I HATED DRIVING MY TESLA - my shocking revelation
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- For a guy who's been so in love with his Tesla Model 3 - the legendary RED DRAGON, I was absolutely shocked to find how much I HATED driving my Model 3 all of last week. 7 days of taking it out only when I absolutely HAD to go somewhere. In this short 8 minute video I'll share WHY, and explain the revelation I had that I would never have predicted unless it happened to me.
This episode was so sincere and from your heart, I enjoyed it so much. Yes I thoroughly agree with your findings, it's amazing how some people can knock things. We tend to take things for granted, as we do with people we love.............
Profound point you make. So - good reminder to NOT take the people in our lives for granted :)
I experienced this last week. My 2018 M3 autopilot and cruise stopped working. First time this has happened since getting the car new. Tried reboot with scroll wheels, nothing. Pulled over and parked, nothing. After a forum search, one solution was to open all four doors and close them. Turned out to work! Hasn’t happened since thankfully but I total understand where you’re coming from!! I could never go back to a car without these features!
Wow - there's I trick I hadn't even heard of! Thanks for sharing it Angela
Opening all four doors fixed your issue? What the heck?! This is the problem with software based vehicles, while I enjoy my Tesla at times it can act as wacked out as my laptop.
Not having regenerative breaking really sucks.
It's absolutely the WORST thing to NOT have. All the rest I could live with, but no regen - not that one :)
Thanks for this. This reminds us of how wonderful Teslas are 99.9% of the time.
As the brake overrules the accelerator, it should have been "left foot on the brake, put in reverse, right foot ~20% for the juice pedal, release brake slowly."
Absolutely true. One does get out of the habit... and that was true here. So, thanks for the reminder
So it was your steering wheel mod that came back to bite you. What did that lesson cost you?
Yes - but not in the way you imagine. However, I am going to make it a separate episode before Christmas so all will be revealed then :)
Interesting video, great points! I'm SO grateful for Elektra, my Model 3, for all those reasons and MORE...I could never go back to an ICE car. Elektra makes me smile every day...Even when she's just hanging out in the garage or a parking lot! Also, I'm SO grateful for all the awesome additional features she's received and how much smarter she is now than the day I took delivery of her in 2019!! Super excited to unwrap the Christmas software update.....
That's the beauty of Teslas - they just keep getting better. Over-the-air updates are a logical but brilliant idea. We have it on our phones.. why not on our cars?!
I guess Joni Mitchell's old song got it right (what was it called again, "Big Red Dragon"?) Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone.
So true! And what a great song that was :) Big Yellow Taxi - Big Red Dragon - same thing really :)
Many of the "aides; assists and functions" have been factory standards in non ev's for 10+ years.
A car with abs is a death trap.
Did you mean with ABS - or without ABS?
You never explained what you did that caused the issue and how much it cost to fix. I figured it was probably the steering wheel mod, but would like to know the exact issue with it.
Because that’s my next episode. Working on that tomorrow. Then FSD - Pass or Fail on Saturday. Then vacation in Kauai :)
For the last 40 years I have driven an automatic car with two feet - break and accelerator... avoids brick walls...! AND love my Tesla...thanks for the warning..
I might be missing something, but I find very strange that all of this stuff gets disabled. I understand that Autopilot/FSD and cruise control would be disabled, but what does regen have to do with the thumb wheels? That's oene thing that scares me a bit with Tesla, they can disable any part of your car for arbitrary reasons. Even if I had a Tesla Model 3/Y, which I still do want, I don't think I'd get rid of my Mazda Miata and Can-Am Spyder, I enjoy driving... sometimes.
I get that same experience every time I have to drive my wife's gas car
She makes you do that! That's cruel and unusual punishment. So that's your punishment whenever you make her mad, right?
@@model3man I had to use her car last week when we had snow as my Tesla isn't an AWD model (and I didn't want to take it out in the snow) Fortunately she never wants to drive my Tesla
Did you take your (now 'spare') OEM steering wheel into the SC with you, Peter ? What transpired ?
