All righty guys
So it's been a little while since we brought you guys some new Tesla content
And you know what that actually means that you know, we've had this car for quite a while at this point
We're going on around three months of ownership of this 2020 model 3
And in that timeframe, we've learned quite a bit
We've driven around 2000 over over 2000 miles at this point
So we have quite a few different things that we want to update you on a few of the issues
We've maybe had and a lot of the things that we've learned about what it's truly like to own a Tesla
And one of the first things we noticed was just how much attention this draws
It doesn't take you long to realize that. Yeah, I'm not sure. I realized that that was going to happen. I knew people okay
Sure, a lot of people know about Tesla they like Tesla's they've intrigued by it, but I didn't realize how much just like an everyday
Random person might one time just kind of approach you or talk to you, you know
I can have someone like like sneak up behind me at Walmart was getting your car hit like hey
Did you get out of that Tesla?
Tell me about it, you know, like stuff like that, you know
The genuine interest and all just this car is insane
You know, I mean you would think that it's a Lamborghini by the amount of people that stare at you
I've had people crossing sidewalks like literally just stop in the middle of the road and just like stare at you
And it just kind of it's a level of attention that is kind of almost awkward if you don't like attention
So keep that in mind if you're looking to buy one, and we haven't mentioned it yet in this specific video
But those of you news of the channel, this is the standard range. So this is
$35,000 so
You could say there's definitely not another $35,000 vehicle on the market that is going to you know, make this much of an impression
Now the next part about the ownership that we kind of wanted to talk to you guys about is the charging this we do not
Have a garage at our home so it's parked outside. And we also don't have a special outlet or anything. So we're using a regular
115 volt household stop outlet just
literally
Love you guys talk about that kind of a little bit of an experiment. We're testing the waters for you guys
Can you have a standard range? That's the lowest possible range and charge it with the slowest possible method and still have a good experience
Yeah, and to be honest with you guys
Currently it is not a problem at all. You know we tend to drive
Maybe 50 or 60 miles of range out in a day
And that's easily caught up at night. You know, you come home at 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. And you charge it until 9:00 a.m
the next morning right you got
Ten hours of charging six miles an hour. You got 60 miles of range
So your backup battery the our household outlet does charges six miles per hour in case you're wondering what the rate is
Nevermind has got a ball as blacks Thomas
rollin, cool
That's the first time we've ever all done. Yeah
hearing can I'm surprised I
Mean but it is what it is we have well, we haven't been to the country. We're actually heading to the country
So we'll see how many people paid Tesla haters we have
Now that is not to say that we didn't have issues with
The regular 115 volt household outlet because basically our first week that we brought it in
we didn't even realize this was a problem until we were charging the vehicle and also cooking something in the microwave and you're like
What does it have to do with anything? Well, we learned that our
microwave was on the same circuit as our outdoor outlet and
The Tesla basically will charge that you know suck all the juice that can to get that six miles of range per hour
and when you have them on congruently, basically
It just tripped the circuit breaker and then you lost all power
And obviously that's not something that you want to have to deal with
so
What we had to do is just basically take the microwave off of that circuit and onto another and that only costs us about 100
Bucks. I really wasn't had to hire an electrician. Yeah, but it was a simple solution. Like I was only 125 dollars
But you know being realistic
Having a Tesla no matter which way you choose to charge it
You know household outlet or if you choose to have them installed the dedicated charger. You'll probably learn some things about your
Electrolytes as a literate how the system works what things are connected, you know
We just haven't have most of everything downstairs connected to the same thing that also went outside
So you cannot might have to separate some stuff, you know
But it shouldn't be some anything too complicated or too big of a barrier
No, as I just kind of region to a stop here kind of is a good segue into
the driving experience
how that's been how getting used to an Eevee is
Really I'm happy to report it's not as big of a barrier or a change as you would think you know initially
it was maybe in the first week the whole experience of the
Technology and here plus the Eevee driving experience was a little bit
