Note: recent model 3 SR have LFP batteries that prefer 100% state of charge. Reason for being parked up was that the original purchaser planned to export the vehicle. For a number of reasons this never happened.
Brilliant! First thing I thought was, wow, what’s the story here! Good to get an idea of long term storage though. Pretty incredible! I’m about to go on my first long break since I went all electric, so nice to get tips on this too! As always, great content!
Interesting to watch. Have had my M3P parked in my garage, plugged in, for the last few months while I've been overseas. Even did a software update via the app from thousands of kilometres away.
As soon as cards were removed, I realized I was spending too much time looking at those and not at the road. I also drive mostly on AP, but it is nice to have MORE time to watch the road. I mean, how many times do you have to check tire pressure during a trip? The new interface is safer.
@@superleggenda - The tyre pressures i don't need. But it was useful (and interesting) to monitor the efficiency whilst driving. That interface also made it easier to reset "trips".
Was unable to return to my holiday home in Cape Town, South Africa for 2 yrs because of COVID, left my BMW X3M40i plugged into a trickle charger and under a cover, tyre pressures a bit low but not flat, started first time and drove perfectly to my surprise.
I'm going to ask this at the risk of sounding like an idiot. Won't the tyres have flat areas if you park it for 2 years and it's not lifted of the ground with high jack stands?
Nice video, great car! Good to see a dealer properly prep a car, unlike the larger dealers who'll attack it with a dirty sponge, instead of snow foam, gentle jet wash, wash mitt, etc!
I've been detailing cars for 50 years. The "whole-car-foam" thing is brand new to me. So what I want to know is.....all those years that I've been producing spotlessly clean cars, have I been doing it wrong, or is the whole-car-foam thing a bit of marketing?
Storing at 50% was a smart move, battery degradation due to age is less the lower the state of charge, and you get a step-change improvement as you get below around 60%.
@@boostav 50% is balance point of electrons in battery between cathode / anode, hence theoretical best storage position. If possible use should always be between 80%-20% and slow charged for maximum life.
I have had a couple of issues with mine, no rear inner tail light kept getting moisture in it (Tesla came to my home and replaced it) and a very slight metallic noise when pressing the brakes at slow speeds( booked in and Tesla confirmed a known problem with brakes, needed some ceramic grease on a particular part) all done under warranty and dealt with promptly and to satisfaction. I always think it’s not necessarily if you get problems but how a manufacturer deals with it. It’s still the best car I’ve ever owned and love it. Excellent content as usual Richard 👍
That was very interesting , car came up fabulously. Totally agree with you about V11 with the smaller, finer & grey, less contrast fonts - we are not happy with it (couple in our mid 60's). We find it difficult to see at times. Also miss the popup cards for trip data etc. Really wish that Tesla would allow the font size, contrast, and perhaps colour be user defined to an extent. We love out TM3 LR but some minor software tweaks would be nice - Regards from Australia. P.S. - Richard very nice to see some additional right hand drive Tesla content on UA-cam.
Yeah, the GUI refresh really wasn’t all that good. Basic functions like seat warmers and window heaters used to be right on the screen, and now you need extra taps to use them, and AC functions that were one or two taps away are now two or more taps away. And instead we have an unnecessarily wasteful “customisable” bottom bar that isn’t all that useful. Add to that the issues you raised with fonts and contrast, and it definitely was a step back.
nice video but let us be fair: that is not really a barn find, not by a mile :) it was plugged in and even moved every couple of weeks. a true barn find would be with a drained battery which most likely would not recover or if then with massive issues. and tires would certainly be dead. but battery alone would probably mean a loss of 20.000€ ;)
There was a stolen model S a few years back and somehow someone found it and it was sitting dead for about a year, but the battery still worked fine. Tesla adds a decent buffer so after 2 years it should be fine because there is no phantom drain.
