Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Glad I didn't go for the AA membership. Pretty useless if they can't even jack up a Tesla

^ This. All This.

Tesla sell cars and will fix the cars they sell if they break. Punctures are a part of every day life and are not exclusive to Tesla! and it’s not Tesla’s fault you got a puncture, and as such they don’t offer a 24/7 puncture repair service. (Give Joe Duffy a call and tell them your new BMW has a puncture and see what they say in the same situation).

now Tesla can and will sort you out (and charge you way over the odds for the privilege) but in their own time (Monday-Friday), so what most folk will do is carry a plug kit and compressor and sort the problem themselves. You don’t even need to Jack the car up to repair the vast majority of punctures.

Buy one of these;

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OP if you were within 5-10 minutes of me in Fingal, I’d happily plug the tyre for you and show how to do it (it’s easy).

Great to have all input- yes boy scout lesson learned! But for this morning- Nail located in tyre. 2psi. Can't find 12v changing point in car-? not in central console as on you tube .was hoping could inflate and bring to fastfit. Does new Sept model have one? Also issue with type of jack- will get low profile one as car v low with flat. Lots of warnings about poss of damaging the battery using wrong jack or not using jack adaptors- newbie anxiety I know. And thanks for offer ! but 180km from finglas- and feels further sometimes- all this v new to the west it seems😉

Doing some research on this on other forums and installing this will void the warranty if there are any problems later - and a lot of people seem to be having issues such as batteries needing to be replaced, 12v failure messages, bugs after install etc. Will steer clear.

Update flat tyre M3.Thanks for all advice- v useful in the future - but as to present- am posting in event helpful to other newbies!AA Galway don't have suitable jack and the adapter needed for tesla and neither it seems do garages and they also don't have replacement tyre in stock. AA came out and advised not to let anyone use jack without adapter- anyone else familiar with this? Said there was a bolt/nail in tyre and v likely new trye needed.Going to try sandyford tomorrow- with tyre repair fill in tyre🤞 in future will travel with compressor tyre fill adapter and possibly Low profile jack!! As you all do😉

This is how I Jack my 3 Series when I do oil changes….. drive the front 2 wheels onto a bit of old floorboard which lifts it just enough to get the Jack underneath…..

also, I’ve plugged a hole in a front tyre of my Model 3 and a rear wheel of another Boardsie’s Model 3 and both times didn’t need a Jack and just plugged it with the wheels in situ.

Found it thanks. Will order and will have to chance tyreweld for tomorrow - can't get at location of nail in tyre without removing (have come fullcircle!)

And thanks for all tech advice.

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I'll share my similar experience maybe would be useful to you. On a Saturday morning I found a flat tyre on my Model3. Have the compressor inflated and drove around the block to see how it maintains the pressure. When happy that it drops about .1 bar in 10 minutes I started looking for a tyre places. Found out some keep bankers hours some don't even open on Saturday. Anyway got to the one in Stillorgan village. "We don't do Teslas" was the greeting. Asked why and they said we don't have the pucks. Said I have them then the man comes to have a look. "It can't be fixed too close to the wall. You need new rubber. We need to order it and you'll have it by Wednesday". Left and went to Sandyford Tyres where I literally had to queue with about 5 cars in front of me. They had the pucks but the answer was similar you need new tyre, no stock. Checked in the app and booked with Tesla tyre replacement Monday at 09:00. Arrived there and after 30 minutes waiting found out there is a bell to ring. When finally someone comes they said we can't find your booking in the system. When I check the app the appointment appears cancelled. It seems someone from Tesla cancelled it because they don't have the tyres in stock and I didn't get the text message because of bad format of the international prefix. They looked at it: can't be fixed can order a pair for me at a cost of 700 and probably I'll have them by Wednesday. In a desperate move I went to the tyre service beside Tesla. Ace tyre I think it is called. The guy said give me 5mins. I was skeptic though how come 3 different guys told me it can't be done and the fourth can solve it in 5 minutes. So he shown me that the nail didn't actually touched the wall and there still good mms to the edge. 6 months since and that tyre didn't loose one bit of pressure. Quite disappointing experience from Tesla not to have stock for such an item, glad they didn't as the other guy fixed it on the spot for less than 0.5% of their estimate

Can you take a picture of the nail in the tyre?

I’d plug that.