We picked up our new 2023 Model 3 RWD yesterday at the Nambe SC here in New Mexico.
Issues:
1. After we had already spent 15 minutes in the car going through menu configurations for both driver profiles (we have been running a 2022 model Y LR since March, so had some idea of settings we wanted to adjust), we tried to set the Home location. It could not accept our home address. So we tried using voice input just to navigate to nearby Santa Fe. No cigar. Somewhere in there, we saw that it was giving an alert along the lines of "offline input" when we typed in addresses. I speculated that the basic connectivity was not active, and sought help. The Tesla guy coached me to do a two-button reboot, then to go into the upgraded menu and subscribe to premium connectivity.
Somewhere in there it started working (could find our home address, and accepted voice input with the correct "heard" text appearing on the screen). But I should not in fact have needed already to sign up for premium connectivity, as my free one month trial was just beginning. So I don't know what the deal was, though it seems to be satisfactorily resolved.
2. On attempting, as I habitually do with the Y, to get the cabin temperature comfortable before going out to the car by activating climate in the app for the first time--right at home, I was shocked to see the target temperature reading LO. The app animation indicated that it was actively cooling the car, so I hit OFF. When we got in the car and prepared to leave, both the driver and passenger target temperatures showed "LO" and the system was not active. I tapped the temperatures and separately set each side to 71, and it activated. Not sure what happened here, nor whether it may happen again.
3. On first driving in our dark, street-light-free neighborhood, we noticed that the high cutoff point of the low beams is set so low that vision ahead is unsafely short, especially where there is even a little concavity to the road elevation. We think our new October 2022-built model year 2023 3 RWD has matrix headlights, while our March 2022-built model year 2022 Y LR has the other kind. As currently aimed, we greatly prefer the local neighborhood behavior of the previous headlights.
I hope issues 1 and 2 were evanescent, so just mention them here as the sort of delivery day glitch that can harm the experience. I currently intend to adjust the headlight aiming myself. As I lack the prescribed facilities (perfectly level parking 25 feet in front of a bare wall) I plan to use a "relative adjustment", parking on the slightly sloped concrete pad outside my garage door in a repeatable location, marking the current beam tops with some gaffer's tape on the door, then adjusting up a couple of clicks. That probably won't be enough, but I'll do some test driving before going any further.
At the present time, I don't know whether I think the factory mis-aimed my headlights, or I just find the factory intended aiming to be unsuitable for true dark night operation in a location without streetlights, where the streets are not perfectly level. Maybe Tesla should check how their lights work away from Palo Alto.
