Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

18th July - 2nd August here. Just so happens that I need to be in office (doing the entire length of dreaded M50, twice a day) for three days in the second week of August. Fingers crossed for Telsa not delaying it beyond 2nd August.

Warranty periods have been the same since M3 launch AFAIK - but stand to be corrected here

https://www.tesla.com/en_ie/support/vehicle-warranty

Does anyone know if Hire Purchase allows you to pay lump sums early to reduce the term?

Also, I heard tethering to the phone isn’t great. Some reviewers saying it disconnects until the car is stopped. Is this true or does it auto-reconnect?

(M3H) My phone doesn't have wireless charging so I'll need to plug it in to charge. Is there a better plan than trailing a wire out from the socket in the back of the armrest?

I think that the M3H has a single USB C 60W high speed charging port under the centre armrest.

OK. Seems to be different to the pre Highland.

60W USB is a very handy addition. Would charge my 16" laptop directly.

And they have pushed mine out too by a week. :(

On the plus side, the trade-in offer is in, and it's about 65% of the asking prices I see from businesses in Donedeal.

But do you know what - it's actually DOUBLE of what VW offered me. And worse yet, it's good 25% more than what my car's own dealer offered me (where I service the car all these years) and I was there to buy a new model from them!!

Elmo might be a dangerous man, but these local car sales people - they administer death by a thousand cuts. I would rather go out in a bang with Elmo.

05:45 in the video below. He actually charges his laptop from the 65w usb c port.

Have any of you M3 users installed a blue 16A / 32A blue socket at home for charging? This looks like a much cheaper option than a Smart Charger.

The 16A outlet should be straightforward. The 32A outlet would probably need a priority unit added if you have a power shower.

Link here to one guy who has done it:

Did a couple of longer journeys over the weekend and found to my annoyance that not disabling sentry mode can be a right pita if you need a minimum soc to reach a charger. I ended up losing 8% soc and hadn't sufficient range to reach Mahon Point Supercharger in Cork. I went to a ecars charger close to my where I was staying but couldn't activate it even though I have used the app for over 6 years for my Leaf. Is there any particular knack to activating an ecars charger for an M3? (In this case I think it may have been a charger problem as a ID4 owner arrived and couldn't activate it either even though she used the charger previously with no issue. She was really annoyed as had a long journey ahead and not enough range to reach another DC charger.)

I had to return to my mother's house and plug in the granny charger for 3 hours to have enough range to reach Mahon Point. Then when I got there I got a shock as when I plugged in I got a message saying DC charging not available and something about requiring a service but that AC charging is available. I needed at least 70kwhs to get home so AC charging would have been a disaster. So I moved to the next charger and same message appeared when I opened the charge port but when I plugged in this time the car started charging much to my relief. Did anyone ever experience this and what might have caused it? Is it likely to happen again?

That's a lot of range lost. At least it deactivates when soc hits 20% so not completely stuck unless in a remote setting with no DC charger in close proximity.

Did Elon buy Boards.ie?

First the supercharger doesn't work for you. Now the quote function fails for you too 🤣

I would welcome him to take over this site. Might ruffle some feathers.

It's a site bug. Happened me twice on desktop in the last hour.