Built myself some cheap, DIY "jack stands" from scrap wood recently and spent some time today playing with them. Even though there's nothing wrong with the car as far as I can tell, too many years buying old BMWs makes me preemptively look for possible issues and try to fix them.
Got the car in the air and all four wheels off. The first interesting thing I found was a "trough" near the front strut assemblies. Hopefully the pics do it justice. There are two areas on each side that will trap anything that falls in. I suspect for anyone in a winter salty-road state this could be a serious issue. I was able to use my small shop vac to vacuum out a bunch of gravel from those areas.
I removed all the bottom liners and did a close inspection of everything that I could see. Most everything was good but I did find a spot where one of the cooling lines to the rear motor appeared to be rubbing on metal. Over time this could rub a hole in the cooling line so I added some foam to that spot to hopefully prevent this. This is on the driver side of the car and forward of the rear motor. No idea if this is common to all Model 3s or just a fluke on mine.
Got the car in the air and all four wheels off. The first interesting thing I found was a "trough" near the front strut assemblies. Hopefully the pics do it justice. There are two areas on each side that will trap anything that falls in. I suspect for anyone in a winter salty-road state this could be a serious issue. I was able to use my small shop vac to vacuum out a bunch of gravel from those areas.
I removed all the bottom liners and did a close inspection of everything that I could see. Most everything was good but I did find a spot where one of the cooling lines to the rear motor appeared to be rubbing on metal. Over time this could rub a hole in the cooling line so I added some foam to that spot to hopefully prevent this. This is on the driver side of the car and forward of the rear motor. No idea if this is common to all Model 3s or just a fluke on mine.