What did you do to your Tesla Model 3 today?

[DSX63]

Answer: a)

Digbeth SC were completely brilliant. No fuss whatsoever, completed in a few hours. I fact the only thing I would have done is worked from the waiting room rather than doing the round trip in the loan car if I'd known how fast they would be. Staff are very impressed with the MiC cars in general.

Before
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After:
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Perfection.

Looks good. I've had my M3P for a few days and despite checking the car on a few occasions - what I thought was thoroughly - I noticed today my car has the same door issue, so good to know it's possible to fix. Can't believe I had missed it. What's more surprising was today I also noticed what looks like someone having had a bad day with an expanding foam gun

. Haven't seen that in any other threads and again - can't believe I missed it - have had several passengers and none of them have seen it even though I'd mentioned trying to find build issues.

 

[MrBadger]

Well I was going to snow foam the car but decided to try to new automatic hail foam version instead...

I may have been a little premature taking the winters off

 

[TBrownTX]

Today I installed bright LEDs in the boot from Abstract Ocean, and discovered you can manually set the display to night mode all the time (which I did)!

Tim

 

[bitmanEV]

AC charged too 100% (balancing the batteries once a month)
Washed it
Took it for a spin to about 90%
Did software update to version 2021.4.15

 

[Medved_77]

Got a 'Green Card' for it.

Spoiler alert - it's neither green nor printed on card.

 

[bryand]

I need a holdall for personal kit when I go camping, and the Tesla bag I got for my old Model S is too big for the Model 3. This 60 litre bag should do the job and fits under the boot floor easily.

 

[pwe169]

I towed a dinghy for the 1st time - averaged 250wh/m over 80 miles - very pleased with how it performed and the ability to have the rear camera on whilst doing was great!!

 

[RedMod3]

Today I drove my Tesla 5m out of the garage, and 5m back in while BP Pulse installed my FREE charger. I now have two 32A chargers which, when I've installed the changeover switch, I'll be able to use either (but not both) chargers for our 2 EVs (2nd coming Friday next week). A good day.

 

[Medved_77]

I towed a dinghy for the 1st time - averaged 250wh/m over 80 miles - very pleased with how it performed and the ability to have the rear camera on whilst doing was great!!

Must be my driving style but I struggle to get under 280 Wh/m without towing anything in an SR+!

 

[Adopado]

Must be my driving style but I struggle to get under 280 Wh/m without towing anything in an SR+!

If the temperature is up and there's no wind and there's some gradients in your favour you can drive 42 miles at an average of 166Wh/mile in an SR+ ... exceptional obviously ... and no motorways ... but I did that the week before last driving from the Borders into Edinburgh. Not saying I always get that on my journeys !

 

[Gatsojon]

Added 20% free charge at Quarry Bank Mill yesterday. Had to restart the charging from the app a couple of times as it stopped once and dropped to 16 amps another time for no particular reason I could see.

 

[Gatsojon]

Finally got the winters swapped.

 

[Dilly]

View attachment 665261Finally got the winters swapped.

You might have peaked too early… summer is behind schedule. Probably due to Covid. Everything else is.

 

[MrBadger]

View attachment 665261Finally got the winters swapped.

What winter/cold rubber are you running?

First car that we have run 'winters' on so still finding our feet when to make the swap. No experience of how warm we can still run the cold weather tyres, but been happy with how things have behaved on the couple of seasons we have run our Sottozero 3's. Our temperature range here in the UK is such that you are going to be sometimes running 'winters' too warm or 'summers' too cool so still trying to find that balance. I think I would much run a winter too warm than a summer too cool - not noticed any issues in doing so so far but I am sure some purists would have kittens running winters into the mid teens C. We swapped over early April but further south.

 

[Peter 224]

Filled the battery, a first time... Granny Cable whilst I wait for the fitter to install the proper charger..
A rather novel procedure that I expect will become unremarkable. It took 3 hours to take the battery from 65% to 80%.

 

[browellm]

Discovered that the wireless charging pad does not work properly with the iPhone 12 Mini. The Mini sits too far down to work properly and stops charging after about 10 seconds.

I searched on here and a chap with a Model Y discovered the same problem, and suggested a short pencil placed horizontally at the bottom of the pad lifts the iphone just enough for it to work perfectly. I wonder if I can be bothered to raise it with the SC. I suppose that's the only way these problems get fixed.

 

[Gatsojon]

What winter/cold rubber are you running?

Michelin Alpin 5. Pleased with them whilst noting they have not really been tested this year beyond the cold and wet.

 

[Peter 224]

Today I removed the Aero Wheel Covers and fitted the Tesla accessory wheel hub cover. In our view the look of the car is improved and I can live with the small additional increase in drag, plus the subsequent 4 to 6 mile loss of range.

What does the "Collective" think? Sorry about the rain streaks...

 

[Gatsojon]

I prefer it like that, without the covers.

 

[Drew57]

Much nicer without the aeros - the 18" alloys have always looked good to me.