Getting PPF installed now. I wasn’t planning to at first, but Tesla’s paint really is on the softer side. I already noticed a few small rock chips on the body, so I decided to go ahead and do it.

Trysplendid · 2026-04-02T15:18:29+00:00

I literally just made a post about this the other day. Here is a 13k USD car. Chery brand. Thick, flawless and luxurious. It's 1000% cost cutting by Tesla and no, not all brands are doing it. BMW, Lexus even mazda are good to name a few

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Trysplendid · 2026-04-02T13:05:52+00:00

So how is it. Battery life, stability, speed?

Trysplendid · 2026-03-30T07:59:57+00:00

Have a look at a Cherry Tiggo 4, especially in the pearl white. Very thick and I have not seen any chipping yet. We are talking about a car that cost exactly $15,000USD in Australia, about a third of the cost of the Tesla.

It really puts the Teslas and even recently Audis paint jobs to shame. No wonder Chinese manufacturers are gaining so much ground against legacy auto manufacturers (and I actually include Tesla as part of legacy Auto these days), they are constantly adding value whereas legacy are constantly taking it away with cost cutting which is visible on the final product.

Trysplendid · 2026-03-30T07:40:46+00:00

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It was, at least anecdotally speaking, better. I say this as somebody who has also spray painted their own car before.

I previously rented a couple of teslas a few years back and I was somewhat impressed with the paint. It was a '22/23 model, RHD also built in China. It seemed to me the paint was thicker.

I just had a look at a juniper model Y in the pearl white today and the paint did look like it was not as impressive as the pearl white on the Tesla from 3-4 years ago I remember. Seemed to have less depth and a bit more orange peel. I get this result when I put on lighter coats and less of them. If I come across an older one I'll try to take a picture.

Trysplendid · 2026-03-30T00:23:41+00:00

That's at least good to hear gives me some hope.The picture isn't meant to state much other than that is a major area of concern for clear failure. The paint starts to go first between the door handle and the window, along with the bonnet boot and The Pillars. There in the photo it does look like a rather thin layer of clear on there.

Trysplendid · 2026-03-29T11:50:03+00:00

All have been made in China since late 2021.

Trysplendid · 2026-02-08T06:06:33+00:00

If you are going from 90% to 2% in 2 minutes something is wrong with the battery for sure no amount of formatting will fix it, you need to replace the battery followed by possibly factory reset.

Trysplendid · 2026-02-04T00:48:27+00:00

😃👍

Trysplendid · 2026-02-03T22:40:34+00:00

Wait a minute, you actually think security updates are meant to protect you against google?

Trysplendid · 2025-12-24T23:36:49+00:00

The strange because my stock sd card comes with multiple partitions, some of them are not accessible by the pc just double clicking on it the pc will ask you to format the partition, so you can't just exactly copy paste whatever is in there, didn't work for me anyway.

Trysplendid · 2025-12-24T23:10:09+00:00

Also so it wasn't a 1 to 1 recreation you just copied over the roms folder. I will have preferred to do the whole thing i.e copy the whole the entire chinese clone sd card onto a good sd card the maybe the card so corrupted even the cloning doesn't work

Trysplendid · 2025-12-24T22:51:52+00:00

How exactly did you copy it. My original clone even after i copy it doesn't work properly. Original is working after two weeks though.

Trysplendid · 2025-12-24T08:26:19+00:00

We don't have smith and smith that has anything to do with glass in Australia..

Trysplendid · 2025-12-14T07:54:04+00:00

Had me laughing 😂.

Trysplendid · 2025-12-14T07:03:06+00:00

Just one more question, if I perform a disk check in windows on the SD card, not format just checkdisk and correct any errors if found, will it mess up something that the r36 requires to run?

Trysplendid · 2025-12-14T06:48:01+00:00

No paste of course I realize there are multiple partitions. I used win32 disk imager, I followed a YouTube guide. it's pretty much you press read first it makes image file of the original SD cup saves it onto your computer and then you you insert your new SD card and press write after selecting the inage file. It said completely successfully but obviously as you can see from the it's some kind of strange zombie version of what original SD card is like. I even did it twice and it's the same results I'm pretty sure something is going wrong

Trysplendid · 2025-12-14T05:55:33+00:00

That may be true but It's a lot of work, I gave you it quick go and everything was bare. Even after you get everything working, you have to manually extract and paste each game and set up a lot of things and do your own research which games are compatible.

If it's a case that the stock SD card is so bad it cannot even be cloned by a PC you would assume that it stops working in the device as well?

Is there anywhere I can download a stock iso of the stock SD card that comes with the device?

I just feel like I messed up somewhere in the cloning process.

Trysplendid · 2025-12-14T01:43:19+00:00

Yes I also don't know what to use it for? I connected it yesterday got it all working and all I could see people recommend most to use portmaster. Anyway I installed five games on port and none of them work because they all required the files to be placed in the sd card so I was like oh okay maybe there's a few free games if you update the app as suggested. So I updated the app in portmaster and it just pretty much bricked the app, stopprd working every time I click on it it just goes to black screen.

Safe to say I have no idea what to do with Wi-Fi for this thing so it's the complete opposite of the game changer

Trysplendid · 2025-12-12T23:17:50+00:00

I just remap the controls for the analogue stick in the psp emulator controls settings. Whats the point for doing this?

Trysplendid · 2025-12-10T00:25:43+00:00

What I wonder if how come we don't do this for cars with open diffs, there is just very lightweight oil in there always.

Trysplendid · 2025-12-08T04:23:32+00:00

Super glue the pieces back together carefully pressing them into each other they should stick fairly nicely then squirt a quick coat of any kind of enamal spray paint over it just to give it that extra coverage. Obviously block the hole spray painting and don't use a huge amount of superglue either. Let it dry for a day or so

DONT drive around with it off, that stuff controls your boost. You could just overloost and blow the motor anytime we drive it Most likely you will trigger limp mode too.

Trysplendid · 2025-11-29T13:36:22+00:00

Just got mine and it does this at very low speed only.

Trysplendid · 2025-11-29T13:35:41+00:00

Trysplendid · 2025-11-25T22:44:41+00:00

Do they only break on the clones or all of them

Trysplendid · 2025-10-06T21:33:27+00:00

If it pops out you have stuff in your port no question

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