@@cadriver2570 yeah but that buffer are 7kWh so if you leave it standing 2 yrs that would long be used up even after shutting everything down, at least i guess. saw a video of a guy who took a tesla which had been standing on i think a plot of the police in the US for 2 or 3 yrs and the battery was wntirely drained and vould not be revived ... so I think 2 yrs without any charging might be pretty deadly
Ok, it’s not a true barn find. I don’t mind the term used on this occasion as it applies to an EV and it’s super rare to find an EV that’s 2 years old with 32 miles. Perhaps an EV barn find? Great video from Richard and the team, great to see the Tesla needed very little to get up and running again.👍
Another great video. I’m away next winter for 3 months, leaving the car on my drive. Good to know to plug my M3 RWD LFP and set the charge limit to 50%. I’ll buy a car cover to keep any bird dropping off it.
It is strangely almost as satisfying seeing someone else wash and buff a car as it is doing it myself. This is the spec I would have bought if I hadn’t bottled it and gone for an SR+ back in 2019🙄 on the plus side in this warm weather driving over to my brother last week, being in no rush with no air-conditioning on - I was told I had a theoretical range of 294 miles! (170 watts / mile)
Sentry is not a problem if it is plugged in, it will just use some energy. 200-250W or so times 24 hours around 6kWh a day. So depending on your price per kWh you do the math if it's worth it for you.
I often wish I had a choice of increasing my font size. Many times I have to pull out my readers or ask my wife is that 1 or 11, or what is that highway exit #. Even my mobile phone lets me increase the font size.
There's been so many quality changes on a Model 3 last 2 years. Buying this one for near full price is not really recommended... But each to their own I guess. :)
I don't think the point is being "recommended". The point is the waiting list for these things is months going into years. If you want one now why not consider a good used one like this example here.
I bet he didn't lose much money on it considering there is a 7 to 8 month waiting list on the Model 3 and that one only has 32miles which is basically new. I would rather have a Model S as it looks better and that big hatchback is more practical
I cannot read the information on the screen as the font is too small. I have a Tesla as a short term lease and wouldn’t have one for this reason. Plus some others 😜 Agree with the retro step on the software. The trip is an important feature which really needs easy access especially on long journeys where you may be close to the limit of the car. Avoiding 50p per kw public charging is a must Fantastic video as usual.
Does the 12v need to be trickled as well? I only ask my etron gt sat for an extended period plugged in (j1772). The entire car went dead due to the 12v going dead. Audi charged me for the towing recovery and the techs time. Said I need to trickle the 12v as well as keep the big battery plugged in. My Teslas always kept there charged when sitting plugged in for extended periods.
since he moved it during storage why did he just not drive it even 1 day a week. I don't know how he did not want to drive the car he bought. but it is good to see that no effect and next to nothing to get it back on the road. there had to be more than 1 item to update, tesla do provide lots of updates even small ones
Can we have a long term test for leaving a car unplugged? I’m not talking about destroying the battery but for example leaving the car unplugged for 6 weeks etc?
I left mine in an Airport car park and then got stuck abroad for 7 weeks - I left sentry off - the battery had gone down 4% and it drove without any issues at all. I have also had to leave it plugged in for 3 months at 50% and it was perfect also. Sentry left on will drain around 6-9% a day.
The mobile phone dock lid, you know, like all the rest of the Tesla evolution like the passenger seat lumbar. You don't use it, you lose it. I always left the lid open. There is the sensor that gives you the warning that you shut it too rough. That's probably how the decide that most of us are not going to miss it if it's gone. But same here, I kinda like the lid.
Thats something all us EV owners have thought about but never thought we would see so super interesting, we now have the answer. For sure lay up the EV you already have the trickle charger just keep the flat spots off the tyres, in my experience less than you would need to do with an ICE car.
Liked just coz of your name. As a child, I listened to the original R4 broadcast & the TV version. We used Bartfarst as the secret word for a particularly aggresive fart.
