Great video, thank you. This is something I've been wondering for a while as I wait on my new Model 3 which is "due" in May. As I'm still trying to figure everything out about this car, one question I do have is regarding Sentry Mode. Do you ever use it, and if so how often and when? Also, how much battery does it use over time? Thanks in advance.
Another model 3 youtuber recently found out that his "vampire drain" (he lost 1km per hour) has been caused by the "Teslafi" App which is communicating way too often with the car, not letting it sleep at all.
Just wanted to comment and say that I have binge watched all your Tesla videos today and they are really informative, to the point and a pleasure to watch. Great videos pal! 👍🏽
10 mins in a glance Went on a trip for 8 days. Valet mode on, Didn't use the app to check until returning Battery only dropped 3% for the entire trip. -Cruise control not working properly -Speed limit on maps not showing (worked again after charging the following day)
Gideon Cloza We’re not watching it for the benefit of his revenue, it’s not our problem if he gains money or not, UA-cam isn’t made for money, it’s made for entertainment
My husband and I are getting our tesla model 3 today (eee!) and we just wanted to say that your tesla videos are our favorite by far! We’ve watched all of them and absolutely love them. We’ll be using ours as a one-car-family car too, so that video is our favorite. “Spawnpoiint” is now a household name for us haha. Everyday now it’s: “Well spawnpoiint said…” Keep them coming, we love them!
As always. Video is on point! I’m looking into switching to Tesla but still hesitant and relying mainly on petrol/gasoline hence the need to continuously watch Tesla reviews form real owners.
Picking up my Model 3 and considering a small weekend roadtrip straightaway. Not sure it's a wise move but feeling cooped up from Covid :D. Great videos btw! Your channel has become my "go to" source for real world Tesla experiences.
We have a model y and going on a 7 days cruise in July. This video makes me feel more confident in leaving my model y in the cruise garage. We would be driving for 200 miles from home to the cruise garage and will supercharge in the near area before parking it for 7 days. Thanks for the video!!!! Cheers from USA
Great vid and info, new Tesla owner here, picked up our Model Y on July 28th and have noticed even with Sentry Mode on my "vampire drain" is almost non-existent. I have stopped worrying about that. Cheers from Illinois
more tesla videos！I’ve watched all of your Tesla and trip videos! Pretty informative and well explained every detail. Love from Shanghai and I’m still waiting for my model 3 delivery day😂
There is yes, you just hold the steering wheel buttons for 30 seconds. I would have done this the next morning, but it had sorted itself by then. You can technically do it while driving but I wasn’t risking it as I wanted to get home.
@@SpawnPoiint You could've asked the valet parking company to do it if they felt comfortable, and a very interesting video. Was wondering about going abroad and leaving a Tesla without charging it.
When I logged in that day, it said the inside temp was 4. I know the UK had a cold week at around 0-8. The car was outside all week, the compound isn’t covered.
We’re here for the Tesla videos! My car was at the shop for a week when I was getting it wrapped. I had sentry mode on, checked the app literally every couple of hours. When they were wrapping the doors the HVAC was on for hours at a time, I only lost 1-3% daily. If that. I lost like 16% over the whole week.
That is bullshit. Sentry mode keeps the car awake and it uses 300W just for that. If you have 24hours of sentry that is 24*300 that is 8kWh or around 12% each day. +hvac. No way in hell did you loose 1% -3% which is less than 2kWh or about 8 hours of operation...
Another informative video-I appreciate you posting it. Quick question: do you think a soft reset would have fixed the issues you encountered when you got back in your car to return home?
Thanks for the info. Nice one. Would u happen to know the draw with sentry mode on for the same period perhaps. Im waiting to take delivery of my M3P next thursday. Really looking forward to it ..
I wonder if you had done a hard reboot to cure the minor issues if that would have cured them? Informative video and thanks for sharing this video. Cheers!
On the way home I did think the same, but I didn't want to risk anything until I was sat on my drive. But by the next morning it was back to normal again.
Nice video, however I would enable sentry mode without hesitation. Yes it drains battery but not a lot more than your test. I mean if I don't enable the sentry mode when I leave my car alone for 1 week then when would I do it?
This was one of my concerns. We usually go to the USA for three weeks at a time - not worth going that for for less - and I was concerned about how much the battery would have lost over this time.
nice video, thanks for the content to. just wanting to know why your charge point on the car looks different to some other model 3 i have seen? is it a country thing?
