Tesla Model 3 and Model Y Waiting Room and Delivery Queries (No referral links)

I haven’t seen mention of any change to the SEAI €5000 grant, so I assume it stays the same for 2023? Anybody know for sure?

Confirmed here under the Carbon Reduction Programmes section

I know it was mentioned previously but the search is crap, condensation in the rear lights, is there a fix for it?

Collected mine last Friday and it had none on collection but noticed after a wash yesterday that it had condensation now

I might add, I used this after the first wash and seriously impressed, easy to put on and the car is looking even better than when I collected it, nice beading effect when it gets wet and stayed clean on the wet school run this morning.

Picked it up from Reflect Autocare as I was passing, I'm sure it's widely available

As EagerV said the basic model in white still qualifies for the grant. If you're quick you can grab the one in inventory. They're not there very often!

Not sure I'd get one of these with only 52kWh usable capacity...

Has anyone else got a plasticky rattle coming from behind the steering wheel? I picked mine up just over a week ago and can't fault the car, but there is this annoying rattle. It comes and goes, but may be more pronounced going down hill or under braking from what i can tell. You wouldn't notice it in a fossil car, but the Model 3 is so quiet, you do hear it when driving.

Same as, behind steering wheel and back right rattle. Have a service appointment scheduled this week for something else and will flag it.

My wife and i love the car - her only gripe is that she says the car is just "one big rattle" when driving around at low speeds on average roads round town. In fairness she is right - there are so many rattles its hard to know where they are coming from. I usually have music on on long journeys so dont notice as much.

Definitely one coming from the dash and another from the rear seat area.

Will book in a service when i've had more time to try and isolate them.

ive driven the enyak and ioniq 5 and cant say i noticed any. these rattles have definitely gotten worse wince we picked up the car. They are fairly headwrecking! I've looked online a a lot of rattles seem to be poor build quality in the main - i've driven my friends model 3 this week too for comparison and there are no rattles - so it seems like the luck of the draw. The rattles in my car are definitely something that should be addressed. I don't want to go on about it though as i'll be called a grumpy pants again!

I "added" 49kwh according to the app at a supercharger yesterday but was invoiced for 43 I.e the actually amount dispensed by the charger.

The app uses an assumption of 0-100% being 60kwh is what I have learned.

Go and do the same charge at a supercharger and see what u are invoiced for and u will see the difference.

Which also means that the "gas savings" calculated by the app are misleading at best.

Anyway it's like talking to the wall in here regarding usable pack size. The "1 or 2" in a batch affected are the 1 or 2 with the ability to drill down into the figures properly and decipher the truth.

I believe you were 1 of those that were going to provide screenshots of a trip to show your used energy at 55kwh+ but I'm still waiting on that.

Only 1 member has actually been able to provide evidence of potentially having a larger usable than 52kwh

I was talking about adding 55kWh based on the amount sent to the car being 58kWh (on my charger I can see the amount dispensed per charge) and then the car OSD showing 55kWh added in the last session. Other than that one charge I havent used more than 40-45kWh recently, my regular round trip is 220-240km so I dont generally get down that low in the pack

I couldnt get scanmytesla to work on IOS. Is there an app you can reccomend that would allow me to see the usable capacity. Playing devil's advocate and assuming I'm wrong, it would show up there.

I understand that but I also had an external device on the EVSE monitoring the kWh delivered and it showed 58, hence why the 55 reported by the car was believable to me. (I use a CEE 32A blue plug for charging so I need to monitor speed and temperature etc.)

If you're speaking to Tesla it would be interesting to see what they say, and to not talk to one of the random staff but instead talk to someone who actually knows what's going on. Keith, head of service for Ireland, generally knows his stuff. I'm guessing that what has happened is that some of the cars have an additional amount hidden "below 0" in a buffer, and this will be removed later on. Same as when the first M3 came out, and each new chemistry change, the charge speed was limited for a while.

I'd put money on there being a mistake and some cars were delivered with an extended buffer and others werent. Expect a software update to correct this pretty soon, either removing a buffer for some or adding a buffer for others.