Psychotic Leprechauns, bain of my life! Mr Douglas Adams the author, a worrying ability to frame the future. Your real life character Elon Musk an avid follower of the guide gets it.....pity sake mankind wake up! Take a leaf out of Norways book (I particularly liked my crinkly bits round the edges) look after your planet. Another war at this point in the experiment the mice will be furious! Mankind you be careful down there. SB
That reminds me how much nicer the chrome trim looks over the low rent black trim fitted now. (I'd have like to seen that getting an MOT with under 40 miles after 3 years!)
Oh boy, how I miss the trip information as card display. Removing that was a real step backwards with v11 (or am I the only one caring about consumption?)
I think sellers are failing to make it abundantly clear that different battery types need different treatment! The storage advice here is not the best advice for the new Standard Range Model 3 fitted with LFP Batteries. As I understand (the advice is not very forthcoming from Tesla!) it LFP batteries need to be charged to 100% regularly, and should be stored at 100%.. (they do not have trip mode on the charge screen)
Its the curse of software devs, they have to tinker and change stuff even if there is no need or benefit from the change. I preferred v10 too, especially the easy access to trips. If I knew that some destination or waypoint was a certain distance from a turn or other feature, it was easy to pull up the trips card and watch for the distance. Used to do that with trip features on earlier cars (using google maps to find somewhere you always get intermediate distances). Back to V11. I dont think there is anything which I could say was better than v10. But who listens to the customers after they have paid..... Still like the M3 of course, but there are irritations.
I watch a garage youtube channel from Ukraine that specializes in EVs and hybrids. The Ukrainians buy such EVs from auction in US, EU and Japan. Many such cars have unknown time sitting, and most issues come from poor BMS design. Fiat for example have it programmed to top up the 12 volt battery, after many months of sitting, the HV battery has gone completely dead. Ford focus electric has an issue with coolant leaking in the pack due to cells expanding. Tesls have similar components to Mercedes EVs. Hyundai Kona won't charge if a certain contact on the plug is corroded etc, etc...
Ha ha, a 'Classic' Tesla from so many years ago... They don't make 'em like that anymore Sunshine, these are from back in the day when they made REAL cars! Lovely old-fashioned chrome and piano-black, beautiful old software, with text you can actually read without spectacles. Those old guys knew how to build EVs in those days. Why not to get it converted to... er... hmmm.
for a LFP tesla ud want the battery range at 100% wouldnt u tho? I had my tesla sr+ with lfp parked for 2 months n i lost a lil bit of range cuz only charged it every 2nd week or so, n the ppl in charge of it didnt propperly charge it to true 100% so it seemes like the battery forgot what true 100% was
I would charge an LFP to 50% as it is better for the battery when its no doing anything. The problem is that if you use the battery thru many cycles without going to 100% it can confuse the battery management system. But left at 50% it will only top the battery up every so often (by a few percent), like once in 10 days. Charge to 100% when you start using the car again.
Has one of these as a hire car a few weeks back ! iPhone was continuously falling out of the wireless charging point over bumps and with hard acceleration!
How was it a waste of money if its still worth about what they paid for it as he said? Besides its all relevant, if the person has millions of dollars a $60k tesla is nothing, its like you buying a $100 bike and putting it in your garage for years probably.
The old software was much better. A speed display you could actually see easily. But, just to appease the fan boys - Elon knows best and of course it’s so much more beneficial to us to give more space to computer generated images of cars around us rather than using that valuable space to show more of the map. I wonder if he realises we can see the real thing by looking through the windows and mirrors?
That’s not a barn find at all, the car has been plugged all the time and even moved some times. Real barn find means the car is totally isolated and stored for years.
Really interesting video Richard. What a beautiful Model 3. I think it might be my favourite Tesla. A Pearlescent White Long Range with White interior a bit of Chrome, and I say that knowing that Black is less bad for the environment. I can't help it. But I have to ask - what were the circumstances that had a new Tesla parked up for two years with 32 miles on the clock? If the enquiry is too intrusive I'll totally understand. But it is very interesting. 👍
I also prefer the v10 layout and handling, and also the pre-facelift layout of the cabin - I hate wireless charging, which is ridiculously slow and heats up the phone, killing the battery life there. That’s a quite high price to pay for a bit of a comfort. And to be honest, not even that - seating the phone on its charge plug in the “old” interior was just as comfortable. So no gains, just downsides - same as with v11. As others commented, still like the Tesla - but that’s why I’m also wishing for it to go forwards, not backwards.
