Tesla Launches Alcantara Dash Trim Upgrade for New Model 3 and Model Y

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Howsabout a wood insert, ala previous Model Y?

Would love this for my model S

I don’t know about this one. Dust and various debris has collected up on my dash. I feel as though this would be more time consuming to clean.

I always thought it was funny that alacantra aka polyurethane/polyester aka fuzzy plastic is associated with luxury lol.

Oof. Go look at how some of the Alcantara BMW interiors have aged over time. Hard pass.

Nice - I would definitely choose this if I was in the market for a 3. I've grown to like the wood paneling in my S (especially since it's darker than the wood in my old 3) but I would still choose alcantara if given the option.

It helps absorb sound, is softer, reduces glare, and feels more premium to the touch. Those are the reasons I like it much more than hard plastic.

It was included in the launch addition, so it’s nice to be able to upgrade the non launch Y. $250 installed seems pretty reasonable, especially since they come to your home/work to install it.

Give me HUD, a swivel screen, and an automatic retractable roof shade. The rest is all secondary.

Same. Made a top-level comment that was similar but I've actually grown to like the wood on my S since it's darker than the wood in my old Model 3, but I'd still choose this over the wood. Some people adore the wood, but it's neither here nor there for me. It's not so much about which material is more "luxurious" because it's not like you touch the wood on a regular basis anyway, and doesn't it affect the ride or performance at all. It's more about aesthetics. Having a blacked-out interior (either alcantara or carbon fiber) would be a nice option on the base-level S.

I’ve been in some pre 2024 Model 3’s and it starts to look really bad. The wireless chargers in my car are already starting to look rough and have material rub off of them and the cars not even a year old

It’s such an easy piece to install lol, just some clips you literally pop it out and back in

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Haha I always thought Alcantara was made of leather, now I feel stupid.

I vote for Levi dash.

Sure, but I’d much rather have the shittiest fake wood over alcantara.

My old AMG had an alcantara steering wheel. Absolutely the worst design ever on a daily car, felt great for 1 hour, then quickly absorbed your hand oils and dirt. Was cleaning it all the time.

Yeah never understood this either, I think the textile looks cleaner. Not a huge fan of the fuzzy look of the alcantara, it looks kinda messy.

Love the wood in my 2021

It's meant to be faux suede, so your intuition isn't that far off.

It's a real wood veneer. It isn't fake wood.

Don’t believe the wood was fake. At least not in my 2020 Y. The 2026 could use just a little contrast from all the black IMHO.

The way light catches it looks bad imo. Shiny in parts and shade in others.

I assumed it was harder since they wanted to install it. Oh well, they were coming to install Home-link anyway.

The wood added warmth that is now missing. I wonder what a dark brown leather like material would look like.

Yea but the standard material can look a little cheap. I actually liked the carbon fiber look of the M3P we sat in better than everything else.

It’s marketed as “luxury” because that enables it to be the highest margin material on the market. It’s garbage IMO, and people who outfit their seats and steering wheels with it are particularly short-sighted.

the alcantara is already on the doors and it's super easy to clean with a vacuum or a microfiber cloth. I haven't had an issue with it, even on my 5 year old 3.

I ask what they cleaned it with? If it was anything but a vacuum/dry cloth (some liquid product) then I could see it being damaged by the owner.

Replace M3P carbon fiber trim with this Sell carbon fiber trim Profit

The headliner in my 2003 RS6 is alcantara and still in great shape. (Only sagging a little :)

lol you can get one from AliExpress that looks better. The one from Tesla isn’t really that dark. The one from AliExpress is only $80 and it’s actually a real black.

Same. Not too bad and I can wipe it a little but comes back with same outline for my iPhone camera bump. Looks like I’ll be changing out iPhones at the same time as my Tesla. Guess that means I’m gonna have the same iPhone for a pretty long time.

Well it’s also an option, so those that don’t want it don’t need to purchase it.

Yep, I would pay thousand and more for native HUD upgrade

> Tesla has indicated that the installation process should take approximately 90 minutes for the Model Y and 120 minutes for the Model 3. Wow, that’s pretty long. They must need to remove some of the dashboard.

HUD and slower wiper control for rain and I’ll upgrade my Y

Can you provide a link?

HUDs are kinda terrible. Just give me an instrument cluster. A curved OLED like lucid

Still no black inner roof?

Aka "Leatherette" Funny how the cheapest trim material of the 1970's, made by the oil industry, has been sold as luxury, yet a waste product that is fully sustainable and is rugged and luxurious is not on offer. Because Tesla nickel and dimes the cars for cost. A car for environmentally conscious consumers that favors oil products over sustainables. No...that leatherette dash is a step backwards into the maw of Elon's Saudi pals.

Have you used one before? I haven't but would like to try one, if done properly it seems like it would be better than an instrument cluster, but that is only a uneducated thought.

