Tesla Model Y

It makes you appreciate it more when you get home. I got to about 7 days in the US before my body could not take the food anymore and I started skipping meals. After 2 weeks with lots of walking, I had gone down notches on my belt.

Europe is not so bad. I think France get most of their meat from us anyway.

My service request has expanded. The glovebox does not open. Can't believe I missed that on collection day. I remember not being able to find the option to open it, moved onto something else and then forgot to go back to it. But I think I would just be asked to log a service request anyway.

Still waiting for a response from them. How long do they typically take to review a service request?

Do yourselves a favour and get some rim protectors 😟

Unfortunately yes. Turned a corner and there was a big truck half way on my side of the road. Tried to get as far over as possible, alas too far over and nicked the kerb, only slightly but that is all it takes. I had actually intended to come to a complete stop. I took my foot off the accelerator but it took too long to stop. I actually coasted in to the kerb which is a bit dumb. Thinking back, I think I had actually forgotten there was a brake pedal 😟

6 years in a skoda and not a scratch on the wheels. 2 weeks in a Tesla 😟

I'm going to order some touch up paint and rim covers. The black wheels really make the rash stand out, it's not something I can learn to live with.

p.s congratulations on collection day. Let us know how thst santa sack of accessories works out!

Wondering now did you just get a Friday car.

Took her down to Limerick today. It said it would need 20% of the battery to get down and 20% to get home. I drove mostly at 110kmph but a few sections at 120 and had the AC blasting all the way. The guesstimates seem bang on in fairness as I landed back with 60% on the nose.

Between that and the drive from Dublin the vast majority of my driving is on motorway. 100% change sets the range at 439km. And I've no reason to doubt that.

I've actually found it's way worse if I just want to pop 3km down the road to the shops I could lose 6-7km in range.

Getting used to it much more now. Can find the options with the long press of the left button so you don't need to mess as much in the screen.

Cruise control and lane steering at 110kmph in the left lane is great. Not so much at 120kmph in the right lane. That's scarier.

The radio is still driving me cracked. Kids watching Netflix in the back and the volume is low so you have to put it way up. The second they back out to go to Disney plus the radio comes on at near full whack !!

And I can unlock the charge cable without going to the main screen and pressing the charge port icon. Not sure what I'm missing, the app doesn't unlock it.

in app you should see two options “stop charging” “unlock charge port” and by pressing in sequence it should work. Alternatively a new feature is by pulling door handle of left rear (nearest to charge port) and holding for 3 seconds it stops charging and unlocks so that you don’t have to go to screen in car

If someone is looking to buy, you should know that UK Tesla is now doing 2000 GBP contribution to PCP so maybe similar discount will be approved for Ireland. I think this could be related to fact that larger batteries might be coming as on China market there were some increases in range for both type of batteries.

Or just use the rear door handle?