I just wish I could get the old legible, more user-friendly software back . I don’t appreciate having my car meddled with by game obsessed kids with brilliant eyesight. Enough already……..and give me back my cards !!!
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Note: recent model 3 SR have LFP batteries that prefer 100% state of charge.
Reason for being parked up was that the original purchaser planned to export the vehicle.
For a number of reasons this never happened.
Was he called Elon ?
Brilliant! First thing I thought was, wow, what’s the story here! Good to get an idea of long term storage though. Pretty incredible! I’m about to go on my first long break since I went all electric, so nice to get tips on this too! As always, great content!
Interesting to watch. Have had my M3P parked in my garage, plugged in, for the last few months while I've been overseas. Even did a software update via the app from thousands of kilometres away.
I'm seriously still not pleased about the trip and tpms swipe cards not being restored under the car graphic.
You are not alone....
Same, people who designed the new UI don't have a driving license
As soon as cards were removed, I realized I was spending too much time looking at those and not at the road. I also drive mostly on AP, but it is nice to have MORE time to watch the road. I mean, how many times do you have to check tire pressure during a trip? The new interface is safer.
@@superleggenda - The tyre pressures i don't need. But it was useful (and interesting) to monitor the efficiency whilst driving. That interface also made it easier to reset "trips".
I'm still on v10 because of that lol
Was unable to return to my holiday home in Cape Town, South Africa for 2 yrs because of COVID, left my BMW X3M40i plugged into a trickle charger and under a cover, tyre pressures a bit low but not flat, started first time and drove perfectly to my surprise.
I'm going to ask this at the risk of sounding like an idiot. Won't the tyres have flat areas if you park it for 2 years and it's not lifted of the ground with high jack stands?
Nice video, great car!
Good to see a dealer properly prep a car, unlike the larger dealers who'll attack it with a dirty sponge, instead of snow foam, gentle jet wash, wash mitt, etc!
I've been detailing cars for 50 years. The "whole-car-foam" thing is brand new to me. So what I want to know is.....all those years that I've been producing spotlessly clean cars, have I been doing it wrong, or is the whole-car-foam thing a bit of marketing?
@@scottkempton6085 it's really to me, looks like a marketing gimmic to an extent
Storing at 50% was a smart move, battery degradation due to age is less the lower the state of charge, and you get a step-change improvement as you get below around 60%.
Better to go even lower than 50%
@@boostav 50% is balance point of electrons in battery between cathode / anode, hence theoretical best storage position. If possible use should always be between 80%-20% and slow charged for maximum life.
@@chrisbailey1966 Studies have shown calendar aging is even lower when going below 50%.
@@chrisbailey1966 What about LFP ? (from Shanghai)
@@CYBER-EV I hear then have the ability to complete more cycles, you'd still want to maximise their life.
I have had a couple of issues with mine, no rear inner tail light kept getting moisture in it (Tesla came to my home and replaced it) and a very slight metallic noise when pressing the brakes at slow speeds( booked in and Tesla confirmed a known problem with brakes, needed some ceramic grease on a particular part) all done under warranty and dealt with promptly and to satisfaction. I always think it’s not necessarily if you get problems but how a manufacturer deals with it. It’s still the best car I’ve ever owned and love it. Excellent content as usual Richard 👍
That was very interesting , car came up fabulously. Totally agree with you about V11 with the smaller, finer & grey, less contrast fonts - we are not happy with it (couple in our mid 60's). We find it difficult to see at times. Also miss the popup cards for trip data etc. Really wish that Tesla would allow the font size, contrast, and perhaps colour be user defined to an extent. We love out TM3 LR but some minor software tweaks would be nice - Regards from Australia. P.S. - Richard very nice to see some additional right hand drive Tesla content on UA-cam.
