it each time. I can't recall it doing this when we first got it. Anyone know...

First experience sleeping in the car overnight last night on the pitch black Yorks Moors. Q1. Sleeping facing the back shelf, I could see a very faint outline of some flickering lights on the driver's side rear window pillar just above the passenger shelf. They're super faint so you need to...

It's coming up for it's annual renewal in November and I don't really get what to use it for. Open to suggestions as to why I should renew for another year...

Does everyone else's M3 back door seals end in a little cap that seems to be twisted round when the door is closed like the images below? Doesn't seem right to me and I've never noticed it before despite having the car for a year.

So, had the driver seat belt flag warnings regularly and the M3 is in for a complete replacement of this overnight. In the meantime, we're told, they're going to do what they described verbally as a "recall service item" with some electrics (the guy who checked me in wasn't sure which electrics)...

Anyone got a referral for this? I'd like to try it out so thought someone should benefit from it apart from me ;-)

Not been here for a while but you now have to register your plate at the Washington supercharger at the Campanile Hotel. Here's their not too easy to spot warning compete with the obligatory apostrophe and typos: Just in case anyone gets caught out.

I've started using Sentry mode when parked at our supermarket over the last month and I've never used sentry before. Anyway, every time I get back into the car there's an alert and one single sentry recording that is always 10 mins 50 seconds long and only once has ever shown anyone walking...

Following on from my Watch out for these clips coming undone thread, while washing the car yesterday, i noticed that the two round black stoppers in the frunk lid were almost totally unscrewed on both sides. You might want to check to make sure yours are screwed in tight and haven't fallen...

Took a look under the car the other day and spotted that two clips on the RHS of the vehicle had come undone No idea what these clips are for as nothing seemed loose as a result of them being undone... perhaps for weeks. I suspect that the pressure washer may have flipped these back as these...

Wife out yesterday gets tyre warnings for front tyres that are supposedly at 39 psi. However, car shows that rears are also 39 but no warnings for those. Sticker on door panel says they're all supposed to be 42 so why no warnings for rear tyres? Plugged in my Ring compressor and set it to 42...

So, in the middle of playing Buggy Racing with my nephews and Playstation controllers, one of them leaned forward from the back seat and dialled emergency services with his head by accidentally hitting the SOS button. No problem, I thought, I'll just cancel it from the home screen. I'd tested...

On my way back from Leeds SC to home there are some roadworks on the A1 which mean the contraflow lanes are pretty narrow. As a car overtook me in the right hand lane, autosteer kicked in and moved me over to the left... at least that's what the screen said. I can't actually say I felt...