[Music] [Music] so as you know a lot of people these days are getting Teslas like a lot so aside from being your own quality control advisor and inspecting your car for [Music] defects I do have a delivery checklist on Etsy if you guys want to check that out the big question we all have is Tesla Toyota Tacoma caliper as it can it go all the way with mineral repairs and issues now I've had daddy chill AKA my Tesla Model y for almost 3 years now and locked in 54,000 miles I've had my share of issues like a high voltage battery replacement yes the big battery pack that has your miles mine got replaced random camera issues but most of it has been covered under their 50,000 Mi warranty so pretty much as far as maintenance goes in 50,000 Mi all I had to get was tires and that's it okay maybe windshield wiper fluid as well as air filters I did do a video comparing my gas car maintenance to my model y so check that out however we're always told with gas cars you always have to worry about oil changes and maintenance on the engines and all that stuff and electric vehicles you don't have to worry about that stuff right well today I have a 5-year-old model 3 behind IND me with over 11,000 mil but before we get into that let's talk about Tesla's warranty Tesla has a basic warranty that covers the majority of issues up to 50,000 mil recently you can now purchase an extended warranty for 2 years or 25,000 M and depending on your model it can cost anywhere from 3500 for the model X to $1,800 for the mile 3 they also have their drivetrain and high voltage battery warranty for 8 years or 100 20,000 M for a model 3 or model y long range in performance however if you own a model 3 rear wheeel drive it's 100,000 Mi and if you own a Model S or model X you get 150,000 Mi battery warranty but after that 50k Mark you're on your own which makes me wonder what happens to a Tesla after 50,000 mil and for this 2018 Tesla Model 3 it's over 111,000 mil I also wonder how the battery health is in Tesla's secret service menu you so today we're going to go over all the stuff that went wrong and how much my friend actually spent on maintaining his Tesla what is up guys it's Chris with everyday Chris and welcome to my channel the number one place for Tesla Tech and everyday life the model 3 originally came out around 2017 and this model 3 is a 2018 model at the time there weren't that many electric cars to choose from and the model 3 long range was the cheapest for his model 3 long range with black interior and 18-in a Wheels with enhanced Auto pilot he paid $56,700 at the time for that price you could have gotten a luxurious BMW 5 series but was the model 3 luxurious at the time now as far as looks go if you live under a bridge and didn't know Tesla recently updated their Tesla Model 3 completely and I mean it looks beautiful the interior has LED lighting all new material a stockless design it is a beautiful car and I can't wait to get my hands on it and while the old model 3 set a new standard for vehicles with a large Center 15in touchscreen display as well as minimal buttons it's a simple yet far from luxurious interior you get heated seats and that's about it originally it comes with a gloss black fingerprint magnet and a single piece wooden dashboard but he wrapped his with carbon fiber so it actually looks sporty and clean still has the piano black door buttons but overall the interior is very minimal and clean overall it's a solid look but how is it held up over 5 years and 111,000 mil surprisingly not bad now the owner just commutes to and from work every day he doesn't wash his car daily or weekly doesn't do anything to the interior no coating or anything he cleans it maybe two to three times a year I do wonder how the interior would have looked if you went for the white interior but overall it looks really good now I just drove a 2023 Ford Mustang Mach e and the interface is pretty basic I also hated how the interface logged with random things and with a 2018 model 3 you'd think the user interface would be slow and unresponsive with its Intel Atom Processor but no it's super responsive fast quick as if nothing has changed this is a 2018 vehicle and it has the same software as the 2023 vehicles and it feels the same that's crazy it has Snappy response time as well as the latest and greatest updates and even though he uses it 24/7 every day he hasn't had any issues with the touchcreen aside from a random sporadic screen freeze which can easily be fixed with a twoof finger reset his car which is 5 years old than mine has all the technology to do the same exact thing that my new car can do what's awesome is that even the cameras are still amazing quality and way better than a lot of newer cars out there today and these cameras work great with Tesla software and autopilot but what's even cooler is if you have an older Tesla with full self-driving and the cameras AR compatible they'll replace those cameras for free so honestly there's no reason to upgrade to new Teslas every year with new features because those new features get transferred onto the old features through a software update and these awesome features carry over to the app as well as to continually change and update and add new features to allow your 5-year-old 111,000 M Tesla to be controlled in ways that other car manufacturers can only dream of now since he's one of the first to get a Tesla he still got that chrome trim though I'm so glad they went with the black because the Chrome is just musty looking the X TI looks about the same compared to the new model 3s you got the reflector style headlights now they projectors which is awesome still have the fog lights and let's check his bumper after 111,000 Mi for any Rock chips luckily for him he actually installed a paint protection film so I don't see any real damage here and it looks beautiful it looks like he did hit something over here but it looks like it hit the ppf so the ppf protected the paint there which is awesome so I'm glad he went with a paint protection film especially with all the commuting that he's doing he did get rear-ended when he was driving and it did take a few months for it to get fixed however overall the back looks great his suspension no issues no squeaking this thing is solid as a rock he also applied ceramic coating to his paint and it looks good he washes his car only once a month but not bad at all no rust no issues car is actually in amazing condition after 111,000 Mi his door handles