As a Model X owner, I constantly have to instruct people how to use my door handles. I think it’s about 50/50 with people figuring it out the first time. Is this also a common problem with the Model 3 (and Y) door handles? I’m specifically interested in how first time passengers react, though please feel free to share your opinions or tips about the door handles too!
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Do people understand the door handles?
- Thread starter arathald
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Even worse, *I* don’t know how to work them!
After driving my wife’s X for a few weeks, I keep pressing on the handle waiting for the door to pop open.
Even worse is getting in and immediately stepping on the brake, wondering why the damn door won’t close.
“oh, right.”
After driving my wife’s X for a few weeks, I keep pressing on the handle waiting for the door to pop open.
Even worse is getting in and immediately stepping on the brake, wondering why the damn door won’t close.
“oh, right.”
I think I’ve done this at least once on every single other car I’ve driven while I’ve owned the X
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timk225
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smatthew
Active Member
All you have to say is "Push with your thumb on the fat part"
JetFalcon
Member
I really want this feature, never have to reach a door again. Could do something else like check instagram instead of closing your door.
Is this closing feature only Model X?
Unfortunately so. It’s probably the thing I’m gonna miss most whenever it’s time to move on.
Not just opening from outside, but from the inside too!
Wait, we have door handles? I been rolling down the windows in the app and getting in the way we always have in Hazard County..?.
getting out from inside (pushing the button, then push the door outward) seems to be even harder for most to understand than getting in the car with funky thumb handles... invariably people want to pull on something to get out and end up pulling the manual lever...
smatthew
Active Member
Wait, am I fat shaming my handles every time I tell someone how to get in?
It's the only car I know of where you have to explain to people how to get into it AND how to get out of it.
I added decals (like these) to the interior door buttons, and it's helped a bit, but people often still need instructions on how to get out.
That’s exactly what I say to new passengers. Works like a charm.
XLR82XS
D M C
I posted about this last year. People in general are dumb.... It works the same way as a C6 Corvette. Press the button!! It's marked like the window switches!
Mattopotamus
Member
Never, but the outside handles are never what I am worried about. If someone is riding in my car for the first time, I make sure I tell them about the button to open the doors from the inside. The last thing I want is for the emergency release to damage the windows.
TX_M3P+
Member
I'm pretty sure OP is talking about the external door handles for getting into the car, not the internal button to get out of the car. But, yeah, using the internal button is just as problematic as figuring out how to open the door from the outside for most new passengers.
CyberGus
Not Just a Member
DeLorean has the same problem...black door handle surrounded by black trim, most first-timers get trapped
XLR82XS
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