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Hey Ed! Great to hear from you. My son and I were just working on the Crosstrek awhile ago. He went through a giant puddle during a nasty monsoon a couple of days ago and after the car would not start. All is well thankfully with no damage. Not sure exactly what happened, but thankfully it isn't toast. LOL. Nice choice on the Ridgeline! They are pretty cool and you cannot beat Honda quality. Hope you and your family are doing well.

Thanks so much for taking the time to make such as nice comment and glad the video was helpful.

Thank you! Bought mine from the the dealer as well. Tesla needs to improve this part of buying used for sure. Take care and thanks again.

Wow, thank you! That is really nice of you to say and great to hear you like them.

Yes you can. You get to decide how much energy to use/keep in the powerwalls for possible power outages and for daily use. You can also set them to completely run the house overnight. Under storm conditions no matter what time it is the powerwalls will stop discharging and the grid will feed the home and the powerwalls incase of outage. 99% of the time when I get the message about storm conditions I opt out.

Not sure. Mine is an 18 Limited. Not even sure if it is available on the 21.

I got to the step where i programmed the code but my key fob will not go into sleep mode

@@AZdroptop nevermind i got it with the 21 its hold lock and press unlock twice. Thanks for the video

czcams.com/video/j_ey99ykqJI/video.html This is how you disable it. Cheers

Not sure really. Like everything it is all about the money I guess. :). With out the powerwalls and with the tax credit my system would have been 12,000 US so I guess it is close in price. And it is a 9.6 kW system.

@@AZdroptop yeah I guess you are buying the best also which does come with a premium. My system is 9.6kw also but fairly oversized for the inverter which is only 5kw which is max for Ireland. But oversized to get most of miserable weather 😂. I’d say yours is not a bad investment because Tesla will continue to improve software and features to make the most of your system such as virtual grid which you may be able to earn more from with the large battery. Good luck and I hope all goes well with the setup.

Thank you so much! Best to you as well and thank you for watching and commenting.

That is for sure. Thank you for your replies and suggestions! Much appreciated.

Thank you for the tip...I'll check it out.

That's crazy. Honestly I'm looking at 12 to 14 years before I "pay mine off", so at this point it is just a hedge against higher prices vs really saving money.

Good to know thank you.

Glad I could help!

It is a pretty cool place and sad that it has been vandalized so badly. We are going well, just back from Hawaii, work and vacation, and trying to burn up. :). Hope you two are doing well also.

Very good. I hope it works well for you.

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks.

Glad to hear it. Ha ha, no, it’s just the screen over time. Seems to be fairly common in the Crosstrek world. Most likely the heat here in Az.

Hi, we actually paid up front and we are looking at 12 to 14 years for the savings to ‘cover the cost’ of the whole system. If rates go up it will be a bit faster.

Thank you very much, great to hear that the info was helpful.

They are great all around cars! If you occasionally need more room like I did you can pick up a hitch basket-works out great especially for camping. Enjoy and thank you.

Glad it was helpful and thank you.

Honestly I'm really not sure what fixed it in the end. It was never perfect, but it did get better over time. My guess is it was the car's software not keeping up with all of the changes from Apple. Subaru kept pushing that it had to be an officially apple cord, but it really didn't make a difference. One thing you could check if you haven't yet is if you phone port is clean. If there is build up in there it can cause the cable to not sit correctly and may cause the issue you are having.

@@AZdroptopgood to know, I'll try that out. Any reason why the AHA method might not be working recently? I haven't been able to get it to work yet

I want to say Subaru shut that down??? Seems like they tried to get it all to work for a couple of years, but it never panned out.

I'm not really sure. I would have liked to put them on mine as well. Must just be the way they like to mount their panels I suppose. Good luck with your system.

I suppose you could carry a couple of them, but I'm not sure how you would secure them. I would not suggest trying it. 2x4's yes, but 4x8 not so much I don't think.

Yikes! Where do you live? Our most expensive over the summer would be around 400.

Wow, sorry to hear about that. It definitely sounds like yours is much worse. So far this year the drop offs have been quite a bit less, but we still have them now and then. I have heard different ideas from folks on CZcams regarding the cause, but nothing from Tesla directly. Some say it is possible that TEP is modulating the signal when too many panels are adding power to the grid. Others say it is the heat. I just recently put up a screen to try and keep the inverter cooler, but we are still getting some drops. Please keep me up on what ends up happening when Tesla finally makes it to your home.

Will do

@@jjamespacbellplease keep us posted. I also have two Powerwall 3s and today production completely stopped. Curious to hear what they tell you on June 30.

