Some LA libraries offer free charging stations for 4 hours. Whenever, I study in the library and try to get a charge. Whenever the chargers are full, I typically ask the drivers how long they would take, and I ask them very nicely if I could get the charger after. I have always had very friendly responses and I would just come back at the agreed-upon time. Today, I walked up to the driver to ask how long they would take to charge and they were rude about it. They said they were close to being done. They even put up their hands in frustration when I asked ok would you like me to come back here in 10 minutes. They said when I’m done you can take the charger. I said ok, how long do you think? They said 5 minutes, I’ll be done in 5 with a very rude attitude. I said, ok I will just wait here then. In 5 minutes, they came out of their model 3 and even when they saw me, didn’t make any eye contact and put the charger back to the charging station. Usually, I would put the charger in the driver’s hands. This just meant that they were even more annoyed with me asking about the charger.

My question is: was I wrong to walk up to a driver and ask how long they’re charging for? Is that bad etiquette?

TLDR: walked up to a driver charging at a free charging station in the library. Driver got annoyed. Asking if what I did was bad etiquette.

Went to test drive the truck this morning and it’s amazingly easy to drive for something that size. The steer by wire is my favorite feature hands down and I’m surprised Juniper doesn’t have it. In the end I hope we see the entire lineup move to 48v, steer by wire, and etherloop.

My girlfriend now wants one but I talked her into waiting for price to go down and battery to increase.

Hey everyone, I saw a few videos where people have their entire car’s display showing the autopilot visualization and the map displayed in a little box in one of the corners. I can’t find such feature on my 2021 model 3 and I’d like to know if it’s only available on specific models.

I recently swapped my yoke that had a mechanic horn (gen 2 yoke) to the wheel I bought on eBay. When changing the wheels configuration in the software, it was telling me to change the airbag also.

Is this something Tesla would change, if so would this void the warranty or can they simply change the airbag only to the wheel version?

I've been receiving error messages and now I'm trying to see what's going on if anyone has received any of these messages and experience this please help I need suggestions

I live in an apartment and can’t connect to my home wifi where i park the car. For those of you in these same situation, how do you perform the updates?

Plan to have as backup and use EVgo network that’s closer to my home when I need a faster charge.

“Because really like the design of the 2023, but want the latest tech, hence 2024…”

Is this a reasonable feeling? Any other pre 2024 owner feel this… or is my relative a bit out of it..

How many colors does Tesla offer now and how often do batteries need replaced?

My model y is 4 years old. This past December, I got an electrical error and a very loud noise related to the heat. I didn’t think too much of it and drove home and parked and plugged it in. Later that night, I realized I couldn’t even get into the car or unplug the charger. I went ahead and popped the frunk and jumped the car and drove it to Tesla. I made a video on it so that I can possibly help anyone else in the same situation. I saw a past video about using a 9v battery to pop the hood but that did not work. I made it so you can see all of steps. I hope it helps. https://youtu.be/kpLCM0-kGIA?si=MTY2kc5AEVH6s1IA

I accidentally hit the front right wheel on a curb. The rim has some visible damage, and there’s a small rip on the tire. The car still drives fine, but I’m worried about safety.

Should I get the rim and tire checked/replaced, or is it okay to keep driving if there’s no immediate issue? Appreciate any advice!

https://x.com/dawson_hol27417/status/1885492991407624448?s=46&t=Mj3Wz0ulX1Eu1u4P8DTbQg

I have some referral credits that are expiring in a couple of months. What should I redeem them for? Im in the EU so maybe not all options are available here... plus Supercharger miles are of no use for me as I don't have regular access to the network.

Proud new model Y owner (not the new highland), but a 2025 ‘classic’ y in white. I absolutely love it along with my wife and family. Cold climate so dealing with salt, snow and dirt and I’ve been taking it to a spray wash. Have not laid a scrub or towel to the exterior at all. I was waiting for the spring to decide on paint protection or graphite coating to protect the amazing white paint look.

Today when I washed it off with the sprayer I noticed lots of small orange surface dots. They didn’t spray off but with some gentle rubbing with a towel they did come off.

Question is what wash kit do you all use and is there a spray and certain cloth you’d recommend to clean the car paint to a like new clean. Before I apply any protective layers to the paint?

So i am on 2.5 i think.

Lately I have noticed the updates have been not so exciting to put it lightly. Just trying figure out if I am being limited by the old hardware or is Tesla just focusing resources on FSD.

I don't really care about the games or crap like light show..

Most of us probably plan to have to our cars for years. At least 5 years or more (unless you’re rich or leasing). And with the speed of progressing when it comes to AI and GPUs, I feel like older model hardwares will probably become more obsolete quickly. I mean just seeing the HW3 and HW4 issue recently with the FSD upgrades is an example.

