u/Draygoon2818

For those that are wanting to see your DBQs, there is an easy way to file your FOIA request and receive them relatively quickly.

Go to the VA website and login.

Click where it says VA Benefits and Health Care. It's a drop down box.

Click on Records > View all in records

Scroll down until you see Request personal records (VA Form 20-10206) and click the link.

On the next screen, scroll down until you see Start your request, and click the link.

Fill out the info on the first several screens. On the screen where it asks for your SSN, it also asks for a VA File Number. I've only ever used my SSN. I have always left the VA File Number box blank. I don't think it is needed for the DBQ request.

When it gets to the screen where you can select what it is you are wanting, only choose the Claim Exams. That's it. Finish filling out the last few screens and submit it.

The fastest I've had them send me mine was 3 days after I submitted the request. The previous one took 6 days. Mine only involved about 60-something records. If you have a lot of DBQs and stuff, it might take a little bit longer. It is a fairly easy process to request them, though.

Apparently, this tool thought I should have known he was going to come from behind other vehicles, then cross several lanes of traffic to get around others. Apparently, I failed Psychic 101. I don’t think he even left the lane I got over into.

Went through 3 school zones today. I don’t live somewhere where I normally have to worry about going through school zones, so haven’t really seen how well FSD does in one. Today though, I had to go to the county appraisal district office to turn some paperwork in. The first part of the video is when I was going to the office. There is a school across the street from the office. The direction I was coming from, I had just turned off of the highway feeder road. It did quite well. The second and third parts of the video were after I left. The third part has a 30 mph school zone as the road has a higher overall speed limit. The first two school zones are in a 35 mph and 30 mph speed zone, respectively.

Edit: Meant to say that all of these are in Standard mode.

'26 MY

In chill mode, minding my own business, when I saw a car start merging into the lane to my right. She apparently decided to keep coming over into my lane even though I was right next to her by the time she was fully in the lane to my right. FSD jogged me a little to the left to keep her from side swiping me. It did need to wait a couple seconds to react as a car was in the lane to my left. Not too shabby.

Now to go download 14.3.2, as I was just notified it was ready to update, 5 minutes ago.

Finally finished my little project of upgrading the subwoofer and adding a subwoofer. It has turned out pretty good, and it definitely thumps.

The first thing I did was replace the stock subwoofer. As you can see in the pictures, the magnet is just tiny. While it put out a decent amount of bass, there was room for improvement. I went with a Kicker CompR8 8" DVC subwoofer. I had to buy an adapter so I could attach it to the speaker box, as the stock sub has a wider plate where the screw holes are. The screw holes on the Kicker sub will not line up with any part of the box. I ordered the Metra 82-8606 from Amazon. I did add Soundskins Sound Deadening 1/2" wide tape on both sides of the adapter, just to make sure it made a good seal. The sub box is ported, and the port is just above the sub. I thought it was a sealed box until I went to attach the adapter ring. The stock sub is a DVC 2x80W 4ohm speaker. The speaker wires have attachments on the end, with one being larger than the other. The larger attachment is the positive wire. Luckily, I did not have to cut off the attachments, as the connections on the Kicker sub are push button, and the holes were large enough to accept the attachments. I did have to move the larger attachment around a little before it fit in the wire hole. The bass difference with just this done was impressive. It seemed to me as an improved amount of bass.

The second thing I did was install the 12" subwoofer in the deep well. This took considerably more time and effort. I bought a kit online that included everything I needed. I chose the Alpine R2-W12D2 DVC subwoofer. It's powered by a Diamond Audio MICRO81u 1 channel amplifier. I tapped into the speaker wires for the input to the amp. The hardest part was running the power wire from the 12V connection that is near the air filter in the frunk. Getting the wire through the firewall was no small feat. If you have large hands, you might want to find someone with smaller hands, or have some long pliers. I happened to have long pliers, but it was still a pita. The sub box is a sealed box. I did add some polyfill to it. I also wired the sub in a 1ohm configuration to give the sub the full 600W from the amp. I had tried it in a 4ohm configuration first, and while it hit pretty good, I felt as though it could do more. Putting it in the 1ohm configuration definitely made a difference. It does a nice back massage now and you can definitely feel the air moving through the car.

I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to put a hole in the bottom of the deep well so I can run the speaker wires through it. The only time you actually see the speaker wires is when I have the trunk floor off, so it's not particularly a necessity. The amp comes with a control knob that I mounted on the bottom rear of the screen. It makes it easy to adjust the amount of bass. My wife is not particularly fond of heavy bass. I usually have to turn the sub down whenever she is in the car, so the control knob is a nice addition. I ran the wire for it at the same time as the power wire.

If you have any questions, let me know. It was a fairly easy project. The end result is absolutely nice. The amount of bass is pretty ridiculous, and it makes me smile.

Edit: Tested the sound with the following songs:
Long After You're Gone - Chris Jones
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
For Real - Rittz
Ratata - Skrillex
Lying From You - Linkin Park
Cruise - Florida Georgia Line

2nd Edit: Someone asked me, but deleted the question, so I thought I would go ahead and answer it. This is a '26 MY Premium. Brought it home at the end of April '25.