- I still don't understand proper tire maintenance.
Literally the only maintenance thing you have to do.
36,000 miles on the same four tires.
If you've been around for a long time,
you might remember the first Tesla video that I made,
actually, it was the second Tesla video that I made
that went super viral.
There were articles written about it.
There were articles written about me.
YouTuber sells his car due to bald tires
and it was kind of crazy and funny.
And what I think about it is that it did get me on the radar
of a lot of Tesla YouTubers
that got me into some of the Tesla events
like the Model 3 event, the Model Y event.
Well, today I'm ashamed to say
that we're at another point where I just noticed
that my tires are so bald, embarrassingly bald,
dangerously bald,
so bald that I'm lucky that it hasn't blown
on the freeway somewhere with all the road trips that I do
and today's the day I'm gonna get them fixed.
I mean, I am scared to show this to you right now.
Look at this, no tread right here.
And then on the inside
this is actually metal coming out of the wheel.
That is not the way to treat your tires.
There's really only one thing you have to do for service
when you have a Tesla
and it's to change the tires, put new wheels on there.
I have driven for 36,000 miles
on this 2020 Tesla Model S long range
36,000 miles on the same four set of tires.
So yeah, they are getting bald.
So in today's video, we're gonna do three things.
One, we're going to go to Discount Tire
and get these wheels swapped out.
And I know there's been some talk
about Discount Tire in the past
because we took our Model X there once
and they would not service it
because the tire had the sound dampening stuff inside of it
and they told me we can't do it.
Well, we're gonna take the Model S there
and see if they will change all four of the wheels.
Number two, there's been a big controversy this last week
about the Tesla charger inside of the car.
When you buy a new Tesla,
should it come with the charging cable or not?
So I'm gonna share with you my thoughts
and also show you how we charge at home
and some of the best practices around that.
And number three,
I would consider myself an experienced Tesla owner
after many, many years,
many many hundreds of thousands of miles driven
and I have one tip for a device
that is an awesome addition for your Tesla.
First things first, let's go to Discount Tire.
Hopefully I can make it there
on these wheels that are not even rubber anymore,
they're literally metal.
And then I've got some things to share with you.
Let's do it.
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Look at those wheels.
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Okay, so I'm back.
It is actually comical.
How much tread is in this wheel right here.
Look, you would think that I'd be a tire expert
after all of these years.
I still don't understand proper tire maintenance.
I haven't done a great job on it,
but wow, even driving to right here, the car felt so smooth.
It's like it had new shocks on it
but really it's just the wheels.
It's literally the only maintenance thing you have to do.
And it's easy to get complacent and lazy on it
when it really is the only maintenance thing
that you ever have to do with an electric car.
But there's been some controversial things
that have come up in the last week about Teslas
and we need to talk about them.
This past week in the Tesla world,
there's been a lot of drama around this,
a little charging cable.
And so I thought today would be a good day
to share some of my best tips to prepare for summer
and what you need to do if you're buying a Tesla.
Should you buy this for $200
or get this wall charger for your house
and also have some other really cool products
that you could put inside of your Tesla
if you are buying a Tesla.
So some of you may or may not know
this is the original Tesla Roadster.
They built them between 2008 and 2011.
This is the car where Elon Musk came on board.
The first thing that Tesla ever sold
and they made enough money for the Roadster
in order to make the 2011 Model S.
So a lot of people ask me is this just an amazing car?
It's actually not that great of a car,
it's very important and very historical
because everything that Tesla is today
as far as their car manufacturing process
came from the things they learned from this.
I wanna share with you some things
that I think are important to have inside of your EV
that a lot of people don't talk about.
So what Tesla included
and I think they still sell these on their website maybe
but this came with every single Roadster.
It's the tire inflation kit, compressor and sealing.
I do like having this in my car
because my wheels do get lower pressure sometimes.
And I have actually used this many many times
to inflate my tires, both in this car
and even my Model S and in my Model X.
