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Good to know, thanks!

It may not be relevant to anybody else, but it is relevant to me. This is my total cost of electricity during the ownership of the vehicle.

Thanks for the info. Looks like a ~$300 parts cost, plus the labor to dismount tires, and re-mount and balance.

I'm turning in my M3P lease in a week or two (well, that's the plan at least), so I tallied up my charging costs since vehicle deliver in December 2019. Background is that I have a free L2 charger at my office, so that covers the bulk of my weekday needs. I don't have a charger at home, so I...

Oh well goddamn it! What's up with that?

Martian MW03 18 x 7.5" +20 / Gunmetal. I bought my first set of Nokian Hakkapeliitta R3 225/50R18XL 99R BSW tires on 12/30/2019 from a website called tires-easy.com. I replaced them in November 2021 with Nokian tires sourced by my local tire change shop.

This is the setup I've been running for the past 3 winters, has been great. New M3P on order, will definitely be keeping the winter wheels/tires to use on the new car!

I had this issue recently, SC scheduled me about 6 weeks out (because they didn't have the parts in stock). My issue was only with front-right, but they replaced both front control arms. Fully covered by warranty at ~45K miles and ~30 months since vehicle delivery.

The door latch release mechanism seems to work fine, and the electrical components seem to work fine. The door latch just doesn't catch. If I pull the door to a fully closed position, the car thinks the door is closed and the window goes up all the way. Since my original post on this, the...

Driver door won't latch since last night. This happened once before, but it corrected itself quickly. Car had been sitting in garage for the past few days. Other perhaps unrelated symptom is that the front left steering mechanism is making very squeaky noises for the past week. I made a...

2020 M3P with 17K miles. This is another cold weather data point. I left my office this afternoon with 84% SoC, have driven 40.3 miles, and am currently at 54% SoC. Never was more than 1/4 throttle, air temp is around 28F, mixed highway and suburbs, max speed on highway was around 80. I...

I mostly rely on regenerative braking, rarely touch the brake pedal.

Service is scheduled for next Thursday.

2020 Model 3 Performance, 14,800 miles, Noticed this troubling etching on my front right rotor. The brakes have felt fine while driving. imgur.com I'm going to schedule an appointment with the local service center, but any idea what is happening here?

When charging to 100%, I regularly get down to around 50% before finding my way to a charger again. For performance reasons, I'd rather operate in the range of 50% to 100% than in the range of 40% to 90%. Also I try to limit my day-to-day charging to the free (to me) station at my office...

Agree. I have pretty much zero concern about regularly charging to 100% (at least 3 times per week). Slightly different in my case given that it's a leased car which I'll give up with no more than 50K miles on it (at which point I doubt there will be any noticeable degradation).

That is quite remarkable. At 11K miles, my 2020 Model 3 Performance has a lifetime usage of around 340wh/mi. I deal with cold winter temperatures and cruise really fast on the highway and do a full-throttle acceleration whenever possible, which probably explains the large variance. Case...

I am really happy overall with my TM3P. However, it's just not a good road trip car me. I did a highway trip last weekend, and in both directions I used about 350-360Wh/mi. At that rate I get around 210 miles out of a full charge, but given the constraint of having to stop at Supercharging...

This is the only photo I have, sorry it doesn't show much. Imgur

Then you would be out of warranty, and also owe extra money at lease end of you exceed your lease mileage.

Right, I would do the same thing, but if it is the case that frequentafrequent acceleration is not good for the long-term health of the car, then the leasd makes that a non-issue.

Leasing is generally not a financially-optimal strategy, but I really love the "perqs" of leasing, which basically all boil down to not caring about the long-term performance of the car. The benefits are: 1. Known / guaranteed financial cost over 3 years, and no need to have to deal with...

$0. If I'm going on a road trip and don't want to deal with SC'ing, I'll just rent a car.

Understood. In these cases, my car will be parked out in the sun all day at my office, and I'll pull away after work (or in the linked photo, around noon) when the car has been sitting in 60+ degree weather for some time, while charging. I suppose I just need to reset my expectations and...

2020 Model 3 Performance, recently switched back to 20" stock wheels from winter setup. Anyway, the weather has been getting warmer where I live, and I've been looking forward to being able to finally have some full regenerative braking capability. However, as shown in this photo, even during...