Yeah, the GUI refresh really wasn’t all that good. Basic functions like seat warmers and window heaters used to be right on the screen, and now you need extra taps to use them, and AC functions that were one or two taps away are now two or more taps away.
And instead we have an unnecessarily wasteful “customisable” bottom bar that isn’t all that useful.
Add to that the issues you raised with fonts and contrast, and it definitely was a step back.
This video should be called “washing a low mileage Tesla.”
🤣
"long term storage" it was more like we moved it and it was left charging and checked on occasionally. lol
nice video but let us be fair: that is not really a barn find, not by a mile :) it was plugged in and even moved every couple of weeks. a true barn find would be with a drained battery which most likely would not recover or if then with massive issues. and tires would certainly be dead. but battery alone would probably mean a loss of 20.000€ ;)
There was a stolen model S a few years back and somehow someone found it and it was sitting dead for about a year, but the battery still worked fine. Tesla adds a decent buffer so after 2 years it should be fine because there is no phantom drain.
The battery has a bottom buffer to account for this. It would shut down all systems well before serious damage takes place.
@@cadriver2570 yeah but that buffer are 7kWh so if you leave it standing 2 yrs that would long be used up even after shutting everything down, at least i guess. saw a video of a guy who took a tesla which had been standing on i think a plot of the police in the US for 2 or 3 yrs and the battery was wntirely drained and vould not be revived ... so I think 2 yrs without any charging might be pretty deadly
@@harsimranbansal5355 lol…… all EVs have a buffer to protect the battery for extreme discharges or usage not just tesla
Ok, it’s not a true barn find. I don’t mind the term used on this occasion as it applies to an EV and it’s super rare to find an EV that’s 2 years old with 32 miles. Perhaps an EV barn find? Great video from Richard and the team, great to see the Tesla needed very little to get up and running again.👍
I miss the trip information on the dashboard as well. And the easy save dashcam.
That looks better now than mine did when I picked it up directly from Tesla. Wish they'd do a better detailing job before delivery.
Fascinating & very reassuring for the future
Brilliant episode - thank you as there are so many rumours flying around about EV’s and their batteries.
Another great video. I’m away next winter for 3 months, leaving the car on my drive. Good to know to plug my M3 RWD LFP and set the charge limit to 50%. I’ll buy a car cover to keep any bird dropping off it.
For LFP sr actually is different. Good point. They like 100%
You should still be able to connect remotely with the app and vary the charge. LFP batteries like to go to 100% every now and then unlike lithium ion.
It is strangely almost as satisfying seeing someone else wash and buff a car as it is doing it myself. This is the spec I would have bought if I hadn’t bottled it and gone for an SR+ back in 2019🙄 on the plus side in this warm weather driving over to my brother last week, being in no rush with no air-conditioning on - I was told I had a theoretical range of 294 miles! (170 watts / mile)
These really are fantastic vehicles.
For long term storage charge rate at 5 amps is fine also turn off sentry mode.
Sentry is not a problem if it is plugged in, it will just use some energy. 200-250W or so times 24 hours around 6kWh a day. So depending on your price per kWh you do the math if it's worth it for you.
I often wish I had a choice of increasing my font size.
Many times I have to pull out my readers or ask my wife is that 1 or 11, or what is that highway exit #.
Even my mobile phone lets me increase the font size.
There's been so many quality changes on a Model 3 last 2 years. Buying this one for near full price is not really recommended... But each to their own I guess. :)
I don't think the point is being "recommended". The point is the waiting list for these things is months going into years. If you want one now why not consider a good used one like this example here.