So for those of you that are new to buying Teslas
or somebody that has a Tesla,
this is one of the things that I recommend having
but because this technology is super old,
the sponsor of today's video has a solution
that I like a lot better,
which is a battery powered, super fast tire inflater.
And there are two versions.
This is the Fanttik X8 Apex
and then this one is the Fanttik X8.
This one, I would imagine a lot of people would use this
if you're a cyclist
and you're riding around you need to pump up your bike.
X8 Apex is 1.8 pounds,
and the X8 is 1.1 pounds,
super light.
Being only 1.8 pounds,
you can put this inside of your front trunk
or your rear trunk.
Each one of them has an LED flashlight on the top.
This will fill up a tire 45% faster
than the other tire compressors on the market.
This could fill up your motorcycle tire
in two and a half minutes,
where with this Tesla Model S
if I needed to fill up this, because it was flat
I could fill this up to 36 PSI in only six minutes.
These are brand new wheels that are balanced
and filled up from Discount Tire.
Now I'm letting out all the air.
The tire is very flat.
It's not really making any noise anymore.
This tire needs to be up to 41 PSI.
So, nice thing about this is you can set it exactly
to what you want it to be.
All right, we are plugged in.
Are we ready to start the timer?
Ready, set, fill.
You can tell that it was really empty
because we're just now at three PSI.
All right, we are to 10 PSI.
You can see the wheel is starting
to come off the ground a little bit.
And the nice thing about this
is you can fill us just with this
with the batteries inside of it six different wheels.
Anything up to 150 PSI,
you can use either one of these,
the X8 Apex is a little bit bigger
and it has bigger battery capacity.
So you can fill up tires more often,
but the LED screen isn't just to show you what the PSI are.
You can have five different presets
whether it's for a bicycle, a football, a basketball
or your Model S tire.
There we go.
We are done whatever the time was on the screen,
that's how long it took to get to 41 PSI
which is pretty good considering how small this thing is.
and how often are your wheels totally empty.
That doesn't happen super often.
So, yes, if you have a Tesla,
I do recommend that you have a tire inflater.
And this one is a great one that you can buy on Amazon
for less than $100, which if you have a friend
or a family member, maybe it's mother's day,
maybe it's father's day that's coming up.
This could be a really unique thoughtful gift
for them to have that they could put inside of their car,
or just use around their house for anything that needs
air filling up.
Click on the links in the description
select the Amazon coupon
and use our codes
for a total of 25% off the Fanttik X8 tire inflater
and a total of $30 off the X8 apex tire inflater.
So thank you to Fanttik for sponsoring this video.
Check out the link in the description
and let me know your thoughts
on this being an essential thing for a Tesla owner.
Now, we need to talk about
the controversial topic
that I told you I was tweeting about this week.
This is the Tesla charging cable.
If you have an electric car,
it seems like it would be very important
to have one of these inside of your vehicle at all times
to charge at your house, to charge on the road.
Well, Elon Musk tweeted out this week
something that was very controversial
and even Tesla fans that love Elon Musk and love Tesla
they were very upset and some people said
they're even canceling their Tesla orders
and not buying Teslas
because of this one tweet.
What they said was these have come free inside of Teslas
ever since Tesla's started back in 2008
it would be included with the purchase.
Well, Elon, because of low usage of this cable
they were no longer including it for free
and said they were going to charge around $400
just for you to buy this.
And a lot of people were really mad.
They're like, how do you buy an electric car
but you can't plug it in and charge it
and they were so upset.
I tweeted out that I actually have a bunch of these
that I never ever use
and it's really not that much of a loss
to not get it with your car order.
After Elon saw all of the noise on social media
about people that were so mad about this
he lowered the price to $200
and he says when you buy your Tesla,
it's gonna be very easy for you to figure out
how to purchase this.
The checkout will be simple.
So I have an electric car, why don't I use this?
Well, here's the deal.
This thing cost you $200 now
but this right here cost you around $450.
So yes, it is more money to get this wall charger.
This is also a lot more convenient, your cables.