work fine his mirrors fold without any issues I think now the trunk comes standard and opens automatically but his was manual until he got it retrofitted his alignment is normal the only thing he had to replace was the tires overall his car is maintained really well now one issue I had when driving the older maybe 2017 m s laners from Tesla was the estimated range you would say I had 20 M left and I would only drive 5 miles and then after 5 miles it said I only had 5 miles left and that is not a good thing especially with an electric car but how does a Tesla Model 3 after 5 years and 111,000 mies hold up as far as range is concerned My Friends Model 3 in 2018 they estimated the range to be around 310 mil on a full charge however in 2019 they updated the range from 310 miles to 325 mies through a software update due to the motor efficiency which is is so cool now on the Tesla screen in the app it can show you what you'll get at 100% And it's very accurate however I will do a battery health test later to see the most accurate range I do have a separate video on that so check that out if you're interested on doing that for your car but according to this it's giving me 290 Mi on a full charge so from when you first got the car with 325 Mi with 100% full charge to now with 290 Mi on 100% full charge it's only about a 10% degradation over over 111 almost 112,000 Mi which is really good I wanted to see how accurate his estimated range was while driving so from his place to my place it's about 30 miles and he started at 25 mil so technically we'd arrive at my place with 185 miles right well I drove mostly on the freeway 75 mph my temperature was normal around 70° and sure enough when I got to my destination I was at 181 miles so only about 4 mil off which isn't too bad after 112,000 Mi battery pack again this does always change based on the weather climate Hills all that fun stuff and Tesla's Energy tab is very accurate however I was very surprised to see a 5-year-old battery pack giving an estimated range that's off by only 4 miles and that is a huge thing with electric cars and something that's very very important and something I myself was worried about the older my electric car got all right guys I'm trying to do the battery health test for you to kind of see what the battery health is like after 111,000 miles in the test of model 3 if you've seen my previous video in the model Y where I did it as well certain things happen like the fan turns on and the battery test runs overnight slowly drain the battery and then charge it up to 100% on its own however I'm having some serious issues with this car for some reason and I think I know why so let me show you guys okay so if you look at his Tesla it says that there coolant level is low one thing the test needs to do in order to drain the battery and do the health test it has to turn on the fans at Max Speed allow the battery to kind of die on its own however if it doesn't do that I'm not really sure what happens because I had it at 15% when I left it around 700 p.m. I checked in the car 5 6 hours later and it actually had more percentage than when I came back which means it wasn't even draining the battery overnight at all and I don't know how long it would have taken if I just would have left the car to do the test on its own however I think it needs the coolant levels to be higher in order to do the battery health test in order for it to kind of turn the fans on Max and then drain the battery that way because otherwise it just doesn't seem to work and at first I was considering putting my own coolant levels in because I know exactly what coolant level to get however just perusing the forums because it's a Tesla it's a battery that coolant is what cools the battery it's a closed loop system which means the second you open it you introduce air and you could potentially cause some issues I probably would try it with my car however considering this is not my car I'm not even going to bother touching it I just told the owner you have a service alert and you probably want to get that coolant issue checked because most of the time the reason you have a coolant issue is from something else maybe there's a slow leak somewhere or something like that so that's why if I had to guess that's the reason why the battery health test wasn't working because my coolant levels were too low I do want to say if you guys aren't aware this is very similar to draining your battery as low as possible and then charging it back up and seeing how many miles you have then taking that 100% mileage and comparing it to how much you had when you first got the car and we sort of already did that so in the end we found out that the Tesla after 111,000 miles only had 10% battery degradation which is really cool my friend did say that he's going to take it in for service to do the coolant level thing and then we're going to try the battery health test again so make sure to subscribe to the channel because I'll probably do like a short or something just to see what the battery health is on the Secret Service menu after 111 probably at that point 112,000 miles now he did a great job of maintaining his battery health how did he do it now I asked him and he normally drives this car 90% for home and maybe 10% for road trips he does charge at home around 80% but for one year he had to commute further so he did charge up to 90% and he told me that he really charges to 100% like I said he barely went on any road trip so maybe 10% of the time he did supercharge now before we talk about out of pocket cost let's quickly talk about everything he got fixed under warranty so with this car costing almost $57,000 at the time there was a $7,500 federal tax credit which dropped the cost of the car under $50,000 as far as service requirements Tesla doesn't require much on their service page in his first year when he first got the car he had a few minor issues first off his frun latch was was messed up so he fixed that under warranty his door seals weren't attached properly and were bubbling so it got replaced his right rear door wasn't closing properly and the door handle wasn't working well either they fixed and replaced all these under warranty one thing not covered under warranty is tire rotations so it costed him around $98 to rotate the tires in his first year of ownership 2 years after his purchase his car died completely and found out his 12vt battery d so we replaced that as well for free under