u/MunkberryMoonDelite

I just got the Fi 3+ collar (the initial setup was fantastic BTW - I am genuinely impressed by how unobtrusive and fast I went through the entire activation process).
During the initial test of the LTE tracking I found something that I didn’t expect.

I went for a walk to a local state park where there’s a good mobile connectivity. Once we started the walk and I saw that the app tracks my pup successfully via phone connection, I disconnected Bluetooth on my phone. App took less then two minutes to reconnect via LTE-M and continued tracking my pup thoroughly - so far so good. After maybe another 10-15 minutes, the tracking suddenly stopped. Initially the app still showed that the collar was connected, but it simply stopped transmitting updates and then it said that the collar is trying to connect. I specifically waited for 10+ minutes hoping that it simply went into battery reserve mode and would only retransmit coordinates after a delay, but the app simply stopped tracking the collar. Finally, I enabled the lost mode and within a minute or two it magically re-established connection and showed my pup location again.

So my question is was it an intended app behavior where it just starts saving power after a short while or was it a bug?

Just to make sure I retried the same test again and it behaved the same exact way as the first time - 10-15 minutes of tracking, followed by no updates until I forced lost mode. We walked on a single loop in a park, so I excluded the possibility of walking into some dead zone.

Hi,

I was originally planning to wait until my pup would be 6 months old before getting an Fi 3+ collar, but we live next to the woods and yesterday there was a certain misbehaving bunny that lured the pup into the woods and left him there. It took me nearly 2 hours to find the puppy, while bunny was chewing grass in our backyard as if nothing happened. This has hastened my plan to equip pup with a GPS collar to decrease my anxiety level the next time a bunny or a deer would decide to take pup on the adventure tour around the forest.

Pup is a miniature Aussie and his adult neck size should be around 15”, so medium size collar would be good for him long term, but he currently wears collar and I measured it at 11.5” when it’s relatively tight around his neck. Fi 3+ size medium starts at 12.5”. Why Fi3+ and not a mini - to me it’s a battery size and I’ve heard that 3+ has better reception.

So my question is can I adjust medium slightly tighter so it would not dangle on his neck or can I order medium and then a slightly smaller collar along it till pup grows into medium? I know that I need a specific collar that would accept the tracker.

From what I surmise, the ban affects any power inverters with remote control capability, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi communications as well as the ability to change firmware remotely. If I read it right, this will affect every upcoming model Bluetti was preparing for the market as remote communication and management were a core functionality that consumers want and need. Is this ban another bark from the current administration that will be stripped after China barks back or are we entering a new phase where the era of Chinese companies dominating the US power inverter market is ending?

Is there any hope at this time that we will see an unsupervised FSD in 2026? V14 is now almost 8 months old and frankly I have not seen much improvement from where we were back in December of 25. Tesla FSD team spent 8 months squishing the bugs and refactoring the code, but the bugs are still plentiful and the model is not getting any smarter. There’s still plenty of hesitation in real world scenarios, there’s still an atrocious behavior during unprotected left turns when the model simply sits there watching the traffic paralyzed by indecision, there’s still parking lot randomizer, and there’s still navigation layer that sabotages anything good FSD can bring to plate. Where is that ‘almost sentinel’ FSD level that Musk promised 8 months ago? It’s nowhere to be seen. V15 is probably going to be the last model released for HW4 as Tesla would be transitioning to AI5 hardware. After that current owners would be facked. Best case scenarios for HW4 owners would be a refactored and compressed future FSD version somewhere 2-3 years down the line when many owners would already move on to the new cars. Tell me that I’m blind and that we’re standing right at the edge of unsupervised FSD release. I will be super glad if In wrong.

Saw it today on a local road. It’s a two lane road and at the intersection left lane splits in two for left turn entrance onto highway, while right lane is for traffic turning right or going straight. We were going straight. Car took the right lane as it was supposed to, but then it saw the traffic lights. The right light was green, but the two lights to the left both were red. Car started the acceleration/braking dance liked it was confused whether to keep going or stop. At the end it decided to stop by harsh braking right in front of the intersection. On a green light. Obviously the cars behind us were not super pleased and we were lucky not to be rear ended.

My Model Y was lightly scratched at the parking lot and the driver took the responsibility, so insurance is taking care of the costs. The car is currently at the shop and they have determined that since one of the rims was lightly scratched, they would need to replace it. I have asked for the scratched wheel back to use as a spare tire, but the shop insist that they would have to destroy it.
They are pointing to this Tesla wheel replacement procedure: Wheel Disposal (Rework) and in particular to this note:

NOTE
This procedure is performed to make sure that a wheel that was replaced for any reason cannot be reused.

I have asked them if Insurance company demands wheel destruction or Tesla. They say this is Tesla. It’s not bent, it’s not cracked, the damage is less than two inches and it’s a light surface only cosmetic scratch that doesn’t affect wheel performance or safety. The “for any reason” clause seems bogus. What if I just want to
get new wheels. Would they destroy the old wheels because they are technically replaced?

How can I fight them back to get the wheel?

Today was the first time in almost a year that I had to sit behind a wheel of an ICE car (rental Chevy Equinox) . I’m really struggling. First, I sat there like a fool for 2 minutes trying to start the car before remembering that there’s a button I needed to press for the car to even turn on. Then I had to deal with a two pedal system and let me tell you, this skill is definitely vanishable. Then I had to drive for more than an hour on unfamiliar roads without FSD and I was really struggling. I also realized that I picked up a few nasty habits from FSD, like stopping at every stop sign and letting the other cars undercut me at every opportunity. To top it off, upon reaching destination I put my car into park and left expecting the car to lock itself. It didn’t. I then spent another two minutes trying to lock the car (unsuccessfully) before realizing I again forgot to press the start/stop button to turn it off.

What kind of torture is this?!?