Update on the glove box. Apparently, if I push the button quickly, I can get the old voice controls. If I hold it down very long I get Grok. So I can still access the glove box by asking the car to open it, I wasn’t clear on how this works.
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Lucid Gravity looks pretty good. Still too expensive for my needs (I don’t need a car to make money). Nice and lower to the ground than most. I’d probably want to drop it another inch or two.
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Repair estimate for the ding: $5,235 (plus the car will be out of action for eight days)
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Oof, that seems a tad steep. Is that Tesla or a third party? Are they going to just replace the whole fender?
Third party, but with Tesla parts. Some cameras have to be pulled, and aimed afterwards.
2 hours of labor for a pre-scan and post-scan using “Tesla Toolbox” @ $185/hr = $370 alone.
I had a windshield installed on the Volt today. Extra $500 to calibrate one camera that is used for lane departure warnings. So yeah, it sucks but I get it.
Good thing you’re getting OEM parts, I’d definitely prefer that on a nice car. If it’s ten years old, whatever, cheap stuff is fine.
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Surprised to see that the 51% is a total of 20% PHEVs and 31% BEVs. I thought China had a great charging network, so mystified why there are still so many PHEVs being sold.
Some items on the repair list:
Pre-Scan using Tesla Toolbox 1hr x $185
Post-Scan using Tesla Toolbox 1hr x $185
Put in Service mode 0.6hr x $125
Safelite?
Yep
Due to a poor customer service incident with them, I wound up shopping around and learned they were expensive.
I had the windshield on the Leaf replaced at Safelite, but it was covered under insurance, so no idea what charges were. Initially had a chip repaired there (also covered 0 ded), but it eventually spread into a crack that qualified for entire replacement. As more cars, ev and not, get accident avoidance sensors it will increase repair costs.
I had a fine experience for the most part. I learned too late there is actually a local place, I tried searching but the first four shops I called were the ‘ghost shops’ that aren’t actually local but pretend to be by getting a local address and phone number listed. It’s fine.
Same here wrt windshields and my local Safelite (which is 2 mi away so convenient). They don’t do side mirror glass, and it took me a while to find someone did. The local shop told me they couldn’t get the glass from their supplier, buy the mirror from the internet and bring it to us. FtS, so I you-tubed and it was so simple i did it myself.
I have used Safelite for a windshield chip repair. That experience was good, and would use them for that again. Just wouldn’t call them if I needed a windshield replaced with safety system calibration again.
I hate this shit.
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I posted about it in the annoyed thoughts thread. I actually drove to the addresses of three of these places. One was a house, one was a lawyer’s office I think, one was a preschool.