I bet he didn't lose much money on it considering there is a 7 to 8 month waiting list on the Model 3 and that one only has 32miles which is basically new. I would rather have a Model S as it looks better and that big hatchback is more practical
What's the backstory on why it was in storage for 2 years and not driven? Just curious 😊😊
Buyer was planning to export to Cyprus but for various reasons that never materialised…:
@@RSEV imagine having enough money that it’s not worth your time to even sell the car :)
@@cadriver2570 life can change in a moment, who knows.
@@edc1569 very true
@@RSEV , probably realised that buying an european version gives gives native CCS port and access to the European Supercharger network.
Now I feel the need to wash mine!
Seriously needs customizable display to change font, screen colors and contrast etc.
I cannot read the information on the screen as the font is too small.
I have a Tesla as a short term lease and wouldn’t have one for this reason.
Plus some others 😜
Agree with the retro step on the software. The trip is an important feature which really needs easy access especially on long journeys where you may be close to the limit of the car.
Avoiding 50p per kw public charging is a must
Fantastic video as usual.
8:04 I don't miss that door closing sound though. :D
8 Amps at 240 V is 1.9 kw so roughly about 60p per hour in the UK.
Does the 12v need to be trickled as well? I only ask my etron gt sat for an extended period plugged in (j1772). The entire car went dead due to the 12v going dead. Audi charged me for the towing recovery and the techs time. Said I need to trickle the 12v as well as keep the big battery plugged in. My Teslas always kept there charged when sitting plugged in for extended periods.
This car should wake up every so often and check the 12 volt battery and charge it if needed.
Obviously it runs and they detailed it. They obviously in a Tesla delivery/ service center.
Ty for the content!! IMHO near impossible to classify this as barn find
Door gaps and bonnet are shocking
I never took notice how much it would suck to use my left hand to control stuff in the tesla in the 🇬🇧
The reality is its possibly worth more than it was 2 years ago.
Not quite but wasn’t far off
since he moved it during storage why did he just not drive it even 1 day a week. I don't know how he did not want to drive the car he bought.
but it is good to see that no effect and next to nothing to get it back on the road.
there had to be more than 1 item to update, tesla do provide lots of updates even small ones
Can we have a long term test for leaving a car unplugged? I’m not talking about destroying the battery but for example leaving the car unplugged for 6 weeks etc?
I left mine in an Airport car park and then got stuck abroad for 7 weeks - I left sentry off - the battery had gone down 4% and it drove without any issues at all.
I have also had to leave it plugged in for 3 months at 50% and it was perfect also.
Sentry left on will drain around 6-9% a day.
The mobile phone dock lid, you know, like all the rest of the Tesla evolution like the passenger seat lumbar. You don't use it, you lose it. I always left the lid open. There is the sensor that gives you the warning that you shut it too rough. That's probably how the decide that most of us are not going to miss it if it's gone. But same here, I kinda like the lid.
Good info! Rock on you guys!
Wrong, left my V8 in the garage for 6 years, was never started! Wanted to move it, check fuel only, and its started easily enough !!
That’s a boot lid not a tailgate ! 👍
Thats something all us EV owners have thought about but never thought we would see so super interesting, we now have the answer. For sure lay up the EV you already have the trickle charger just keep the flat spots off the tyres, in my experience less than you would need to do with an ICE car.
Liked just coz of your name. As a child, I listened to the original R4 broadcast & the TV version. We used Bartfarst as the secret word for a particularly aggresive fart.
Psychotic Leprechauns, bain of my life! Mr Douglas Adams the author, a worrying ability to frame the future. Your real life character Elon Musk an avid follower of the guide gets it.....pity sake mankind wake up! Take a leaf out of Norways book (I particularly liked my crinkly bits round the edges) look after your planet. Another war at this point in the experiment the mice will be furious! Mankind you be careful down there. SB
Great video I am looking at buying one
Parked my 2000 V70 II 2.5 TDi for 3 years. Came home, attached the old battery, turned on and got a 700km trip. Have fun with your toys.
That reminds me how much nicer the chrome trim looks over the low rent black trim fitted now.
(I'd have like to seen that getting an MOT with under 40 miles after 3 years!)