It’s a CCS socket that is becoming the standard for fast charging in Europe. I believe all Model 3’s in the UK and Model S and X produced after 1st May 2019 come with this type of socket.
Great video. One question, should you charge everyday for the health of the battery or is it ok to charge every few days? (basically if you have an apartment and can't charge using your mains, so have to rely on public chargers)
Did you try a reboot to see if the issues would clear up. Usually when I have an issue I use the hold the scroll wheel till the Tesla icon comes back up. That usually fixes any issues.
I have done this a few times with other issues, but I've been sat at home or on my own. I didn't fancy the risk with the family in the car (and away from home).
i'm pretty sure if you would of done a reboot with both scroll buttons while driving(it is safe) everything would of been working fine again...sometimes glitches do occur and this is the easiest quick fix, from a model 3 owner to another ;)
If you ever do this again, when you return to the car after several days of inactivity, if you are seeing issues with the speed limit indicators or cruise control, try resetting the screen and see if that fixes anything. Click and hold the two steering wheel dials until the screen goes black and reboots. Just curious if that would have fixed your issues. Great info. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Jason, fortunately I was aware of the reset, but I didn't want to risk it before heading home. I've done it before when my wipers were playing up, but I was sat on my drive at the time.
Good video. I'm getting the Model 3 myself (delivery due end of March, that's assuming society hasn't collapsed from the Coronavirus haha) and I'm going on holiday for two weeks so I always wondered how much my battery would drain over that time. But good to know it will be minimal. Is it possible that your cameras were obscured with dirt, which prevented autopilot from engaging. When I test drove the Model 3, the autopilot wouldn't engage and an error message popped up saying that I needed to clean the passenger side camera. Could also be the reason why your car wasn't picking up speed signs? Just a guess.
It wasn’t dirt as those error messages say so. They usually say the ‘front left camera is obscured’ or similar. This just said it wasn’t available. The next day it worked after a charge (and not cleaned). I imagine it was a software issue.
Great video, thank you. This is something I've been wondering for a while as I wait on my new Model 3 which is "due" in May. As I'm still trying to figure everything out about this car, one question I do have is regarding Sentry Mode. Do you ever use it, and if so how often and when? Also, how much battery does it use over time? Thanks in advance.
It uses around 1 mile per hour. So up to 24 miles of range per day is possible. I don’t use it at home (you can disable it for certain locations like favourites) as I have cameras at home anyway. Otherwise I use it everywhere else. It’s always on for me.
Was it still in valet mode maybe? Just thinking. I really like the car just wish South Africa would bring the car here without a 35 - 40% hike in price as import tax
Thank you from the US. I’m very interested in your range and any insight you have. I was impressed with your travel to the airport and using 20ish %. I have a m3p on order and having range and degradation anxiety and there are very few discussions of real world numbers or owners believe it’s okay to be put out. Do you believe the regen makes a difference? “Keep it real” and Cheers. Thanks again.
What exactly is your concern? In my experience real world range is approx. 10%-15% lesser than claimed or what you see displayed. Could be more depending on the conditions, driving style etc. Driving on the highway is least efficient as you are not using Regen breaking.. Counter-intuitive when compared to an ICE car.
Your issue seems to be endemic to electric vehicles of all types. If we leave a train shut off for a while in the cold they take ages to initialise and the software does act odd or doesn't work at all. A reset usually sorts out all the issues. Maybe this would help the Tesla.
You say it's really quiet, could you demonstrate how quite it is like with a decibel meter and maybe compare it with a normal petrol or diesel car both on normal roads and motorways?
I have heard about these kind of issues with the Tesla cars, my Nissan Leaf has no such issues, I left it for 17 days and found it had not lost even 1% on the battery, the regen breaking worked fine, all the speed controls etc... working fine. I realise the Tesla may well be a better car but the Leaf holds its own with reliability :) I know it has no battery cooling, so before you reply with this issue I should tell you that.. I live in the UK and with the weather here I will never need it! :-D
Great Video, I also posted this video on a forum because this exact question came up. I myself go on many trips to Hawaii or cruises which will keep me away for 7 or 8 days. I subscribed and liked. Thanks
This was very interesting cus I would wonder the same thing about how much would be left after a holiday. I struggle with trust issues leaving cars at airports, although the secure car park you chose local to you was obviously good 👍🏻🙂 I’ve only left my S3 once in the 11 years I’ve owned it. 😂
Not driven in almost 3 weeks now because of the current situation only lost about 8% (bit more due to software update) feel like could last at least 6 months on a single charge.
