I got the windshield replaced on the 26th. Took 4 hours. They said they identified an impact mark so it wasn't covered by warranty. Insurance paid for the whole thing. Thanks Jake from State Farm.
Hey man, a little off topic but, I have a MYP on order set for late Jan delivery. I also live in Hudson valley (Orange County) and wanted to get your impression of the MYP so far. I see you’ve had a few issues already but hopefully they’ll get cleared up soon. Thanks. Sorry about the thread hijack.
I haven't had the car for long enough to give a very detailed report, but I will say that it starts off as a love story.
I came from a Subaru WRX and that was my love for 7 years. The MYP handles pretty well despite it's weight. Good low center of gravity. I only had the 21 inch summers on for about 5 days, but I can tell you they felt a hell of a lot better in terms of handling than the 19 inch Hakkapellita snow tires I have on right now. These are some extremely squishy snow tires, and they are pretty slippery when it rains. The turning radius of the car is good enough, but you'll definitely notice a bit of limitation where it seems you should be able to turn just a little bit more when making sharp and slow turns in parking lots and such.
The auto windshield wipers need a lot of work. They do not react well to rain. The autopilot is pretty great, but you'll get some phantom braking. If you leave emergency brake assist on, the car will slam the brakes on unnecessarily sometimes when you get too close to the back of a vehicle. The car seats are a little tight around my wife's butt, and she's very petite, but she does have a big booty. My butt has to squeeze in between the bolsters too, but I'm 6 foot 1 and 250lbs.
Summon is a gimmick. Takes too long to connect to make it worth it and sometimes the car will pull out of a space and refuse to drive to the target because it thinks the parking lot is a "public road".
Full self driving is not worth 10k or $200 a month based on the current capabilities. Autopilot is good enough and it's free. The wireless charging pad for your cell phone is painfully slow and basically useless. If you have a garage, order the homelink accessory to remote control the garage door. There is no built in Sirius XM functionality, but you can use the app on your phone. The built in Tidal app has a pretty good music library.
The car speakers are trash, especially the rears. Sub woofer is good though.
I commute 60 miles a day, three to five days a week and I live in an apartment with no electrical panel access, so I just use a standard wall outlet plugged in overnight and it's basically good enough for a weeks worth of driving, with a major caveat.
If you drive the car fast, as it is meant to be driven, you will drain the battery very very quickly. A 30 mile drive for me on the highway can drain as much as 30 percent of the battery, which to me is absurd. I limit the charge to 80 percent, and if I drive 80mph to 100mph to work, after 30 miles, I'm down to between 50 and 65 percent. I usually see it between 51 and 56 after 30 miles. After leaving the car in the lot unplugged at work, I'll get home with about 33 to 44 percent battery. The car/battery prefers to be driven 50 to 70mph. Any more than that and you get serious battery drain.
I find myself wishing it had double the range, but you'll soon realize there are super chargers everywhere. From 10 percent to 60 percent charge, you get a really high speed charge rate, especially if you precondition the battery. Might take about 15 minutes to go from 10 percent to 60 percent charge on a Tesla level 3 super charger. The charge from 60 to 80 is much slower, and the 80 to 100 is much much much slower. For a 10 percent to 100 percent charge, you're looking at about 50 minutes on a level 3 Tesla super charger. Home Tesla charger professionally wired might be about 6 hours from 20 percent to 80 percent.
If you have access to an electrical.panel and can install the Tesla home charger, it is 100 percent worth it. It'll remove all your range anxiety and concern about driving the car fast and fun.
Overall, I absolutely love the car. It's beautiful, it's fun, it's pretty comfortable,.and it crushes basically everything else on the road and the handling is way better than I expected it to be.considering the height and weight. My kids and wife love it too.
It's a great car overall, but having a Tesla home charger almost feels essential if you want to enjoy it fully without worrying about draining the battery too quickly while you're having your fun. I'd also highly recommend a radar detector. It's too easy to drive it comfortably at 100mph. Definitely concerned about getting arrested in it at some point lol...
