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#VASP (Volatility Adjusted Signaling Process)
Network & Internet Disconnecting All Stations 5 Mar 2021 7:47 PM (4 years ago)
Setup:
Multiple PC’s in the office. Multiple Switches. Router & Modem for internet connecting to cable.
Having a strange network issue where we’ll lose internet & network connections simultaneously.
Something is causing the PC’s to lose their IP addresses and disables their ability to access any shared folders, servers & internet.
Rebooting the Router/modem does no good.
Rebooting PC’s does no good.
Rebooting switches & hubs on the network seems to temporarily solve the problem.
Rebooting the main switch seems to temporarily fix it. It’s random. It may solve the issue for several minutes to several days to weeks. Rebooting one of the smaller adjacent switches doesn’t seem to solve the problem.
The final diagnosis seems to be a bad switch/hub on the network. For whatever reason, it’s sending out bad signals and disrupting the connection off between the router & modem and also releasing all the DHCP addresses assigned to all PC’s & workstations.
One clue to watch for in terms of knowing/diagnosing which switch/hub it may be is to recall which network subset first went down.
The first section of the network that went down is a clue to which switch is causing the disruption throughout the entire network of switches & hubs.
Notes on Installing Piwigo Gallery – Image Host on Windows Server 25 Nov 2020 5:02 PM (4 years ago)
During the all day sucker of trying to get Piwigo up and running today I discovered that there appears to be a void when it comes to any kind of step by step guides for…
1. Installing Piwigo on Windows 2008 Server R2 with php and MySQL
2. Getting Piwigo to successfully use remote storage space (shared UNC paths, etc.)
In fact, I found more posts that ended with the OP saying that they would try and install piwigo on some flavor of Linux after getting some very discouraging responses.
Even more so I found numerous folks saying that you simply cannot use remote storage with Piwigo on Windows. Though I think that remains true for any flavor prior to Vista on the desktop and 2008 on the server side.
Anyway, here are the steps, more or less, that I followed after I discarded all of the wrong turns, trial and errors, etc. that won’t get you anywhere but frustrated if I had you go through all I went through.
How to install Piwigo on IIS 7.5 with NAS Storage
1. Get Windows 2008/IIS 7.5 installed and healthy (check event viewer and remediate any/all errors.
2. Use Web Platform Installer to install PHP (I installed v5.6.0)
3. Use Web Platform Installer to install phpMyAdmin. Follow directions here (http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/how-to-se … -packages/ ) for the “phpMyAdmin installation and configuration. Again, eliminate all errors before proceeding.
4. Test php (“Google how to test php on Windows”). Get it working right. You can select index.php as the default document on a per directory basis if you intent to also use ASPX, etc. Eliminate all errors before proceeding.
5. Use Web Platform Installer to install MySQL (I used MySQL Windows 5.5).
6. Create the required piwigo database in mySQL – I found a page somewhere that showed me how, but I cannot find it now. Sorry about that. However, I created a piwigo user account and allowed phpMyAdmin to create a database for the user. Not that creating a database does NOT mean you are creating data tables, the Piwigo install.php page will take care of that.
7. Test MySQL with php page outlined on this page (http://crybit.com/check-mysql-database-connection/ ). I would suggest that you test the piwigo database connection with this step as doing so will eliminate doubts further on. Eliminate all errors before proceeding.
8. Download latest version of Piwigo ZIP file (mine is v2.7.3). Browse to it with Windows Explorer, right click and extract all to “C:\” which will create the folder C:\piwigo and all sub-folders, etc.
9. Right click on the C:\piwigo folder, select properties, and assign full rights to the folder for the user you intend to use (typically IUSR). Not sure if this is required, I got errors before I did this, but those may have been caused by another problem that is also had to eliminate.
