despite what my videos may portray the Tesla model 3 is not perfect
i know it's hard to believe but during this video i'm going to talk through the
10 things i think tesla could do to improve your Model 3 which might help
lower your expectations just a little bit
so that when you go to pick it up you're not going to be disappointed or
surprised by anything
if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit subscribe down the bottom
right hand corner and that's because i do regular videos
on tesla model 3s and that's because i like the tesla model 3.
so don't hate me for doing this dislikes of my model 3
because i absolutely love it but my friend challenged me to make a video of
the 10 things i don't like about it so i'd be interested to know whether you
share my dislikes whether you think they're rubbish
or whether you've got some of your own write them in the comments below and
we'll have a bit of a debate and i'll hold my hands up some of these
are really petty but i had to think of ten
so i'm going to start in reversal look like a true chart so just bear in mind
the tens nines and eights are probably quite small
but as we get near the top there are a bit more significant dislikes
so in the number 10 are the auto dimming headlights and the idea is that as a car
approaches you rather than you having to dim your own headlights
the tesla model 3 is going to do it for you and i'm guessing it works on an
algorithm determining the amount of light coming to the camera lens and then
decides whether to dim your headlights on that basis
so the problem is that sometimes the model 3 reads the amount of light
reflecting off traffic signs as light coming directly into the lens and they
will dim them just as you're trying to read the sign
or worse still if there's a barrier in the way it doesn't see the light coming
from the oncoming car directly into the lens so it doesn't dim
them at all and you blind them so you manually go to turn off your
headlights just as the tesla model 3 realizes turns off your headlights so
you end up flashing the person you just blinded and they think you're being a
hopefully though that can be a software update and they can tweak that over time
so they'll get better like they did with the windscreen wipers
so in that number nine are the way the boot and the front cover mainly the boot
is my issue because i just think it's a bit
pointless to be able to open the boot through the app
because you pop the boot and it will open a tiny little bit and then you have
to come under put your hand on the button that would have opened
anyway to lift it all the way up now i've overcome that by putting springs on
my boots so it actually will open automatically
downside is it's now a lot harder to shut because it's got a lot more
resistance and i never really use the front because
although the only way to open it is through the app or in the car
when you come to close the front the only option is to put your hands on the
bonnet and push it down which means you're either going to leave
fingerprints on it if the model 3 is dirty or if your hands are dirty and
your model 3 is clean you're going to leave fingerprints on it that way
so that's one of the main reasons i don't bother using the frunk
i may be expecting too much value for money here but i think a power assisted
frunk was essential to make that space usable
again it's quite a trivial thing but it's the way you use the musical
interface so i'm used to just one touch buttons to
flick to say my phone or to whichever media device or a radio station
well in the tesla model 3 you have to swipe up a little bit then swipe up a
little bit more and then press another button to choose
what you're playing um there are quick options to go through on the scroll
wheel but you have to cycle through all the
different radio stations and i'd prefer just a shortcut on the center console
so you can quickly choose a radio station or a device that you want to
play back there's plenty of space on there to do
it it just needs to be added through a software update really
so generally the car is too scared and by that i mean it beeps and flashes at
you for no apparent reason and you have no clue what it's doing it
for now you can reduce the sensitivity in the settings but then i kind of think
it's pointless having an early warning system
if you delay it warning you early enough and by too scared i mean it'll warn you
you're about to plow down a pedestrian that's safely
walking on the pavement or that you're about to collide into a nicely parked
car that's out the way of the road and you find autopilot will also phantom
brake when you're least expecting it and you spend your time looking around for a
plastic bag or a leaf that might have blown across the sensor to think it's
about to hit something so this one i think is going to be a
controversial one but i'm looking forward to when my model 3 has to make a
sound at low speeds by law which i think is happening in 2021 and
that's because you have to be super aware of all your surroundings when
you're maneuvering at low speed people don't hear your car if you're
waiting to come out of a parking spot and you're in reverse they don't notice
the light so they walk across behind you you can even be sometimes moving and
they won't notice so if we emit a noise going at a slow speed then actually
that's going to be really helpful for awareness
because i'm quite conscious that i'm going to accidentally bump into someone
and i guess it depends on the sound that's going to be emitted whether i
still like this as an option come 2021 but i believe all tesla model 3s are
coming with the speaker already fitted just under the driver's side front wheel
and knowing elon musk i'm sure the sound will be quite unique fingers crossed
it'll be customizable in future software updates
so that brings me nicely onto number five which is how tesla roll out
software updates most of the technologies that receive
over-the-air software updates will get them all at the same time so
think of your phones your consoles your computers when that company hits go
everyone has the option to download it tesla doesn't seem to have any rhyme or
reason as to how they distribute it random countries get it random models
sometimes i'll be the first to get it sometimes the last to get it
and it doesn't seem to make any difference whether my car is connected
to wi-fi or whether it's connected to the charging port
sometimes i'll just not get a version at all you can understand the
