Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

I’m sure you can but I find tyreleader or oponeo are usually cheaper than eiretyres.

You simply need to create a free Tesla account. You can then add a new car from the dashboard

The seller obviously needs to remove or transfer the car from their account. See the guide below for details on how this is done.

The bottom line of that webpage states "If the car has been added to other accounts then it should disappear from these automatically. Once done, the car will disappear from the Tesla app and the previous owner will have no ability to access the car."

What tyres are most people running on their cars (18"), Are you sticking to the Pilot Sport Acoustic or what are the other options people have tried and worked well?

Hi there - looking for some advice please. I'm a prospective 1st time Tesla owner and can't decide if I should buy used or new. I'm looking at an M3 RWD

If I buy new, I'll put a deposit down and do a PCP deal. If used, same deposit but HP over 5 years. The monthly repayments are around €60 in the difference but of course I'm aware that on PCP I'd have the GMFV to contend with at the end of the term. I don't keep cars too long so doubt I'll have it more than 2 years.

I guess my question is, is a new one at €53K better value than a used 2020/2021 at €45K/€47K? I'm worried if I buy new it'll be without the ultrasonic sensors (which doesn't bother me personally) and perhaps later in the year, new M3's will come with the sensors fitted once again so I'll own an M3 that was built without them potentially impacting resale?

Sorry for rambling but I've read through these forums a bit and you all seem like very helpful folk so I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Just to add, I am sure you are aware that the Model Y RWD is priced the same as Model 3 RWD at the moment. Cannot see that lasting. Had that been the case I probably would have gone for the Y last March when I purchased my 3.

Very happy with my 3, prefer it in many ways to the Y, but future residual value should be better on the Y.

Heat pump is standard now on the 3, presume also on the Y. Not sure if was always on the 3, others here would know.

You might also find that if waiting a bit longer, like a month or two, the prices of both new and used will come down. In larger markets like France, used 2021s with the 55kWh LFP battery start at 38k EUR, and 2022 RWDs with the 60kWh at 42k EUR. France and UK have abundant stock, of course, and our prices would be lower if we had access to the UK market as before.

The current M3 pricing for new cars is unusual in that it is the same as the MY but costs less to manufacture, I would guess. I suspect it will become a bit like it has in other markets (Aus, China, etc. see thread above). Tesla have hugely ramped up production compared to other EV makers, so current supply levels should help them flatten prices and keep stock moving.

I couldn´t say really as I am just a regular lurker on this thread, planning to swap to a M3 later this year. It depends on what happens in Q3 or Q4 with the refresh and on whether their engineers give up on Tesla Vision replacing it. I get the impression that stripping USS and radar was just an opportunistic move to keep up production drives during shortages while trialling new AI on cameras as a two birds, one stone thing. Their cars improve in many ways but also lose things along the way, like the front fog lights taken from SR+ in 2020 along with lumbar support, and now the range of sensors, but perhaps some sort of augmented TV will be the way forward eventually. Many buyers might not care in any case, just like the way the private market priced prerefresh cars (2019-2020) compared to the larger battery 2021 onwards cars.

just rears on the rwd 3 sept 22 car

Same on my 212 SR+, no fog lights.

(To complicate a bit, I didn't have them on 191 E220d AMG Premium Line, and there was no option to get them. Many "luxury" brands started to remove them when they introduced all those LED multibeam and laser lights. My Merc was better in any foggy situation than 171 X-Trail SVE that had xenon and separate fog lights. :) )

One of the things that still impresses me about the Model 3 is the efficiency (I've a late-2021 SR+ LFP). I can't say that I've been overly cautious at driving - perhaps staying around 110 a bit more than 120 on motorway than I would have in my ICE car, but still not sparing the horses on some occasions. I've covered about 25k km in the year (probably 60:40 mix of motorway and local roads).

For a full year driving, it's averaging about 14.7 kWh/100km - even in the recent cold weather, with the cabin heat up at about 20'C, I'm still below 18 kWh/100km (that's probably because of the heat pump, if I were to guess).

I've seen other cars happy with 20+kWh/100km, so I'd have to say I'm happy out with my purchase one year in.