10. Using IIS Manager, create a virtual directory (I called mine “gallery”) in the root of the Default Web Site and point it to the folder C:\Piwigo. Be sure to set credentials, and then test them using the GUI Wizard to create the virtual directory, for the directory and the user you gave full rights to that folder in step (8) above.
11. At this point you should be able to successfully open a browser on the IIS Server host to http://localhost/gallery/install.php – DO NOT do anything yet on this page. If you can do that, then open the same page on your workstation by going to http://<yourhostname>/gallery/install.php . If you can, go ahead and fill out the page with the appropriate information and when done you will hopefully see a nice green informational blurb telling you that all was done successfully.
12. Now take the time to go through the offered up “Take a Tour” tour. In doing this you will have uploaded a photo or two. Suggest that you create an Album called “test” and drop the photos in there. Having a few photos set up will be important later on if you intend to use NAS storage.
13. Take some time play around with Piwigo but don’t get too comfy making too many changes right yet. We will want to keep it as vanilla as possible to avoid wondering what changes are causing what problems later. Become familiar with where and how your uploaded images appear and remember how piwigo behaves when it is working right – if you don’t do this, you won’t recognize when something is not working right and that means that some images might appear but others don’t, thumbnails will appear but clicking on them does not result in the full image appearing, oddball things like that can happen so know what it is supposed to do when it is working right.
14. If you are not going to use NAS or other remote storage, you are done here. Otherwise, continue on. The steps I followed should work for most any kind of storage you can access from Windows explorer on the IIS Server as long as you can read/write to the storage space. In my case I have a WD ShareSpace NAS device which leaves a little to be desired when it comes to allowing me to assign user rights to the file system. Thus, I created a new user on the NAS device called IIS and allowed it to create a user file space for that user as well. Whatever user account you will be using on the IIS server for the Virtual Directory credentials will need to have read/write privileges to this storage space. Thus, I created a user account and then logged into that account on the Windows 2008 server hosting the IIS Server and made sure that I could create directories, files, etc. as well as delete them. If you cannot do this, there is no sense in moving forward.
15. Once you have a Windows Server 2008 account that has full read/write access to your remote storage, you are ready to proceed.
16. On the remote storage, create a directory called ‘piwigo’, under that folder, create two more – ‘_data’ and ‘upload’ and then under ‘_data’ create a directory called simply ‘I’.
17. On the IIS Server, open gpedit.msc and browse to: Computer Configuration | Administrative Template | System | Filesystem and double click on the policy for “Selectively allow the evaluation of a symbolic link”
18. You will want to ‘Enable’ this policy and then check the first two of four boxes which are ‘Local Link to Local Target’ and ‘Local Link to a Remote Target’. Click on OK and then close gpedit.msc.
19. Just for grins, test what you just did by opening a command prompt (using ‘Run as Administrator’) and entering the following command:
C:\Fsutil behavior query symlinkevaluation
…and if all is well, you will see that the two items above are enabled and the remaining two are disabled. If not, troubleshoot this first before proceeding.
20. Now you need to CUT and MOVE everything under ‘C:\piwigo\_data\i’ to the ‘I’ folder on your storage space you created in step (16) above.
21. Do the same for everything in ‘C:\piwigo\upload’ and move it to the ‘upload’ folder on your storage space you created in step (16) above.
22. Double check the above two steps and make sure that everything was moved from these two folders on the C:\ drive to your storage location.
23. Delete ‘C:\piwigo\_data\i’
24. Delete ‘C:\piwigo\upload’
25. Go to your command prompt (I did not tell you to close it before did I?) and enter the following commands (substituting your path on your storage space):
Mklink /D C:\piwigo\_data\I \\NAS\iis\piwigo\_data\I
Mklink /D C:\piwigo\upload \\NAS\iis\piwigo\upload
26. If all is well, you should be able to go back to your browser and view those images you uploaded before, as well as their thumbnails, etc.
27. If you are satisfied that you still have a fully working piwigo (or you think you do so far anyway) then you should go ahead and upload two more photos to the same Album you previously used.