GPS lost it's lock whilst the car was asleep for so long? - the speed limits stuff is map based ... and if the car is not happy with the GPS location lock -> in terms of DOP - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_(navigation) ... ?
Did you set it to preheat once you’d landed? I wonder if that would have helped get some heat into the battery pack before you’d left and you’d have had regen a bit earlier? Was the front camera fogged up after sitting for the week?
I didn't open the app again or pre-heat as I wanted to see the impact on leaving it alone. Next time I will do, but as this was a first test I didn't unfortunately.
You have to preheat a lot to get a 7 days cold battery to temperature. It will suck a lot of energy on a short 50mile trip. He still had some regen, but probably just 15-25kW. Plus you don't really need that much if you don't drive in the city. Preheating, outside of just heating the cabin for 3 minutes, would suck too much.
Love your content so my question is will I be damaging my battery over time if I were to leave it parked and unplugged at my job for 20 a day? I’m a regional truck driver so I would be away from my Tesla for a while. That’s been my biggest question cause if leaving the battery unplugged would slowly damage it then it probably wouldn’t make sense for me to own one.
I was wondering if you could help me out here.. How I can see the amount of KWH used each day or month for charging the car? I want to see the total KWH I used exclusively for charging. The Tesla app doesn't tell me and neither does the car when I click on the charge icon..I am sure it's buried somewhere but I don't know where.
Using the app to check on the car uses virtually zero power. Using Scan My Tesla app, the computer systems the app wakes up to check on the vehicle consume 2 watts of power, or 1/5 of an LED lightbulb. If you checked the car via the app once every day for a month, it would equate to less than 1.8% of battery drain. Before update 2019.5.xx, the computers sometimes didn’t return to a sleep state after waking- this has resolved and all systems return to sleep around 30 seconds after an app wake. The point is, don’t feel bad about checking your model 3 via the app. It has low power processing cores that handle app access. I have a 2019 Model 3 Performance and it has been by FAR the best car I’ve ever owned. My wishlist for future updates is to include pillar camera footage in sentry mode and allow us to view/delete sentry mode footage on the center screen- I can’t believe both of these haven’t been added already. Not having pillar camera footage leaves a huge blind spot in sentry mode and driving camera footage.
@@bluenoserob4914 There is actually a way. If you are parked nearby(outside of your house), you can use a wifi sdcard and connect to that one. Otherwise you can use a phone inside the car, connect that one to a wifi sdcard plugged in and then connect your main phone to that phone in the car via some teamviewer app or use some sort of relay server to browse the files on the sdcard.
@@marcusbiller867 it was specifically the cars cameras I was referring to like how an IP cam works, so I guess the camera system in the car our only record based for dash cam and sentry mode, and sensory when driving I.e auto pilot/FSD. Would be such a good security measure live view and email alerts in dealing with any untoward situation.
@@bluenoserob4914 I was referring to the same, read what I said.. Tesla will never allow for this unless the car is connected to wifi as it will use too much data they pay for.
Question to you is, did you check the mileage driven? In other words, you said the valet's drove it... Did they note your power level before taking the car out on some joy rides while they had it in their possession, then recharging up to a level below what you would expect it to be?
Haha good question, and yes I took a photo of the mileage before hand. Also, your ‘trip’ resets after each charge so it would have said 0 instead of 51 miles.
Very useful video for those of us looking to buy a Tesla - or any electric car. And the results are encouraging, too. One small crit. Making vids for public viewing means any of your foibles are visible. Not impressed with your car control technique. Fingertip steering, esp with wife and two kids in the car?? Still a thumbs up and sub from me.
Not massive EV fan as I'm a keen driver, but vids like this educate all the doubters. Good content but Christ on a bike keep your hands on the wheel. You get a blow out your history!
@@SpawnPoiint let's hope auto pilot can save you then. Is there any safety data on this by chance? Tesla do have a good occupancy protection if you do bin it. My friends Model X was side swiped at speed and all inside walked away no problem. At the end of the day we are heading for transport pods with no passenger involvement.
