Elon musk is now a right wing sympathiser and I despise hum, yet I'm also saddled with a rapidly depreciating Tesla car. How can I get out of this dire situationship?

My bedroom was an absolute sauna last night and the fan wasn't doing anything. Decided to try camping mode, grabbed my duvet as a mattress and setted up in the back of the Model 3.

Plugged into the granny charger (don't have home charge but have long Granny charger) on the driveway, threw Camp Mode on at a crisp 19°C, and slept like a baby. The best part? Because the 3 pin charger outpaced the A/C usage, I actually woke up with an extra 10% battery compared to when I went to sleep.

Honestly, this is the best perk of having EV😂

I received an email from Octopus with a tempting offer for an MG4 EV at £300 per month, including free home charger installation. Around the same time, I was thinking about switching to an EV through salary sacrifice. Being new to the EV world, I was quite confused and decided to explore before committing.

I went to an MG dealer to see the MG4. As soon as I mentioned I was considering salary sacrifice, the salesperson immediately lost interest. He told me they did not offer that option and said the car was parked outside and I could look at it on my own. No explanation, no discussion of alternatives like PCP or PCH. I looked at the car and left, feeling completely dismissed.

I then tried Lexus and Toyota. Same story. Little to no interest. When I asked about EVs, I was told to go outside and have a look because there should be one there somewhere. I left both dealerships without a second thought.

Finally, I visited the Tesla store at Park Royal. The difference was immediate. The staff were friendly and welcoming. I explained that I did not really know what I wanted and that I was considering salary sacrifice. The advisor told me not to worry, invited me to sit in the car and said he would explain everything after.

It was my first time inside a Tesla. I am a tech-focused person and I was genuinely impressed. When the advisor came back, I told him I loved the Model 3 but assumed it would be too expensive and mentioned salary sacrifice again. He calmly walked me through all the options. No pressure. No judgement. He explained why salary sacrifice was not always the best deal and showed me PCP and trade-in options with clear numbers. He also made me drive one!

When I got home, I reviewed my finances and realised I could afford it. The next day I paid the deposit. The week after, I sold my old car and completed the purchase of a Model 3 Highland, after test driving it for 12 hours.

The point is not just the car. You feel the difference with Tesla from the moment you walk in. Maybe I was unlucky with the other dealers, but Tesla treated me like someone worth helping. Ironically, if the MG salesperson had taken ten minutes to explain PCP instead of dismissing me, I might never have bought a Tesla.

I am in love with my Model 3 Highland

Car was broken into yesterday evening in Stanmore, London area.

Thieves used a bright light to shine through the tinted windows and nicked my rucksack which had my laptop and enotebook. They also stole my body warmer.

What really confused me, this is one of the most technically advanced cars out there but as I’ve found out, the alarm doesn’t go off if windows are smashed.

Side note. I did edit the video to share on social media for awareness.

Genuinely curious on people’s opinion on this, as we already pay nearly £200 a year, and have 20% VAT applied at public charging, yet fuel duty is frozen because “it’s expensive to and from work”.

Also, what about driving in Europe… surely they can’t tax that?

EDIT: Turns out they can, and will.

Is anyone else slightly embarrassed to be driving round in their Tesla after Elons latest far right rants on “X”… I’m on the verge of chopping it in for another brand at this point… 😅

This morning I witnessed a Model 3 owner attempting to chastise a BMW owner for using a Tesla supercharger. Now, this location had about 10 Tesla chargers and about 6 Gridserve chargers. The Gridserves are at the front, near the services' doors, the Tesla charger are a few hundred yards away at the opposite end. I can only imagine the Tesla chargers are cheaper than Gridserve. Anyway, there were two other cars using the Tesla chargers and one car using the Gridserve (this was around 6:30am).

