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What's happening YouTube, Josh Teder here from 6 Months Later and I just got a Tesla Model 3 and wanted
to share my thoughts with you on the car. Now I know there aren't a ton of Model 3
first impressions videos out there on YouTube, so for this video I want to try
and talk about some things that you may not have heard about from the other
Model 3 first impressions videos, just so I'm not regurgitating everything you
already know from other youtubers. Now we'll have a full in-depth review of the
Model 3, 6 months from now we will go over all the features, the quirks, tips
and tricks, and how the car performs after 6 months of use. So for now, let's
start back at the very beginning of my Model 3 journey which was March 31st
2016. I, like many others around the country, and around the globe, waited in
line at their local Tesla stores to put $1,000 down for their Model 3
reservation. And almost two years to the day, I took delivery of my Model 3. Now I
was about 40th in line that day, but when I took delivery of the car the Tesla
reps actually told me I was either the first or second person in the area who
was a non owner to actually take delivery of the car, which was pretty
cool. Now picking up a Tesla is unlike picking up any other car from any other
brand. First off, there's no price haggling because Tesla owns all their
own stores, so there's no discounting. The price you see is the price you pay which
is great in my opinion, I hate price haggling. The second great
thing about it is paperwork. Typically when you take delivery of a car people
spend a good 4 or 5 hours at a dealership just getting all the
paperwork done and out of the way. Well with Tesla you do a lot of your
documents, upload your drivers license etc you do that all online before you
even take delivery of the car. The paperwork at delivery
took me no less than seven minutes. The rest of the time was spent going over
the features of the car as well as me doing a little inspection looking for
fit and finish issues which only found one just a little nick on the screen and
I've got a service center appointment to take care of that. Otherwise, I didn't see
anything else on the car and was really impressed with the quality. And I know
there's a panel gap people out there who obsessed they take like rulers out to
measure how big the panel gaps are. I'm not one of those people so just as a
disclosure, I really could care less about the panel gaps, but nice thing with
the Model 3 that I got, I didn't notice any significant panel gaps or
alignment issues or anything with the cars panels. All right, so now to the
big question, what do I think of the car? This car is incredible, it blows any ICE
or internal combustion engine car, out of the water. I mean it is just, Tesla's are
incredible cars to drive, to ride in, they're comfortable. The Model 3
feels almost exactly like when you drive the Model S or X with a couple of
differences the first one being ride quality
now when the model threes first started coming out I know there were a lot of
complaints from early owners about the harsh ride quality and since then Tesla
has improved the suspension coils on the later model threes including the car I
took delivery of now as a non owner coming from a non Tesla the ride quality
is fine to me it's actually pretty smooth again I'm coming from a 2002
Honda Accord and to me the model 3 suspension is way better than that car
which of course you would expect but you don't feel the bumps as much as you did
in my Accord now yes you can feel every bump and every groove in the road but it
feels almost muted if that makes sense so it's enough to register that oh yeah
there was a bump in the road but it's not nearly enough to like crack your jaw
or something just with the bumpiness of the ride so to me the model threes ride
quality is fine as since I'm coming from a non Tesla but
here a Tesla owner and you have the air suspension I can totally see the
complaint about the ride quality because you're just used to that silky smooth
not even registering a bump in the road going to a sporty-er suspension like the
model 3 now the acceleration on the model 3 is not nearly as fast as what it
is on a Model S or a Model X but to me it feels plenty fast like you have
plenty of passing speed and it is just a ton of fun with that pure electric
torque especially when you're in the 20 to 60 mile-per-hour range this car just
goes it is just simply a blast to drive literally you're good it feels like
you're in a spaceship because this car just blasts off now another thing that
was different for me with the Model 3 just being a first time Tesla owner as
well as a first time electric car owner is actually range anxiety when I first
took delivery of my model 3 and I started to see the battery ticked down I
oddly got quite a bit of range anxiety even though I had over 200 miles of
range left so if you're getting a model 3 or just any electric car and you've
never had one before definitely be prepared for that now it's worn off like
I'm totally good now but as someone who's read a lot about electric cars and
kind of tried to mentally prepare themselves for that going in I was still
shocked at how much it affected me the first couple of days or so I had the
model 3 although what didn't help was the first day I got the model 3 every
110 volt outlet I plugged it into tripped that was not a great feeling for
a date one electric vehicle and day 1 Tesla owner now since then I of course
have a 240 volt outlet readily available that I could charge the car in which I
