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Australian Model 3 Waiting Room
- Thread starter rgc1990
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I ordered Model Y RWD yesterday and was going to cancel one of them but now somehow trying to workout how to get both M3 and MY after all these price rises?
So I picked up my M3 Long Range Blue/Black this morning. All went smoothly and the only fault I could find was that the gap between the piece of the tail light on the boot lid and the tail light on the body on the right side is slightly wider at the top than the bottom. I don't think I will worry about it, you have to look hard to notice it. Here are a few observations.
1/. I had a 45 klms to drive on a motorway to go to my grandson's sports day and I knew it had to take some number of kilometres to calibrate the cameras for the adaptive cruise control and the Autosteer. It didn't take long, I think only about 10 - 15 klms. I could then use the cruise control, but I couldn't use the Autosteer because it has to be activated in the "Controls" screen and you have to be in park to activate it. So I had to wait for the return trip to try out Autosteer. It seems to work very well ( I was driving at 110k and 100k, I even tried it briefly on a single lane road at 60k). But it's like on my previous car which had adaptive cruise control, it took me a while to completely trust it to stop behind a stationary car all by itself. Same with Autosteer, I'm sure I will get used to it quickly and learn to trust it can stay in the lane when a truck is next to me.
2/. For those of you who suffer from what my optometrist calls "A G E" disease and need to use reading glasses to read the paper or use a laptop, I think you may need to get a pair of driving glasses. With my BMW 330iGT I eventually got a pair of bifocals made so I could more easily read some of the things on the centre screen and also in the main instruments. I could get by without them and I didn't use them much, but most of the things I needed to do had regular switches or controlled by the rotary controller. But since the Tesla has almost everything done through the central screen I think the icons need to be "crisp". If anyone wants a more detailed description of the glasses I had made feel free to contact me through a private message.
3/. I'm sure I'm going to get used to the one pedal driving. It's ok when driving moderately, but if I want to drive a little more aggressively up to a corner it doesn't seem like the regen braking is enough. Not a problem, I just have to get used to it and know when to add the normal braking in with the regen.
4/. I'm struggling a little navigating through the screens. Again, I think I will get used to it, I just can't drive the car and try things out at the same time and I know I'm not as sharp as I once was (A G E again).
5/. I really really wish it had a head up display.
I haven't really been able to give the car a good try out yet (wife was with me all day too), I'm sure I'm going to love it when I can. Good luck to all of you still waiting for your cars.
1/. I had a 45 klms to drive on a motorway to go to my grandson's sports day and I knew it had to take some number of kilometres to calibrate the cameras for the adaptive cruise control and the Autosteer. It didn't take long, I think only about 10 - 15 klms. I could then use the cruise control, but I couldn't use the Autosteer because it has to be activated in the "Controls" screen and you have to be in park to activate it. So I had to wait for the return trip to try out Autosteer. It seems to work very well ( I was driving at 110k and 100k, I even tried it briefly on a single lane road at 60k). But it's like on my previous car which had adaptive cruise control, it took me a while to completely trust it to stop behind a stationary car all by itself. Same with Autosteer, I'm sure I will get used to it quickly and learn to trust it can stay in the lane when a truck is next to me.
2/. For those of you who suffer from what my optometrist calls "A G E" disease and need to use reading glasses to read the paper or use a laptop, I think you may need to get a pair of driving glasses. With my BMW 330iGT I eventually got a pair of bifocals made so I could more easily read some of the things on the centre screen and also in the main instruments. I could get by without them and I didn't use them much, but most of the things I needed to do had regular switches or controlled by the rotary controller. But since the Tesla has almost everything done through the central screen I think the icons need to be "crisp". If anyone wants a more detailed description of the glasses I had made feel free to contact me through a private message.
3/. I'm sure I'm going to get used to the one pedal driving. It's ok when driving moderately, but if I want to drive a little more aggressively up to a corner it doesn't seem like the regen braking is enough. Not a problem, I just have to get used to it and know when to add the normal braking in with the regen.
4/. I'm struggling a little navigating through the screens. Again, I think I will get used to it, I just can't drive the car and try things out at the same time and I know I'm not as sharp as I once was (A G E again).
5/. I really really wish it had a head up display.
I haven't really been able to give the car a good try out yet (wife was with me all day too), I'm sure I'm going to love it when I can. Good luck to all of you still waiting for your cars.
Mine is same as others, I am about 12/1 for order...
On the topic of naming cars, was thinking Willet... as in: Willetevershowup! .. only if it didn't make me so sad thinking about it...
On the topic of naming cars, was thinking Willet... as in: Willetevershowup! .. only if it didn't make me so sad thinking about it...
We had an X5 called "Tessie" (the tuff truck). My wife says the new M3P could be "Tessie 2" but it seems a bit naff to me
Congrats on getting it. Good write-up, looking forward to trying mine out tomorrow
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Sounds like a knock knock jokeMine is same as others, I am about 12/1 for order...
On the topic of naming cars, was thinking Willet... as in: Willetevershowup! .. only if it didn't make me so sad thinking about it...
One more thing. I was surprised to find that the software level in my car is 2022.11.101.1. The screen says that my S/W is up to date as at 16th June, 2022 at 2:39pm. I was expecting it would be 2022.12.3.1 or the latest 2022.16.1.1. I connected to wifi to see if that would trigger something but I have no "yellow clock" icon so I can't initiate an update. Do any of you out there with cars (recently or not so recently) have a higher level than 2022.11.101.1?
Looking forward to hearing your experiences. I just posted about the S/W level my car came with. I would be interested to hear what level your car has when you pick it up tomorrow.
Absolutely! Haven't tried it yet as I haven't quite finished clearing the garage out so I can get the car in. Hope to do that tomorrow.
mine alsoRight, I'm down the rabbit hole. Google translated a French Tesla blog page that says when your url in your account goes from
www.tesla.com/en_AU/teslaaccount/profile?rn=RNXXXXXX
to
www.tesla.com/en_AU/teslaaccount/product-finalize?rn=RNXXXXXX
this also means that you're progressing... mine ahs changed to product-finalize
It's actually part of the set up process for a Tesla to give the car a name - it shows up in the app, website etc (I guess so you can see which car you're operating on when you have more than one).Like the name!
Curious to know, how many peeps on here have named their car?
I called ours the Heart Of Gold, referencing both HHGTTG and that very expensive battery at the heart of the beast.
Be aware that the last time EAP was offered (a couple of years back - maybe mid 2020 from memory?), it was a limited-time offer, unavailable for purchase after the end of the quarter. Not saying that will be the case this time necessarily, but something to keep in mind.
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