28. Close your browser (to be sure we have a fresh look going back to it).
29. Stop and Restart IIS. Again, this makes sure that all set up processes happen as they should. In fact, if you really wanna go for the gusto, reboot the server (which is something I have yet to do even now – hmmmm….).
30. Now browse back to Piwigo with your browser. You should find both the images you uploaded during the tour and the ones you uploaded in step (27) above all in the same album and fully functional. If you do not, something is broken and you are probably going to be on your own at this point except for me to say that you probably have a rights issue somewhere.
Piwigo version: 2.7.3
PHP version: 5.6.0
MySQL version: 5.5
Piwigo URL: http://www.mika-sys.com:8080/gallery/
What is Twitter and How is it Used and Organized? 4 Nov 2020 3:10 PM (4 years ago)
Twitter is like a complex forum board with no real beginning or end to a thread. It can start anywhere and sub divide into multi topic sub threads, endlessly.
Everyone’s Twitter dashboard is their own personal forum board.
Twitter is a forum board organized, not by topic or category but by your own posts and replies.
The Jet : Born to Brawl, Benny Urquidez Lived Through a Death Match to Become One of the Greatest Unknown Fighters in America 2 Nov 2020 12:49 PM (4 years ago)
Original Link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-17-sp-2240-story.html
By STEVE HENSON
AUG. 17, 1985
12 AM
TIMES STAFF WRITER
“T o the death! “
Benny (the Jet) Urquidez’s eyes nearly shot out of their sockets when he heard the words. Foam collected on his lips and sweat slipped off his chin. Across a dark, dingy ring without ropes in Hong Kong, a square-jawed Chinese champion kick boxer had his arms thrust upward as he slowly approached Urquidez.
Above the spirited banter of hundreds of onlookers, most of them wielding handfuls of cash, and music sounding like a thousand screeching cats, Urquidez heard his opponent scream again, “ To the death! “
“Bits and pieces of my life flashed before my eyes,” recalls Urquidez, 33, a World Karate Assn. champion kick boxer.
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Urquidez often had to fight his way out of fixes. Half-Spanish, half-Mexican and all-American in a martial arts world dominated by Asians, having defended world titles in four continents, he was accustomed to being in strange places.
But this was different.
He was alone in Hong Kong in November, 1980, only to promote a karate movie on a talk show. Look what had transpired in 24 hours, he thought.
Someone in the TV studio audience had stood up and called him nothing but an actor, a sham of a fighter. The man–who turned out to be a Hong Kong kick boxing champion–challenged Urquidez to a death match. Urquidez demanded $20,000 and a mink coat, calling the man’s bluff. The challenger’s promoter met Urquidez the next day, however, handed over the cash and the coat and drove him to the noisy warehouse.
A horn sounded, the opponent shouted and Urquidez sprang out of his corner. He sent a shin kick to the cheekbone, another to the ribs. Spinning 360 degrees, Urquidez then landed a backfist to the face.
“By the third round, he looked like the Elephant Man,” says Urquidez, who declines to reveal the opponent’s name.
In Round 4, repeated rib shots laid the guy on his back, wheezing for air. The crowd clamored around the ring, shouting and whistling.
Says Urquidez: “I was confused. They wanted a kill and I wouldn’t give it to them. The promoter pulled me into an adjoining room, where I stood for four hours waiting for the riot to end.”
Although Urquidez’s death match didn’t follow the form of most of his fights in the Far East, Europe and North and South America, the outcome was the same. This modern-day conquistador claims never to have been defeated in battle.
“I have traveled to many lands, fought the best men, eaten the best food and returned with riches,” he states softly with a characteristic chop of his hand.
Comparing Urquidez’s exploits to those of early Spanish conquistadores Hernando Cortes or Francisco Pizarro–who are remembered as much for spilled guts as glory–is not completely fair to the Jet, however. His machismo is tempered with the discipline required in the martial arts.