I'm receiving these error messages "bms_w035" "bms_w172" "bms_u008".

A year ago someone posted about this problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/s/K2DhNWpIgs

Is it still not fixed? Anyone find a work around?

... seems like it was happening weeks ago, but I'm still sitting on 12.5.4.2

I took my son in for an appointment last week and I got to talking to one of the staffers about how Actually Smart Summon works. The staffer was curious about how it works, so I tried to do a demo of it and it resulted in this post where Actually Smart Summon ultimately failed.

The rain was "sticky rain", so it was just beading up on the car and it blocked the pillar cameras.

Earlier this week we had to go back and with clear skies the staffer was still curious about how Smart Summon works, so started the process and they were ultimately flabbergasted about it, which then lead to a conversation about how people react to Actually Smart Summon.

I used Smart Summon in a Walmart parking lot the other day and this guy ultimately just stared at us, literally trying to what he just saw. He'd initially been behind us, and I brought the Model Y to the end of the parking row, and hopped into the driver's seat, which confused the guy, because how can I hop into the driver's seat when someone was just driving it?

I used Actually Smart Summon in another parking lot and this lady kept pointing at my Model Y and proclaiming to her son "Look, look, there's no one in that car!"

As you cruise through the Tesla subreddits, and you read up on what the cars can and can't do from users like me who use the cars on a day to day basis, remember that there's a lot more people who don't. It's not even on their radar as a thing that's possible to know.

I remember when I lived in an apartment back in 2005-2006, we had an issue with the power cutting out from time to time, ended up being the box on the side of the building, but in troubleshooting it, we had to call the maintenance guy in, and he starts poking around, and he tries to blame my computer for the power outages, because the breakers have a 15a limit. Obviously my computer doesn't draw 15a, and when I pointed that out, the maintenance man responded with "Well, I'm not sure, I don't own a computer", which in 2005-2006 floored me a bit. I'd grown up with a computer since the early '90s, and everyone I'd associated with owned a computer by 2005-2006, but there's this one dude who doesn't own one, and apparently doesn't know much of anything about them.

I had a more recent conversation with someone at work, back in 2020-ish. I had made a remark of "If SpaceX can land a rocket, then this task is achievable", or something to that effect, and the coworker I was talking to was like "Yeah, I heard those things keep blowing up, he might land one one day". This obviously floored me a bit because by 2020 SpaceX had done the Falcon Heavy double booster landing, so I sent them a link to that.

Ultimately, the point is that I see posts like this one and I see the trolls, and hostility in the comments, and I'm reminded that people don't know what they don't know.

The Dunning-Kruger effect exists for a reason. There are people in the comments who are speaking from disadvantaged positions because they lack the desire to dig into it more. Worse, they're working on outdated information.

I could drive my Tesla to a parking lot, and once I got over the social anxiety of it, awkwardly interact with countless people who likely have no idea that I can summon the car to me via my phone, and have them promptly question me over why I thought they'd care. But there'd be a person or two along the way who go "Wait, that's interesting", then go home and do research on Teslas to learn more.

The reality is that Teslas are a car for technology enthusiasts. The people who see a new computing device and go "Oh, wait, dude, that looks awesome" and looks into acquiring one. As the technology gets ironed out, and simplified, less technology oriented people get into Teslas, but that doesn't mean that they understand what it can do properly. It's akin to how you and your grandmother might both have a Samsung phone, but you understand how to do task automations with it, while she doesn't know what the hell you're talking about. Hell, this shit is happening to me today. I can set up an on-premise Windows based server farm just fine, but throw me into Azure and I've no idea what the hell is going on, while people who have been brought into IT in the last five years or so can run circles around me.

Our brains have a semi-somewhat limited capacity in what we can know, and the result is that we not only cannot know everything, but more importantly, there are things we don't know that we don't know.

So, when you're interacting with folks about FSD, remember that a lot of times the skeptics are the ones who turn it on, witness FSD causing an error, and go "Oh shit, well, not turning that back on".

Meanwhile, as someone who has used FSD for every drive since October 2021, I've achieved a symbiosis where I can follow this truck and not need to worry about the speed I'm set to, being centered in the lane I'm in, the distance I'm following the vehicle at, and instead just think to myself "Is that low secured?" and decide "Now is probably a good time to time change lanes". FSD didn't have the foresight to see a slight wiggle in the box in the truck's bed, but FSD was handling the driving enough that I could focus on it more, and make the call.

Or this one where, again, I can stay focused on what's ahead of me and see traffic reacting, and react accordingly.

Or even this more recent one where I watched the truck in front of me veer off the road a bit, which piqued by curiosity, making me more attentive because I didn't understand why he was getting back on from the shoulder, until I saw the thing on the road and maneuvered around it. The car behind me ran this object over, despite seeing me juke around it, and I was like 1,000ft from them or something, it was a good distance.

