Been searching a bit but said I’d ask for people’s experiences, particularly recent. Im contemplating a new Model 3 (trying to decide between SR and LR - for a long commute but both should comfortably do the trip). Called into their place at the weekend and they don’t have my preferred colour/interior combo on the ground or in transit (white/black leather/19 inch alloys). When I go to the website to order it does show a LR in that combo due April-May however.
I suppose I’m just wondering if it would be foolish to order on the website in the hope of an earlier delivery over what their dealer is telling me.
There’s no difference. If you order in the store, they simply use the website to place your order.
They also don’t know what’s coming and what’s not coming. Tesla don’t build to spec, but send out multiple combinations of cars and assign as they are on the boat on the way to Europe.
Thanks. In that case I’ll take a punt on ordering from the website. I was shown what was on the boat at the dealer and it meant a white interior (nice, but not for me) or a different colour which is fine but for 2k I’m happy with a white one.
Hi Gustavo, I assume it was you I was texting last night🤣. Don't forget to use the referral when you order.🤠
Haha - I’ve used the link so far and will do with the order. Just need to decide if I want the poke/sound system really.
It's a tough call, you certainly won't regret the extra power, not cheap though. I did a test drive in a long range a few months ago and I don't regret going for the rwd. The extra 8k or so in my back pocket has come in handy lately too.
for what it’s worth, I went for the SR+ instead of the LR and regret not having the better sound system. If I were ordering new today it’d be a no brainer.
Derek o Reilly getting only 300km range on a rwd hl. Not the kinda numbers I was expecting. Thought he'd be closer to 375 based on the driving styles he chose.
What kind of driving and how much charge does the car take from 0 to 100%?
300km sounds like a valid range at a motorway run at real speeds of 120 km/h in current weather. In that case the car would go from 100→10% and would take about 50 kWh to charge back to 100. This would be a a consumption of 167 Wh/km. Probably similar enough for multiple short distance runs in the suburbia as well, where the car would have to be repeatedly heated up.
In summer conditions the consumption will then be considerably lower.
All here 😊
interesting video. its 310km from my home to park west dublin and back to ballacolla. according to the video the car wouldn't have enough juice to make it requiring a stop at junction 14 instead. not great but i guess that only applies to the days when the weather is crap, it might do it handily enough in mild weather.
Yes, so exactly what I thought. Rain, headwind, driven at 120 km/h. What's important is that the car estimated that he would arrive in Rosslare at 52% and that was exactly what he had when arrived.
Only around 170km of the total trip would have been on 120km M11. Since he did he return leg at 100, then he only did 85km at 120, the rest at 100. If he'd kept it to 115 on the way down, he probably would have been able to return at 110 maybe even 115.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5qiWa6YDk&t=83s
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I had an airport run Sat late evening, 110kms all the way on motorway apart from little bit hitting Dublin at 80 and M50 at 100. 221 M3 RWD. Range with wind and some horrible rain was 345kms
120km/h all motorway in that weather from a 57.5kwh car. I would have thought that’s good?
The 17.6 kWh/100km figure is the important number here. Quite efficient but relatively high for the M3 RWD which I assume the weather didn’t help.
sounds about right for motorway, pretty similar to what I get in the pre highland rwd 3. Maybe 20-25km more than mine depending on weather and conditions.
I see Richard symons seemed to be getting 14.9 or so when he was doing his range tests at motorway speeds a month or two ago. Granted it was terrible weather for Derek
Yes I personally think the weather was the big variable here.
Also the UK motorway speed limit is 7-8 km/h less than here.
It makes much more sense for me to wait for the new model 3 Lubricious for the extra range…………
You’ll most likely get less range than the LR. My Performance in theory only matches the RWD due to the higher power, bigger wheels etc
On that similar run, I averages 19.4 kWh/100km in a M3P.
Is there a way to reduce those nervous slow-downs on adaptive cruise control? Either through settings or driving style?
you mean phantom braking?
No, the cruise control is now 100% vision based, so if the car sees a shadow it doesn't like, it might drop the anchors…
it's a pain in the a$$, though in fairness for myself I haven't experienced a lot of it for a good while now!
You can change the ACC distance before braking, if you have it set one end of the scale the car will brake late and more aggressive versus putting it at the longest distance where the braking will be less harsh, that's what I've it set at
Driving on the M6/M4 last night after sunset and headlights would not auto-dim to cars in front when driving with AP engaged. Its bad enough constantly flashing peeps in front when engaging AP and having to manually turn off high beams. I would happily control high beams manually, but the fact AP turns on Adaptive High Beams by default made driving a complete bollocks last night.
Just updated this morning to 2024.8.9 from 2024.8.7 so hopefully the bug fixes include further updates to Adaptive High Beams.
I'm only joking Gumbo, I'm currently driving an M3P for past 4 years…
I took the plunge the other day and ordered a Model 3 Dual Motor - white, black interior and 19s. Estimated delivery says April-May which is probably wildly optimistic but I live in hope!
The auto wipers are significantly better for me after the 2024.8.9 update … they seem almost normal 😂 No manual intervention needed so far
they seem a little bit better but still so erratic.
Screen completely covered, no wipers.
No rain at all. Goes onto the 3rd fastest speed
went through heavy rain today and it only went onto the second setting. Had to switch to manual to the highest setting to see anything.
Autopilot on the other hand is amazing, even in the rain. I had one phantom braking and one lane change freak out when it got confused. Apart from that it made my 5 hour drive so much more relaxing.
2024.14 looks to be another great update with some new quality of life improvements and new features like hands free boot opening. Hopefully some more tweaks to the wipers…
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