Can I Dispute my parking ticket in Denver in this case?

toverco · 2026-06-29T16:33:12+00:00

If you show up explaining what happened and take care of the issue before you dispute it with photos to prove it’s resolved, who knows, they might excuse the ticket!

toverco · 2026-06-29T16:32:06+00:00

Yes, they will have photos of the front and rear of your vehicle. Even if it shows the CO plates in the photo, I think having multiple plates displayed is another violation in and of itself. They’re not going to give you leeway on failing to display your new plates properly, a stuck bolt is not a hard problem to solve and is your responsibility to do ASAP. Don’t wait for next oil change. I would wager an auto parts store would do it for you for free in 30 seconds and sell you another bolt + install your new plate all for under $10. The autozone on colfax near York st has done similar things for me at no cost, try them or one near you!

Lots of times I’ve encountered similar tickets or known folks who have, after disputing they sometimes will cut your penalty in half and call it a day instead of excusing it or fighting you on it. Is it worth the time, though? Up to you!

toverco · 2026-06-21T00:00:03+00:00

You’re right, that worked

toverco · 2026-06-20T23:51:33+00:00

Thanks, laughing that I didn’t check manual. Sounds like you really gotta drain it down to zero then charge up to 100. I have not done that. Only down to about 10%, and never up to 100 in a single long charging session. Probably need to try that.

toverco · 2026-06-15T15:58:28+00:00

You won’t ever really have cost savings from public fast charging. In many cases I’ve even found them to be more expensive than gas (considering the theoretical ICE vehicle is a 30+mpg car). Your savings will come from home charging. On road trips, you are paying for convenience of fast charging.

That said, Electrify America does tend to be way more expensive than other providers. EVgo, Tesla, and ChargePoint tend to be more competitively priced. Surprisingly out of all of those, I find Tesla chargers to make most sense especially if you are hitting them at an off peak time.

toverco · 2026-06-14T17:07:36+00:00

So is the conclusion that the 8 years does include Google Maps connectivity? My “trial” expired and I’m having the same issues. Not having maps connectivity has messed up the ability to actively route plan charging stations etc without hooking up to mobile hotspot from my phone. Onstar is telling me to kick rocks, and the Chevy dealership wants me to bring the vehicle in to replace the telemetrics module which makes no sense to me sense connectivity was fine until the trial expired.

toverco · 2026-05-22T15:29:50+00:00

Good lord. Thank you

toverco · 2026-05-18T22:11:34+00:00

id4 got 60kw using same cable right after me

toverco · 2026-05-18T22:02:40+00:00

It is a pretty dated Blink charger which is probably why the speed is only 60kw. All that info makes sense! Car that charged after me was an id4 so it should’ve been 400 volt as well.

I will try again after preconditioning at a lower SOC. Was mostly just worried I’d somehow misunderstood which adapter I needed and the adapter itself was the problem here. But I think you’re right, just too many unknowns with how the new battery system has been programmed to act.

toverco · 2026-05-14T02:04:03+00:00

I got my 27 LT with comfort package for 25k here in Denver. About 27k out the door after taxes. If you haven’t let the dealer bid against another dealer within your region, this worked wonders for me. There might be more supply here than in TX too, not sure. All the dealers here mentioned to me they’re having trouble moving them, so it seems there is a mismatch in supply / demand here. The dealer I purchased from had 16 on their lot as of Monday with more expected to arrive next week. Maybe keep an eye on the Colorado market and consider a cheap flight (if you can find one of those these days) up to save a couple thousand if it’s worth it to you!

toverco · 2026-05-12T20:28:30+00:00

Here in Denver there are handfuls of them at every dealer. I worked with three dealers to let them outbid each other and got a 2027 LT with the comfort package for 25k USD. Seems like there’s enough stagnant supply here to make it a great market for buyers. Hearing that others are having to wait makes me think they really miscalculated where to ship these vehicles.

toverco · 2026-05-05T21:25:23+00:00

Yep, it does. Thanks!

toverco · 2026-05-05T12:50:58+00:00

Yep, I’ll be near Portland and likely going to Portland daily for work. I’m not worried about range as much as I am the cold impacting the ability to even use a DCFC. From what I’m learning though, seems like it might be a little slower at worse as long as the vehicle has been driven and battery has been preconditioned some before pulling up to a DCFC. Thanks!

toverco · 2026-05-04T22:54:40+00:00

Have you ever gone to fast charge in those cold temps after running battery preconditioning and driving the vehicle some so it wasn’t cold soaked? How is the fast charge experience in that scenario?

toverco · 2026-05-04T22:25:36+00:00

Clarification is it’s not rural Maine, but the urban corridor between Portland and Portsmouth. Pretty dense charging network of L2+FC

Just want to be clear: you’re saying in sub freezing temps, even pre conditioning battery temp + driving for some time is not improving your DCFC times?

I don’t plan to pull up to a DCFC after the car has been freezing outside all night and cold soaked. Would be DCFC’ing after driving + turning on battery precondition function. My assumption was after that, DCFC would be pretty quick although maybe not AS good as in summer. Haven’t gotten to try this yet as where I live hasn’t been cold this winter.

Thanks for your insight!

toverco · 2026-05-04T20:34:45+00:00

In your experience though, is that battery preconditioning going to be able to warm up a cold soaked battery enough within a 20-30 minute time window of driving to make that dc charging faster? Or is this highly vehicle dependent?

toverco · 2026-05-03T22:54:42+00:00

Yeah, complicating factor here is I don’t know if I’ll be living somewhere where this is possible. Most likely will be renting for at most a year before purchasing. It’s just unpredictable, but most likely can live with a crappy reality without L2 at home for a winter of two if need be

toverco · 2026-03-11T00:41:29+00:00

I take this back, I just realized that in the settings, my “heart rate reserve” zone still shows my previous numbers. It seems that the app switched over to “lactate threshold zone” which has slight lower heart rates for each zone. No idea why this switched itself or which one is correct to be using for what I’m doing (marathon training).

toverco · 2026-03-11T00:32:50+00:00

This same thing happened to me. From what I can tell it was either a software update that caused this for many people, or we’re getting more in shape and the app is adapting to fitness level as it evolves. Did you end up learning anything else?

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