We bought a Model Y. WE WISH WE HADN’T

this is a tesla model y not only one of the best-selling evs in the us right now but one of the top selling cars in the world it's obviously a huge success for tesla but is the car itself a success tesla has received flack for years for general poor craftsmanship in their cars a questionable build quality overall and a general disregard for safety when it comes to their software particularly driver assistance features but what's it like to actually own one well we bought this one and after 600 miles of testing and over three months of ownership it's time for our full review for our model y we wanted to lease a long range variant to get the full 330 miles of epa estimated range we paid an extra 1 000 for the deep blue metallic paint but stuck with the smaller wheels to avoid another 2 000 upcharge and a ride quality downgrade the tow hitch hidden behind the rear bumper was another one thousand dollars and another one thousand dollars for the white interior finally and most egregiously we paid ten thousand dollars for the quote unquote full self-driving upgrade something we're still waiting to receive total price came out to 67 thousand four hundred and ninety dollars including twelve hundred dollars in delivery with tesla calculating a forty eight thousand nine hundred eighty dollar residual after the 24 month term mind new tesla has already raised the price on that car since we got it and we'll probably have raised it again by the time this video gets published so good chance your cost will be different and what do you get for your money well you get yourself a nice comfortable crossover suv there's tons of headroom up front and plenty in the back too and if you fold the rear seats down you've got 76 cubic feet of cargo space that makes it far more practical than the model 3 with its funny little trunk opening and other than the 7 000 up charge over the model 3 long range not really giving up much of anything either the handling here is maybe a little bit more compromised than on the sedan but frankly the model 3's handling isn't that great either so it's not really much of a sacrifice the ride quality in the model y is a little bit less than i'd like and that's us despite going within 19 inch wheels which should give a little bit better than the 20 inchers but still it's better than the mustang maki and overall when people talk about the model y being fun to drive they're talking less about the handling and more about the acceleration which never disappoints [Applause] even on the highway where a lot of lower powered evs run out of steam the model y leaps forward and keep in mind this is the long range model y not the performance in fact i don't know why anyone would spend the extra five grand and give up 27 miles of range for the model y performance it's plenty quick as it is and just how many miles of range are we talking about the model y is epa rated for 330 miles of range on the 19 inch wheels tesla doesn't quote a battery size for the model y any longer but the pack is somewhere between 75 and 82 kilowatt hours which like all teslas sits down in the floor of the car that's backed by the nation's most comprehensive and in my testing most reliable charger network in our fair weather range test we've been seeing pretty close to the epa ratings and the car does a great job of estimating range remaining when you use the integrated nav i'm curious to see how that holds up over the winter though i'm also looking forward to seeing how this interior holds up normally i wouldn't recommend paying extra for white upholstery if you actually use your suv as a utility vehicle indeed ours is already showing a bit of discoloration and it also feels distinctly rubbery the bigger talking point in the interior is the display that sits right here in the center and the general lack of physical controls pretty much anywhere else in here that means you're going to be doing a lot of things through the display let me give you a few examples if you want to change your mirrors it's two taps here and then you rely on the left thumb wheel to go up and down or left and right you want to change the steering wheel controls again it's two tabs here to bring up that control and then left control again to go up or down left to right now that's a little clumsy and a little sluggish but honestly that's fine because you're not going to be changing those things every day my bigger concern is with the things that you are going to be doing every day for example changing the follow distance with cruise control you do that now with the right thumb wheel pushing that right or left and the problem is i can never remember if it's right to extend the fall distance or is it left to extend the follow distance and with any other car on the planet it's so immediately intuitive that i never had to think about it but with here i could just never remember and then there's the lack of a gauge cluster which was one of the more talked about features or absent features on the model 3. honestly i don't mind its absence most of the time it's easy enough to look over and check your speed to the right but what's harder is checking things like autopilot status which is situated lower on display you really have to look a long way from the road to see that it all works but the model y would be better served with at least a simple gauge cluster or a heads-up display and for a 70 thousand dollar car that absence feels a bit egregious it really feels like i should have ventilated seats too and android auto and apple carplay of course part of the reason why this car costs 70 thousand dollars is because we paid up for the wildly optimistic hopelessly delayed full self driving package which costs a whopping 10 grand and that cost is despite this being one of the first model wise built without an integrated radar sensor and that seems to be this car's downfall the model y relies on optical sensors you know cameras to see the world around it there's an array of them up there in the windscreen they're on the fenders and the b-pillar and the back of the car and all those combined allow the car to see the world in 360 degrees and identify objects around it and that's how it knows to speed up or slow down based on traffic on the highway to hit the brakes automatically if a pedestrian jumps out things like that the problem is those cameras seem to be getting confused and they're sometimes struggling to see the world around them and it's most often evidenced by what's called phantom breaking where the car just out of nowhere stops on the brakes i've had this happen so often that it is really disconcerting and sometimes so aggressively that the abs engages this is not a minor fault you can imagine the danger of slamming your brakes on the highway should you have someone following closely behind you this is not okay and since i know that for many people a tesla is their first new car or first new car in a long time anyway i want to make it abundantly clear this is not normal i've seen false positives in other cars but never with this frequency or this severity and to be clear this is unrelated to a full self-driving recall that tesla issued not long before we filmed this our car is not running the recalled bit of firmware but the latest production software pushed to all cars as far as autopilot the rest of the time goes it works pretty well on the highway lane centering even the automatic lane changes but it still gets confused by secondary roads where lanes split or merge and i know some of you will say well you shouldn't be using autopilot on roads like that to which i would say if autopilot is unsafe to use on secondary roads then tesla needs to take a cue from cadillac super crews and others and just disable the damn thing [Applause] there is a lot to like about the tesla model y the range and performance are superb the comfort and utility are good i don't even mind the anonymous styling and i haven't even talked about all the great unique features in this thing like dog mode and the integrated surveillance system but i have real concerns about the active safety and the sensor package in here and frankly i don't think full self driving is ever going to happen and i know tesla will get better they'll iterate their software and this system will improve but that the company would release a car like this and put it on the road and charge you money for it that to me is unacceptable so take your money and buy any other ev on the market there are so many great choices right now pick any of those just don't pick one of these

Channel: Roadshow

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Id: k3d8szO4a30

Length: 8min 22sec (502 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/bob3219]

He is flat out getting slammed in the youtube comments. People aren't understanding just because you bought FSD does not mean you HAVE FSB beta. My model X is FSD capable, I do not have FSD beta. Our 2021 Y could have bought the FSD subscription, that doesn't mean we have FSD beta. He even explains this in the video lol.

He is dealing with the same thing we dealt with though, the video shows it several times. He isn't on autopilot the wheel isn't blue on the screen, it is just using the stock cruise control. Anyway, I posted in the other thread about my experience with the whole ordeal.

[u/sjokosaus]

07:03 Nice foggy taillights

[u/mdjak1]

That is a pretty bad review for the Model Y.

[u/dcmix5]

Start here for the phantom braking complaints and proof:

https://youtu.be/k3d8szO4a30?t=363

[u/Tasty-Blackberry5120]

So because FSD is bad, the entire car is a write off? I agree with healthy realism, I have FSD and buyers remorse about that option, but to write off the entire car based on an optional feature is a leap…