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[lambosuperl]

Take it to a Tesla service center to see what it would cost to have everything fixed!

[yeahboyiiiii]

Bro theres the guy thats done 700, 000 miles in a Tesla when they launched with free charging for life.

[kelvincowe]

No one ever:
Taylor: "I like the smell of semen"
😂😂

[H.K_R]

With an average of 63, 000 miles a year and 172 miles a day for 365 days a year for 6 and a half years, it’s definitely one of the highest mileage cars in the UK for its age and type, if not the highest.

[shanethrelfall]

I love how the “add fully autopilot” is just a simple button similar to adding Onions to your shopping cart

[mazinho]

We would love to see you bringing it to Tesla to see how much exactly the battery has degraded over 450.000 miles

[stevenlawrie]

Basic autopilot with cruise control and radar with steering is included.

[vespacheck]

Fella who got one early with the free supercharging for life has done well over a million miles in his.

[andreasvanezi]

Boys we need a video of you taking the Tesla to the Nurburgring with all the range anxiety and creative ways to pass the long charging times and to finish it off nicely with a lap and verdict from Misha

[jellan]

The worst thing about mine is simply how other people react to it. As a car, it’s great. But it comes with so much bullshit from other people.

[Elkott]

Been saying for years now, if they really want electric cars to take over then stop with the luxury cars and give people a sub £15 grand basic bitch car

[mamba]

Just to give some other context to the public charging costs, which are ridiculous. In Ireland only charging my model Y at night on cheap 0.07kwh electricity, it has cost me €85 to drive 5, 300KM.

EVs offer huge savings IF you can home charge cheaply.

My main issue with EVs, like most green things I suppose, is those that can benefit the most are those that can otherwise afford it, whereas those in a council house with a cheap petrol have to pay rising petrol costs.

[dss]

I would really want to see you do a trip to Nürburgring and back in it!

[Sedonapass]

the whole interior part of the video rory was holding the camera and we saw like 10 secs of that footage LOL

[RealRikiRu]

Nice find! Some things to look out for:

Lower control arms front, these are well known to fail.
Upper control arm front known to rust alot in colder countries.
Control arm rear can be cause of vibration, not sure on the top of my head what its called, but it mounts to the engine and the rear subframe.
Rear control arm mounts, known to break and it will make the rear wheel tilt in a angel making the car unable to drive.
Headlights, Facelift cars are wellknown for the headlight failure as you shown in the video, cheaper ones can be found in China for about 300 euro.
Electric rear hatch, known to make sounds and leak.
Rear camera, as shown in video, fails.
Side cameras in front fenders are prone to get burnt, eventually needs replacing.
12 Volt battery is known to be bad sooner than expected, no a huge deal tho.
Hood latch is metal and bolted to the aluminium hood, corodes after a while.
Ground fittings in the chassi snaps and corrode, this indicates most often issues with stearing "lost steering function" or random electrical issues, the fittings are most prone to failure under the "Frunk" in the front bay of the car.
Battery heater module dies, quite a pain if you have a AWD car (D-Model), its mounted on the torpedo wall in the front, only way to reach it if you have a front motor would be to drop the front subframe or HV-Battery.
Heating element inside the car is known to fail, it sucks in moisture from the front, important to swap filter and best to have the extra very large "Biodefence" filter, can be found online and glued in place if you wish to do so!
On the front wall of the car there is a "junktionbox", alof of the large fuses are located here, badly documented by Tesla, and if you get problems with heater its common the big fuse for the heater in this box blows, its hard to get to if you have a AWD car.
Rear brakelight in the rear window is known to burn out LEDS, sad thing is that its glued onto the rear window, no way to replace it unles you cut out the rear glass from the rear hatch.
Earily front seats can rust and snap in their construction so it moves more, for safety, replace the seat.
HV-Battery fuse, these ones are known to need to be replaced.
AC pipe left side inside wheel arch, front, known to break, and quite important since the car uses the AC to cool the coolant when charging on hot days.
Moisture in rear lights, drains holes are almost always clogged, can be cleaned by removing the rear lights.
Seals and water leaking from panoramic sunroof, very important to clean out the drainholes, water finds its way down the A-pillars inside the car otherwise, and it will make its way to the main electronics and fuses, making a complete low voltage electric mess..
Handles micro switches and gear snapping, kits to fix this are all around the internet.
Wiper assembely lose, useally it can be fixed to torq it correctly again, but it is also known to snap in a specific position, in that case it must be replaced, in the video you indicate marks on the hood, and that is well known from the wiper assembely moving too much.
Calipers are known to need some love about every other year, so that the pads can move easily.
Coolant three and four way valves are prone to leaking.
Front motor (SDU) are known to fail too early, any high pitch noise or scraping when letting go of the throttle is bad.
Rear motor LDU version (if preformance version, or some RWD version = LDU) are known to fail because of a coolant seal in the engine, can be checked by removing the speed sensor on the side of the block of the drive unit, if any liquid, moisture, or even rust is located its indicating a seal failure, drive unit needs to be repaired before it completely fails.
Steering rack is known to rust shut, so that it gets hard to turn, needs replacement in that case.
MCU1 has the problem with EMMC, for sure check that this is changed on the unit if you have a Nvidia Tegra processor in your car ( MCU1 ).
Screens on the cars with panoramic sunroofs are known to "Delaminate", this can be found by seeing "bubbles" or a "airgaps" in the screen, needs fixing since the fluid leaks into the unit itself, will cause short eventually.
Breather Valves on HV-Battery Back are known to clog, can be cleaned but be careful with and no preasure washers.
Top of the HV battery is also starting to report early rusting in the front part around the HV fuse and "tower".
Small window on front doors are known to move and leak.


85, keep away from these vehicles, the batteries are 200 % confirmed to have issues and completely fail, the eariler models as well, 60, 70, and 90's have started reporting simular weird issues with the HV battery, New tech for the batteries was introduced around 2015 is much much more reliable.

If you have airsuspension, that is known to fail..

If you need any help or somethin, feel free to reach out, but overall, amazing car, i own one as well with free supercharging, and I cant go back to an ICE car.

Sorry for spelling mistakes!

[meloccom]

The issue with the wipers hitting the edge of the bonnet is the wiper driver mechanism which. Tesla can replace the mechanism for a few hundred pounds.
You do get TACC without purchase but it’s radar cruise control only and doesn’t change lanes without Enhanced Auto Pilot.
My 2014 Model S has done 250, 000Km and is similarly robust, with very little wrong with it, including the air suspension.
Go on a road trip, forget a caravan, you can sleep in the back with a blow up mattress and it will even keep the AC on whilst you sleep. If it’s a free supercharging for life car a road trip won’t cost much.

[GHar]

Honestly, as petrolheads tend to do, I expected you guys tearing this car a new one. But fair play, you went in with a level head on the mechanics and still had fun with it. For a second hand shitbox, it has faired well. You know what, I wouldn't even call this a shitbox.

[Jamessansome]

The warranty is valid for battery degradation. If its below a certain capacity it gets replaced under warranty.

[jeslordappiah]

As someone that doesn't know much and is always willing to learn much about cars. Taylor always seems to impress me with his knowledge in cars. Picking issues, describing it to even make me understand it. Anyway enough with the waffling 🙂. Taylor love you, nice vid, Alex.