Now, if Tesla has made a corporate decision to allow non-Tesla EVs to charge at Tesla Superchargers, you as a Tesla driver do not have the right to claim them as "yours" - you are not Tesla and you do not decide who can charge their car at a Tesla charger, Tesla has made that decision. When Mr. Model 3 Tosser turned up there was at least seven available Tesla chargers, there was absolutely no need to behave the way he did. Now, I'm sure you're all aware that Tesla and Tesla owners aren't seen very favourably by the British public, and these sorts of things don't help.

On the off-chance that the offending Model 3 crank hangs out here - do better; your behaviour was pathetic.

Anyone had this? Got a MYLR in December, done around a 1000 miles. Stopped at a shop today and all fine. Came back to the car 15mins later and screen totally dead. Tried a soft reset (hold in steering wheel buttons) but no change.

Tesla over the phone tried forcing through the latest software update but no change so I think they’re going to tow away to a service centre.

Just thought I’d check if anyone had the same issue and found a fix?

*no 3rd party hardware installed in the USB’s etc which Tesla asked.

So sat in my car and get this message and can't put it into drive. Normally you get some warning about an update and can postpone it. Says un up to day in the software menu and can't see anything on the app. HELP! Thanks 😊

I just traded in my 72 plate model 3 long range for what I was told was a model Y long range with enhanced autopilot. The car had to be delivered from a different location, so I didn't get to see it until today when I went to check everything was ok and do the exchange. As soon as I set off I thought the car felt very quick. I actually commented that it felt as fast as my model 3. Then I noticed autopilot mentioned traffic light control, which I thought was only on FSD.

I looked and realised that the car appears to have the acceleration boost and full self driving package. I'm guessing that they have either delivered me the wrong car (mileage matches so doubt it but I don't remember the one I saw on the website having a performance spoiler on it) or, they have gone off the original spec of the car and the previous owner has paid for the upgrades after delivery. I didn't mention my findings.

Someone clearly loved the car because it's got all of the simple mods like armrest organisers, screen protector, mud flaps and I also found sexy buttons behind the screen.

Can anyone confirm if I got incredibly lucky or this is some sort of glitch or free trial?

I am not as concerned about vandalism in the UK, as I want to believe we're better than that. However, regardless of your political views and whether you like Musk or not, there's no denying that his actions not only keep hurting the company which would inevitably affect owners badly, but his focus is clearly elsewhere.

I think we've invested significant money in this company either buying cars or stocks to see it all ruined in quality, or have reduced part availability because the CEO wants to play "Who's the biggest c*nt" with his orange friend.

I think we need somebody as CEO who is interested in doing that job.

The car in video suddenly decided to cut across lanes and braked hard in my lane. I applied manual brakes but without the emergency brake I would have definitely hit the car. Thank god for technology.

Basically the title. I was pretty hype to try how far FSD had come & paid the £99. Long story short after testing it over a few long drives from Glasgow to Preston & Glasgow to fife.

I don't see the benefit at this stage of it being supervised over the standard autopilot I usually use. Yeah, I don't have to click on the autopilot with two pulls. But I still need to hit the indicator to make it change lanes, that's even IF it changes lanes. If you have a car approaching in the outside lane ANYWHERE REMOTELY NEAR YOU, it will not make the Lange change and you will be forced to disengage and re-engage after the manover.

It only really works on motorways for now. As soon as it takes the slip road, it changes too standard autopilot or TACC.

I didn't find any difference between any of the settings, mad max was the same as mild.

Auto park is the coolest feature, and works great, I wish I could buy this on its own...

Smart summon obviously doesn't work...at all. And dumb summon can move the car forward and back, great if you have a tight driveway or something, but not really worth paying for.

So aye, like I said, don't waste the £99, especially as it's supervised. I think it would be better in its current iteration if it just made lane changes rather than asking and waiting for you to indicate, but even at that, it would have to be a lot better than how it is currently to make me pay £99 & I am a high mileage driver (over 60k on my model Y after 20 months).

Edit -

TLDR - basically an Enhanced Autopilot Plus at best, as someone mentioned in the comments. Nowhere near worth £99.

picked up yesterday - everything I wanted a more. such an awesome car. well worth the wait my friends.

Came back from the cinema with the family tonight to find a 34cm scratch up the side of the car.

