Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Same used to happen to me at random - the worst was when I just pulled out to overtake a truck on the motorway. There was a sensor issue that they fixed fairly sharpish.

Hi Folks,

Can I ask your advice on something please. I'm not sure if I'm going to get a 221 Model 3 in the summer or wait until next year to get a 241 (I don't like the 231/232 reg). If I order a car in September and it is delivered in December do I have to take a 232 Reg or can I ask Tesla to hold it until January so I can get a 241 Reg or how does that work, sorry if it sounds like a stupid question but I honestly don't know how it works?

If you refuse a car when available, it goes to the next person on the list, and you’d get a (different) car in March 2024.

Tesla will not hold a car for you and register it in January. If the car is in country in Q4 2023 then it’s going to be registered, and delivered to a paying customer in Q4 2023.

in years gone by some folk collected their car on Christmas week and there was no ifs or buts, holding the car for a week to get a better looking reg….. Tesla will not facilitate this.

Same in 2020 SR+. Had it on manual most of time as autowipers were way too slow. They need a sensitivity setting like on other cars as the one size for all is currently ****. Range wise a 180km drive (Tipp to Kildare) in those conditions was on the rougher side, left with 86% and arrived with 16% due to driving rain the whole way, lights, wipers, heat, etc.

I also gained a scratch and chip the one time I had forgotten to reengage sentry mode in a public car park on the rear bumper right corner. By the way, for those of you with solid black (PBSB), do you recommend the Color N Drive kit for filling in chip (not down to metal, 1cm long x 2) and erasing some hairline scratches here and there?

Super, thanks for all your help folks.

Yup…

I’ve had a order since last summer that’s been offered to me on numerous occasions, but I’ve declined each time so the order goes on ‘hold’

A couple of tips/observations from a recent round trip which included a 5 day rest at Dublin airport. Many may already know there but some new owners might get something from it..

Sentry Mode

I turned off sentry mode for the 5 days so as not to drain my battery. I turned it off on the main screen just before I got out of the car (as opposed to turning it off via the app). Checked the status of the car via the app 2 days later and sentry was on and charge had dropped by 20%. I turned off via the app and it stayed off after that.

Preconditioning battery

I drove 180kms starting with 100% battery and decided to pull in at Kill Ionity to charge before I got to the airport. I did not precondition the battery as I said that after 180kms of driving, the battery should be nice and warm etc.. Charging at Ionity (only car charging) and max charge speed was 56kW.

Coming home, I charged again at Kill (opposite side of carriageway) but this time I preconditioned the battery. Charge speed was +130kW. Learning here for me is to always precondition for the high-speed chargers - regardless of how far you have travelled already.

It would also be nice to have a button to tell the car to start preconditioning as currently (for me anyway), my M3 only preconditions when navigating to a Tesla charger and does not for Ionity...

Mike

Yeah I left North County Dublin for Cork a few weeks ago and the car started pre-conditioning before I even left the driveway!!!

then on the flip side, in France/Germany last summer when it was ~40 degree’s, the car didn’t pre-condition at all and I still got the full 170kW at every V3 SuC I used….

Yes. But only in certain situations like completely lifting off when at speed (motorway etc), and when slowing down to a stop in traffic.

if you look at the little version of your car on the display screen, you actually see the brake lights illuminating on the little avatar of the car when they illuminate on the actual car itself.

The 1st Irish Model 3’s are due their first NCT in Q4 of this year so we might start to hear something by then…..

also, I’d say the Irish NCT is probably only about 10% of the TÜV (if even that)….