Two weeks in.
Hate the no stalks especially for head full/dimsbut will get used to it I guess.
Range seems to be around 420-430, 25 percent motor way rest back roads.
Questions.
E.g I break down and I need towing do I just head straight to Dublin with it?
2. Do people have them special pucks for jacking up the car? If so where did you get them?
3. is swapping tyres around really worth the bother?
I have and the buttons are ****
Are your lights not automatic though for Head/Dip?
Doesn’t seem effective. Google suggests it’s shite on Tesla also.
Ah haven't tried mine yet.
One of the better features in my view
Before they activated the matrix function the auto high beams were an absolute disaster, wasn't worth the hassle of having them on at all. There was an update last year that activated the matrix headlights on the Model Y. Since then I've had no bother at all with the auto feature. It's doing a decent job of blocking out any oncoming vehicles enough that I don't have to think of it anymore.
does it auto flick down to dims and back up then?
What about a car travelling in the same direction as you? Will it dim so that they are not blinded from behind?
yes, you can see the pixels turning off around the back of the car.
I haven’t manually adjust my lights in years, on any of the cars I e had in fairness. Auto just seems to work.
Yes, the only gaps in the repertoire are suburbs and oncoming trucks on the motorway.
If you have engaged Adaptive Headlights things should work automatically. If you are expecting to see a sudden dip of both headlights (like on most cars ) this may be about managing expectations. With Adaptive lights the car just dims/ turns off certain pixels in the relevant headlight to manage the oncoming vehicle whilst at the same time keeping max visibility of the remaining areas so it is not as noticeable as “on or off”
The auto matrix lights are great, on my old 3 it was … ahem… night and day. Needs some improvement for far off cars on motorways but apart from that they were perfect
is swapping tyres around really worth the bother?
Do you you have a RWD or AWD? I have RWD and the backs wear considerably faster on the rear, So I change every 10,000ish km or so. Swap them 3 times then generally due a new set at the fourth change. If I had an AWD not sure I would bother. Really a personal preference these days.
But to be fair, I have the setup now for a quick change over - 3T low profile trolley jack, impact wrench and a torque wrench for checking tightness. Can do both sides in under about 20 mins.
Worth noting you can record when you last rotated in the maintenance section of the menu (will even give you a reminder), along with a few other things: https://www.tesla.com/en_IE/support/vehicle-maintenance
RWD.
You are just swapping on the same side so. Not cris crossing (which is what is adviced as such).
True. That would get the most even wear (assuming you have non-directional tyres fitted). But that also would require a LOT more effort, time and in my case, another pair of jack stands all for a little more gain.
agreed, I don’t have an issue with uneven tyre wear on the rear, just means your change the tyres as pairs rather than as a full set.
Now obviously a risk with that is that running the rears too close to the limit you could end up with an over steer issue especially with newer tyres on the front axle.
Same, I always say tires rotate when I drive, I don't need to rotate them again.
I always replace the driven wheels in a 2wd car, so if the rears were gone on my old m3 I'd have replaced the rears, but then if the fronts need replacing I'd put the existing rears on the front and the new tires at the back.
+1.
Drove 500 kms over the weekend - mostly in the dark - M1, N2, and then A5, A6, M2 etc in NI, and finally back on M1. And the auto/adaptive headlight was an absolute joy. Not once I had to manually change it - it was a delight to watch the car fine tune the light projection based on whatever was around me - felt like driving something very advanced. Not sure if I can get used to a car without this feature from now on.
PS: I wish the seat had a bit more thigh support.
A quick question that may be very stupid.
I am looking at 2 cars :
However I am being quoted nearly 1000 euro for insurance on car 1, and 550 on car 2.
Same drivers, same experience.
I am being told online that both cars are dual motor, long range cars.
The 2020 car is listed as having 449 BHP. The 2021 is listed online as 434.
Both cars are within 10,000kms travelled.
Quite simply, what am I missing ?
I have not owned an EV previously, so please excuse any obvious ignorance on my part.
one is a year newer so worth more. But not enough to justify that amount of a difference.
Did you ask the agent when you were on the phone?
Even more confusingly the cars are the same price.
I've only gone as far as chill.ie a while as I'm at work.
Plan is to call a broker tomorrow and hopefully get some understanding.
Ring the insurance companies. No point talking to a PC.
My insurance company keep referring to my RWD standard range as long range, that can't be right can it?(Although the quote is €450 which I'm happy with).
The latest thinking is to always have the newest tyres at the back — even if the car is FWD.
I believe it is because understeer is easier to manage while oversteer is more difficult.
Try Aviva if you haven't already. They were by far the most competitive when I was shopping around a week ago (€404 fully comp 2021 Model 3 RWD).
Who is 'thinking' this?
It very much depends on the conditions. I would much rather have newer tyres on the front in wet conditions.
Lots of companies advise this. I prefer to even wear with best on typically driven front wheels for wet performance. Also when selling car having 4 evenly worn tyres means less investments in new tyres just before car is sold. Lots of thread on driven wheels is very important for wet performance.
LOL Optimus, the robot thats going to mars in 2026 on a starship that has not even reached space and came back in one piece.
A better name would be Optimistic
one of the NASA commentators watching the astronauts return to earth earlier in the week on BBC poured cold water on the Musk Mars comments and said there isn’t even a Mars mission approved by NASA , and it would take many years post approval.
He also remarked that if the starship was eventually ready (it’s years of testing away from being ready apparently), it would only get to Mars by launching it into orbit and then doing multiple subsequent launches of other ships carrying fuel to refuel the starship in earth orbit before sending it to Mars - when pushed he wouldn’t even guess at a year it might happen other than to say it wouldn’t be 2026 nor anywhere close to it.
Could someone tell me what MIC means in the Tesla chats?
