Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

I do 10mins from Sligo town to Dublin (blanch area) or airport and back very regularly in my September bought M3 standard range on 19inch wheels. It's roughly 400 km return trip and I can't do it without a charge on the way home. I'd say I could push it with the extra buffer in the battery but wouldn't chance it in winter. About 80km of that at motorway speed. I usually travel via Cavan down the M3 but tend to prefer the M4 on the way home for quick Enfield super charge. I usually only need to stop for 10 mins or so.

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Lead boot..😁

I've been driving my Dec 2021 M3P ( MIC with heat-pump) just a year next week & with 32,000 kms , my life time average is 178 Wh/km

Got my Model 3 back in September and haven't been back in here much since - thought I'd give a quick thought on my experience so far. I'm preaching to the converted here I know but its simply amazing - there is literally nothing I can speak of in a negative way other than two points which I'll list at the end. Everything is so easy to use, its a dream to drive and still has that new car excitement even after a few months. I had an issue with one of the side mirrors in that it wasn't returning to its correct setting after changing profiles - I logged a ticket in the app, got someone out within a week and replaced it in 20 mins - was a lovely guy too, very chatty and happy to answer a few other questions I had. Brilliant service for the one time I needed it. Used a supercharger in Cork - just plugged in a didn't need to setup anything, register anything....just plugged in, walked away and it was nearly charged in 20-30 mins. Was a little pricey (€26) but I knew it would be something like that and I hardly use SC anyway.

My two points

1. In our first couple of weeks I was using the AP with the family in the car and we were going prob about 10k on a straight road, clearly marked and it all of a sudden it steered to the left to take a slip road. I grabbed the wheel quick enough but really scared us all and has probably affected my confidence in using AP a lot now - just don't have the confidence in it, especially on motorways which is a shame.
2. I have an android phone (OnePlus 9) and I find that just walking up to the car with the phone in my back pocket doesn't work - my phone needs to be unlocked first and then it'll open. Not sure if this is the same for other Android phones or iPhones but its a bit of a pain...especially when I have my arms full, I might as well have a car key in that case.

Hope everyone else is having as good an experience as I have been

Quite frosty this morning so was worried a bit about frozen door handles, mirrors, etc. Nothing too bad in the end. The door handles required a bit of coaxing to come out of their homes but made it in the end. One of the mirrors took some persuasion too. Overall though they'd be the same issue with any other car. A few things I learned which may help others here:

• In the app now there's a quick action for unlatching the driver door so you don't need to loosen the handle to get it to open.
• I've turned off the auto folding of mirrors now for the season so they won't need to unfold in the morning time - I was hoping they could be left unfolded at home and fold everywhere else but looks like you can only do the opposite i.e. by default unfolded and then fold at certain locations.
• Noticed that at least one of the windows would roll all the way up and then down a tiny bit when the door was closed. Thought it was a calibration issue but have since read that this is by design when the temperatures get cold so it won't damage the window when you open/close the door and the window mechanism is frozen.
• I'm sure we all know this but defrosting the car from the app is such a luxury!

Yea love the preheating but cost me about 5% battery this morning! Worth it.

On 2 its hit and miss at times

Wonder if there's a setting in the app that's causing this? I have a one plus 6T and don't have this issue.

On the AP I have had that issue before on slip roads, depends on the lines on the road. Always keep hands on wheel and be ready for a disengagement as you approach an exit. Only happens at the odd location so on your normal routes you'll know if they're ok or not.

Or else always be overtaking and you'll never have the issue 😁

Lads where on the app is the door open setting?

I must be blind.

Also have a problem on Android. Every single time I get in the car I have to connect the phone to the car manually on the screen. Pain in the arse.