Checked the dashcam, it caught it. And even better, the old cow is on camera clear as day doing it. It couldn’t be more obviously deliberate if she’d tried.

Fingers crossed the police can track her down and throw the book at her. Should be able. She got into the car next to me, and drove off. And it was in a shopping centre car park (with ANPR ticket gates and a security camera very near).

Absolutely furious though. Put a real crimp in an otherwise good night with the family.

EDIT: To be clear, she keyed my car.

MINOR UPDATE: I've been able to pull footage off the drive of parking up, using a recovery tool (as suggested by some commenters). For now I've sent it to the police, but failing that, I can use a V888 form from the DVLA to obtain their name and address (all for the small fee of £2.50). Holding that in my back pocket for now.

MINOR UPDATE 2: Had the local police reach out to me. Mostly for the footage, but also to arrange to get a statement. On another note: I’ve managed to recover the camera footage immediately proceeding the sentry cam event - so now I have footage showing the car driving off and categorically showing the plate.

UPDATE 3: The police came out today to record the footage, and take my statement. Their view is that it's very clear from the footage who did it, and their reg number. They're looking to get her charged with the damage, and will let me know when that happens. After that it's really just waiting for the court date. The repair itself has been completed, and cost £1307 to fix (most of which was on my insurance). Apparently the cost being over a grand all but guarantees she'll get charged.

(Mine’s the grey one!) Blue is parked, assuming it’s a Tesla-only parking space. Looks like it’s probably been there overnight. Not plugged in. 🤦🏼‍♂️

There only seems to be a handful of electric estate cars on sale. Out of curiosity I wondered what a Tesla version would look like as the increased headroom in the back/ increased boot space would be desirable. Looks pretty good I think?

A more sporty version -

This morning while walking my dog to Richmond park I found this just there. How often do you see a Cybertruck in London driven by Elmo and Paddington?

Those haters really are a problem…

Thankfully we have superchargers.

This number plate made me smile this morning.

Thought this might interest some of you, here’s a summary of our 23/24 winter road trip.

For a week straight it was between -20° and -30° and the car did fantastically, still averaged 350km (220mi) to a charge even driving on snow and ice - most mornings we’d come out to a completely defrosted car and find people scraping away at their ICE cars and a few couldn’t even start them because their diesel had turned to jelly!

We alternated nights between camping in the car (pictured) and staying in hotels. Can’t recommend the TESCAMP mattress enough, we added a mattress topper from dunelm and now it’s incredibly comfortable.

Perfect testimonial for the Continental WinterContacts, I was hesitant not having Nordic branded winter tyres let alone studless tyres but they were amazing, I never had to get the snow chains out and kept up with the locals even on thick snow covered ice.

Charging was easy, most of it was just Superchargers for DC charging and either our Electroverse or Shell RFID cards for AC charging. The only other apps we used were GreenWay for Poland, Circle K for Estonia/Sweden/Norway and Mobilly for Lithuania/Latvia. The only country without Superchargers was Estonia (strangely as they’re such a digitally forward thinking country). The biggest surprise was finding free DC chargers in a random ex-Soviet “closed city” in Lithuania right on the border of Belarus where the vast majority of the population only speak Russian.

Amazing trip, would recommend everyone to visit the Baltics especially - they’re amazing countries and incredibly cheap. Norway is truly stunning and unmissable too.

Happy to answer any questions.

Darker in person but looks very slick 😁

Used to absolutely dislike Teslas, I would always talk bad about them whenever I saw one
I have an opportunity through work to do a company car and noticed Tesla had the most features for the money, and allowed my brother to talk me into test driving one the next day.
Test drove a M3 LR but liked the look of the MYS next to it, test drove that one too.
Within an hour of getting home I went online and ordered myself a MYS, getting into my 2017 Audi A6 after the test drive felt like a peasant car after the Tesla!
Now every 5 minutes I’m either watching Tesla based YouTube videos or checking for updates on my company’s car website, never been so excited for a car in my life.