Tesla Model 3/Y Tips & Tricks: 30 Hidden Features!

yes oh hey what's up i've owned my tesla model 3 for two and a half years now and along the way i've learned some tips and tricks that i want to share with you in this video this is my ultimate list of tesla tips and tricks for the model 3 and model y a big thanks to brilliant for sponsoring today's video now let's start off with a couple of websites that you should know about that are useful on your tesla touch screen we all know that some video streaming apps like youtube and netflix are already built into the tesla touchscreen but if you want to stream a wider variety of video streaming apps like espn disney plus and your own plex server go ahead and bookmark this site a better theater.com this will let you stream from these sites in full screen mode of course you need to be in park for this to work but it gives you a lot more options than just the built-in full screen apps that tesla has another site you should bookmark is teslawaze.azurewebsites.net that's a bit of a mouthful i'll leave the link in the description below but this is a cool site that replicates the best features of the waze navigation app that tesla's built-in navigation system lacks such as alerts road closures police and other hazards it also has a setting that shows you the weather and radar just in case you are on a trip and want to be as prepared as possible to avoid range anxiety and getting a speeding ticket so if you have the full self driving option or the enhanced autopilot option you can do a secret auto park some people know about the auto park for parallel parking but this auto park lets you park the car by itself without you being in the seat so the way you enable this is if you hit the park button twice two times in a row it'll pop up the menu and it'll let you auto park forward or reverse so this is good if you want to have the car automatically back up into a garage that has a really tight space it allows you to exit the vehicle and then it will automatically back up or go forward by itself without you being in the car now if you have two driver profiles tied to two different phones for your car so for example my wife and i we both drive my model 3 well if we're together i'm usually driving but sometimes the tesla defaults to her phone which causes the seat and steering wheel to change to her positions instead of mine to fix this you can set a priority device so that if the tesla recognizes both phones it will prioritize one over the other now since tesla lacks the typical blind spot lights on the side mirrors if i'm about to change lanes or merge i like to tap the camera icon to reveal the backup camera since tesla recently allows you to swipe up to reveal both blind spot cameras as well this helps me to see if anyone is in my blind spot right before i change lanes i'm hoping tesla releases a future software update that automatically brings up these blind spot cameras when the turn signal is initiated so elon let's make that happen please now if you really want to lock down your tesla and maximize the security as much as possible first enable the new multi-factor authentication by choosing account in your online tesla account then use a free two-factor authentication app to scan your barcode and now each time you log into your tesla account it will ask for a one-time code that gets sent to your phone you can also add a layer of security to your tesla by enabling the pin to drive feature which will ask for a pin that you set anytime someone wants to drive it now this keyless driving feature is something i really didn't know about until recently this is kind of useful in certain situations let's say that you are on vacation and you leave your tesla back home and you forgot to put it in your garage right well this lets you pull your tesla app out and under the control section you hit the start button and that gives somebody two minutes to get in the car and drive it so if a storm is coming you can have your neighbor put your tesla in your garage while you're halfway across the world so kind of a cool feature if you like to use google maps to look up a destination on your phone before getting into your tesla you can actually share the destination to your tesla by pressing the share button on your phone and then select the tesla app icon and it'll send the destination automatically to your tesla navigation system and be ready for you when you get into the car which is cool not many people know how to properly cancel the turn signal to cancel a turn signal instead of pushing it in the opposite direction just tap it once in the same direction and this helps you avoid the annoying situation of signaling left then trying to cancel it by signaling right but that really causes you to signal right and then you flip it back to the left and now you're in a never ending cycle of doom just tap it once in the same direction to cancel your turn signal now it may seem obvious to some of you but not everyone knows that you can open your charge port by pressing the button on the mobile connector cable this also works the same way with supercharging cables now in your car safety settings you can enable honk to save dash cam clips so that if or when something bad happens while you're driving you can quickly honk and it will save the footage to your dash cam drive just in case you need it for insurance or legal purposes now to engage autopilot we all know to double tap down on the right stalk but not everyone knows that there are multiple ways to disengage autopilot you can either press the brake turn the steering wheel with enough force or my personal favorite simply tap up on the right stock to disengage autopilot to shift into reverse when you're in drive or vice versa you don't have to press the brake as long as you're going five miles an hour or under so you can easily shift between drive and reverse which comes in handy when you're doing a three point turn or pulling in and out of parking spots now if you're wondering how 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people will get 20 off their annual premium membership so click the link below to get started today autopilot automatically detects the speed limit zone you're in and by default if you enable autopilot it will set your speed to that speed limit but you can actually go into your settings and set it to relative plus whatever miles per hour you want it to which means autopilot will automatically set the speed plus that offset over the speed limit so for example if i'm in a 65 and i have my settings set to plus 5 relative whenever i enable autopilot it will set the speed to 70 which is five miles over the speed limit also when you have autopilot engaged you can tap on the speed limit icon on the touchscreen to set autopilot to that speed or to whatever offset you have set in your settings this is very handy if you're the type of person