Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Interesting to appreciate how design and engineering combine to drive overall quality of the product and the user experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewrTJqc0wU

I love and use my tech more than most, but at the same time I'm heavily privacy focused myself and have always tried to maintain a low digital footprint. Boards is it for me as far as social media goes. Its always a compromise for the benefits of using any online/connected service vs privacy, but there are always steps you can take to limit this. First thing I did was put a cover over the internal camera as that creeped me out. Not so much for me, but rather to for my kids privacy. IMHO most peeps don't care about privacy and each to their own as far as I am concerned.

Getting a Tesla was a real quagmire for me as it is an amazing car, but when it comes to privacy, it is a complete data whore. Its highly likely that no other car manufacturer on the planet collects as much data as Tesla. Ive often said, Tesla isnt just a car manufacturer, but they are also a software company - this is something that does distinguish them from traditional manufacturers. BYD would be similar like this also I suspect.

These series of three articles is a couple of years old, but does explain the level of data capture by Tesla quite well if you want to start going down the rabbit-hole!

I’ve had a donedeal saved search for “all M3s” for ages and I’ve noticed a really big jump in ads in the past 2-3 weeks, from 45-50 for most of the past 18months, to 73 today ( 1/3 of them private ads) - it probably reflects how many Tesla owners are moving to the highland.

25 ish of the ads are sub €30k. 12 months ago, the only sub €30k m3’s would sell in a heartbeat.

i saved a few nicer ones that were €26k ish a few weeks ago and all still for sale bar one.

I've been trying to sell my 6 month old very low mileage Model 3 and have had very little interest. Despite pricing it below all the other 232's and bar one of the 231's (which is very high mileage) at nearly 20% less than new. I thought it would sell in hours!!

Realisticaly reducing price is only factor to generate interest. Most people will take the view that a new Mod 3 can be secured for 4k more and most will consider new refresh superior. Put another way Tesla themselves are offering showroom discounts of approx 10% on older Model 3 ( still new cars). Against this background wrrrhat you have experienced is not unexpected.

As someone who is looking to buy an M3, I think it’s also bit of a catch 22 when it comes to nearly new cars - someone who has €35k (e.g) cash to show up on the driveway and buy it, will have €42k to buy a new one - and the person without that amount of cash to spend will want to finance from a main dealer rather than a high interest car loan from the bank.

as others have said, the price gap to a new one is just too close

if it's non motorway driving, assume around 150Wh/km, so 250km would use about 37.5kWh per week, but factoring in charging losses, you could probably call it an even 40kWh-42kWh.. so at 15c per kWh, it would be around €6 - €6.30 per week.

150Wh/km would be a conservative enough guess as you'll do better in summer, and worse in winter. My lifetime average on my 2020 SR+ (not as efficient as newer versions) is 145Wh/km.

Thanks for replies, really appreciated.

So it is just under €7 per week to charge the car to do about 250kms? That's very good!

I'm coming from a 316D and I'd say that it's costing me more than that so it's a great saving!

Many thanks, my driving is similar apart from the amount of kms.

It would seem that if I allow about €10 per week that I'm well covered.

Thanks to all for the help, it's really cleared it up for me!

No charge, the app often shows an estimate but everything I've logged so far that's been of no fault or my own or considered wear and tear has been covered by warranty. I've tested it out on the weekend and the issue has been fixed.

They only give 3 months? I thought the new customer got EAP permanently. Damn, that sucks. What a tease. Better than nothing, but the previous 500 quid off was nicer.

I just cashed in 5k credit for some supercharger miles. A trip to Germany in a few months time, I will burn through a few of them.

Another car and phone reboot seems to have sorted it

I've just ordered a M3 and I'm arranging finance through our lease company.

After I've ordered, the following shows:

• Vehicle Subtotal
• €42,990
• SEAI Grant
• -€3,500
• Destination & doc fee
• €980
• Tyre recycling fee
• €13.78
• Vehicle Registration Tax
• €1,349
• Purchase Price
• €41,832

I know that this is probably a very stupid question but, for those who collected recently, I presume that the amount payable is €41,832.00 (as this is the amount that I have to put on the finance form) and not the €42,990 (less €250 deposit)?

Thanks!!