Recent content by jwatte

Not for EVs in the US. It's all online now, The manual, the service records, the configuration page -- all tied to the VIN in the app. At least in the US. Maybe other countries have laws that require paper?

It isn't necessarily unavoidable. As long as the car is plugged in, the battery pack can be kept warmer, to allow it to store more charge. While running, the pack can also bleed some energy to keep warm, which still improves range compared to doing nothing (unless you sit idle in freezing for a...

Happened to me, too. A 30 second button reset, or a car-off-on cycle didn't fix it. A "deep sleep" 4-hour parked cycle fixed it, so it's clearly some driver software in the center console entertainment system. Presumably pulling the fuse for that system and putting it back, would also solve the...

Fog/condensation on the camera is the usual cause in the morning.

The FitCamX is the right choice, because you won't see it. There are cameras a year or two newer but they are big and ugly and you have to mess with wires, and the 4k of the fitcam is good enough. > I have been informed that Hardwiring can effect the warranty if the car has an electric issue...

To be fair, the Macan EV Turbo has the exact same problem...

Those are protection of their own, adding additional protection for those probably aren't high priority ... If I wanted to do it, I would get some sturdy adhesive lamination plastic, tape it to the plates (after cleaning and drying the plates thoroughly) and then use a paper knife to trace the...

I always recommend new engineers to read other people's code as much as possible, because that's the best way to learn different ways of solving a problem. Now, that skill comes back in spades, because now I have to read the code from Claude / Codex / Gemini / Kimi / Qwen, too... We have a...

Indeed!

The Google Maps feature that broke, was the Android Auto (and, later, iOS CarPlay) version of Google Maps, not the one built-into the car. And it "broke" in the sense that it wouldn't display on the HUD, but it'd still display on the center console.

Currently driving a rental with no lane centering and no adaptive cruise control, and I still expect it to slow down when the car in front of me does, and have to brake when I realize it doesn't .... Habits develop quickly.

I love the chalk. It makes the interior so much brighter. Then again, I wouldn't pick it back when the kids were 7 ... My wife once spilled a bunch of fruit juice on the side of the seats; it did wipe off pretty easily.

The theory "metallic paint interferes with radar" is at the same time easy to dismiss, but also actually plausible... FWIW, I haven't noticed blind spot problems (although it's super conservative when I want to change lane into a tight-as-always gap on California freeways) and I don't have a...

You can configure which of the lift heights it uses for each mode in ... one of those panels :-) Anyway, I made off-road go to lift level II. Might as well!

But did you get underglow?