who always goes five miles over whatever speed limit it is if you don't like how loud the chimes and alerts are when driving you can enable joe mode and it will make the audible alerts a little quieter just in case you have a sleeping baby or a frightened kitty cat in the car after you've entered a destination in the navigation app you can actually tap on the navigation title to quickly zoom in or out to see the entire route or go back into the condensed view this is useful if you want to quickly see the full steps and then go back into the turn by turn bird's eye view style we all know that you can press the right scroll wheel down to enable the voice command feature you could tell the tesla to do something well last year they got an overhaul and they added more sophisticated voice commands so instead of trying to do something on this touch screen while driving see if the voice command works for it first you might be surprised at some of the things that you can do via voice command so for example you can tell it to drive to the nearest supercharger turn on the seat heaters you can tell it to set the temperature you could tell it to open the glove box and even things like open the web browser if you didn't know by now you can insert a usb drive into the console area and your tesla will record clips from its external cameras acting like a security surveillance system for your tesla but if you want to do it the best way get the jada usb hub which allows your flash drive to be hidden behind a magnetic lid so that nobody can easily unplug or steal your flash drive just in case they happen to break into your tesla if you're parking on a steep hill press and hold the park button on the right stock for two seconds to enable the emergency parking brake a parking brake indicator will appear on your display and the brake will be set for fixing issues with your touchscreen or other weird glitches like no cellular connectivity you can try to reboot the touchscreen by pressing and holding both scroll buttons at the same time for about five seconds it'll take about a minute or so to come back up but you can continue to drive the car while the touchscreen is rebooting now there are a few ways to use swipe gestures on the touchscreen which is sometimes more convenient than tapping for example you can swipe down or right on the navigate button to quickly navigate to whatever address you have saved for work and home so if you're at home and you swipe it it will navigate to work and vice versa also to remove previous destinations just swipe right on the address to delete it from the list if you swipe up on the app switcher it will bring up the last app that was opened swiping also works on the music icon so you can swipe it to quickly move it up or down you can also press and hold on the fan icon and move your finger left or right to easily adjust the temperature and the same with volume to increase or decrease the volume level another useful way to minimize the music app is to tap the album art to quickly move the music player up or down instead of tapping the music icon or swiping when you enable climate control and you want to turn it off you have to press the fan then press the power button which is kind of cumbersome a better way is to just hold down on the fan icon for a few seconds to turn on or off the climate control which is much easier than tapping if you're driving also if you enable the defroster or defogger while climate control is off once you're done with it if you press the button again it leaves the climate control on which is annoying so instead you can just hold down on the fan icon when you're done defrosting or defogging to turn off everything to save you from tapping multiple times and to help you maximize your range efficiency if you don't need the climate control on now the battery's rated range is always displayed by the battery icon but for a more accurate estimation of your projected range bring up the energy app and tap on average range and select 30 miles to see your average range based on your last 30 miles this helps you make sure you have enough range to get where you're going especially in the winter you probably already know that the right scroll wheel can adjust your set speed when you're on cruise control or autopilot one notch will do one mile per hour increment and then a quick scroll on the scroll wheel will do five miles an hour increments however when you're on cruise control or autopilot and you manually accelerate up to a certain speed you can do a quick scroll up on the right scroll wheel and instead of increasing by five miles an hour it will actually set your crew speed to whatever speed you're at when you do the quick scroll if autopilot doesn't detect the hand on the wheel it will eventually alert you to nudge the wheel to make sure you're still paying attention but instead of nudging the wheel you can also toggle or press any of the scroll wheel buttons to quickly dismiss the autopilot alert as a safety measure if you open the driver door when the car is in drive but going zero miles an hour it will automatically put itself into park to prevent accidental acceleration or roll away now it's a little scary to try to enable the wipers from the touchscreen when a downpour hits an easier way is to press the windshield wiper button on the left stalk to bring up the wiper icon on the touchscreen and then tap the windshield wiper button on the touchscreen now what i would love to see in a future software update is the ability to double press the wiper button on the left stock to enable the wipers at slow speed or triple press the wiper button to enable wipers at high speed this would save us from having to ever worry about looking down at the touchscreen during a downpour of rain to avoid being alerted by autopilot about grabbing the wheel try to set your steering wheel and seat position in such a way that you can comfortably rest each of your elbows on either side and rest your hand on the bottom left or right part of the steering wheel to satisfy autopilot while also being the most comfortable if you have a low ceiling in your garage you can adjust the height of the model y hatch to avoid it hitting the ceiling first open the hatch then manually raise or lower the hatch to the desired height then press and hold the hatch button until you hear a chime and now it will always open to that height so that wraps up my tesla tips and tricks for the model 3 and model y did i miss anything did i leave something out that you know about let me know in the comment section below make sure you subscribe if you want to see more tesla and tech videos in the future and hit that like button if you enjoy this video my name is andy thank you for watching and i'll talk to you in the next one

Channel: Andy Slye

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Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020