@@Abdon_Padilla I will post my results after the service.

@@AZdroptop Update on my Solar system issues since May 30th I have been getting at most only 50% of the solar system working On June 20th I noticed that my solar production was going from 50% to 0% then back to 50% until it stopped completely at 3:00 pm From June 20th to June 25th I have had 0 solar power, I did the only thing I knew how which was to shut PowerWalls down for 10 minutes and then power up hoping for a reset to fix issue but it did not. On Wednesday, June 26th solar came on at 6:30 am and ran all day at 100% (i did nothing to make this happen) Solar has been working properly and today June 20th the Tesla team showed up, They went on the roof and verified all connections, opened up the PowerWall 3s and verified connections, contacted the software engineers at Tesla and they reviewed the data but found nothing. They closed up all the powerwalls and solar is again working. The technicians who came to my house were not able to tell me if Tesla remotely reset my system but that is what I suspect fixed the problem. Sorry about not having a more definitive cause but when working with electronics that is not unusual If you have any more questions for me feel free to post here john

Thank you very much and its great to hear that it helped.

HI, no, we paid for it up front.

I am in Hawaii or I would make a video for you...Roof is just coated with cool coat and is a standard flat roof plywood, tar paper etc. Tesla has the panels on what I would call pedestals that are mounted directly into the roof. There are a number of them and they are all water-proofed to prevent leaks. The pedestals hold up framing that the panels are connected to.

Hi. It took about 2 weeks if I remember correctly. If you can contact the owner and have them remove the car from their Tesla app it might make it faster. If you need to charge at a supercharger I believe you can call them and get authorization prior to your car actually being registered to you. I did create a profile in the app prior.

You're welcome

You can’t charge while using the CT as a backup yet

My Tesla can’t be used that way. What Tesla do you have that can be used as a two way battery?

@@danparish1344 currently only the Cybertruck is able to do that right now, but I believe that they are all capable of doing that and it might just be a software fix but if it’s a hardware fix and obviously that would be way more involved . I have a cyber truck, and it Has 123 kWh, whereas battery packs are around 10 to 15 KW. Installation is required ,If you go on the Tesla website it’s a $2500 for the unit, this will be needed In order for the truck to be able to do so which is included in the truck purchase .

Thank you very much!

Thank you for adding knowledge to the discussion! Great stuff.

Some of that cost is the powerwalls...actually about 11,000 of it. We shall see how this year goes.

Well I don't have the Jeep anymore. :). Had it for about 3 years and just wasn't getting off road as much as I hoped and given the Jeeps road manners I bought a truck. The Jeep was actually a good vehicle, way better than the 05 I had, but has goofy steering.

My son has the car now and he has an identical spare, but it does not fit under the truck like the stock spare. He puts it in a roof basket when he goes camping.

Your paddle shifters are not working? Wow, that would definitely be a trip to the dealer. I suppose it could be a fuse possibly?

Thank you. I am not sure if just 1 would have worked to be honest because I didn't ask how much output I was lacking to cover the whole home as a back up. It seems like the 3 is the same capacity, but with more output. 7.5 pw+ vs 11.5 pw 3. Here is a breakdown I found on a Tesla forum. For the customer, there seems to be three main differences: PW3 has higher peak power per battery. Might be important for single battery installations. PW3 uses LFP which should result in longer life. I think it has the same warranty. PW3 has integrated solar inverters, can not be coupled with other solar systems. Overall capacity per battery is the same. If you get a multibattery installation, the peak power advantage kind of disappears. The integrated solar inverter means the system cannot be coupled with other solar systems, so future expansion is not really an option. I don't have a strong opinion on LFP, I haven't seen evidence of significant degradation in lithium house batteries. If you want/meed multiple batteries and don't care about LFP, then I'd just do PW2

I agree that 40mpg is good and it makes me like the car even more. At 80mph and wind I would see 36 to 38, but still nice. It really is a great car. I will say that I was working in Sonoma for 2 weeks earlier in the year and had a 2024 Prius LE as a rental for 2 weeks and it was very good. I have never liked the look of the Prius or how they drive, but this car was excellent. On par with the Volt for acceleration, handling was better, comfortable etc. Only negative was the stereo was terrible. Over 2 weeks and 450 miles it averaged 57.7 mpg! Impressive. If I needed another car like the Volt to commute it I would by the Prius. They look good now and are great at what they do.

I honestly do not know the answer to your question. Will have to ask my son. I am going to assume the coilover will bottom out first?

I am 5' 9"s. I would say at 6 1 you would fit, but would probably have to lay at a slight angle.

The basket works pretty well!