warranty started having the dreaded charge port door issue where his charge port door wouldn't open it was replaced under warranty also at the 2-year Mark he did a 2-year service which basically is a tire rotation alignment AC filter change and cleaner because he didn't watch my how to replace and clean the moldy smell from your Tesla video as well as a brake fluid flush the tire rotation costed him $78 the alignment check and align alignment was around $147 the AC mold smell cleaning as changing the cabin filters costed him $138 the brake fluid check and replacement that you don't need to do often due to the one pedal driving costed him $25 as well as cleaning and lubricating the brake calipers for $68 now the 2-year maintenance guidelines have changed so a lot of these stuff isn't really necessary and a lot of these stuff you can do yourself like the cabin air filter changes altogether in his second year of ownership it costed him around $646 for service in his third year he logged in over 64,000 Mi but since he's now officially passed his 50,000 Mi warranty Mark let's see what he had to pay that's not covered under warranty he had an issue where his rear camera was going black and had to be replaced which costed him $121 his brake pads also seemed to squeak and they did a break pad burnishing costing him $61 he also had the AC smell fixed as well as changing the cabin filters again and it cost him $143 and he had a tire rotation which cost $50 in his third year the total cost for his issues with his ma 3 was $375 it's funny how the cost of tire rotation seemed to decrease every year in his fourth year he had a recall for his ball joints in the suspension that was covered and free the backup camera they fixed had an issue so they looked at it again and fixed it for free something to keep in mind that a lot of people don't know if you have an issue fixed by Tesla say under warranty and you go out of warranty and the issue happens again on the same exact problem go back to Tessa talk to the service adviser because most of the time because they already tried to fix it first and the issue popped up again they'll still fix it for free under warranty he also had another recall for his trunk lid that was fixed for free and he got the AC smelling cabin filter changed again for $150 though in his fourth year he spent $150 onto year five he's now rolling in at over 100,000 Mi and only had one issue with this car for some reason the window keeps rolling down on its own and staying down for that to get fixed not covered under warranty was $163 I think it's insane that him living in SoCal in 5 years and 111,000 Mi of ownership guess how many times he replaced his wiper blades zero that's right zero times times but for reference to replace the left and right wiper blade it is $50 throughout his 5 years of ownership he had to go through tires Twice first time he got it through Tesla and it costed him around $1,400 second time he went through Costco Michelin tires for around $1300 and driving conservatively as well as using chill mode and not flooring it does increase the lifespan of the tires then that's about it for the physical stuff in 5 years and 111 ,000 miles so Total Service cost for his model 3 was $98 in the first year $646 in the second year and $375 in the third year $150 in his fourth year and in his fifth year he spent $163 and don't forget two sets of tires that costed him $2,700 and that gives a grand total of $4,130 in 5 years for services through the dealer and we all know the same going through a dealer is always the most expensive so overall that isn't bad at all however we also have to discuss charging costs it depends on how much he charges at home versus supercharging and like I said before he does do about 90% of his charging at home his total kilowatt hours of energy usage is 28,1 193 and let's just say he used 90% of that at home and with Southern California Edison with the prices constantly changing summer winter rates always change however let's just say the average kilowatt hour for us in expensive California is 25 cents a kilowatt hour so at home he used about 2,373 KW hours multiply that by 0.25 which gives us $ 6,343 this is the most basic it doesn't account for any external factors it's very black and white but that's kind of like the average cost it costed him to charge his car at home in comparison a more expensive car around the same price range a gas car like a BMW 5 series based on this Edmund's 5year of ownership website the cost to own a bmw5 series is around $38,000 with fuel costing around $115,000 alone again this factors in the average miles of normal californi drives which is around 12,000 Mi so in 5 years that estimate is actually 60,000 Mi not $1,000 Mi which is what this Tesla Model 3 has and in the future with his battery health being so good and his battery degradation only at 10% I can't see him needing to replace his battery pack until maybe like the 200,000 Mile Mark and for that cost it's averaging around $113,000 to replace and that's a huge question a lot of Tesla owners and potential Tesla owners want to know is how long does the battery pack actually last and in this case at 111,000 Mi it's actually doing really good and of course we can't forget about insurance to insure a Tesla it is a little bit more expensive based on the cost of the car as well as the parts and it always varies on the type of insurance you get Tesla does have their own insurance which makes it way cheaper however for this owner in his fifth year of ownership to pay for his model 3 insurance for the year was $1900 overall the total cost of owning a Tesla in 5 years and 111,000 miles is only $1,475 which isn't bad at all that's including service issues tires as well as charging costs again I didn't include Insurance because it's so varied based on your age your driving history and all that stuff but overall that is surprising and super cool compare that to all the maintenance issues with owning a BMW 5 series with all the maintenance costs gas oil changes as well as gaskets and all that engine stuff it is insane how much money you save when you own a Tesla which is why I love Tesa so much I got Daddy chill I got Stormbreaker and hopefully soon I can get a cyber truck anyways guys I hope this video helped you make sure to like And subscribe if you guys are interested in a Tesa use my referral link for a sweet discount thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys next time
