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I think the major difference in quality comes from where the cars were made. Gigafactory Shangai are known to be best built Teslas. But I doubt US sold Teslas are Made in China. Made in China is now forbidden wording in US. 🤫 So US buyers of new TM3 Highland should speak about their Highland...

To me it looks like a transmission fluid/oil used in drive units.

Well, even if it is covered by the insurance, it is stupidity to waste 20 k $ of battery worth, if a fix can be made for less than 1 k $ retail. The same logic would be to replace the whole car due to some stone chip damage. Tesla needs a long term policy change for the many of the repairs or...

How did this end up? Was there a leak or other problem found?

Well, they are already voiding his battery warranty, so he has nothing to loose going to a third party for a fix. Unless they are actually offering him a replacement battery for just a fraction of the price of the new one as the current one can be refurbished.

He is probably in the UK. He should check local consumer protection rights for warranty car repairs for both a loaner car and a new replacement battery. If Tesla is wording it as a warranty, and if most of the EU consumer protection rights were kept after brexit, he might be in for both a...

If Tesla invested in people and technology, he can not just take it away and walk away for free without any financial and legal obligations. That is his reality.

FSD is not good enough for full autonomy on one side. And not good enough or cheap enough to be used as an usefull driving assistance system on other side. I think the whole AI bubble is mostly about delivering solutions to non existent problems, yet not addressing the real problems. So...

Well this hire&fire approach seems to be popular among "tech" firms of last few years. It will backfire on the long run though.

Well, it depends, were they sacked because new models are abandoned under new Elon reality distortion field. Or were they sacked due to new models not being developed / development was too slow. Time will tell. In my opinion, when Tesla worked out production issues, it needed to push with new...

Just another attempt of pushing the stock price up. It is clear that in EU you can not have supervised self-driving system. Either you need a system which is completely autonomous and certified up to certain level or all of its main actions need to be indicated and a approved and initiated by...

For the rest of the world minimum is to have another hatch and an SUV model in a segment below current 3 and Y. Plus possibly a van. Ideally something modular, which can be made in multiple configurations covering both passengers and cargo and combinations of both. Cybertruck and Tesla Semi are...

Tesla is a car company. :) Just a modern one. Car companies evolve over time. Old technology dies out. Companies not able to evolve die out. And Tesla is selling that it is being Google, but is not. It is not evolving its products and making new ones and is on the path to die out. Cybertaxi...

When we talk about Model 2, then it must be realized that US of A is not the only car market on the planet for Tesla. And it is pretty evident that tanking Tesla sales are also due to lack of products - new models are needed for capturing new markets. Whoever wanted 3 and Y has already bought...

Video for Elon: Or how to spend 20 bucks per car instead of quadrillion billions of bucks on non working AI solution.

My prediction is that around that date NHTSA will force Tesla with another recall. This one non-voluntary and prescribed what NHTSA wants and not what Elon smoked.

I think the problem is simply unsolvable using current setup. It is just another Elonism. AI can not solve what it can not see. Front cameras are just simply too close to the windshield and are designed to look on the road. Just use common sense and start using IR rain sensor on the windshield...

He is one of them. So he needs to keep his mouth shut. 🤫

Tesla will not cease to exist. But will need to adjust its priorities. And Elon will need to get some screws replaced in his head or get kicked out.

Gigafactory Texas used to have almost 23 k employees. So little bit more than 10% will be laid off. Just a year before that number of employees was less than 13 k.

Does not seem like a brain surgery to me ...

Probably best to find some independent shop which can do the inspection and write down any issues found. Then create service request with issues found. :)

Wheel configuration change is an ultimate master reset switch? 🤪

I rotate the tires only when there is a signifficant difference in wear. I check them approximately every 3000 miles with a tire gauge. Tire wear can vary significantly between different cars, tires and drivers.

You don't. You buy a new car and throw away the old. :)

No, no. It is not half full. It is half empty.