“Control is the key to understanding,” Urquidez says. “Control of the body, of the mind, of the spirit and of the heart.
“I don’t fight out of anger. I am a sportsman. Through my sport I have learned self-respect and discipline.”
He speaks of spiritual understanding in the same controlled cadence that he tells of his grandmother riding with Pancho Villa and of his Valley upbringing.
Urquidez roamed the streets of Van Nuys, San Fernando and North Hollywood as a youngster along with four brothers and four sisters, fighters all. Benny’s mother supported the family with work as a professional wrestler at venues like the Olympic Auditorium; his father, who left the household when Benny was 8, was a professional boxer.
Benny’s sister, Lilly, 37, has been a world champion super bantamweight kick boxer. At 21, she married Benny’s 15-year-old friend, Blinky Rodriguez, who has been a super middleweight kick boxing champion.
“When we fought in the street, we fought for real,” Urquidez says. “We didn’t believe in leaving the other guy standing, because he might come back with a 2-by-4 and cave in our skulls.
“We owned the Valley. We would walk the streets and a hundred kids would follow behind.”
Urquidez, in turn, followed the teachings of North Hollywood-based karate and judo instructor Bill Ryusaki from ages 9 to 13. Ryusaki remembers Benny as a born brawler.
“Benny was from a bad area and he had a bad attitude,” said Ryusaki. “He had a complex about being small and felt he had to prove himself by fighting. I wouldn’t let him fight. I made him work on form and learn discipline.”
Urquidez attended Grant and Polytechnic high schools before graduating from North Hollywood High in 1969. He wrestled at Poly and played football at North Hollywood.
“My football coach would tell me, ‘See that guy, put him out of business,’ ” Urquidez says. “I was a hyper little defensive back.”
Now, Benny, all 145 pounds of him, commands the rapture of the martial arts world. In Japan, he is the great “ Yukiide-san ,” and is claimed to be half Japanese.
“The Japanese are a proud people and there is no other acceptable explanation to them for my domination over their best martial artists,” Urquidez says.
Urquidez’s exploits are chronicled in Japanese “Benny the Jet” comic strips. Art imitates life: The Jet always wins.
He has been named Full-Contact Fighter of the Year five times by the Standardized Tournaments and Ratings Service (STAR) and is listed by STAR as having a 56-1 record, although the Urquidez camp vehemently disputes the loss.
Currently, he holds the super lightweight (140 pounds) title and is planning to fight for the welterweight (147 pounds) title against No. 1 contender Tom LaRoche in October.
Says Paul Maslak, a kick boxing authority who heads STAR: “Benny Urquidez is the only active great from the early days of full-contact karate. He is unquestionably a legend in the Orient, and in parts of South America and Europe. Benny’s stature is similar to that of Muhammad Ali about the time he fought Joe Frazier in Manila–still the greatest, but perhaps slipping a bit.”
In the late 1970s, Urquidez fought six to 10 times a year. He has cut down to two bouts a year since 1980, and his last fight was a fifth-round technical knockout over European Muay-Thai Nederland middleweight champion Iwan Sprang on Jan. 15, 1984.
Despite its popularity abroad, kick boxing has mostly drawn yawns in the United States. Cable network ESPN broadcasts Professional Karate Assn. bouts.
Similarly, Urquidez hasn’t been able to capture the imagination of American sports fans. You won’t see him in a breakfast cereal ad like Mary Lou Retton or Pete Rose, smiling over a bowl of Urqui-ties.
Only four of Urquidez’s fights have been broadcast on network TV, and his purses have rarely exceeded $10,000 in the United States. He has earned as much as $50,000 for bouts in Japan, Canada and Holland. Yet Urquidez, who lives in Tarzana, says that he is “not rich, not poor, but very comfortable.”