2020 Model 3 Performance here. I have the stock 20" wheels with the stock tires, and I have a set of 18x7.5" Martian MW03 wheels with Nokian winter tires. I just swapped back to the summer tires yesterday. I didn't weigh the two setups, but the 18" setup was significantly lighter to haul...

Great driving experience. Car likely faster, as the wheels are much lighter. The Nokian tires handle very well even in warm dry weather, and are champs during cool and snowy weather.

I have 225/50R18 tires on the 18x7.5 MW03 wheels and they work fine.

I've owned my TM3P only during winter so far (temperature range has been between 15F and 45F), and I'm averaging around 440 Wh/mi. I'm really hoping this gets into the low-300s during the warmer months.

I got SMOKED in my P3D recently on a ~35mph-100mph run against a GT-R. Was around 35F outside and I was on 80% SoC with winter tires on lightweight 18" wheels. I stayed level up to around 60mph, and then he pulled away steadily.

I don't see any problems here. It seems that the full range can be achieved by driving on a straight road at 45mph with no wind in 70-degree (F) weather. Any deviation from that reduces range. I took delivery around the same time as you. My driving is mixed highway/suburban, I drive 75-80 on...

What made you go with the narrower width for performance tires?

Yes.

Martian MW03 18x7.5 with Nokian Hakapeliitta R3 225/50-18 tires. Winter wheel/tire setup, obviously.

When I figured out this trick, I no longer had any complaints about how the wiper operates.

I definitely would not buy this car without home charging if I didn't have an L2 charger at my office.

My TM3P replaced a 2013 Audi S6. S6 was the best car I'd ever had, and I like the TM3P MUCH more.

FWIW, my car hasn't issued me a warning yet. I charged to 100% yesterday for the first time, so I'm guessing the warning doesn't come up until I do it multiple times in a sufficiently short period. It is very interesting to me, though, that this community is so passionate about the 100%...

I've had great experiences with used ICE cars, but no way I'd buy a used EV in the near future.

From what I see in the manual, I fail to see how a full charge constitutes "abuse and mistreat"[ment]. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Here is the manual for the Model 3. The "Charging" section begins on page 142. I see warnings/cautions about not letting the battery discahrge to 0%, and I see suggestions about avoiding extreme ambient temperatures. There's also a note that charging may be limited to 80% at high-usage...

My user name has nothing to do with the biblical character of Jesus. No, I wouldn't want to purchase my (or any) EV off-lease, due to the untested long-term nature of these vehicles.

The mods have had to do cleanup because of other members (not me) violating the terms of conduct. My motivation is not to intentionally damage the vehicle, but rather to operate it in a way that suits me best, within the confines of the lease contract.

Not true. I came to this thread thinking I should just charge to 100% all the time. Based on feedback, I'm now convinced I should charge to 90/95% max each time, unless heading out on a long road trip or if I otherwise expect to not have convenient access to a charting solution for a couple...

I have a set of the Martian MW03 in 18x7.5 on order (hopefully will arrive next week), will fit them with 225/50-18 Nikian Hakkapeliitta R3 tires. These tires have a diameter which is 1.5% larger than the stock tires. I would have preferred to get 215/50-18 tires (same diameter as stock), but...

The lease agreement does not give Tesla any opportunity to charge the lessee more (upon lease return) based on charging practices. == 25. Excess Wear. The charge for excess wear will be our estimated or actual cost or repairing wear beyond that reasonably expected with ordinary, everyday use...

Presumably you've read your lease agreement. I just re-read mine, and I think Tesla would have an impossible task trying to recoup any "damages" from the lessee as a result of constant full charging. There is NOTHING in the lease about charging practices, the the sections titled "Maintenance...

I'd like to hear more about the moral and ethical responsibility towards future owners (or the lessor, as otherwise mentioned in this thread). I can't see any possible argument for this responsibility existing, but I'm certainly willing to listen to an alternative viewpoint. Please elaborate.

No, I haven't made up my mind. As of right now, based on the information I've learned in this thread, I'm inclined to charge to 90 or 95%, rather than the 80% I'm doing now.

Right, but in my case my battery seems to regularly get down into the 40-50% range with just normal driving (particularly on weekends when I'm away from my office charging station), so if I can increase my "floor", then I'm increasing performance. Negligible difference or not, it's still...