I did but they did not need it. They just wanted me to take it in just in case the new steering yoke had something that was faulty in the connectors. Turned out it was just fine and I (of course) have the old round wheel safely tucked away in a closet
What made your Tesla lose all of your features? When will you have that future episode that describes what you did you cause this set of problems? You said you were responsible but at that point I don't understand what you did to bring this set of problems. Or did some Tesla hardware failure cause all these problems at once? What was the failure? What did the service people say? Did you have any part at all in causing this set of problem.
What a wally. Moral of this story: don't modify your hi-tech equipment without sufficient expertise
Wally I might be :) But, the problem here was stupidity on my part - but I'm making an episode on it as a cautionary tale in a few days. Mistakes are great if one can learn from them. Happens right the way through life. Never too old to make mistakes - and learn :)
So this was a finger problem on your part, had that problem many a time myself.
Traded in my manual Toyota Echo for my Model 3, want a difference, but I do miss the manual functionally now and then.
Before we got rid of our Subaru Outback (POS) which was had random electrical problems over 4 years (no one was able to find the intermittent fault) which disabled many features it was a curse to drive I feel for you.
It's always good to realize and remember that ALL car makes and models can succumb to physical or electrical problems from time to time and that no car is ever perfect. Not even our beloved Teslas
You poor man! You had a horse for a week instead of a Tesla. I had a similar experience when I rented a VW for a week - is this how other people live?!! 😆
LOL Haha! Yes - I believe it is. And I don't want to be THEM :)
There is a problem with my new model y and it cannot install any update. It downloads 100% but the installation goes up to 60% and it says Installation Failed. Been to Service Center 3 times and have been waiting for a fix like 2 months now. Very sad
That's unusual that the service centre can't force the update? Could be a firmware issue but I guess they've thought of that as well.
@@model3man It is a hardware issue. Some physical parts need to be replaced. They just don't know which parts.
@@oncorpse2987 Got it! That sounds right.
@@model3man I wish I had a Tesla related CZcams channel to report on this. To share my story with everyone.
@@oncorpse2987 - Never too late to start one, right? :)
Hi Peter, We just sold our model 3 long range with FSD the previous month, It was a 2018 aswell we owned for 2 years! We loved the car but Ended up getting what we paid for it plus we got to drive it for 2 years basically free. That and the fact that it was out of warranty tempted us to sell the car. Looking to transition into a new model Y with a full warranty again now. Would you be keeping red dragon for the upcoming time or maybe getting into something newer as car prices are still pretty high currently?
Sadly, the realities of being on the edge of retirement mean that the beautiful "Dragon Lady" is not... how shall we say... tempted by the proposition of spending MORE money on cars :). So, I think we are going to be keeping Red Dragon for many more years. Although - I do still have a 39% discount on a Roadster (from the early days of sharing codes with new Tesla buyers - so perhaps I could transfer that discount to a new Y?? Have to check into that
That’s totally understandable, We loved our 3 and honestly I do have a bit of sellers remorse currently but that could be because we haven’t found a replacement for our Y yet. Im thinking of buying a slightly used model Y with FSD for the tax savings as I found out In BC you don’t have to pay pst or on a EV with more than 6000km, you can even save the gst if it’s a private sale. I have found a couple 2022 models with FSD for the 95k Range including tax. Do you think that’s the better move or going with a new one which ends up being the same but its missing FSD? Our old model 3 had FSD so I’m not sure how much I’m going to miss it.
You almost sounded as dramatic as my 6 years old daughter. Almost.
Haha. Well - I'll have to try harder next time :)
Learn how to do left foot braking.
Agreed. It was a skill I had many moons ago with my old ICE clunkers, but had not used for the last 10 years due to the HOLD feature in both the LEAF and the TESLA. Always good to be reminded of the basics, right!
Actually first hell yeah
Imagine if it was a Tesla Semi !!!
That wouldn't happen with the Semi because you wouldn't do the steering wheel mod.