This is even kind of messy looking right now
but at least they're off the ground.
This thing is so dusty
because when you have it plugged in,
everything's just on the ground and making a big old mess.
Here's the argument that I heard
from a lot of people on Twitter.
First of all, people are saying that,
what about when they travel?
What's gonna happen when you travel
and you don't have the cable, you need a plug in.
Well, the good news is in 2022,
it's not like it was in 2011, 2012
when Tesla first came out and those cables were essential.
You can click on the buttons inside of your Tesla
and it will navigate you to every single supercharger
that you could potentially go to.
If you can't make it to a Tesla supercharger
there are destination chargers at hotels, at restaurants,
all over the place.
If you can't make it to one of those,
you just take this adapter with you
and there's all kinds of third party chargers
because a lot more companies are coming out
with electric cars and they're putting up chargers,
electrify America, different hotel chargers.
And as long as you have this little adapter
you can connect to those too.
We haven't needed that charging cable when we travel places.
So am I saying that this is a bad product
and you shouldn't buy it?
No, that's not what I'm saying,
I'm just saying in my experience from owning Teslas
for all of these years and multiple Teslas
I honestly don't use this much.
And so if you don't want to spend the $200 on it
and you'd rather get a wall charger
and you live in a home where you can install it
I'd recommend you get that.
If you'd like to have this just in case,
even if you only use it twice in five years
go ahead and buy it and spend the $200.
I'm not a hater on this.
I just wanna save you money
and make sure that you're having the best experience
that you can have out of driving your Tesla.
And honestly, this really isn't it.
My financial advice to you is that
if you are stretching to pay the $200
on top of your super expensive electric car
you might want to consider getting a lower cost car
and not buying a Tesla.
So there's my tip.
And I'd love to hear in the comments, what you guys think?
Is it a really bad take that I don't use it?
And is it because I'm a rich YouTuber that has four cars
that was like the most common thing,
they're like you don't live in the real world.
You don't need these because you're super rich.
Well, no it's because the infrastructure is there
and it's all set up and you can charge all over the place
and you can spend a little bit more
and get something that works much better.
And if that means it's just because I'm a YouTuber
and I'm out of touch, then I don't think that's the case
but if it is, oh, well, that's fine.
I'm fine with that take.
Don't let your tires go bald,
don't live off of my example of letting him go so bald.
It's the only service thing you have to do in your Tesla.
Put a tire inflater in your vehicle,
whether it's the Tesla one or the sponsor of today's video
which I really like
that you can buy on Amazon links in the description.
And then number three,
it's okay to spend a little bit of money
and do a little bit of planning for this guy right here.
I think you can get 'em for the $300 range on eBay even.
This one is signed by Elon.
I didn't get this one for free.
I bought this on eBay, signed by Elon for $350, not bad.
But if you like that charging cable,
go ahead and get it.
There are some tips that I hope you that have Teslas
have great summers and have good road trips.
And honestly, if you're somebody
that's going on a lot of road trips that needs one of these
for maybe the Airbnb that you're staying at
where you need to charge
most of the time
this thing is not even long enough
to charge in the Airbnbs that you're staying at.
There are third party companies
that for a few hundred dollars more
sell these charging cables
with multiple adapters that are 30 feet long.
One of my favorite Tesla YouTubers is Kim from Like Tesla
and she has one that's 30 feet long
that she used in a video when she was at an Airbnb,
she ran it from the driveway around the side of the house
in the window for the laundry room
and plugged it in where the laundry machines were
and was able to get fast charging every night
while she was there on her vacation.
That was super smart.
That is useful.
So if you're gonna spend money on a cable
for those specific situations
maybe look to a third party one that's way longer
so you actually have more utility from it.
Woo, all right, there we go.
I just filled up a football.
We can fill up any type of sports balls with that
along with your car.
I've found that using a credit card is very effective
and easy.
It's not easy getting out in and outta this car.
This is from a company.
Whoa, that didn't mean in the face.
Kind of weird.