disappointment that's displayed in the forums as to why they're waiting weeks
and you can't download it so this one might be controversial so
let me know in the comments below what your thoughts are but i don't like the
frameless windows that are in all the doors
and that's because when you're all opening or trying to get into your car
from a tight spot maybe it's a tight parking space or my garage
at my peripheral vision i can't really see where the window is and my friends
do sound dyspraxis that might be the reason but the amount of times i almost
take my eye out trying to get into my car because
i can't really see out of the corner of my especially in the night time is
ridiculous um and also it does make a little
squeaking because the flex of the car you've got the window
rubbing against the rubber and this might be normal for
famous windows i've never had one before but if i jam my hand just up there it
does stop it squeaking so maybe when full self driving comes
about i can just drive around like that if the squeaking gets too much
but let me know if you experienced that in your model 3 and if you didn't notice
it before now you do sorry not my fault so in the number
three we're getting serious now and that's road noise so
i know i've complained about being too quiet but actually when you're out going
at higher speeds i think the road noise is actually quite loud
now it might be because i've got no engine and i'm actually thinking about
it a bit more i don't know and it could also be the fact that i
live in a county where the roads are pretty horrific
because i have noticed if i'm driving on a really smooth surface it is actually
meeting my expectations it is quite quiet but i think get on a rough road at
70 miles an hour i think it's as loud as any other car
with or without an engine but i'm aware of other manufacturers gone out of their
way to soundproof their car by either putting soundproofing on the wheel
arches to stop some of the sound coming into the car
you could potentially put soundproofing in the doors double glazing
appreciate that the models i'm talking about are probably twenty thousand pound
more expensive and it's probably exceeding expectations
a little bit for a forty thousand pound car
fingers crossed as battery technology improves and the cost to produce the car
goes down they'll be able to invest a little bit more in those technologies
and actually make quite a car when you're driving along though
so this is in number two and you might think this is too high at the chart so
let me know what your thoughts are in the comments
but it's the temperature control in the model 3. in my fiesta which was a 61
plate fiesta i used to set the temperature to 20 which is what i'm
comfortable driving around at and on a hot day kept me lovely and cool
at 20 degrees on a cold day kept me lovely and warm at
20 degrees i find with my tesla model 3 the
temperature i have to adjust it depending on whether it's a hot or cold
day so on a hot day i'll adjust it down to
18 because it doesn't keep me cool enough
and on a cold day i have to adjust it up to 22 because it doesn't keep me warm
enough and with the temperature swings we get
in the uk i find i'm always adjusting it because in night time i want it a lot
hotter and in daytime i want it a lot cooler so
because i'm interacting with it all the time and i can never find the right
temperature setting that's why it's so high up in the chat
and in at number one you've probably guessed it already if you watched any of
my other videos is the paint issues that come on the
tesla model 3. so i think if you're picking up a brand
new car you're expecting it to be in pristine condition and mine just wasn't
now i know tesla were skipping the pre-delivery checks when i got mine
because it was back in september 2019. so i'd be interested to know if you've
got a car recently whether you've got any defects or not but tesla are still
inexperienced in the paint department there's numerous reports about canada
where they have lots of grit and snow on the road
the grit's been hitting the paintwork and actually peeling away the paint near
the tires so tesla offered a free winter pack
which involved mud flaps to try and stop that from happening and i've noticed i
pick up a lot more stone chips than i did on my
fiesta because the paint is so soft if you can remember when i picked it up
i had loads of issues which to be fair tesla rectified but then probably about
three months later the lacquer came off one of the repairs so i had to send it
in again which again tesla rectified with no
issues just leaves me with no confidence in the paint work whatsoever
i think the moment that confirmed it was when i got my car ceramic coated because
i was very conscious that i wanted to protect the paintwork so i went got it
ceramic coated and the guy measured the paint because
he wanted to know how much area he had to play with because he was going to
remove some of the swirls that the car came with in the first place
he measured like the bonnet and some of the wings and he said it was 60
nanometers that depth of paint should be on
surfaces that aren't exposed to the environments
like the door seals or in the boot or things like that and i asked him how
much it should be and he said around 110 so we're talking almost half the amount
of my paint thickness on a lot of the exterior surfaces which
would explain all the stone chips i now have the expectation that in years
to come my car just isn't going to look as good as i want it to
i know i'm usually more upbeat and very pro tesla but i thought it was only fair
to give a balanced picture and i was challenged to think of 10 things that i
think they could improve fingers crossed you found those also
triple you're not going to be bothered whatsoever by them although i'm
suspecting you might be bothered by the paint issue
and i guess the good news is none of those were about driving an electric car
or range anxiety if you exclude the silence of an electric car
let me know what your thoughts are on your model 3 down below or what gripes
you've come up with as well i would normally ask for a thumbs up if
you liked the video but i'm guessing people didn't like the fact i was
dissing on model 3. so how about if you found it remotely
interesting you give it a thumbs up instead
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video will be definitely more positive tesla
that's all for now thanks for watching and see you again soon
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