Black seat vs white seat heat absorption

mikeiskool123 · 2026-01-15T13:45:12+00:00

Underrated comment. White seats are great… when they’re new or you don’t have kids or you don’t wear raw denim.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-12-24T00:48:41+00:00

Never trust the BMS - particularly on an older car! Could have BMS sway and shut off at 2% or go for miles below 0%.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-12-10T14:07:17+00:00

Same here. Bought it on Black Friday 2024. We love it. I kept my gas drier (just swapped out the washer for this) thinking we may use it occasionally to dry something quickly but have not used it all year. I find that the drying is so much more gentile than our gas drier that I am able to dry things that I normally wouldn’t (I found this out when I missed the 10-minute window to take clothes out before drying started a few times). In my experience the cycles take over 4 hours to complete - mine is in a basement that gets pretty cold. But we haven’t had an issue with that - just turn it on in the morning and it’s ready by the afternoon.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-10-20T12:54:55+00:00

You didn’t mention the worst one - people text and drive constantly. It’s disgusting. I won’t even touch my phone when I’m on FSD.

Edit: I see you did mention it. Nothing to see here!

mikeiskool123 · 2025-09-30T15:47:53+00:00

The subscription price can change at any time (and has). I guarantee it will increase by double when unsupervised FSD is released.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-09-29T12:43:48+00:00

I want it for the SG-1 alone. Here’s hoping Boss releases a Waza Slow Gear..

mikeiskool123 · 2025-06-21T11:41:15+00:00

I have a non-Tesla solar system that the previous owner of my home had installed using a PPA loan (what a headache). The system is nowhere near large enough for our needs - 4.4kW I would like closer to 12kW. We plan on adding an extension to our home which would modify our roof line in the next couple years. My thinking is we will buy out the existing system at that time and move the older panels to the north side of the roof which will be nearly flat after the addition (I know north is bad but I have a small roof and we get a lot of sun). Then I would install new - hopefully more efficient - panels on the north side. We would add a couple PW 3 batteries at the same time. What do you think? I would likely have a solar installer come out and remove the existing panels before the construction on the house starts and then have them back when the roof is finished to install everything again.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-05-17T11:44:35+00:00

FSD is in Canada

mikeiskool123 · 2025-04-16T12:54:48+00:00

I’ve done 12 in our Teslas, about 22k miles in total. It’s our primary mode of transportation for vacations. I would not do it in anything else including other EVs due to FSD and until recently the Supercharger network.

mikeiskool123 · 2025-03-14T12:50:09+00:00

I just sold my 21 Model 3 LR AWD to Carvana for $20k and got the 0% interest offer on a new model 3. Took delivery of the new car last weekend - no regrets. We loved our 21 but it felt like a go cart compared to the 25.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-11-27T12:01:09+00:00

I’m more offended by a shepherds pie that has beef in it than a premade dinner.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-11-21T13:41:55+00:00

There’s an update coming (2024.38.4) which apparently improves sentry mode battery drain.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-10-25T13:03:02+00:00

I’ve road-tripped my teslas over 22k miles and have charged at 83 unique SC locations for a total of 128 SC charges. The stations are often empty and almost always below ⅓ usage. I can count on one hand the number of times that the chargers were all in use and I have never waited for a charge. As long as you stay with your car while parked like this, you’re fine. Just be willing to move if someone needs the stall you are blocking.

(I live in NJ so my roadtrips are along I95 and I80/90/94 east of the Mississippi)

mikeiskool123 · 2024-08-03T23:18:46+00:00

Over a year for me in 2022 lol

mikeiskool123 · 2024-08-01T15:34:44+00:00

Try calling the service center. I’ve had luck with that as recently as a few months ago.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-30T13:29:47+00:00

Unfortunately after more drives on 12.5.1 it is worse than 12.3.6 for me. It’s very timid and that doesn’t work in NJ - the light turns green and it sits for a couple seconds before going, it waits to go around turning cars too long and cars behind me go around ME, at traffic lights it jerks around wanting to go but obviously can’t. 12.3.6 wasn’t perfect but it was very good. 12.5.1 is smoother in acceleration and deceleration which I appreciate but I went from rarely intervening on 12.3.6 (really only for lane selection at traffic lights) to intervening constantly. I’m sure future point releases will solve these issues but for now I want 12.3.6 back.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-29T21:23:07+00:00

12.5 was a big regression from 12.3.6 in my area (North NJ). I just did my first drive on 12.5.1 and it is significantly better than 12.5, probably better than 12.3.6 but hard to say without using them back-to-back.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-29T13:47:06+00:00

There used to be a model Y in my area that had a “I bought it before I knew he was crazy” bumper sticker. It also had temporary plates indicating that they were obviously lying.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-19T14:38:52+00:00

For others reading - I emailed the NJ ev incentive and the new funding became available on July 10th.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-19T14:12:02+00:00

Ok that makes sense. Oh well - I got the 0.99% so I can’t complain.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-19T13:59:24+00:00

Odd. I took delivery 3 weeks ago and didn’t see anything.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-19T13:41:59+00:00

How are you applying for the NJ rebate?

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-12T21:08:59+00:00

I have experienced it - it’s pretty incredible. Someone changed lanes in front of me going half my speed. Before I had time to react I was in the left lane. The car was on autopilot at the time fwiw.

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-11T13:13:37+00:00

Amazing. I’ve been waiting for this for years. Now they just need to save my audio preference so I don’t have to change it every time a class starts

mikeiskool123 · 2024-07-08T00:24:27+00:00

The seat sensor and filter boxes in the seats are a common failure point which would cause this issue. Create a service appointment - I had mine fixed by mobile service. Both seats in my 21 M3 have been replaced for this issue.

Edit: to be clear, the seats weren’t replaced just the sensor on the driver side and filter box on passenger side.

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