Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Anywhere near the M1 interchange, or indeed anywhere outside the M50 except the Red Cow area would be a nightmare for public transport when dropping a car off or collecting. At least at the moment the Luas is right beside the SC.

Agreed, I’m north side too, Sandyford isn’t the most convenient place for me either but I’d just be happy to get it looked at, at least I’ve finally a meaningful reply today so fingers crossed I’ll get it booked in and sorted soon.

funny it took so long to get to this point and less than 30minutes to complete the investigation 🤣

“I have completed my investigation,

I found that one of your Autopilot processors is experiencing booting failures, this in return will disable autopilot features

Further on site diagnosis will be required in our workshop to try recover the car computer

I am going to allocate a new car computer so we can have it on hand for your appointment if we are unable to recover the

processor

Also your screen dimming

concern may be linked to this also so we will test after this repair has been carried out

I will get this appointment prepared for you in a moment“

Fingers crossed, I’m booked in for the earliest available appointment which is the 25th, they won’t provide a loaner because according to them it’ll take less than 4 hours to carry out the repair so at least that sounds promising.

Sounds like they really are becoming like any other main dealers 😂

Tesla haven’t shown any real interest in their own second hand cars in California, so they’re never going to do it here. They genuinely don’t want them back. New sales only.

you’d have to think that eventually they’ll have to, just cause what’s happening right now in Ireland - Tesla drivers with 2-4yo cars flipping into a new one and trying to sell privately, which they may not have had to do before.

early adopter Tesla drivers might be ok with that, but the mass market buyer just wants a garage to take the old car and driver away the new one.

it’s a MASSIVE selling point for the likes of VW, if all you want is ‘a car’ and no hassle getting out of it at resale time.

It's all well and good us picking out spots on a map but you do know land in those areas cost a lot. I know they a re a massive multi national company but they do care about money as well. If anything I think they should build a site out in Kildare or Meath to better serve people not from Dublin. Cheaper land out there too.

Would the Sandyford site not just be a time limited rental ?

Its nowhere like big enough for what is needed now

I'd say they need min of two service centres for Dubland.

( Doubtless they will get on quite all right without flogging non Tesla stuff )

A question if you don't mind that someone might know the answer to:

A 222 Tesla 3, I recently had a puncture fixed, issue now is that tyre showing 0 pressure and of course warning light won’t go out.Tried doing various YouTube fixes but nothing worked, anyone experienced this ?

Ya thanks unfortunately that's what I am thinking now

Is there any range difference between the Model 3 RWD and the newer Highland RWD?

We have a Dec. 2022 Model 3, which already has almost 40.000km on the clock. A new job has the family car doing even heavier mileage (a weekly 320km per direction all motorway commute, on top of the other weekend and holiday driving).

Leaving home fully charged, typically arrive with 8-15% battery depending on weather / traffic conditions. I realise this will decrease as the car ages. Would a Highland perform any better and give a little bit more margin? Not really willing to spend the extra on an LR.

We have an VW eUp as a second car (which we absolutely love) and now thinking of replacing it with something more substantial to give us flexibility. The question is whether it is another Model 3 or something else… but I can’t see what that something else might be.

I wouldn't be spending the extra to go to a M3H unless it was a LR model, as the extra range is tiny in the RWD. Not going for the LR means stopping for a top-up, which to be fair is something you really should be doing on such a long and regular commute.

How long would a Tesla charge last if the car was parked up with 50% battery. Like would you come back a week later to a flat battery. Asking for a friend who will be going on holidays. It's a long range not sure if that matters.

I have a 2022 LFP battery, it loses very little. I think less than 2% over a few weeks, I had Sentry off. Sentry will cease to operate anyway once the battery gets to 20%.

May use a little more if you keep waking up the car with the app.