So, while the Jet has kept his spinning kicks and backfists flying, kick boxing promoters have spun their wheels. And one of the world’s most colorful sportsmen is virtually anonymous in his homeland.
Urquidez’s greatest recognition in the United States came while delivering a barrage of leaping leg kicks during a WKA lightweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in 1975. A spectator stood and screamed, “He looks like a Jet!” Whereupon the crowd stomped its feet and chanted, “Jet, Jet, Jet.” Urquidez won the title and thanked the crowd for its rousing support by doing a back flip in the center of the ring.
The nickname and back flip have remained Urquidez trademarks.
“Benny Urquidez has become Benny the Jet,” Benny says. “In other countries, my wife and I are addressed as Mr. and Mrs. Jet.”
The Jet moniker was a play on the popular 1974 Elton John song, “Benny and the Jets.” A “Benny the Jet Theme” was released as a single in Japan in 1978, a song Urquidez’s manager Stuart Sobel says sounds like the theme from Rocky.
“I should have gotten residuals from the Elton John song, too,” Urquidez says. “I’ve signed thousands of those records.”
Life has been weird and wonderful for Urquidez ever since he donned the traditional karate gi and earned his black belt at 14.
“My oldest brother, Arnold, would send the family out to seek new fighting techniques,” Urquidez says. “We would return and share our knowledge with the others. Judo, karate, kick-boxing, western boxing–we blended them into a family style.”
Benny was the runt of the family (at 5-6, he is still shorter than his brothers) and was often challenged.
“Guys would always fight Benny because of his baby face,” says Rodriguez, Benny’s brother-in-law. “They would all end up in the same position–on their heads.”
Says Urquidez: “I developed spinning kicks and back knuckles in elementary school. Soon, my reputation preceded me. The biggest kids would stand aside.”
In 1974, the Urquidezes rose from the Valley and went nationwide.
Chuck Norris, a pioneer of full contact karate, had begun the National Karate League. His team, the Los Angeles Stars, included 22-year-old lightweight Benny Urquidez and middleweight Blinky Rodriguez. Two of Benny’s brothers, Adam and Manuel, were alternates and two others, Arnold and Ruben, were trainers.
Benny’s first five professional full-contact karate bouts came later that year in the World Series of Martial Arts, a two-day extravaganza held in Honolulu.
Recalls Urquidez: “There were street fighters, boxers, every kind of martial artist, sumo wrestlers, western wrestlers–about 200 in all. There were no rules and no weight divisions. I won my three fights the first day and my first fight the second day by knockout. I had to beat Dana Goodson for the title.”
Goodson was a 6-1, 225-pound Hawaiian heavyweight kick boxing champion. Urquidez knocked him out in the third round.
“I attacked him like a leech sucking blood,” Urquidez says. “I am a stone survivor and that day I proved it to the martial arts world.”
With the WSMA title under his black belt, the Jet’s career took off. He captured the NKL lightweight title in 1975 and the PKA lightweight title in 1976.
Urquidez’s most discussed fight, of course, is the purported loss. When a fighter is 56-1, attention is focused on the defeat. Did the Jet really lose?
That depends on who you believe. Benny scowls at the mention of the August night in 1980 in West Palm Beach, Fla., when a virtual unknown from Texas named Billye Jackson took a seven-round decision.
Stuart Sobel, Benny’s manager, offers this version: “Thirty minutes before the fight, Jackson said he wouldn’t get in the ring unless Urquidez agreed not to use leg kicks–Benny’s speciality. I told Benny, ‘This is ridiculous, we can walk.’
“There were 6,000 people in the stands and the promoter nearly fainted. Benny agreed to the change, but without leg kicks his rhythm was off. The last couple of rounds, Benny pummeled the guy. If the fight would have went one more round, Jackson wouldn’t have been standing.”
Jackson wouldn’t fight with leg kicks because of a leg injury, Jackson’s manager told Official Karate magazine in February. Jackson retired from kick boxing last year with a 22-2 record.
