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Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by seren »

izacus wrote: post #108
mach5 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i can't speak for the Model 3, but i own a Bolt, here's the service schedule for that: * every 7,500mi: rotate tires * every 22,500mi: change cabin air filter * every 5 years: replace brake fluid * every 150,000mi: replace battery cooling fluid that's it. crazy!

> * every 7,500mi: rotate tires What's that?

Change the wheel a given tire is attached to. This is to have a regular "wear" on your tires. Incidentally, you can also regularly rotate your mattress to have a better sleep.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by kumarvvr »

izacus wrote: post #108
mach5 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i can't speak for the Model 3, but i own a Bolt, here's the service schedule for that: * every 7,500mi: rotate tires * every 22,500mi: change cabin air filter * every 5 years: replace brake fluid * every 150,000mi: replace battery cooling fluid that's it. crazy!

> * every 7,500mi: rotate tires What's that?

You change the position of the tires. The front ones are removed and fixed at the rear and the rear ones are removed and fixed at the front.

Allows for uniform wear and tear for the tires.

Some even interchange the left and right tires.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by kumarvvr »

mach5 wrote: post #96
kumarvvr wrote: post #6

What sort of maintenance are performed on these cars?? Seems like there is nothing to be maintained, given the all steel, aluminum, glass stuff everywhere. Does it have any oil changes required, like in brakes or transmission?

i can't speak for the Model 3, but i own a Bolt, here's the service schedule for that: * every 7,500mi: rotate tires * every 22,500mi: change cabin air filter * every 5 years: replace brake fluid * every 150,000mi: replace battery cooling fluid that's it. crazy!

To think about it, it's extremely eco-friendly.

No polluting oils, no polluting coolant fluids, etc.

I'm from India, and for my car, an average of 1$ per 50 miles goes into maintenance.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by hoorayimhelping »

_ph_ wrote: post #76
elmar wrote: post #57

The Tesla Model 3 has the most minimalistic interior I've ever seen http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-minimalistic-in...

Which is, as long as it doesn't cut important functionality away, for me very preferable to an interior style littered with screens and buttons and knobs. I think the Model 3 is even an improvement to the S there, you have a more minimalistic looking interior even, but they added important usability with proper door handles and pockets and the center console.

I got a 2017 Subaru Impreza with a touch screen interface. Terrible idea on a car. I'm constantly accidentally grazing the touch screen and changing things that I'm not sure of cause I'm watching the road. Too many buttons is awful, but a touchscreen is even worse. You need some kind of physical feeling when you're not looking at the screen and your brain isn't being tricked by the screen.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by tetraodonpuffer »

sxates wrote: post #23
Animats wrote: post #14

Nice, but $59,500 as shown. Not $35,000. The real-world price has crept up. The base model has a small battery. The Tesla Model S starts at $68,000. So the real-world price is down only 13% from the Model S.

To be fair, a base Model S doesn't have all the autopilot stuff and upgrade sound and everything else. So to compare equivalent equipment packages, that Model S is a lot more than $9k more.

doesn't the model S though also give you free access to superchargers (unlike the model 3 where you have to pay)? This should factor in the comparison if you live close to one and/or plan a lot of cross country trips where they are available

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by hoorayimhelping »

seren wrote: post #111
izacus wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> * every 7,500mi: rotate tires What's that?

Change the wheel a given tire is attached to. This is to have a regular "wear" on your tires. Incidentally, you can also regularly rotate your mattress to have a better sleep.

>Change the wheel a given tire is attached to.

I don't think I've ever had this done when getting my tires rotated. They just move the wheels and tires from front to back and sometimes from left to right.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by kumarvvr »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #89
kumarvvr wrote: post #6

What sort of maintenance are performed on these cars?? Seems like there is nothing to be maintained, given the all steel, aluminum, glass stuff everywhere. Does it have any oil changes required, like in brakes or transmission?

From what I've heard Telsa vehicles rare in for warranty repairs at a higher rate than most other new vehicles. "The main problem areas involved the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks." The most common problems involve replacement of the electric motors, warped brake rotors, door handles that fail to slide out as a driver a…

Electric motors are one of the most rugged pieces of equipment in the world.

Coming from a state run engineering enterprise, where every motor is purchased from the lowest bidder, even the worst quality motors run for decades before even showing signs of any trouble, including mechanical.

For a car like the Tesla, it's hard to believe that the motor will give any sort of trouble.

Also, most electric motors, even those driven by variable frequency drives, are extremely simple in construction and are extremely resilient to shocks and prolonged use.

Almost all modern motors have efficiencies upwards of 97.5%, so you have very less heating losses and mechanical losses even in the most demanding conditions.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by foobarge »

Nice but still not what I need. I need a long range electric car whose interior I won't be afraid to damage from time to time. I need something that moves me, my family and my stuff (skis, bikes, windsurf + sails, mountaineering gears, etc..) to where I need to be, not something for showing-off and asserting status.

The large screen in the middle of the car is a non complete non-starter - lots of the stuff I carry in my car are going to poke nice holes in it: what a joke.

Tesla (or anyone else), please build a cheap, high-impact plastic, no-large-screen interior car with front and rear seats I can fold for lots of room and I'll buy them for the rest of my life.

What I want is a long-range electric 4x4 Renault Kangoo that is not a utility vehicle. I'm sure it can be built.

Re: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review

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Post by kukx »

Roritharr wrote: post #46

I really hope the German government does something to make it more desirable for employees to want the Model 3 or similar cars as company cars. Just to explain the involved costs: There's two ways the government taxes company cars for employees, either you get to write a driving log, that then marks each route as either private or business and then you get the privately driven part taxed as income OR you just get 1%…

They will not allow that, if that would result in Germans buying less German cars.
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