I would've thought Sentry Mode would have been a great peace of mind to have on while away, I wonder how much it drains over a 2-3 day period to leave it turned on? Any UA-camrs done a test of this?
Oh, Could you do a video on how you charge and all of the services that you have to charge your Tesla like all of the charging station companies. And talk about everything charging with the Tesla
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Just Subscribed. Excellent Video
Great video, thank you. This is something I've been wondering for a while as I wait on my new Model 3 which is "due" in May. As I'm still trying to figure everything out about this car, one question I do have is regarding Sentry Mode. Do you ever use it, and if so how often and when? Also, how much battery does it use over time? Thanks in advance.
I haven’t driven my Model 3 for 3 years because I don’t own one
😂 sorry
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SpawnPoiint lol
Ha! Brilliant!
Me neither
Another model 3 youtuber recently found out that his "vampire drain" (he lost 1km per hour) has been caused by the "Teslafi" App which is communicating way too often with the car, not letting it sleep at all.
Just wanted to comment and say that I have binge watched all your Tesla videos today and they are really informative, to the point and a pleasure to watch. Great videos pal! 👍🏽
Thanks for matching mate, I appreciate that support.
10 mins in a glance
Went on a trip for 8 days.
Valet mode on,
Didn't use the app to check until returning
Battery only dropped 3% for the entire trip.
-Cruise control not working properly
-Speed limit on maps not showing (worked again after charging the following day)
why you ruining his revenue?
Gideon Cloza We’re not watching it for the benefit of his revenue, it’s not our problem if he gains money or not, UA-cam isn’t made for money, it’s made for entertainment
Another useful video - keep up the good work. Look forward to more M3 content as I wait for mine to arrive!
Thanks Peter, appreciate the comment!
My husband and I are getting our tesla model 3 today (eee!) and we just wanted to say that your tesla videos are our favorite by far! We’ve watched all of them and absolutely love them. We’ll be using ours as a one-car-family car too, so that video is our favorite. “Spawnpoiint” is now a household name for us haha. Everyday now it’s: “Well spawnpoiint said…” Keep them coming, we love them!
haha that's awesome. Sorry I've not created much new content over the last year, but enjoy the new car. And enjoy your Tesla journey.
Definitely a question I had as I'm considering the Model 3. Thanks for the video!
100% would of enabled sentry mode considering a company was looking after your car, but that’s just my anxiety speaking.
I don't know why, but watching the b-roll with you driving right hand drive and on the other side of the road is a little trippy.
As always. Video is on point! I’m looking into switching to Tesla but still hesitant and relying mainly on petrol/gasoline hence the need to continuously watch Tesla reviews form real owners.
Thanks for subbing and watching Jose.
Picking up my Model 3 and considering a small weekend roadtrip straightaway. Not sure it's a wise move but feeling cooped up from Covid :D. Great videos btw! Your channel has become my "go to" source for real world Tesla experiences.
That's awesome. Enjoy the weekend away! It's the best way to learn the car and see what it's capable of.
Thank you so much for your video! I am a new Tesla owner and was very curious about taking a trip in a couple of months (airport). Thanks!
Great video, thanks. And also nice to see another British tech UA-camr from the North of England who's also a Tesla fan! :)
Thanks for the comment too!
We have a model y and going on a 7 days cruise in July. This video makes me feel more confident in leaving my model y in the cruise garage. We would be driving for 200 miles from home to the cruise garage and will supercharge in the near area before parking it for 7 days. Thanks for the video!!!! Cheers from USA
Great vid and info, new Tesla owner here, picked up our Model Y on July 28th and have noticed even with Sentry Mode on my "vampire drain" is almost non-existent. I have stopped worrying about that. Cheers from Illinois
That’s awesome to hear mate. Enjoy too.
more tesla videos！I’ve watched all of your Tesla and trip videos! Pretty informative and well explained every detail. Love from Shanghai and I’m still waiting for my model 3 delivery day😂
Isn’t there a soft reboot option on Tesla’s involving the steering wheel controls? Maybe worth a try next time... great video as always!
There is yes, you just hold the steering wheel buttons for 30 seconds. I would have done this the next morning, but it had sorted itself by then. You can technically do it while driving but I wasn’t risking it as I wanted to get home.
