Tesla Talk

You don't need them.

You just need to take care when jacking and don't use the wrong area of the body.

Btw - related - the AA don't have a spare wheel spacer to fit a MY so it's a tow every time you have a flat.

A tow every time you have a flat? A simple €10 air compressor will get you out of 99% of flat tyre situations. Simply inflate the tyre and drive on. Drive straight home or the nearest tyre centre.

Or you can fix it on the side of the road yourself with a basic repair kit without even needing to jack the car up.

I haven’t fitted a spare wheel in years. I just inflate the tyre and drive on.

So in that scenario you can inflate the tyre and drive home or to the tyre shop.

And who waits 2 hours for the AA to arrive for them to fit a spare wheel when you can do it yourself in 10 minutes?

A simple Google search will bring up several options for a space saver spare wheel for Model Y.

A bit of a rant here, but I don’t know why Tesla owners think their car/tyres are any different to any other car on the road. I see it day in day out on the Tesla Owners group on Facebook. I mean there are people in the group spending €80 every 10,000km to have their tyres rotated because Tesla says so. Its just nuts

Model Y space saver wheel:

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/275109629960?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=5282-175127-2357-0&ssspo=fAOOJoXPTFO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=6Y5tmBdKQFe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Let’s see how that plays out for pricing across worldwide markets like here.

Its inexplicable, for a few months now, that a Model 3 and a Y are the same price. There must be a 3 price reduction in the offing, now that the Q1 push is done. If they do, it will cause another round of instability across the sector.

Certainly ,בְּהֶחלֵט, but you wont see support for that here. We love a good terrorist. (royal We of course, not myself, but just look at all the parades for hamas around ireland and the world. Even made me divert on the route to a charger a week or two ago!)

This is a shocking miss for TSLA nonetheless though. Having such a delta between deliveries and produced shows a large backlog. Unless there are hangars full of cybertrucks awaiting EU approval or something, this is most certainly not good news for anyone still holding tsla. I've decided (pretty much) that I won't be buying another, after what they did to residuals hitting existing owners, along with the software nonsense and disagreeing with the move to vision only. I wonder how many current owners will buy something other than a TSLA for their next car. I have my eyes on a (stopgap) XC90 diesel to allow me sell the model 3 and then move on to something premium and most likely German.

I know this is all rambling and just the opinion of one lunatic (me!) but if it's any way representative of other tesla owners it does indicate that not all is rosy at camp elon.

Berlin will double in size soon enough. They should be able to cover us for the Model Y then at least

Along with the variable build quality, put me off buying one, even though on paper was the best. Bought a Polestar 2 instead.

It's a Model Y, so unless he has done intergalactic miles in a very short period of time, it's in warranty alright 😀

Need a wing, so yeah car probably crashed so then it is not a warranty issue, I'll give you that. Insurance should pay for a rental though, but probably not as nice as their own car.

Not sure of your own personal situation, but it’s a great example why the Y has a high insurance rating. Delays and loaner cars, on top of the usual costs.

The cybertruck can’t be sold in Europe even if they wanted to. Likewise for china.

It’s an NA only model for volume.

Interestingly the biggest block of unsold stock appears to be US Y’s, when you might think it would be 3’s ahead of the highland release there.

Separate numbers today showed that in general the US EV/hybrid market grew in Q1, with bizarrely high numbers for Toyota and Honda - this is currently a Tesla-specific problem. China market was poor for them too.

when a growth company stops growing and actually contracts, it’s a problem.

Already this evening the Q2 estimates are dropping like a rock cause of the excessive unsold stock.