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Old 08-19-2018, 04:34 PM   #1661
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Took a couple pics of the S today to remember it.

For a 5+ year old car with 92,350 miles, its still looking great.

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Old 08-19-2018, 04:41 PM   #1662
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Not bad at all.
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Old 08-19-2018, 06:20 PM   #1663
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Yeah - It still looks great. Good luck with the next one....
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Old 08-19-2018, 09:40 PM   #1664
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Took a couple pics of the S today to remember it.

For a 5+ year old car with 92,350 miles, its still looking great.

I see a URL (for an iCloud thing?) in an IMG tag, but not seeing any images in thread. Get an "unauthorized" message if I try to the URL in a new tab.
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Old 08-19-2018, 09:54 PM   #1665
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I see a URL (for an iCloud thing?) in an IMG tag, but not seeing any images in thread. Get an "unauthorized" message if I try to the URL in a new tab.
It worked for a bit, but not working now for some reason... why can’t Apple just provide a simple static url?

Anyway - here’s the pic as an attachment.
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Old 09-15-2018, 07:44 AM   #1666
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The Tesla is sold… Long live the Tesla!

I sold the Model S to CarMax last night. Couple last thoughts:

- This was the best car I've ever had. It was super flexible (great for hauling things), fantastic on road trips, good to drive, and it never stranded me. I had relatively few problems with it -- especially after the first year. I still can't believe how great it was as the first ground-up design from a startup company. Overall problems were pretty minimal.

- Driving it for the last couple times yesterday, it felt huge and heavy compared to the Model 3. It is a huge and heavy car -- probably its only faults. After driving the 3 with the low cowl, the S dash also felt very tall and almost claustrophobic (ironic since the S was such an open design when it came out -- and I hated sitting in other cars afterword).

- Odometer was at 93,360, and I owned it for just over 5 years and 3 months. That's more than 50k miles higher and 18 months longer than any previous car. The next longest was the E46, which had about 42k miles over ~3.75 years.

- The CarMax offer was very reasonable. I ran one last Edmunds pricing report on it -- and CarMax's offer was about $1k above the trade-in value from Edmunds. It was also $3.4k higher than Tesla's trade-in offer, which only had ~$1.6k of sales tax value. I probably could have sold it privately for another $2-3k, but I really just didn't want to hassle with that.
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Old 09-15-2018, 10:51 AM   #1667
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Congrats, ZBB, thanks for documenting and sharing your Model S journey with us.
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Old 09-15-2018, 12:05 PM   #1668
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Thanks equ!

I'll probably have a couple other posts with some summaries of the logs I kept on it.

I recorded the trip meters at the end of each month in Excel, and I used a couple of different tools to log the API feed from the car to Tesla. Unfortunately, the older tool I ran locally has broken and I can't get it to dump any reports out (I have the raw logs though, just nothing with good summaries).

About 2.5 years ago, I started using TeslaFi as the data logger -- its built by a Model S owner and he charges $50/year for the service. Here's the "Lifetime" map for the Model S -- really only the last 2.5 years, so it doesn't have some of our road trips. There are a few gaps in the map -- either due to driving in areas without cell coverage, or when Tesla had an outage (which included the 'mudgeons meet up in April -- Tesla was down for about a day…

But the map shows most of the locations we visited -- this S:
  • Drove us to both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
  • From the US-Mexico border into Canada (it visited Canada 3 times)
  • It went as far south as Tucson AZ, as far west as the Oregon coast, as far north as Merritt BC, and as far east as Ottawa ON.
  • It visited 26 states (plus DC) and 2 Canadian provinces.
  • It took us to 8 National Parks (Grand Canyon, Petrified Forrest, Death Valley, Yosemite, Red Wood, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Arches)

Supercharging enabled all of that. Here's some stats:
  • It was Supercharged 191 times
  • It visited 127 different Superchargers.
  • Average charge cost was $10.47 (I paid the $2k option to enable Supercharging, which was originally an option on the 60kWh battery…).
  • Supercharging enabled just under 19k miles of driving (nearly all road trips).
  • Average charging stop was 44 minutes
  • Average stop added 99 rated miles.
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Old 09-15-2018, 12:59 PM   #1669
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Yes, thanks for sharing. It's awesome that you loved the car so much. When they work out like that they're worth the price.

I hope you like the 3 as much.
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Old 09-16-2018, 06:24 AM   #1670
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Wow ... that is pretty cool you have all the stats and also a little loco

Totally teasing you, thanks for sharing.
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