highly recommend if you are getting charging equipment installed for your
Tesla or any electric car definitely go 240 if you can it is way better now
another thing I noticed coming from an older car over to the model 3 was how
good headlights on the model three actually
are they're really bright and they evenly distribute light across your view
when you're driving the model three but they're not blinding if you stand in
front of the model three and look at the headlights you're not gonna go blind
like some of those other cars out there the high beams work really well too I
cannot wait till Tesla enables Auto high beams that's going to make country
driving so much easier with the model three so can train for that feature and
the auto headlights work really well that's a feature I have not been
accustomed to in a car before I just leave it on auto all the time it rains
it turns them on it's going to a bridge you're going to parking deck
automatically turns them on like it's just it's a really cool feature now one
part of the car that I haven't heard a lot of people talk about is how good the
air filtration is inside the model three now the model three does not come with
bio weapons defense mode like you get in the s and X today but the filtration is
still very good now I'm coming from a non Tesla I came from a 2002 Honda
Accord where I basically drove with recirculated air on almost a hundred
percent of the time so I wouldn't get exhaust fumes from smelly cars or trucks
inside the Accords cabin now with the model three I didn't even notice
recirculated air was off until about a week into ownership I didn't get any
smelly exhaust or car fumes coming through the vents in the model three at
all which to me is just amazing so what are some of the things that I don't like
about the Tesla Model 3 well the first one I noticed were the door handles if
you have direct sunlight on them you may start to see micro scratches appear in
the chrome on the door handles to me that made me feel sick to my stomach
because it was the first scratch I saw in the car and if you've ever bought a
new car you probably realized that the anticipation of the first scratch or
dent in the car is the worst feeling in the world but at the same time once you
see the dent or scratch somewhat liberating because the car is now not a
museum piece you don't have to worry about where the first imperfection is
going to be it's already there and you could just breathe a sigh of
leaf and yeah so they they scratch another thing that scratches in the
model three is the steering wheel now I don't know how but somehow I have
scratched the steering wheel not once but twice on the underside of the
steering wheel in my model three now I don't know
that's because Tesla is using their fake leather material for the steering wheel
in the model three I'm like in the SRX where they actually still use leather or
if it's just because my it's easy to scratch my fingernails scratched it or
my badge at work scratched it I still can't actually figure out because I
don't register the event where I scratched it but kind of annoying I
mentioned it to them for the service appointment to see if they can try to
buff it out or anything out of the steering wheel but yeah just be aware
that the steering wheel on the model three can scratch now another thing I
noticed with the car is I think the placement of the emergency door release
latch on the driver and passenger side of the car is actually too well placed
I've had some passengers that have instinctively just pulled that lever to
get out of the car instead of press the button on the door I think in the next
iteration of the model 3 when they do a slight interior refresh or maybe a
little do it sooner they need to move that latch somewhere we're only like the
driver is going to know where it is and so your passengers don't mistakenly pull
that and release the door now of course I've only had it happen like once or
twice so it's probably not going to ruin the alignment of the door but Tesla does
warn you every time you do that on the screen it says warning you're about to
probably destroy the alignment of your door and you may need service so don't
pull the latch now the last issue I've had with the car has been with the
charge port door after my first model 3 car wash which I did myself course got
to wash that baby by hand I noticed that I got an error on the screen that says
charge port door needs service now I reset the car restarted it by clicking
in the to scroll wheel buttons on the steering wheel
the message still came up and what would happen was not only when the message
come up but the charge port door just started to open and closed rapidly on
its own which was really weird so I called Tesla service about this I added
it as an issue to my next service appointment later this week now I
haven't noticed it in the past maybe two or three days hopefully the issue just
went away and they won't have to do anything more about it but at least
they're gonna take a look at that as well well those are my first impressions
of the car now I have come to truly love driving my Model 3 every single day and
to be honest I'm still getting used to just being able to call myself a Tesla
owner and part of the Tesla family now we'll have plenty of videos about the
Tesla Model 3 on this channel as well as a big six month later review of the
Tesla Model 3 later in the year until then thanks so much for watching if you
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like to see more Tesla videos like this one. Until next time, I'm Josh Teder for
6 Months Later.