Tesla Talk

Agreed. Our our TM3 I removed the frames earlier this year, attached the rear plate directly on the boot lid with screws/caps/adhesive tape, and finally went for the full hog with the vinyl sticker at front last week. The plain metal numberplate at the front still looked unsightly attacked to the black mouting plate and was actually creating a bit of noise at motorway speeds.

the stock holders are horrendous looking.. particularly the front. so I replaced both with vinyl plates and they look so much better...

They actually misprinted the little blue square on my vinyls, but I fitted them anyway, and when they sent me a new set properly printed, I just kept them as spares as I'm pretty sure I won't be able to install the new set as well as I installed the 1st set... I just got a blue sticker and cut out some little strips to fill in the little misprinted areas and it looks grand now from a distance…

They are not strictly road legal and could fail an NCT if you get a finicky tester. Some folks on the TOG have ran with these plates for years without issue.

I hate those plates almost as much as 4D plates.

not legal. minimum thickness for plastic plates (of which vinyl is a plastic) is 3mm, and I measured the stickers at about 1.5mm, so you could double up on them to technically be at 3mm thickness.

the first Irish Model 3's are due their NCT's in Q4, and some of the 192 cars have vinyl number plates so we'll see then..

It will be getting a good deep clean so I'll be taking plates off anyway and get a vinyl front ordered. I'll look at the rear and may reuse the screws with a couple of caps to hold the rear without the frame.

Agreed. With some of the industrial quality tapes on the market, you'll be breaking the plate before the tape comes loose.

I mean appearance is subjective so we can agree to disagree on that, however there's no arguing the legality.

As someone used to driving non taxed old bangernomics diesels running on green, kero and or god knows what, I have an inbuilt fear of checkpoints developed and dont want to give them any reason to stop me!

I don’t think any part of that is correct. RSA awarded the tender and I’m sure have a decent level of oversight into its operation. I’m not involved in NCT but I do work on other government tenders and no operator gets a free ride.

Also I’m fairly sure they’re paid a fixed fee for operating a pre-determined level of service, possibly with some adjustment for meeting or missing performance criteria. It would be a pretty dumb contract to incentivise the operator to fail people needlessly.

The ID system was better in many ways, as you have mentioned. Even just the smart regen on its' own was great. The Tesla works fine for me, I don't use autopilot much, it is too limited on normal N roads. But you can set it to look after speed limits.

Yes, I think so. Not at car and cannot remember settings.

+1

The "software is crap" on the ID cars is way overplayed at this point. The main issues have been resolved and people can complain about certain aspects of it (slow etc) but its fairly reliable at this point and the ID cruise and lane assist stuff is better than Tesla's as you said. Glad others agree as its hard to say anything negative about Tesla software or to suggest VW software is better in some parts!

I'd add auto dimming and auto wipers as being way better on the ID cars as well. They are quite poor on Tesla.

Tesla is of course better in other parts...Netflix etc, the app, etc.

@KCross - "I'd add auto dimming and auto wipers as being way better on the ID cars as well. They are quite poor on Tesla."

Yes both are very unimpressive on the Tesla.

@KCross - "Tesla is of course better in other parts...Netflix etc, the app, etc."

Yes Netflix and the app are extremely important of course. And Tesla might even be a tiny bit better in unimportant areas like efficiency where a short range Tesla has more range than a long range VW and costs 30-40% less to fuel, in live route planning with charger preconditioning for shortest possible charging stops, the supercharger network itself, etc. 😂

Not knocking VW in any way here though, I'm delighted the VW EVs are doing well. The ID.4 is the best selling EV in Ireland. And in my personal view much better looking than its competitor the Model Y. The Tesla Model Y is the best selling car in the world. In Ireland, we are a few years behind. We used to be a few decades behind in many things, so good progress!

The acceleration never gets old even in the rwd which is the slowest of them.

I can probably say now that after 3 years and 3 months, I'm finally starting to get used to it (and mine is the slightly faster OG SR+ with 5.6s as opposed to the 6.1s of the modern RWD's since early last year)... I've had a few foot to the floor moments of 'enthusiastic acceleration' over the last few weeks and feel I now want a bit more.... like as if I'm just too used to it!

I test drove a Model 3 Performance last year for the craic as I was out in Sandyford for the day and it was utterly insane!! So I still don't require that level of insanity, but the thoughts of getting into an LR become more appealing by the week... (and having the acceleration boost in the back pocket of an LR is a nice prospect too for when it's 4.4 starts to feel 'not enough' anymore)