Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I scheduled a repair there, they're going to come out to me thankfully but I'll be waiting 10 days. I used to live within walking distance of the service centre but it's a bit more of a pain in the ass to get to now.

Mine is in for a windscreen repair and annual service.
It was booked in last week and the earliest appointment was 13th July.
Luckily I can still drive it around as the chip/cracks are well below the eyeline, but a three week wait is a little concerning given the number of cars has greatly increased, but only the one service centre.

slave1 wrote: »

What annual service? No annual service requirements for Tesla's.

I think the service technician just called it that.
He actually write "1st annual Inception" :pac:

Basically because its back anyway for the glass/calibration, and the wipers are wearing a bit, I asked for it to be checked over. On the PDF it say General Inspection, and the guy said the check tire wear, wipers, fluids etc.

If you're a business customer there's no seai grant anymore and the price for purchasing brand new from Tesla is 5k higher than the private price. If you buy a used but nearly new car you pay the price that is advertised (or whatever you can haggle them down to).

I've seen a few nearly new model 3s advertised at in and around the brand new price for buying privately and I'd imagine they're aimed at business buyers who want to save a few quid (and not wait months for their car either). If I was to buy another electric car through my company I would definitely be looking at this route although I wouldn't be paying as much as they're asking. It's going to distort the used market for these cars for a while I would think.

Any chance Elon could give the Boards.ie team a hand with the new platform, somebody tweet him, they really need the help.

It is new but it is for light jobs (no bodywork). I forgot how they call it. I met the rangers at SuC few weeks ago and they mentioned it. It's sort of fixed/mobile where people can have some issues fixed. I'd say they want to make themselves more visible.

We have covered over 2500 km on the Model 3 in three weeks. I think the initial issue with the auto wipers may have been due to some coating or residue outside the windscreen as the wipers have started to behave better now. I think I remember seeing some smearing on the first day when the wipers were used. On the other hand last time I drove in rain we had just a one incident of "wipers at full speed ahead" but they largely behaved themselves now. I feel hopeful anyway.

Some persistent rattles started to appear at about 1000 km mark and we dropped the car to Sandyford this week for checkup. After the tech had fixed the first set of rattles on driver's side he had spotted more on the passenger side and verified that those were gone also on a second testdrive. Looks like interior rattles are a bit of a known issue so will keep a close ear on them now that the car is still new. Great job and thumbs up for the service experience for Tesla.

I also fitted OBD port adapter and verified that our car has 74.6 kWh nominal capacity which seems bang on the money for the LG battery. If you are a nerd there is lots to keep you entertained with Scan my Tesla compared to the LeafSPY.

I got a random one from aliexperess that came with the cable. One of these options comes with the BT OBD2 adapter:

It has a really quick refresh rate compared to the old ELM-327 v1.5 one I used to use for LeafSpy.

Just came here to post the same. Mine is a 2020 and the Aircon is very poor. I was going to ask them to take a look at it. Is it poor for everyone else?

Anybody know from experience if going down the hire purchase financing route how long it takes Tesla’s finance partner to contact you after the initial deposit is paid & all the information is inputted to the Tesla app?

been over a week & I haven’t heard anything yet

Found it better today by turning on the recycle air. I also noticed that the air to your feet doesn't go on by default. That helped as well.

I am unable to book a service in my Tesla app. I opened the Services section and it just has a list of historical services and invoices, but no option to book a new service. Anyone has the same issue?

Just checked and it's working fine on my phone also.