Car looks fantastic - I have same colour combo on order, hopefully for collection in 10 days......
I see you have removed the aero covers to show off the nicer (IMO!) wheels. Have you a link for the "nut covers" on the centre of the rims, please?
(I'm sure there is a better term than "nut covers", but you know what i mean 😀)
think its these - https://shop.tesla.com/en_ie/product/model-3-aero-wheel-cap-kit
Not meaning to offend but would you not consider it to be a waste of €3.5K considering it’s a €40K motor? I would get spending that cash on the paintwork of a €100K Porsche or similar high end car.
Now they cost close to 40K (more with the blue) but mine was from the January price change so didn't cost that.
The shape on the Model 3 seems to attact stonechips very easily. Already had a few in just 2 months. It's my first brand new car and want to keep it looking good. I've had metallic cars before with stone chips and especially on darker colours it just looks ****. Some people don't care that their car looks **** but that's not me.
It’s all relative. I was shooting last week with a guy who bought a box of ammo for €7.10. I was shooting using a box with the same quantity of match grade that cost €18.95.
That Tesla is that owners Porsche.
I Bought a €1000 phone and the first thing I did was put on a €2 screen protector and €15 case.
Again, all relative.
That's the front end only excluding any paint correction and ceramic coating and other extras I got.
I had paint correction, PPF on the below areas (+load lip on boot), ceramic coating all over, coating on all glass/wheels/interior. Obviously this isn't a Model 3 but it's just a representative picture of the coverage from Flawless.
Bit of an evening sun shot. Paint was good from factory (aside from some minor chip Tesla had fixed). Now it looks even better.
I thought he made it pretty clear what you get for what price. What ad did you see? He’s posted specific details in the Facebook groups too.
Ceramic Coating is not a paint protection, it’s a gloss enhancement, hydrophobic layer that makes maintenance cleaning easier.
PPF & ceramic coating do different things.
Keep it nice for the next guy 👌
Ceramic coating makes my washing easier. I’m not info PPF.
I would tend to wash weekly both daily cars and anyone on the road at that time. It’s my de-stress mechanism.
But I do have a full plumbed in wash set up in my side entrance so quite easy to pull up and be washing within 60 seconds.
I have same at side of house with great water pressure, standard hose nozzle. No ceramic coating, but keep car waxed with Collinite 845 regularly (Easy job). I find that if you give the car a quick hose down immediately after returning from a wet road trip that most of the dirt falls straight off, leaving the car reasonably presentable when dry again.
Might have a hose ban soon enough though...
Good example of how PPF can help. From today in the Facebook group
Hi,
I've a deposit on my first Tesla - a red RWD Model 3 (my first Tesla) - it looks like I'm able to pick up in the next few days.
I'm wondering if you guys have and advice on whether to proceed or wait for the refresh and/or if you've any idea in reality, how long we'll be waiting to see the new version in Ireland?
Pros with proceeding - the €5k versus €3.5k SEAI Grant, I get it quick, presumably teething problems well sorted out in old model coming from China & at end of build cycle)
Cons with proceeding now (New model imminent with presumably a refresh inside and out and possibly even battery improvement). Resale value unknowns
I guess I'd proceed if I was certain the resale value was bullet-proof but it's a red one and I've heard that the fancy paint money just vanishes the moment you drive off in it. I'm also fearful that if the refresh comes in cheaper or if it's a huge jump forward that I lose 10 grand because I'm impatient!! Advise very welcome! Thanks
Get it now. ASAP
you will not regret such a decision.
Refresh is all just rumours and speculation at this time. Resale value is unknown either way. 🤣
There's rumours. Then there's actual pictures of which their are many of a facelifted body model 3. It will be refreshed and they are discounted vehicles ahead of this to shift the stock they have built.ļ
There’s pictures of the Roadster & CyberTruck too but their still not available yet…
I think everyone can agree those show boat vehicles are a completely different kettle of fish and nothing to measure their staple catalogue against. Tbf
€3710 is a lot for the red paint, but great car and you wont regret it, as others have said..
Yeah, it was the only one left in my budget in inventory so feck it!
Can someone throw an eye over these figures, we did a good bit of touring at the weekend,
836 km, 123kwh used with an average consumption of 147Wh/km
Back of a napkin maths, this set me back circa 60 euro for charging. (leaving with 100%, then2 fast stops at SC in Tesla Belfast and 1 very slow 50kwh charge at ESB charger).
Does this look about right to more experienced drivers?
A family member is a real diesel head and reckons his car would do it cheaper. Its a 40mpg at best, so I can't make the figures add up on that one.
He would win on refuelling, the two SC stops were super fast, the ESB 50kwh charge was painful, single unit which was in use a few times I went past it. Where I was was very barren for charging, lots of 22kw units but few faster ones.
I worked it out @ 88 euro for the 836 @ 40 mpg, I put diesel at 1.50 euro, if he can get 60 mpg then its slightly cheaper @ 59 euro, probably stopping fewer times.
Cheers, that's what I was getting too.
30k km on the clock so far. Yes I feel the same about the price drops etc vs the balloon payment. My balloon is 26k and its now like 12k on new PCP agreements based on the new price.
A family member is a real diesel head and reckons his car would do it cheaper.
Ask him what he pays every other week when your charging your car at home.
EV is maxed on savings in the following order
PV only, lots of folks on the Renewables forum are 100% off grid since end of April, (ignoring Capital costs) free fuel, I charged once off the grid since Mid April
Home Charging at lowest market night rate, no Smart Meter and cheapest, I'm currently paying 7.9c night rate (rate no longer available to new sign ups)
Home Charging at lowest market rate 24/7, I never charge from the grid at home during the day
Also should thrown in free working charging...I've never had it
The most expensive way to fuel an EV is public charging, should only do this when unavoidable.
In your case you left with 100% which is perfect, then just take on the chin the uber expensive public charging costs but as Wassie said, balance that cost versus your total cost of fuelling
My app (iOS) started exhibiting some weird behavior over the weekend. I lost the service menu option completely. But in the climate section it was showing heating control for rear seats (I've never had this option as it was base SR+).
Went to test it out, but at that point app was completely unresponsive to the point I had to reinstall the app. Everything went back to normal - boo!
I don't think it's valid to ignore the capital costs of home PV and I suspect that for most people a D/N meter rate works out the most cost effective.
The €10,000 cost of home panels would purchase 100,000 kWh at a 10c night rate which is almost 600,000km/20 years of driving.
Unless there's something off with my numbers/sums, then it would not make financial sense (for us) to buy PV.
2 family members have PV panels and neither use it for the EVs - simply because the cars are commuting every day and only charging at night. The panels feed the house during daylight hours. Indeed both houses are completely empty Mon-Fri 8-6pm, so they have household appliances on timers.
as an aside, I also dislike the repayment model for PV panels, because it ignores the opportunity cost of investing that €6-8k rather than spending it on panels.
the reality is that after 15years, the panels have probably paid the €8k back, but even a safe global index fund would be close to 100% more after 15years.
it’s a tangent, sorry - but the panel financial argument is very narrow one, unless you use a lot of electricity during the daytime.