@@SpawnPoiint You could've asked the valet parking company to do it if they felt comfortable, and a very interesting video. Was wondering about going abroad and leaving a Tesla without charging it.
Very useful. Any idea what the temperatures were whilst you were away as I’m assuming the % maybe lower if around freezing in non covered parking.
When I logged in that day, it said the inside temp was 4. I know the UK had a cold week at around 0-8. The car was outside all week, the compound isn’t covered.
This is a very helpful video, on my way to the airport and wasn't sure how this was gonna play out in long term parking!
We’re here for the Tesla videos! My car was at the shop for a week when I was getting it wrapped. I had sentry mode on, checked the app literally every couple of hours. When they were wrapping the doors the HVAC was on for hours at a time, I only lost 1-3% daily. If that. I lost like 16% over the whole week.
Thanks for the feedback. It's good to see how many enjoy the Tesla videos :)
That is bullshit. Sentry mode keeps the car awake and it uses 300W just for that. If you have 24hours of sentry that is 24*300 that is 8kWh or around 12% each day. +hvac. No way in hell did you loose 1% -3% which is less than 2kWh or about 8 hours of operation...
Nice and informative video. Good to know as hoping to take delivery by the end of this month of my Tesla model 3
Thank you mate. Good luck too! It's an awesome car.
5:34 Your kids: Dad we want this car 😂😂❤️
I love hearing a Brit's perspective on the model 3 (:
Thanks for watching too.
Love the Tesla videos, ordered a Model 3 last week. Quite like tech too - but gaming is not my thing. keep up the good work.
Great info you shared here!! You have 1 of the best Tesla M3 channels
Thank you mate
Another informative video-I appreciate you posting it. Quick question: do you think a soft reset would have fixed the issues you encountered when you got back in your car to return home?
Yes I think it would have fixed it, and I probably should have done it at the time.
Helps a ton, thank you
This is great info. I’ve subscribed & liked. Greetings from Sydney, Australia 👍😊🇦🇺
Thank you Michael, welcome too :)
Nice test and result. My Y is coming this Sat!
Thank you. 7 days seems like a drop in the ocean now compared to lockdown though 😂
This is so useful, thanks.
Thanks for the info. Nice one. Would u happen to know the draw with sentry mode on for the same period perhaps. Im waiting to take delivery of my M3P next thursday. Really looking forward to it ..
I knew that was Spain. hope you got a nice stay.
good vid
My thoughts, one of the sensors had grime on it! Which probably got removed by driving it or heavy rain fall
It definitely wasn't that, as that's confirmed by an error message. This had no errors at all relating to the cameras.
Honestly didn’t think about it till you told me but that was very helpful cause I’d check it like a idiot haha
I honestly would’ve just payed for the charger. I can’t just go a week and not check my car on the app but I understand the experiment. Great job!!
Another great video 👌🏼
Thank you mate. Means a lot hearing the great comments 🙏
Really helpful to know this
I wonder if you had done a hard reboot to cure the minor issues if that would have cured them? Informative video and thanks for sharing this video. Cheers!
On the way home I did think the same, but I didn't want to risk anything until I was sat on my drive. But by the next morning it was back to normal again.
Nice video, however I would enable sentry mode without hesitation. Yes it drains battery but not a lot more than your test. I mean if I don't enable the sentry mode when I leave my car alone for 1 week then when would I do it?
This was one of my concerns. We usually go to the USA for three weeks at a time - not worth going that for for less - and I was concerned about how much the battery would have lost over this time.
Thanks for this video, its really good to know
Thanks Peter, thanks for watching too 🙌
Lolll you passed right by my house going from the Alicante Elche Airport to the Benidorm area through that mountain pass at 3:19
I’ll give you a wave next time
I’ll visit you and say hi..
Humm. There must be something wrong with my wife’s new model y. While she is at work for 9 hours, she always loses 2% battery.
Great video. Do you mind me asking what you do for a living? :)
Sure. I work hard 😂
nice video, thanks for the content to. just wanting to know why your charge point on the car looks different to some other model 3 i have seen? is it a country thing?
I’m not actually sure why. It’s something to do with supercharging though.
It’s a CCS socket that is becoming the standard for fast charging in Europe. I believe all Model 3’s in the UK and Model S and X produced after 1st May 2019 come with this type of socket.