@The Lone Ninja 82 I think the handles should be colour coded, maybe with some back lighting, so can find them at night.
Oh boy, how I miss the trip information as card display. Removing that was a real step backwards with v11 (or am I the only one caring about consumption?)
Alex released a video about a BMW sat in a garage for 14yrs and it started no problems.
Thanks for another great video. Wow that’s must be rare 😊
Awesome content and very useful tips.
I think sellers are failing to make it abundantly clear that different battery types need different treatment!
The storage advice here is not the best advice for the new Standard Range Model 3 fitted with LFP Batteries.
As I understand (the advice is not very forthcoming from Tesla!) it LFP batteries need to be charged to 100% regularly, and should be stored at 100%.. (they do not have trip mode on the charge screen)
Yes good point indeed they do…
Encouraging story. Quite the find.
Its the curse of software devs, they have to tinker and change stuff even if there is no need or benefit from the change. I preferred v10 too, especially the easy access to trips. If I knew that some destination or waypoint was a certain distance from a turn or other feature, it was easy to pull up the trips card and watch for the distance. Used to do that with trip features on earlier cars (using google maps to find somewhere you always get intermediate distances). Back to V11. I dont think there is anything which I could say was better than v10. But who listens to the customers after they have paid..... Still like the M3 of course, but there are irritations.
As a racing nerd the tire pressure card was *awesome* and now it is gone. Pitchforks and torches!!!!
I watch a garage youtube channel from Ukraine that specializes in EVs and hybrids.
The Ukrainians buy such EVs from auction in US, EU and Japan. Many such cars have unknown time sitting, and most issues come from poor BMS design. Fiat for example have it programmed to top up the 12 volt battery, after many months of sitting, the HV battery has gone completely dead. Ford focus electric has an issue with coolant leaking in the pack due to cells expanding.
Tesls have similar components to Mercedes EVs. Hyundai Kona won't charge if a certain contact on the plug is corroded etc, etc...
Over-the-air updates...
Don't ya' just love 'em...!!
Try doing that in your ICE car...😉
Have to Agree, Version 11 is actually quite poor. I like the customisation, but the changes apart from that are all negatives.
09:37 pretty nasty panel gap at the bonnet
Sorry if somebody asked it before: I wasn't able to see the odometer value. Did you show it?
That wash was so damn satisfactory!!!
Ha ha, a 'Classic' Tesla from so many years ago... They don't make 'em like that anymore Sunshine, these are from back in the day when they made REAL cars! Lovely old-fashioned chrome and piano-black, beautiful old software, with text you can actually read without spectacles. Those old guys knew how to build EVs in those days. Why not to get it converted to... er... hmmm.
whoever bought this is one lucky guy
Would the 12v battery drained?. I am leaving my M3 for 3 months
Nope.
The car was litteraly plugged so that’s not a barn find lol….
It tops up the 12v from the 400v main battery. Therefore, keep the mains charge ticking over at max 50% and it's all good.
Weird question but.. what car foam do you guys use?
Why was it parked up? How did you find it? How much did it cost?
Great review Richard 👌
I bet the car appreciated for just being parked for 2 years. Massive return for the owner.
As always and unsurprisingly everything is perfect and superior for the Tesla seller.
for a LFP tesla ud want the battery range at 100% wouldnt u tho? I had my tesla sr+ with lfp parked for 2 months n i lost a lil bit of range cuz only charged it every 2nd week or so, n the ppl in charge of it didnt propperly charge it to true 100% so it seemes like the battery forgot what true 100% was
I would charge an LFP to 50% as it is better for the battery when its no doing anything. The problem is that if you use the battery thru many cycles without going to 100% it can confuse the battery management system. But left at 50% it will only top the battery up every so often (by a few percent), like once in 10 days. Charge to 100% when you start using the car again.
Whats the story? Why'd they buy it to not use it?
Just curious, do u have buyers from Malaysia?