You know, like wow, there's a lot but after that first week, maybe even just a few days, you know
You start to realize it's not fundamentally different all cars have a gas pedal a brake pedal a steering wheel
You know the speed, you know is located here instead of there
But I mean it easy to get used to yeah, I mean that's it's clearly a non complete non-issue
You know it basically
It just turns into a really wasn't so drive vehicle
Now our ownership hasn't all been completely roses and sunshine
We have had a few different things that have went wrong with this model three few different things
We had to fix nothing major but a few different things
For one I do want to talk about to warranty repairs that we had to do
One of them was for the center consult piece here
It has been repaired now and honestly, we're pairing it wasn't a big deal or anything
But when we took delivery of it had a cut in this piece right here
I guess some went at the factory maybe had cut it with their leg or something like that
But it had a nick in it and it would have eventually kind of sprawled out into big cuts
So we had to get that fixed
We'll make a video about the service thing, by the way, because that's actually a really cool process. But other than that
this right speaker grille here and
It rattles it honestly is pretty inconsistent
That's rattling, but it seems to be you know
I got really cold days. If you haven't driven it for a while this speaker rattles, like
Nobody's business sometimes so it's I'm sure it's just a club missing or whatever
But that is a problem that we've had with this particular model three that we've had to have fixed under warm
now beyond the rattling speaker grille, which
According to the things that I read online that Tesla forums is something you could probably expect
It seems to be a trouble spot for them
There's been a couple
Little things that have come to bother us a little bit they bring something wipers for instance
No, Tesla uses a camera to watch the rain where all other automakers use a sensor
It's not as good
it has
It doesn't sense rain as well as I think that it should
Also Road mist if it's a kind of a light mist or for spray coming off of other cars it just
ignores it like it's not it has to be afraid rock falling from the sky for it to so you can and I've let it
like fill the windshield all the way up just to see will it white and I really won't so you got you have to
Occasionally go to press the end of the stalk and let it do a white board
you can take over manual and then the only other
With regards to the windshield wipers as it has some phantom wipes. Sometimes it won't be raining
And I don't know if it's picking up on dust or stirred or something, but occasionally it will wipe the windshield. That's very limited
it's happened like two times and like
Dusk, but I don't know what it's picking up on but it'll just start wiping away and there's nothing at all around
And then the only other minor thing I can think of that's impacted us is
Occasionally since your phone is the key in this model
Occasionally when I come up to the vehicle and grab the door handle it hasn't sensed it yet
So it will basically denying the entry won't let me open the door
So I have to pull on the door handle a couple times before it finally
Senses it impairs now. Okay. I've got an Android phone
Mason says that's not really impacted him only one time with his iPhone
I have it a little bit of an older Android phone
So it seems to be more of a problem that I have versus that he has
Yeah, so I mean keep that in mind with your phone is your key. So if you have like a
clunky junker phone if I have some issues pairing to the Bluetooth, but we do expect maybe
Occasionally to suffer from a small delay getting into in or out of the vehicle with using your phone
Well guys that pretty much concludes this
Ownership video like we said we've had it for three months 2,000 miles on it
And you know I can speak for both of us. We've really absolutely love owning this vehicle
You know
I will tell it to I tell it to anyone who asks
The first week you own it is just as kind of weird. You're kind of getting used to it
But once you get used to all the weird stuff and all the high-tech nests of this vehicle
I think you'll really grow to appreciate a lot that it has to offer
And honestly there haven't been much things to complain about like we mentioned there have been a few different issues with it
But other than that really a fantastic ownership experience with this 403
And of course, obviously we're just getting started with the ownership experience
So we will keep updating you guys on frequent intervals anything new that develops that way you guys could know
You know, should you buy what should you buy one, especially in terms
I know a lot of people were concerned about reliability and stuff like that
So with definitely make sure to keep you guys in the loop with all the latest
Developments and of course any other new Tesla videos coming up soon about some different topics
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