Tesla Model 3 - V4.0

I was told you can’t avail trade in bonus if you’re scrapping since they are two different things and there’s no guarantee that our application would be submitted on time & approved.

Tesla have offered okayish 2.5k trade in value for wife’s car and combined with the bonus, I see we’re pretty much near the new grant. moreover the current car is in good condition (small engine & low co2) and can go on for a number of years and hence we thought to go ahead and collect car next week.

If you configure a Model3 it shows the VAT , VRT etc. I think the base model is VRT exempt. Click on the Cash tab.

Below the Model 3 LR Premium:

Financing Options

Personal: Cash

€45,058Trade-in Bonus-€2,000View CriteriaInclude Est. Fuel Savings-€4,000Customise

So who was it that told you that the new model 3 won't even have standard autopilot?

Because the first place you should have noticed such a change should have been the ordering page that you claim not to have looked at…

I picked up my new model 3 standard RWD yesterday.

Im quite happy with it but i noticed a couple of things.

1. Satellite view was not working and the guy in Tesla Baldonnel said it was because signal poor in the area and would appear when I started driving. It did not and I had to call to log a service request as it turned out that the Premium Connectivity had not been activated. This was despite it showing as connected on the software section on the cars screen.
2. Not sure if it a connected issue as not tried since I got above update fix, but the autopilot is not keeping the car in lane. I tried it when on motorway or main roads careful that no cars nearby and it drifted on to other lane and other side of the road.

I would be curious if others recently picked up a new Tesla and noticed the same?

Autopilot is far from a gimmick. Really depends on your usage Id say. Probably not great benefit if your daily driving consists of tipping round the suburbs in Dublin.

But I find it brilliant for reducing fatigue on long haul commutes. Fitting a Commander module by Enhance Auto via the OBD added their 'Continuous Autopilot' feature (amongst numerous others) which improved it further.

Autosteer is a gimmick, apologies if that wasn't clear.

Autopilot in TACC form is great.

Basic autopilot is traffic aware crsuise control, and the Tesla implementation is good.

Autosteer seems to be a bit of a gimmick added across the top to tempt folks to upgrade to Enhanced Autopilot. IMO it's a gimmick and the implementation is glitchy nd naggy, requiring pressure on the wheel every 10 seconds or so. The bright colours on the screen don't help either - although I suspect this is probably customisable in a sub menu somewhere.

Have used Autosteer on the motorway and it was perfectly fine for 100 odd Km we used it for. I have also used it in city and it worked well when the lane marking are clear.

I was looking at infotainment screen yesterday and spotted top speed number to be 177km/hr.
I recall model 3 sold in UK has lower acceleration as well as top speed while Irish spec is a bit faster. Any one else spotted this?