Tesla Talk

Newbie owner here: How is the Tesla roadside assistance in Ireland? Does anyone rely on it or would you recommend getting AA cover or similar?

Excellent. They have a call centre (I think it might be in Amsterdam) open 24h per day and they just engage local tow companies that will flatload your car to either your home, to a tyre place or other garage or to Tesla in Sandyford. I used it twice. Once for a burst valve on a tyre (Teslas don't come with spare wheels) and once because I had a suspension problem and the car couldn't be driven longer distances safely. Didn't cost me a cent, but my car was under warranty.

I would hope fairly good if needed in earnest, would hope that when you click that option on the phone number that answering would be prompt. Otherwise there is often a long delay trying to get through to them

1 2 3 hysteria……

https://m.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/flaming-tesla-has-to-be-buried-in-pit-to-extinguish-battery-fire-41780659.html

Lads I'm over in San Francisco and the amount of Tesla's here is mental. Every 4th or 5th car is one. Surprisingly there seems to be more Y's than 3's.

There are modified 3's a plenty as well and a good few guys are using them for their Uber cars.

The amount of Teslas in the entire Bay Area is amazing it’s the new Prius 😂 have you noticed many parked with the seats down? I couldn’t believe how many I came across that had been broken into, they smash the fly window to drop the seats so they can see what’s in the boot, seemed to be an epidemic

Drove past an SuC site in Santa Barbara earlier. 16 x 250kwh stalls. 15 of them in use!!

I posted that in the tesla FB Ireland group. I'm all for paid destination charging if it increases availability. The requirement in order to charge for destination charging is that the site must have 6 units minimum.

Great to have them on the navigation, and if they're paid they should be more reliable. No point in leaving all that potential revenue for the likes of EasyGo etc...

Tesla shareholder meeting

Tesla just made its 3 millionth car. On track to make 1.5 million cars this year, while reaching a running production of 2 million cars per year by the end of this year, meaning around the 2.3-2.5 million cars predicted for next year

Musk would be surprised if Tesla will not have made 100 million cars within 10 years. Now that is some bullish statement.

We didnt get the last price increase so I doubt we'll get this one. We arent getting the added functionality

I bought 2019 M3LR second hand a year or so ago and previous owner had shelled out for FSD so I’m waiting to see what will happen in this regard over next year or two. Won’t hold my breath though. A lot of regulatory stuff to squash I expect. Not much use yet that’s for sure.

Even at the €7,500 price in EU, I still could not in good conscience recommend it.

As you said, EAP is 'good enough' and ordering it post-purchase saves you going over the grant limit.

Personally I can’t see any value in it unless it was tied to your account for life