Tesla Model S

Mats. You can buy perfectly good aftermarket ones for little money. Dog rack if you have a big dog. And depending on what version you have, a tray for under the MCU screen is very handy as well as some centre console unit. That said, herself really liked the "yacht floor" of my pre-facelift Model S as it perfectly fits even a large handbag 😂

Personally I wouldn't spend a cent on items that make the car just "look" better, like wheels, spoilers, badges, etc.

The ad is still up, so I'd say nobody bought it yet.

As for the Model S, they will be around for a long time. Very few in the country though and there are no more being brought in. Not new (apart from a handful of left hand drive cars) and not second hand as the usual import path from the UK is closed. So it will always be an exclusive car here.

I am glad now that I didn't buy a Model Y. I am likely keeping my Model S now for many years to come. There simply is nothing like it out there.

My mrs advises that epoxy resin would work well as a temp fix. Finally, the one cross over between car enthusiast and artist!!

Yeah mine (2017 Model S) went up from €497 to €555 this year. Couldn't be bothered shopping around to get a better quote, but if next year is also +10%, I probably will.

Yeah I had that done about 3-4 years ago on my old Model S iirc

I know an interested buyer, based in Wexford, he'll give €15k for it 😁

Did you spot this BTW, also a facelift 90D - ex taxi - 450k miles (725k km) your man bought it for £8.9k 😶

Quite possibly is the original battery. It's a facelift car. The previous problems with batteries (in the pre-facelift) were nearly always down to water ingress over time, nothing to do with the quality / longevity of the battery cells themselves

As Brexit ruining things - that is relative. If you bought that EV over there for £8.9k (€10.4k) you can have it landed for zero VRT and roughly just €1k import duty and €2.4k VAT, with costs of flight / ferry totally a bit over €14k. Still an utter bargain. I guess that Model S last week here in Ireland that still needed a bit of suspension work, sold for around the €17k mark

These cars are still the daddy of all EVs and at those prices, while you need to be a bit brave, and either have deep pockets in case something with motor or battery goes wrong out of warranty. Or know an indy that can sort it. But they are an awful lot of car and performance for the money.

And far cheaper to buy and far less risky compared to performance saloons like BMW M5 or Mercedes E63 AMG, etc. or exotic supercars

Have you driven an E60 M5 recently? After you owned the 90D? I'd say you will be unpleasantly surprised if you did. I drove one many years ago, before I'd ever driven an EV. It was fast when picked up a bit, but the 90D would be much quicker away from the lights. And effortless. The M5 (in my case E63 M6) V10 racing engine sounded glorious and revved to 8.5k rpm. But the robotised manual transmisson was pretty brutal and would now feel very ancient

I suppose it is rose tinted glasses that we have. And not about EVs!

Same old, same old. Back pretty much exactly 20 years ago, everybody told me I was crazy buying a 7 year old BMW 735i V8 while for the same money I could have got a 3 year old Toyota Corolla 😂

Ending next month. @BigAl81 I'd get in for a service now before battery warranty ends and document any possible issues now and get them looked at under warranty (unless everything is running fine of course)

That S has almost nothing in common with the facelift car though

And the previous owner can even get this after they sold the car. It's on the online account.

Yup, correct

I had an S90D and would be looking to charge after 250km of real world (120 + VAT!) motorway speeds. Probably 270km max range before zero. The 90 and 85 were the same battery, just the 90 unlocked a couple more kwh

I think the E is superfluous, some of the earlier cars had E to donate non P , but this wasnt standard.

(Ignore that 4 seat version, the seats don't fold, it's awful!)
The biggest battery pack is the 100, of t he "number cars", then you get to the Raven and the refresh "Standard Range" and "long range" cars

Or an older pack! The battery in my last Model S (142 reg) was replaced in late 2020. The new sticker indicated that the "new" battery was a refurbished one from a 2013 car 😂 It now has about 240k km on the clock and still happily driving around near me with its 11 year old battery. You can look up battery degradation curves for early Teslas and the most typical degradation is around 10-15% for a 10 year old car

@tom1ie - what is your budget? The facelift cars are relatively cheap now and will give you a lot more peace of mind about the battery. It is not that the battery cells themselves went faulty in the early cars, it is almost always that water made its way into the pack, causing problems. This no longer happened in facelift cars.

Hi unkel, my overall budget is approx 20k.
I think the S seems to be the daddy of EVs when it comes to range and comfort on motorway miles.
I also have three kids to get into a car so I reckon the S is close enough in size to my insignia I have at the minute (s being bigger I reckon?)

That's a decent budget that should see you into a good Model S, but I don't think it will stretch to a facelift one. Personally if I went to see one, I wouldn't bother with any dongles with battery health apps. Just ask to take it on a long enough test drive, you will see by the drop in range what the real range roughly is (and thus what the battery health is like). But that is easy for me to say, I've driven EVs for many years now

The Model S is at least one size bigger than your Insignia. It's bigger than a BMW 7-series or Mercedes S-class of the same era. Big car.