Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Agreed (a Big Macis USD (equiv) 8.07 in Switzerland, USD (equiv 2.76 in Taiwan). All irrelevant unless you live in the particular country. As to Teslas each country has different pricing structure, taxed, tarrifs so country to country comparisons are meaningless.

I wouldnt expect Ace to be cheaper (I hope Im wrong). Ive found them more expensive as they are approved by Tesla for repair work.

Thats a €300 repair

They must be on the good stuff over at Ashmore Ryder, mad quote altogether

Totally agree - still looking for a garage in Dublin if anyone can recommend someone decent… Ill try Fairview next.

Try GVD Autos. I've used them plenty of times. Tell George FTO sent you. It wouldn't be more than €300 to sort that.

I can't remember the last time I went out for a drive, just for fun.

May be I've had sh1te cars all along, I just don't recall going for a drive just to enjoy driving in a very long time. Probably because I also have a motorbike. I often go out to ride it - purely just to spend some time riding it, that's even when I used to commute on it - I would still go out and ride it on weekend. Because it was fun. Lean into the corners, feel the power pulling away as the road opens up, that surge of acceleration, the power to take off like rocket from traffic lights, it's just such a joy. I have never experienced that in a very long time. Until yesterday, with the Model 3. I went out to test the auto-adjusting high beam - it's a joy to watch that selectively illuminating parts of the road, I drove nearly an hour thru various dark unlit roads and not once was flashed by anyone else, so it's doing it job really well. Car has plenty of power to pull away rapidly when you need to, and butter smooth at any speeds. Negotiating the dozen or so ramps along Laytown-Bettystown-Drogheda is so easy with the one-pedal drive. Once back home car shows 118 wh/km. Fairly efficient I think.

Well, it's not as good as motorbike, but it's pretty good for a car.

That's grand but what about your bland interior?

11.8kWh/100km…. Yeah that’s fantastic efficiency……

Depends on what you pay per kWh but that would cost me €1.88 to drive 100km!!

For some with better rates it’s less than a euro!

Red red wine

Surprised to hear about the auto headlights - although my experience is limited to just two night drives on quiet county roads, the left side of the road was lit up all the way all the time, unless there was a car trying to pull out from the left, and most of the auto-dimming magic was happening in the middle (when the oncoming car is far away) and then to the right (as the car gets closer and closer).

About traffic aware cruise control thing - I have to read the manual - but isn't it supposed to slow down with the speed signs? It's not for me. Say if I set cruise control while doing 98 in a 100 kmph zone, it sets it with "Max 100" and tries to maintain that speed and deals with slow traffic ahead etc perfectly well. But then if I come up to a 80/60/50 zones, isn't it supposed to slow down to those speeds? It's definitely not doing that for me. May be I just need to RTFM.

Ah I'm not surprised it's a lot less efficient than a rwd but I'm surprised it's a fair bit less efficient than an LR. The bigger wheels must make a bigger difference than I thought. It doesn't matter in the real world for me as its not very often I do journeys beyond it's range or only require a short splash and dash.

Have to say its worth it when driving on national roads, especially when having to overtake slower traffic. Acceleration from 40/50/60kph is fantastic.

I'll try a hard reboot as I'm getting sick of all the warnings about cameras and sensors. Hopefully it will also resolve the EAP issues. I've been holding off as concerned about causing more harm than good but having looked online it seems to be the go to solution for a myriad of software related issues with no negative side effects