Great video.
Maybe I mist it but what was the average temp when you were away.
Thanks.
Great video. One question, should you charge everyday for the health of the battery or is it ok to charge every few days? (basically if you have an apartment and can't charge using your mains, so have to rely on public chargers)
Absolutely fine to charge as frequent as you need to. I usually keep it above 50%, but tonight it's sat at 20%.
Thanks for sharing!
Did you try a reboot to see if the issues would clear up. Usually when I have an issue I use the hold the scroll wheel till the Tesla icon comes back up. That usually fixes any issues.
I have done this a few times with other issues, but I've been sat at home or on my own. I didn't fancy the risk with the family in the car (and away from home).
This was very useful. I’ve heard they drain the battery quite a lot but that seems to be a myth. Certainly with the model 3
i'm pretty sure if you would of done a reboot with both scroll buttons while driving(it is safe) everything would of been working fine again...sometimes glitches do occur and this is the easiest quick fix, from a model 3 owner to another ;)
What was the temp ? Outside. I lose allot when it’s cold.
If you ever do this again, when you return to the car after several days of inactivity, if you are seeing issues with the speed limit indicators or cruise control, try resetting the screen and see if that fixes anything. Click and hold the two steering wheel dials until the screen goes black and reboots. Just curious if that would have fixed your issues. Great info. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Jason, fortunately I was aware of the reset, but I didn't want to risk it before heading home. I've done it before when my wipers were playing up, but I was sat on my drive at the time.
Good video. I'm getting the Model 3 myself (delivery due end of March, that's assuming society hasn't collapsed from the Coronavirus haha) and I'm going on holiday for two weeks so I always wondered how much my battery would drain over that time. But good to know it will be minimal.
Is it possible that your cameras were obscured with dirt, which prevented autopilot from engaging. When I test drove the Model 3, the autopilot wouldn't engage and an error message popped up saying that I needed to clean the passenger side camera. Could also be the reason why your car wasn't picking up speed signs? Just a guess.
tesla model 3 does not pick up speed signs or any signs ...
@@whocares264 Oh doesn't it? My mistake
It wasn’t dirt as those error messages say so. They usually say the ‘front left camera is obscured’ or similar. This just said it wasn’t available. The next day it worked after a charge (and not cleaned). I imagine it was a software issue.
Great video, thank you. This is something I've been wondering for a while as I wait on my new Model 3 which is "due" in May. As I'm still trying to figure everything out about this car, one question I do have is regarding Sentry Mode. Do you ever use it, and if so how often and when? Also, how much battery does it use over time? Thanks in advance.
It uses around 1 mile per hour. So up to 24 miles of range per day is possible. I don’t use it at home (you can disable it for certain locations like favourites) as I have cameras at home anyway.
Otherwise I use it everywhere else. It’s always on for me.
I think that the cameras will have needed to recalibrate having not been used for the 7 days. Safety feature to ensure they work as required.
Great video man
Thank you mate 🙏
Was it still in valet mode maybe? Just thinking. I really like the car just wish South Africa would bring the car here without a 35 - 40% hike in price as import tax
Only 3% wow. Other issues are not really issues. But damm 3% isn't bad.
Yeh I was really impressed with it.
Thank you from the US. I’m very interested in your range and any insight you have. I was impressed with your travel to the airport and using 20ish %. I have a m3p on order and having range and degradation anxiety and there are very few discussions of real world numbers or owners believe it’s okay to be put out. Do you believe the regen makes a difference? “Keep it real” and Cheers. Thanks again.
Thanks mate. I honestly don’t see the Regen doing a great deal if I’m honest. It’s winter so I’m definitely seeing less range than expected.
What exactly is your concern? In my experience real world range is approx. 10%-15% lesser than claimed or what you see displayed. Could be more depending on the conditions, driving style etc. Driving on the highway is least efficient as you are not using Regen breaking.. Counter-intuitive when compared to an ICE car.
Your issue seems to be endemic to electric vehicles of all types. If we leave a train shut off for a while in the cold they take ages to initialise and the software does act odd or doesn't work at all. A reset usually sorts out all the issues. Maybe this would help the Tesla.
Thanks for the advice, fortunately I've not experienced it since.
@@SpawnPoiint question, M3 SR+ (with AAP) or M3 LR (install AAP later)?, I'm having trouble deciding.