WKA President Howard Hanson denied Sobel’s formal appeal for a no-contest ruling. He says the Jet was grounded fair and square, but adds that the loss revealed more about Urquidez’s integrity than any win.
“Benny lost the fight,” Hanson says. “Sobel’s version is essentially correct, but a loss is a loss. Benny proved what kind of gentleman he is, though. When Jackson requested no leg kicks, rather than leave the promoter with a riot on his hands, Benny stepped in the ring.”
The calm in Urquidez’s voice and the dignity in his demeanor leave a deep first impression on a visitor. His tone is a decibel above a whisper and conversation invariably steers to his family.
“My family is the source of my strength,” says Urquidez, looking at photos of Sara, his wife of 11 years, and Monique, his 7-year-old daughter. “My wife and daughter, my brothers and sisters, my parents–we are a strong tribe.”
Urquidez returned two years ago to his birthplace, Van Nuys, to build what he believes is the consummate martial arts facility. He, Rodriguez and Jan Sirchuk, a contractor and friend, are partners in Benny the Jet’s Jet Center. Similar Jet Centers have opened in Japan, Canada and Holland.
The Urquidez family remains deeply involved in the Valley community. Project Heavy brings local toughs off the street into the Jet Center, where they are taught Ukidokan–Benny’s personal blend of martial arts and philosophy.
The Jet Center has dormitories where kick boxers from around the world stay for monthlong internships under Benny. They emerge as Jet fighters.
“My fighting career may be near its end, but I will never stop fighting through my students,” Urquidez says, his face unmarked by more than a decade of kick boxing competition. “I will teach honor, discipline and respect throughout the world.
“It’s going to be hard to get rid of me. Benny the Jet will create an empire.”
Steve Henson returns to the Los Angeles Times as assistant sports editor after six years as an editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and six years at USA Today. Henson was a sports writer and editor at The Times from 1985-2007.
Original Article: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-17-sp-2240-story.html
The Ridiculous Service Process that Is Tesla Motors 7 Jul 2020 9:07 AM (5 years ago)
The Ridiculous Service Process that Is Tesla Motors
I have a Tesla Model S that is several years old and wanted to purchase the extended warranty.
I dread speaking to anyone in Tesla service. If find them to be rude, indifferent, unmotivated, and basically uncaring.
I call my local Tesla service center. I get the sales dept, because I am buying something…
Fortunately I get someone on the phone (most times you won’t).
The sales person blandly tells me I have the wrong dept. I need to speak to someone in the service center. I tell him, I did call the service center. He says I have the sales dept. He reminds me that I need to hit the option for service……. (fine..)… He offers to transfer me.. I thank him.
The phone is ringing… I fully expecd to get voice mail. Wow.. I actually got a human being. I tell him I’m interested in buying the extended service.
He asks me for my Vin#. He then tells me to visit Tesla.com and do a search for “Extended Warranty”. I remind him that I want to purchase the extended warranty. How do I do that?
He says I should read up on the extended warranty service first…
silence… more silence…
I tell him I’ve already read it and I want to buy it… How do I do that?
He says I need to set an appointment….
silence…. more silence…
I’m starting to feel frustrated…
I say.. so let’s set an appointment….. He tells me I can set an appointment or they can send me the contract through email and I can sign it and scan it back….
I tell him that’s what I’d like… let’s do it through email……
silence…. silence…
I ask again… SO HOW DO I DO THIS?
He tells me again, set an appointment on your app and someone will get back to you…..
I’m perplexed… I don’t recall seeing anything on the app for buying any extended warranties…
I tell him about my confusion through this process..
He says I should select, “other” and then indicate that I want to buy an extended warranty, and that someone will then get back to me, through the mobile Tesla App….
Dumbfounded by this process and the utter apathy expressed by Tesla’s service personnel….
