Recent content by richyrich

What's the breakdown of that - what specific parts, labour? I doubt you need to go to Tesla - just like with tires and brakes, they are rarely the cheapest place and there's nothing that unique a pro can't handle it.

I’d think it’s more the adhesive curing time than anything. Pretty sure most are 24h to be fully cured. How long you start driving it around before that is up to you and at your own risk.

Yeah I just spent two weeks with a Polestar and it’s much more like a gas car, way way less techy, fewer settings and all round simpler / less sophisticated. I prefer Tesla and all the extra tech but I can see why many drivers wouldn’t.

Like many changes similar to this it’s probably about dumbing down things for regular drivers coming from gas. While it makes sense to those of us familiar with Teslas and enthusiasts, most regular people don’t want to be confused by anything extra. In terms of regen this is likely also why they...

Yeah 401 has to be the ultimate test - it's just a *sugar*-show of a highway anyway - design, volume, and of course the drivers - not sure how they'll program FSD to invert the normal use of lanes like the 401ers - left lane is the slowest, right lane is the one for everyone to fly along in...

I think they meant the vendor - if you're going to spam us with advertising, tell us the price or at least range per model - everyone here has a Tesla, there shouldn't be much mystery to it. Even better, offer us a discount or group buy.

$65?? What an absolute bargain!

Main concerns from my one drive on some admittedly at times odd country roads and a small town: It goes very close when passing parked cars, even if there is space to go wider. I'm always wary of people opening doors as you pass. Doesn't avoid potholes at all and where I am this is pothole...

Similar experience here from my first drive today. Non-existent pothole detection/avoidance definitely a concern. Funnily enough it's one of those things I'd constantly be reminding my kids about when they were new drivers - agree on the 15-16yo thing!

As soon as I installed 2024.3.6 this morning, I got an email adding me into the 1 month trial. Pretty cool to see us getting roughly the same timetable as our neighbours down south. One drive so far, pretty interesting - mostly impressive, a little scary and some understandable challenges it had...

Most recent other brand discovery around this was Ford Lightnings -

Yes, been there. Had to surrender a 10+ year european country license and get a new ON one which they refused to backdate to the same start date (even though I heard others had that done). Those first few years of insurance as a "new driver" were brutally expensive. It's so ridiculous I wouldn't...

@braveheart0707 did your FSD trial ever show up? No sign of mine from a December purchase.

What’s the real-world benefit right now?

Funnily enough, I don’t particularly enjoy a long drawn out “experience” when I buy or pickup a car - I want it to be as swift and simple as possible - gimme the car, let me get on with my day. I’d prefer no dead-tree paperwork, bumpf and nik-naks too. Each to their own I guess.