Btw how to zoom an image on Dash cam or sentry ?
No, my car is from before the Tesla supplied Flash drive.
I use a SanDisk High Endurance MicroSD card.
You need to take the card out and plug into a computer and do any editing/zooming that way.
the Dashcam player in the car is fairly sh1tty and only for basic playback - and even still it’s very poor.
Charged my car at home for the first time last night. No issues. Was at 100% when I got up.
On the Tesla App it has not assigned the charge session to ‘Home’. How do I tell the app that my Gen 3 Tesla charger is ‘Home’?
thanks - Mike
Do you have your home address set as your home address in the cars navigation?
What kind of range are people getting a full charge on their rwd?
Would be interested to know. I'm only getting 300km even though my efficency is just under 7km per kwh.
Let the battery go to 2% last night and fully charged back to 100%.
The car only took 52kw (allowing for heat loss more like 50kw)
So it seems that out of a 60kw pack the software is holding 10kw as a buffer.
Very frustrating to say the least.
Really hoping that changes over time.
440km odd.
Slightly less on cold mornings but in fairness it jumps back up once the air heats up.
300km seems low.
I do.
My commute is 35km each way. I arrive to work with 90% and arrive home with ~77% remaining. If I drove more carefully and turned off sentry mode, I would be confident of having 80% remaining. I'm on the M50 for less than half of it and doing 60/80 the rest of the way with a short stint at 120km/h for about 3km. I haven't checked my efficiency, but if 20% is 70km, then i'm getting 350km. It's a far cry from the advertised nearly 500km or the estimated 440km on the screen. That said, i'm still delighted coming from a 24 Leaf and not having any range anxiety on my commute.
Maybe my actual mileage would be higher if I ran the battery from 100 to 0. I know this happened to be the case in the Leaf where the lower end of the battery lasted longer.
I genuinely think that the buffer the software has in my car for some reason is set too big.
Like if I was at 2% last night and the car only took 52kw to get to 100% then that can be the only explanation
Well apart from the battery not being 60kwh lol
I'm going to get ranger to take a look.
I have no range anxiety I'm just perplexed at why the software is holding back about 10kwh of the pack.
And all of the figures in the trips and energy app assume a 60kwh pack so they are so far off they are defacto useless.
Sure will do. Here is my trip screen from 1% charge last night. U can see the "since last charge details"
Used 45kw and range of 302
No sentry or dashcam for most of that trip and the efficency is decent.
What I noticed when I got to 1% it fluctuated between 1 and 2% going up and down as if it was almost calibrating or something.
As I said when I then charged to 100% from here it only took 52kw of juice hence implying that there is a massive buffer below 0%
Guys, especially the newbies. You will be sorry if you don’t have dashcam on and sentry if not covered by home cctv.
There will come a day when you wish they were on.
I have dashcam on 100% of the time. I do t think it used much battery. Sentry is off at home but on everywhere else.
I wouldn’t go without them at all.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but is the a new (2021+) RWD or an older model.
Can you set ‘safe locations’ where sentry mode is not required. For example, I would not need it at home or at work so this would be 80% of time covered and if I could mark these areas as safe and no sentry required it would save significant battery drain also.
Dashcam: how do you activate this? Do you need a separate usb stick for this? I have the Tesla supplied usb stick inserted but dash am is still showing as not available… It says to check USB??
Thanks, Mike
One I picked up new last week so 2022 rwd sr
I agree and I'm not planning on not using both features but for trying to diagnose the issue and confirm range I had both these potentially battery drainers turned off.
So I got darkened lights protection film from AE. Nice calm day today so can't put it off any longer.
Started with front fogs, went on in a jiffy. Then moved onto rears, took a wee bit longer but no real issues.
The fronts were a nightmare. The protection film is a flat film however the front lights are highly curved so the film would be fine on one part of the light but not even close to conforming on the remainder. No choice but to get out the heat gun. I'm no wrapping expert so trial and error, a lot of peeling on and off and heating and reapplying etc. I over heated in a few places and have some bubbles I just have to accept. I'm not sure on front lights longevity, time will tell. Not sure I'd do this again, deffo get a pro to do the front main lights for certain.
I now have the all the rear windows tinted, Matt black logo badged and darkened lights. That's it for me.
The fronts will look good from a distance but not close up.
RWD. The SR+ was the older model.
I don’t think you can select safe locations only exclude home.
It’s as east as flicking a tab though if you don’t want it on at any given place.
Dashcam should be automatic once you have usb inserted. If it’s saying check usb it might just need formatting. You do that onscreen in the menus.
FWIW front and back, if I was to change anything I'd go Limo on the window tints
Hard to get a good rear tint photo
Looks like you went at the back of the car with an axe 😂.
Tint looks well. I'll be doing the rear windows too. Feels odd that they aren't factory done.
He said nobody online is going to see my number plates just before he wacked the number plate off with a few swings of his axe.
Thanks. On sentry I was able to select home and work for sentry offline. Favourites can also be selected.
On usb, it was not giving me the option to format so I pulled usb stick and reinserted. Still greyed out.. Got a different usb stick and the option popped up immediately. So it looks like I got a dodgy usb stick which is fine as the general view is that it is not much good anyway…
Thanks for the help.
Mike
Horrible creaking noise coming from the front drivers side at low speeds taking off or going over speed bumps.
Just started today. Any ideas what it might be or a fix involved?
Cool, maybe I don’t see that as I have no favourite’s saved.
Control arms. Known issue and should be a warranty job. Sometimes they grease them and they are fine.
Cheers Gumbo!!
As I was reading your comment I was about to say those USB sticks are no good but you knew that already. They are cheap generic Chinese USB sticks.
Like the cars ...Chinese....90% of goods that we consume, including branded are made in China!
I know that but there is a difference in silicon quality from a cheap Chinese brand USB stick and brand name quality one even though they are both made in China.
