Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

They'd have the app so they can drive it every now and again, is it still possible to restrict location access after that?

She never rings me anymore to see where I am 😁

Not within the app. There are workarounds, but they are cluncky and wont meet your requirements exactly.

If you dont want them tracking your journey, give them an RFID card to drive and revoke the mobile digital key.

Makes sense in many ways. The 3 is over 7 years old now, so its hard to have a meaningful mid life refresh without carrying over something from the bigger sister car.

otherwise it’s just a front and rear bumper update, something most other cars get after 3-4 years on sale

What are capacitive buttons? Are they the ones everyone complains about on the VW electric cars? That sounds like a step backwards if they're like that

Evening all. Just looking for someones opinion on my recent driving range/usage. Drove from Castlebar to Navan today, total distance 217kms, % battery usage 51% (49% remaining), 28Kwh used, 131Wh/km used. Now temperatures up to high teens today, max speed along the route was 100kms, but driving wise was typically 80-100kms with slow downs when passing through towns etc. AC was on all of the drive 21 Deg C, 5 passengers, full boot.

What I am looing at, and forgive my simple maths, 28Kwh used = 49%, does that mean 56kwh useable for 98% of battery? But was there not a post/thread back at the start of the year saying usable battery capacity only 52.5kwH??

Or am I taking the figures given on the screen of the car completely wrong?

I did a trip yesterday myself range of speeds from 50km/h through a town up to 120km/h on the motorway. I did the speed limit or close to where traffic permitted. Managed 224km on 53% battery in a 2023 Model 3 RWD. Consumption for the trip was 129Wh/km. That comes to 422km for the full 100% which is not too far off the EPA rated range shown in the car.

The only reason I'd buy a LR is for the AWD, extra power and upgraded Audio. I think there's too much of a price difference between the M3 RWD and LR AWD at the moment. The LRAWD should be 3k cheaper, it would push more people to buy it. Wishful thinking I know.

split the diff and let’s say it’s €46k for the LR, if range is the no.1 priority it would probably be the best value of any EV in terms of €/km, (€46k/475= €95/km).

I’m not aware of any new EV that’s under €100 per km of range (list price/real world range).

edit: some folks on the internet machine say this version will have more range than the AWD.

Hi all, does anybody have any experience trading in a car to buy a Tesla? The only videos I found were from the U.S. I have a 2015 BMW and wonder what kind of price they would quote.

I filled out the trade in form but just got 2 texts one to say I requested a test drive and one that asks me to fill out the trade in form...

Are the circuit beakers on your distribution board tripping, or is it just cutting out on the Tesla side?.

I had been having the exact same issues - but my issues related to my circuit breakers. I was able to manage for a while by lowering the current down to <26A (as @Gumbo suggested above). I ended up replacing both the RCBO and MCB each and that solved my problem.

Next time you get a fault, log a service request in the App. Providing the warning is still active (check your notifications under Alerts on the dash), you can actually choose that warning as the issue. This way the Service Dept can get the date & time stamp of when the issue actually occured to faciliate remote diagnosis.

What is your voltage showing when charging stopping? Mine occasionally stops around 12 to 1230 am but usually restarts again. I get a notification on app saying charging has stopped. Tesla seem to not like voltage fluctuations, must be a nearby factory or something in my area. I notified ESB who did a check and naturally said voltage was between normal limits.