Watched the car wash scene from behind the sofa. . Really scared of seeing you in a bikini Richard 🤣🤣😂😂
What charge was on the battery when you picked it up , was it being charged over the two years sitting idle
did you actually watch any of the video?
@@gap9992 Correct , usually click through it in about 10 sec , find it so boring , just interested in the facts
Would you store a LFP battery car in the same manner?
It would be similar other than a LFP battery likes to be charged to 100% occasionally unlike lithium ion
V10 for the win, the gui was so much better then V11, what where they thinking.......
Has one of these as a hire car a few weeks back ! iPhone was continuously falling out of the wireless charging point over bumps and with hard acceleration!
lol, drive it like a hire car !
The newer or the older variant? In my 2021 model my iPhone 11 and iPhone 13 stay pretty snug and don’t bounce around.
@@nielsvandenkieboom5034 Was a 2019 loan car from Tesla. M3 Long Range.
@@paulstaniford8622 ah yea so pre facelift. The new 2021 and after models have much better wireless charging and phone holders!
What a waste of money to buy it and not use it for 2 years. I hope the new owner uses it as it should be.
How was it a waste of money if its still worth about what they paid for it as he said? Besides its all relevant, if the person has millions of dollars a $60k tesla is nothing, its like you buying a $100 bike and putting it in your garage for years probably.
The old software was much better. A speed display you could actually see easily. But, just to appease the fan boys - Elon knows best and of course it’s so much more beneficial to us to give more space to computer generated images of cars around us rather than using that valuable space to show more of the map. I wonder if he realises we can see the real thing by looking through the windows and mirrors?
I never thought I'd see barn find and Tesla in a sentence anytime soon lol 🤣
That’s not a barn find at all, the car has been plugged all the time and even moved some times. Real barn find means the car is totally isolated and stored for years.
Glad the Car will get used….if it’s in your hands abs sold on.
Really interesting video Richard. What a beautiful Model 3. I think it might be my favourite Tesla. A Pearlescent White Long Range with White interior a bit of Chrome, and I say that knowing that Black is less bad for the environment. I can't help it.
But I have to ask - what were the circumstances that had a new Tesla parked up for two years with 32 miles on the clock? If the enquiry is too intrusive I'll totally understand. But it is very interesting. 👍
OK, read down the comments list and got my question answered.
Why is black less bad for the environment?
@@Steror Because Chrome is very bad.
@@ramblerandy2397 how is chrome bad?
Bought a Tesla so they can just leave it lying around for two years? Must be nice
Hello mate 👍
Damn you for the clickbaity title 🙃
So it wasn't found, and it was never in a barn. Right!
2 years is nothing... especially if plugged in.
would have been interested if it hadn't.
Great car!
I also prefer the v10 layout and handling, and also the pre-facelift layout of the cabin - I hate wireless charging, which is ridiculously slow and heats up the phone, killing the battery life there. That’s a quite high price to pay for a bit of a comfort. And to be honest, not even that - seating the phone on its charge plug in the “old” interior was just as comfortable. So no gains, just downsides - same as with v11.
As others commented, still like the Tesla - but that’s why I’m also wishing for it to go forwards, not backwards.
I miss V10
Given the insane demand for teslas I’m surprised you still have so many in your showroom.
Insane demand for any car at the moment really.
the front bumper looks misaligned
I just wish I could get the old legible, more user-friendly software back .
I don’t appreciate having my car meddled with by game obsessed kids with brilliant eyesight.
Enough already……..and give me back my cards !!!
Why in world would someone buy a 50K electric car and just let it sit up for 2 years.....
Tesla parked up at house in next street. Hardly moved for 2-3 years, they used the other ice car as daily driver.
Would have been more interesting if it wasn't plugged in
When can i get a yoke in my model 3?
Don’t install v11!
it was NOT a barn find....
Barn find 🙄…
Only T E S L A .
Bit of a non video.
I feel a bit trolled since it was plugged in. oh well...UA-cam...sigh
Alternative title: man washes car.
Most unreliable car ever
Really???? What is unreliable?