I think issue is more broadband than just tires. And that is the main problem. As issues exist in parallel and might overlap or not. There are people who swapped tires and wheels with no avail.

It is always about Elon's ego. 😍🤪

Have the car checked. Might be the transmission fluid from the front or rear drive unit.

You have shops around the world doing preventive rebuilds of those units for the fraction of the price of new. But you need to do it before it fails. For example EV Clinic in EU: https://evclinic.eu/2023/07/27/real-tesla-multimilionaire-is-p85-with-1-800-000-km-under-the-belt/

Artificial intelligence is just making the same mistakes as natural stupidity from which it learns. :)

It is mostly due to your point Number 2, why people need simple swiching/fallback to TACC. Actually for some rare situations with cameras failing, it would be nice to have also a fallback to Stupid Cruise Control - only with speed limit. Like for example pulling the stalk 3 times.

If you choose 32A adaptor, then you can charge up to 32A, meaning all the range 5-32A settable in the car or via the app. If you choose 16A adaptor, then you can charge up to 16A. Firesafe minimal cable for 32A is 3x6mm2. For a 90m run of a cable I would suggest using much thicker cable - 3x...

We Westerners tend to have a Western view bias.

You need to account that for the last decade whole world has been in a monetary expansion phase with resulting boom cycle. Now we are entering into bust cycle aka known as recession. In China recession is allready a fact, same goes for UK and Japan. Russia is in deep recession due to sanctions...

Sell your Tesla and buy some old fashioned disconnected from the world car. With Tesla disconnected from the Elon Net, you will sooner than later end up with bunch of problems.

It is usual Elon bollocks, overpromise and under-deliver stuff.

Of course we have a light et the end of a tunnel. It is another train coming to our direction. The train of AI & self-driving regulation, where it will be specified what system are allowed to do. And for FSD/autonomous driving systems, what benchmarks they need to achieve to be allowed on the...

If the noise difference is more than 3 dB then it is detectable by most humans. Usual noise difference due to foam only is only around 1 dB. Usually not enough to be detectable. That is usually not worth +40% price difference. If they would bring price difference down, then we can discuss …

I select Valid point. From my perspective, most of those tires are just extra profit margin for the producer as they place it way above the average price of equivalent non-acoustic tire. Maybe increased competition will bring the prices to more normal levels in the future …

EU tire label includes noise figure in decibels. There are tires which are less noisy and are not marked as acoustic. There are mutiple ways to reduce the noise of the tire. Acoustic absorbent foam is not the only way.

My Tessie app is suddenly reporting battery capacity drop over last few weeks, approximately coinciding with holliday software updates. I am trying to keep most of the charges below 70% SOC, mostly targeting 55%. Maybe BMS needs calibration as I have not been charging above 70% SOC for last...

Near 0% SOC and very cold weather do not mix gracefully. Proposed rules work fine in hot climates, where also calendar aging is high. But may break apart in cold weather where calendar aging is already low. When temperatures drop below freezing point, effective capacity of LiXXX batteries can...

Norwegians just use common sense. (Bjorn Nyland excluded :)) Like, do not get out in extremely cold weather. And if you do, do not run down your battery to almost 0% SOC, preferably not below 20% SOC.

Common sense failure mode.

I adjust tire pressure several times per year according to the season. When winter comes, I wait for a cold morning with temperatures few degrees below freezing point and adjust tire pressure. When spring comes, I adjust in the morning when temperatures are between 5 to 10 deg C. When hot...

There is no CCS charger in the car. Not in a CT, not in a Hyundai. The reason why Hyundai went 800 V is the same why CT went this way. And why probably whole future Tesla fleet will eventually go 800 V way.

Even basic Autopilot AutoSteer is still Beta. And robotaxis are just behind the corner ... 🤥

If you ask me, instead chasing unicorns, Elon should focus more on some of the software basics. From better voice recognition with more supported functions to setting threshold levels for auto headlights turning automatically on in dim / foggy conditions. Not to mention non working auto-wipers. :)