Recent content by AutomaticMan

That’s true - if I were one of the people who bought during the temporary massive price hike and was needing to sell now I think I’d be crying myself to sleep every night for a month 🤣 (Sorry to anyone reading who actually is in that situation!!) I had a look earlier at a US used car website…...

I guess no way to prove for sure unless I had a German car to sell that I bought at the same time as comparison. But I can’t help wondering whether Tesla’s aggressive discounting has compounded the market conditions. I know from past experience that French cars tended to lose value quickly as...

Yeah, as I say, not unheard of. I still think it is towards the bad end of ’normal’ but not out of bounds. I would expect a German car to do better than 35% though, so I think if we’re getting enough Teslas on the roads now that we’re getting a clearer picture of their residuals, they don’t seem...

This one is closest I could find to mine on Tesla’s website. Mine is a bit newer, but has also done a few more miles. So if it is going for £38,400 used approved from Tesla, I guess £35k in a private sale is probably the best I can hope for. So about 35% depreciation over the first year of...

I will ask him in between asking “why do you keep changing the prices of your cars over a near £10k range at the drop of a hat and tanking used prices??” while shaking him violently 😜

I’m in Gloucestershire, no tow bar though. But if prices keep falling at this rate, you’ll probably be able to buy the car from me for less than the price of fitting a new tow bar to it anyway! 🤣😭 I very much hope that is true. But I have no way of knowing at the moment. I’ll probably put it on...

Don’t worry, it’s a good personal circumstances thing rather than a bad personal circumstances thing. Though I admit the shine is being rather taken off now I know how much I’ll lose on the car! Oh, I know. I knew it would be bad, I just didn’t know that it would be this bad! £695/month isn’t...

Ok, well having heart palpitations today! Personal circumstances* force a sale in the next 2 or 3 months and it had been a while since I did a Motorway.co.uk valuation. Last time I did one - 6 months ago or so - my 2022 M3 LR was worth £47k. I knew that prices would be a lot lower now because of...

Afraid not. I have the Tesla charger so all the off peak settings are controlled by the car and it seems to ignore them for defrosting/climate. I wish there was a “climate from battery” toggle option somewhere. I mean, the alternative to all this is for me to wander out to the car in my PJs on...

I appreciate that in July I’m thinking ahead somewhat… 😂 … But, I’ve just noticed that the latest version of Tessie has automation options to do various things. I think defrosting the Model 3 in winter normally will be annoying because if the car is plugged in it will pull the charge needed to...

Fooled you! I love my Tesla Model 3 LR! Took a trip in it yesterday, and now that I have Enhanced Autopilot - which I think makes the driver assistance aids work better, which has eased concerns I had about those systems in another thread recently - it really struck me just how brilliant this...

I really don’t think the noise is that bad inside the car if you have the fan speed at 1 or 2 (you need to turn ‘auto’ off). I guess if you’re used to absolute silence maybe it takes getting used to, but I’d say it’s quieter than the white noise machines that a lot of people buy to help them...

This issue is also driving me crazy!! When it first started happening, I arranged for a Tesla mobile engineer to come around to look at it. He confirmed it was the lumbar support grommet, and said he'd taped them up so now it wasn't squeaking anymore. This worked for a while but then it came...

I'm another 'larger than the average bear' person with a CPAP! For CPAP users, Tesla camping is a great alternative to having to carry around a spare CPAP battery with you for tent camping I think. I camped right the way around Italy a few weeks back. I guess I averaged 1 night in the Tesla for...

Fame at last… and I missed it?? 😧