As I write this, Tesla stock sits at an all time high of 1405.00 and a market cap of $260 Billion… Go figure…
Tesla Service – Won’t Replace Driver’s Side Visor Under Warranty 16 Jun 2020 2:22 PM (5 years ago)
Along with numerous other issues I’ve had with the Model S, Tesla continues to disappoint on the service side. Whenever dealing with their service department, I am reminded LOUDLY never to buy this car again.
Hello Elon, you make a pretty neat car, but your service department is absolutely garbage.
Here’s a recent service call (circa June 2020) and a series of text messsages going back and forth with a Tesla Rep. Only because they refuse to make normal phone calls like a decent car dealer. They only wan to deal with their customers vis phone text message….
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A Mobile Service Technician will be coming to your vehicle on 2020-06-13 at XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, and will contact you when on the way. If there are extreme weather conditions, please provide garage or shelter access. Modify or check the status of your appointment anytime from your Tesla app. Reply ‘STOP’ to stop updates. Msg & Data rates may apply.
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The driver’s side vanity mirror fell off, the plastic clip is broken, but I left the mirror at another location.. so it’s not with me. If you can bring a new one and install please. I never use this mirror, so I have no idea why it fell off, or why the plastic clip broke. Thanks…
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Reminder, a Mobile Service Technician is scheduled to arrive tomorrow at XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX . Please ensure your car is parked in an accessible location. You will receive a notification that your technician has arrived and started work. Please be mindful that we are practicing social distancing; if you need to speak with the team, we invite you to reply to this SMS. Modify or check the status of your appointment anytime from your Tesla app. Reply ‘STOP’ to stop updates. Msg & Data rates may apply.Can you send pictures? We will need to old mirror to be able to inspect to determine warranty and return part to Tesla if it is determined to be warranty. Thanks.
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I dont have the old mirror w/ me.. i left it at my other location in XXXXXXXXXXXXXX… how much is a mirror… dont see what the big deal is…the plastic clip that holds the mirror to the visor broke…its not rocket science.. its a plastic clip tried to glue it back together.. but it kept breaking off…
i need a piece just like this…. to install on the missing driver’s side are we still good for tmrw morning?? or are you insisting I have to give you my broken mirror back to you?
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Unfortunately, you have to replace the whole visor assembly as you can’t get just the mirror. A new visor is $175 plug tax. I am working with parts on availability right now to confirm if tomorrow will work or if we will need to push it further out.
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thats ridiculous…. nvm.. what a rip offi never even use the visor and it fell off one day… very poor workmanship.. and u want to charge me $175 for something that’s under warranty?this should be under warranty
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We did need to order the part so I am going to push your appointment out a week to give us time to get the part. I will talked to the service manager on Monday to see if we can goodwill the visor.A Mobile Service Technician will be coming to your vehicle on XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, and will contact you when on the way. If there are extreme weather conditions, please provide garage or shelter access. Modify or check the status of your appointment anytime from your Tesla app. Reply ‘STOP’ to stop updates. Msg & Data rates may apply.
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thank you
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One Week Later
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I finally got a hold of one of the service managers in XXXXXXXX . They said we could do a 20% discount on the visor which would make is $139 plus tax. Another option would be once you can get access to the part we can attempt to resecure it for you. I know you said you tried gluing it already, but we might have a better glue we can use.
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2 bad choices.. Very disappointing. Glue it back? That’s what I’m left with? I cannot believe I own a car brand, where the service tech offers to ‘glue” the parts back on ….and won’t honor the warranty on a POS visor that fell off.. cuz Tesla didn’t want to spend the money to install a quality visor.. that’s even on par w/ a Toyota
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I am sorry. I wish there was more I could do, but I am limited by what management decides.
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Thank you for wasting my time and hoping that Tesla would do the right (and obvious) thing… but nothing surprises me w/ this company anymore…
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Free Stuff or Freedom? 13 May 2020 2:34 PM (5 years ago)
