Teslas may be too quiet

[HoosierDaddy]

This morning a Mercedes changed lanes into my Tesla. Even if blind, I'm sure he would have heard my Mustang. Cops took a report which I hope included him telling them in my presence that he moved into my lane to prepare for an upcoming left turn but didn't see me. I wasn't really concerned since the Tesla continuously records 8 different cameras. They write over unless you tell the car to save one which I did and the car acknowledged. But when I plugged the USB into my PC, nothing since I dodged a Jeep exiting a parking lot trying to nail me last November. Not even any continuous loop video.

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[HoosierDaddy]

I was pleasantly surprised the other driver's insurance informed me the accident was 100% their client's fault. He had told the responding police that the contact happened as he changed lanes into the lane I was in. But that didn't mean he might not tell a different story to his insurance and drag this thing out.

Still don't know how to make the car louder.

Did find out why there was no video. Apparently, the USB the videos are written to was not seated all the way in. What's annoying as hell is that when you issue a command to save video, the damn car confirms it did it even when it doesn't/can't. I've told it to save 4 or 5 times since November for interesting moment but never went back and watched so had no idea none were saved. I did find an easy way to confirm recordings are being made and will be monitoring.

 

[Snakebyte]

I was pleasantly surprised the other driver's insurance informed me the accident was 100% their client's fault. He had told the responding police that the contact happened as he changed lanes into the lane I was in. But that didn't mean he might not tell a different story to his insurance and drag this thing out.

Still don't know how to make the car louder.

Did find out why there was no video. Apparently, the USB the videos are written to was not seated all the way in. What's annoying as hell is that when you issue a command to save video, the damn car confirms it did it even when it doesn't/can't. I've told it to save 4 or 5 times since November for interesting moment but never went back and watched so had no idea none were saved. I did find an easy way to confirm recordings are being made and will be monitoring.

Hate that for you.

You've probably heard the motorcycle phrase, Loud Pipes Saves Lives. I can attest to people not being aware of those stock, but seemingly loud motorcycles. After two people in 3 days cut me off on my not-so-quiet ZX-10R, I removed the baffles. But.....not sure how you're going to accomplish that on a Tesla.

Some electric vehicles have noise generators, and some are TOTALLY ANNOYING, to the point that you'll want to get away from those vehicles, just because their noise is so annoying. As far as noise generators go, Porsche, I believe, has come up with the best sound clip that changes frequency with speed.

 

[dnstommy]

Modern cars are so sound isolating, I am not sure if anything other than open headers would have helped.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I got the car back from the Tesla Collision Center near me. The color match, gloss and smoothness were perfect. BUT there were a lot of holograms from not polishing correctly. I pointed them out at delivery, and they took it back inside for about 15 minutes. I opened up the live camera view of the 8 built-in cameras in my app and saw they just applied something to towels and rubbed them over the area. And that might have got some of them. But next morning, I did an inspection and was still pretty bad. Video below.

I explained that in a review Tesla corporate asked for and let them know I intended to have the other driver's insurance pay a 3rd party to correct the holograms. 36 hour later, I get a call from the center manager saying he would pay the 3rd party of my choice to correct them. I did not expect such great customer service.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

My buddy at work had those all over his truck after his well-meaning father tried to buff out some scratches with a polisher. He didn't know what he was doing. I asked him what the hell happened to his truck when i saw it around high noon.

But it was not a big deal as I got them out for him in about 5 minutes. But for a professional outfit to give you back your car like that is something else. And the fact they tried to get them out by hand instead of using the correct tool is just the cherry on top

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