Tesla Talk 2

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.

1. If I have an issue with the car how do you contact Tesla?

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?

Are your lights not automatic though for Head/Dip?

Ah haven't tried mine yet.

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”

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

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.