You say it's really quiet, could you demonstrate how quite it is like with a decibel meter and maybe compare it with a normal petrol or diesel car both on normal roads and motorways?
Just found your channel because I want to leave my model Y at the airport👍
Great video, thanks !!!
One quick question but not really related to the video, where did you get your lip spoiler from please?
Thank you 🙏 it was from a seller I found on eBay. Unfortunately they don’t sell it anymore.
@@SpawnPoiint ok never mind. Have M3 LR on order and thought it would finish the car off nicely. Thanks for replying and keep the videos coming mate 👍
I have heard about these kind of issues with the Tesla cars, my Nissan Leaf has no such issues, I left it for 17 days and found it had not lost even 1% on the battery, the regen breaking worked fine, all the speed controls etc... working fine. I realise the Tesla may well be a better car but the Leaf holds its own with reliability :) I know it has no battery cooling, so before you reply with this issue I should tell you that.. I live in the UK and with the weather here I will never need it! :-D
That's awesome to hear! Congrats.
That's an impressive test.
Thanks mate.
Great Video, I also posted this video on a forum because this exact question came up. I myself go on many trips to Hawaii or cruises which will keep me away for 7 or 8 days. I subscribed and liked. Thanks
Thanks mate. That’s awesome to hear too.
This was very interesting cus I would wonder the same thing about how much would be left after a holiday. I struggle with trust issues leaving cars at airports, although the secure car park you chose local to you was obviously good 👍🏻🙂 I’ve only left my S3 once in the 11 years I’ve owned it. 😂
what was the weather like? The main phantom drain is the battery management that is more active when its hot
It was around 0 degrees.
You can disable the cabin overheat protection
Not driven in almost 3 weeks now because of the current situation only lost about 8% (bit more due to software update) feel like could last at least 6 months on a single charge.
Can you tell us where you bought the spoiler from and also how you fitted it??? It would be good to do a video on it if you have one???
Great idea. Unfortunately the seller I used doesn’t sell them anymore.
GPS lost it's lock whilst the car was asleep for so long?
- the speed limits stuff is map based ... and if the car is not happy with the GPS location lock -> in terms of DOP - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_(navigation) ... ?
That's interesting, thanks for the link too!
Did you set it to preheat once you’d landed? I wonder if that would have helped get some heat into the battery pack before you’d left and you’d have had regen a bit earlier? Was the front camera fogged up after sitting for the week?
I didn't open the app again or pre-heat as I wanted to see the impact on leaving it alone. Next time I will do, but as this was a first test I didn't unfortunately.
You have to preheat a lot to get a 7 days cold battery to temperature. It will suck a lot of energy on a short 50mile trip. He still had some regen, but probably just 15-25kW. Plus you don't really need that much if you don't drive in the city. Preheating, outside of just heating the cabin for 3 minutes, would suck too much.
Nice video. What was the place at 0:50? Looks familiar? 🤔
I was passing through the land of Giant Bradley 😉
Love your content so my question is will I be damaging my battery over time if I were to leave it parked and unplugged at my job for 20 a day? I’m a regional truck driver so I would be away from my Tesla for a while. That’s been my biggest question cause if leaving the battery unplugged would slowly damage it then it probably wouldn’t make sense for me to own one.
No it wouldn't make any difference at all. Turn sentry off (so it goes into deep sleep) and it'll lose almost no battery at all. Won't cause any harm.
@@SpawnPoiint awesome good to know! I been hearing that a plugged Tesla is a happy Tesla so that’s why I wanted to make sure. Thanks!
You’ve been to mallorca?
What was the average temperature during those 8 days ? Was it above freezing ?
Awesome!
Thanks for watching :)
Do both tech and Tesla each week!
I was wondering if you could help me out here.. How I can see the amount of KWH used each day or month for charging the car? I want to see the total KWH I used exclusively for charging. The Tesla app doesn't tell me and neither does the car when I click on the charge icon..I am sure it's buried somewhere but I don't know where.
