Recently I notice that the console tray has caused the felt to wear away at the front corners. Apparently after you take the tray out and put it back in the front corners of the tray scrape off the felt in the console. It's not a warranty issue because Tesla see's it as normal wear and tear, and the only way it can be fixed is to replace the entire console, which doesn't make this an economical option. The wear areas are about the size of the end of an average pinky finger, but still it sucks seeing it there when I take the tray out. I guess the only other option would be to buy some felt dots to stick over the area. Has anyone else noticed this issue in there Model 3?
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Console Tray Caused Felt to Wear
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Candleflame
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keep the tray on ? keep the console closed?
matnetik
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I’d try putting a little piece of Velcro on the points where it slides out, might make it look a little better
I was maybe thinking of using a little piece of black felt, if I can find something that matches.
Please report back, I'm interested in seeing what you try. I spilled some hand sanitizer near that spot the day after getting the car and when I wiped it up the felt came with it. So disappointing, especially on day one.
A sharpie might make is look less noticeable but it will still continue to wear more of the felt away. I've noticed that the bottom edges of the tray are sharp, so it makes sense that it would wear away the felt. So I guess I could put something on those edges too. But it's a shame that Tesla didn't catch this, or maybe their solution was by not including the tray anymore.
Ouch, yeah never scrub felt especially when it's wet. You could just buy some aftermarket black felt and install it over the current felt.
I like the previous suggestion, keep the tray slid toward you and you wont see the felt wearing.
The felt will only wear at rhe rubbing points which should finish and rhats rhe future design Tesla should adopt, no felt at those points.
Let’s change this discussion slightly to the wireless charging surface showing wear. I remember before owning Ts, during my demo drives I saw noticeable wear at the bottom of rhe wireless charging pad. There are aftermarket protectors for the charging pad but I have returned 2x due to they are too thick and prevent wireless charging a big phone like IPhone 14 max pro thst charges perfectly with a case on the pad alone.
Protection
Anyone find a thin enough charging pad protector that permits big iPhone charging?
The felt will only wear at rhe rubbing points which should finish and rhats rhe future design Tesla should adopt, no felt at those points.
Let’s change this discussion slightly to the wireless charging surface showing wear. I remember before owning Ts, during my demo drives I saw noticeable wear at the bottom of rhe wireless charging pad. There are aftermarket protectors for the charging pad but I have returned 2x due to they are too thick and prevent wireless charging a big phone like IPhone 14 max pro thst charges perfectly with a case on the pad alone.
Protection
Anyone find a thin enough charging pad protector that permits big iPhone charging?
I don't work for Tesla, so I don't know. You should probably contact them but I doubt it's inexpensive.
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