FSD was active in each of those examples, and I had to perform the evasive maneuvers. The critic will say "See! FSD sucks!", but the person in the trenches will know that FSD afforded them the ability to have more time to process their surroundings, and make a more informed decision.

The other issue you run into is people who are over confident in their abilities as a driver judging the system. Yes, FSD itself is not always a good driver, occasionally unable to pick a lane to be in, however, you've got some people who believe that their skills in lane splitting their cars on the roads means that FSD should do the same, and others who feel that FSD failing to keep a six car length buffer in traffic means that FSD is unsafe.

When you use the system you run into moments like this where my wife was fiddling with the radio and missed this garbage bag in the road for, apparently, eight seconds, but FSD maneuvered her around it.

Or this one where FSD 11.4.9, over a year ago now, saved a whole ass family of racoons, because I looked down and to the right to see who was calling me, and dismiss the phone call.

Suffice to say, no, FSD isn't perfect, but when you use it enough, and put your trust in the system enough, it's those little moments where you're able to focus on your surroundings more, or even when you look away for a moment, that FSD's value is felt. Do you like having to fix "drunk lookin' lane change decisions"? No, no one does, it's embarrassing. But would you rather the occasional drunk lookin' lane change, or killing critters on the road? Hitting a garbage bag?

Anyways, the point is, that folks who aren't keeping a pulse on things, they don't know, and at the end of the day, they're unlikely to ever really "know" until they have their own "A-ha!" moment where it does something for them, or helps them do a thing, and then after that it "clicks", and they get it, and they advocate for it. So, don't feel bad if the person you're talking to online doesn't "get it", they'll get there. Just disengage and give them time.

My Driver Seat of my 2023 Model 3 RWD does not adjust properly. Whe I punch forward it slides to right with strange noice. Anyone had similar issues? Is something like that covered by warranty? Thanks

Got quoted 700 euro for replacement of the front controller. Anyone who had this same issue in the past?

For what i can read online it is due to a failure to self-test a e-fuse. However, no reduced functionality.

Should i get this fixed?

I'm sick of this one slamming on the brakes at green lights multiple times per drive

2019 Model S P100D vs 2024 Model X Plaid

I currently have a 2019 Model S P100D (19 Inch Rims). Does the 2024 Model X Plaid (20 Inch Rims) have more or comparable Range?

Comparing across different websites say the Model S P100D has more range

But....

I can't find a straight comparison between both on the same website. Some websites have suggested that the 2024 Model X Plaid is more efficient and thus has more range (or atleast similar).

Most websites I've checked (including Caranddriver.com) have some details wrong which makes me not trust their info. Like caranddriver saying the model x plaid has 14inch front rotors.

Can anybody comment which has more range? I currently get about 450km of real range per full charge. Mix of local and freeway driving.

How much can I expect with a 2024 Model X Plaid with standard 20 Inch rims?

Hi,

We recently installed a Universal Wall Connector and a standard NACS-only Wall Connector in our garage. The standard Wall Connector is daisy-chained off the Universal, and both are running on a single 60-amp circuit.

I was under the impression that if only one car was actively charging, it would receive the full 48 amps. However, I’ve noticed that it’s only getting 24 amps. The other vehicle, a Honda Prologue, is plugged in but fully charged, so it’s not drawing any power.

Am I misunderstanding how power sharing should work, or is there an issue with the setup? Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!

Or just the Launch series?

New Model Y having it is a step backward.

Buttons require a lot less effort.

Double dumb is when different Teslas have different stalk treatments. After using my X, when I use wife’s Y, my fingers are looking for the missing buttons. And when I am back to the X, my fingers are reaching into the void.

Tesla should have put their foot down on no stalks. The majority is wrong about this.

Is this just me or anyone else getting this ? Model Y 2023 ( probably HW4 )

Hi there. My 2018 Model S is blowing cold air when the car is on Hi heat. It was working, and then all of a sudden, just started blowing cold air.

When I contact customer service through the app, it says that it can't find any issues, and now Tesla wants to charge me $231 just to diagnose the issue.

I recently downloaded the new 2024.44.4 bf68f8b4496d update, and am wondering if that could be the reason why?

Does anyone have some suggestions I could try before I fork over $231 to Tesla? I'm not made of money; I just got a Tesla because I drive all the time, and the monthly payment is cheaper than the cost of gas I used to spend in one week.

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of unimpressed with Tesla as a whole. This car has so many cheap plastic parts that rattle when you drive over bumpy roads, and my door panel is coming loose, just from opening and closing the door regularly.

Not to mention my trunk latch is broken, just from being opened and closed too many times. I've never had half these issues with a combustion engine car.