Using the app to check on the car uses virtually zero power. Using Scan My Tesla app, the computer systems the app wakes up to check on the vehicle consume 2 watts of power, or 1/5 of an LED lightbulb. If you checked the car via the app once every day for a month, it would equate to less than 1.8% of battery drain. Before update 2019.5.xx, the computers sometimes didn’t return to a sleep state after waking- this has resolved and all systems return to sleep around 30 seconds after an app wake. The point is, don’t feel bad about checking your model 3 via the app. It has low power processing cores that handle app access. I have a 2019 Model 3 Performance and it has been by FAR the best car I’ve ever owned.
My wishlist for future updates is to include pillar camera footage in sentry mode and allow us to view/delete sentry mode footage on the center screen- I can’t believe both of these haven’t been added already. Not having pillar camera footage leaves a huge blind spot in sentry mode and driving camera footage.
Thanks for the informative feedback too 👍
Can you access the cars cameras through app? Would be a great security feature.
Unfortunately not. It’s something I’ve mentioned in a previous video would be really useful.
@@SpawnPoiint Maybe if many request this myself also when I get my own it may be facilitated.
@@bluenoserob4914 There is actually a way. If you are parked nearby(outside of your house), you can use a wifi sdcard and connect to that one. Otherwise you can use a phone inside the car, connect that one to a wifi sdcard plugged in and then connect your main phone to that phone in the car via some teamviewer app or use some sort of relay server to browse the files on the sdcard.
@@marcusbiller867 it was specifically the cars cameras I was referring to like how an IP cam works, so I guess the camera system in the car our only record based for dash cam and sentry mode, and sensory when driving I.e auto pilot/FSD. Would be such a good security measure live view and email alerts in dealing with any untoward situation.
@@bluenoserob4914 I was referring to the same, read what I said.. Tesla will never allow for this unless the car is connected to wifi as it will use too much data they pay for.
Question to you is, did you check the mileage driven? In other words, you said the valet's drove it... Did they note your power level before taking the car out on some joy rides while they had it in their possession, then recharging up to a level below what you would expect it to be?
Haha good question, and yes I took a photo of the mileage before hand. Also, your ‘trip’ resets after each charge so it would have said 0 instead of 51 miles.
@@SpawnPoiint OK, so you know the mileage when you left it, and you know the mileage when you picked it up, so? ;-)
So what? I answered it 😂
So none of those strange sounds when putting it into drive after the long sleep? Maybe those were heard by the parking folks ?
Very useful video for those of us looking to buy a Tesla - or any electric car. And the results are encouraging, too. One small crit. Making vids for public viewing means any of your foibles are visible. Not impressed with your car control technique. Fingertip steering, esp with wife and two kids in the car?? Still a thumbs up and sub from me.
Glad it was useful, thanks for the sub 👍
Does a Tesla need to have WiFi Connection for the App to connect to it and check the battery or how does it work? thanks in advance.
It doesn’t need wifi no. It’s Bluetooth to connect when near by, or it uses its onboard mobile signal.
Why does sentry mode drain so much battery but a ring camera with a tiny battery can last months? Doesn’t make sense.
Not massive EV fan as I'm a keen driver, but vids like this educate all the doubters. Good content but Christ on a bike keep your hands on the wheel. You get a blow out your history!
Thanks 😊 it’s using autopilot, my hand is there as a backup
@@SpawnPoiint let's hope auto pilot can save you then. Is there any safety data on this by chance?
Tesla do have a good occupancy protection if you do bin it. My friends Model X was side swiped at speed and all inside walked away no problem. At the end of the day we are heading for transport pods with no passenger involvement.
Which model 3 is this?
I would've thought Sentry Mode would have been a great peace of mind to have on while away, I wonder how much it drains over a 2-3 day period to leave it turned on? Any UA-camrs done a test of this?
1 mile per hour, 12 days is a full battery drain
How many KW did you lose & how many Km would that be?
Why doesn’t that Tesla have a standard Tesla charger at 0:25
It's the new CCS adapter/port :)
Oh, Could you do a video on how you charge and all of the services that you have to charge your Tesla like all of the charging station companies. And talk about everything charging with the Tesla
Sounds good Jake.
I really want a Tesla Model 3 😩
don't have a tesla but here i am. haha
What if you left it for a month or 2
You could extrapolate my 7 day result.
I know the answer: the car hasn’t been driven for 7 days
That is mad dirty bruh 0:02
When was the last time you cleaned that shit
Have you never driven 50 miles in winter before? 😂
Interesting, you called your car Snowflake, Ive called mine Trigger;)
we can all relate