Interesting, my 2019 has the old rubber mat and trap door for the phone which I really like because it puts my phone out of sight. The shiny black finish was terrible so I had that wrapped in carbon fibre effect but otherwise my interior is stock and still looks brand new after 6 years. Even my steering wheel and seats aren't shiny and I do the bare minimum cleaning, just a quick spray and wipe with interior cleaner spray whenever I wash the car which isn't often. I remember a friend had an Audi and that was terrible after a few years with the rubberised coatings on doors peeling to leave hard plastic, failed dash lights and other electrical gremlins and just overall tired looking. Same with my mum's Mercedes and the BMW she had before that. Fancy materials just get really rough looking after a few years.

Make a wood option please!!

How about a rain sensor?

I love this. Wish they would do headliner too.

HUD isn’t visible if you wear polarized sunglasses, which is almost all sunglasses these days.

Only $250 installed doesn’t seem too bad. Maybe they can fix some rattles then too!

I got the Launch Y with White interior and got the gray carpet. I think it matches the interior better IMO.

Mine has real wood

This is basically an AliExpress accessory just sold through Tesla with installation cost included in the price. I’m sure you can find a wood equivalent of it there as well.

They're on concave parts of the door with something above them. There's very little settling dist that's going to blow on them or drift into them like the dash would get.

I laughed out loud at this one. Thank you for that

Look again at how the grain wraps over the ends. Real wood would show an end grain. Real veneer would at least show a seam along one edge. It's plastic, but it's nicer than the modern replacements. But hey, I like my chrome too, so what do I know.

Not OP. I have and even the cheap aftermarket ones are great. I installed [one](https://i.imgur.com/IQU9Gwg.jpeg) in my car(not a Tesla) and I’m pretty sure I haven’t looked at my instrument cluster while driving in over a year. And before someone says it polarized sunglasses don’t block mine out.

Can’t get it on my model y 2024?

That's probably why it starts to rattle over time. I'm pretty sure the textile trim under the windscreen is the source of a couple of rattles on my 2019 M3.

Still looks brand new in my 2018

Allow a retrofit to enable turn signal stalks on the Model 3 instead. If that's not possible, remappable buttons? It's insane to put the right turn signal button under the left thumb.

you dont really need roof shade anymore in the new model y - the silver in the glass solves the heat problem

The HUD in my C7 works fine with my polarized glasses.

Technology just is there yet.

black headliner upgrade and ill be the first one in line no joke

Add power frunk to the list

Though the new silver coating glass roof does reflect more heat than the previous generation, does it let less heat through compared to a non glass roof?

I have a dash, and it is super quick to just dust off once a week... it'll be alright

Will this squeak less?

Love my white interior with the light grey trim on the juniper. Not a fan of this one

I rented a BMW which had it and it looked like space invaders projected on the windshield lmao

Sexy stalks look pretty decent https://enhauto.com/product/stalks

Meh, I just want a metal roof. HUD would be nice but the car is fine without it, and replacement windshields would be more expensive.

This is cool, but I love the one the new y already comes with, so I’ll stick to that. It’s perfect imo.

They didn’t, stuff can just deteriorate over time.

I love the HUD in my BMW. That are the 360 camera view are the biggest tech upgrades I noticed coming from a model 3.

No, Tesla. This isn’t enough. Fire Musk. That’s the only way to turn this around.

It’s fine. This has been an aftermarket piece for 2020’s+ for 5+ years now. I’ve had mine for that length of time and never once has it been a dust magnet.

Can you provide more details on your set up? Thanks

Give me a front camera and parking sensors

Maybe they reduced the quality in later models.

My 2017 model 3 had is stock! lol

Oh, I’m sure they did. My steering wheel is covered in real leather that is holding up great instead of that plastic crap that peels because you touched it. They cut too many things trying to save a buck IMO.

Just burning the brand :(

Would love a wood piece similar to my 2019 Model 3. Sometimes I just need to knock on wood and it’s great having a nice real piece of raw wood there on the dash 😊

If they bring back USS and add PowerShare I would swap out both our cars immediately.

HUDs are often projected onto the windshield or other glass in front of the driver. Worst case, you need some film applied to the lower driver side portion of the windshield after replacement.

Usually it's a several hundred dollar difference. Like [this guy](https://www.mazda3revolution.com/threads/hud-vs-non-hud-windshield.240553/) or [this guy](https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c6-corvette-general-discussion/3874812-windshield-replacement-hud-vs-non-hud.html) or [this guy](https://www.acadiaforum.net/threads/acadia-windshields-hud-vs-non-is-there-really-any-difference.9575/) found. Tesla windshields are already expensive enough due to ADAS, I don't care to have them be even more expensive because I can't be bothered to glance over at the speedo.

I don’t understand why you’re downvoted (I mean it’s Reddit so I do) but HUD are useless if you’re wearing polarized glasses. The HUD becomes invisible.

My biggest complaint compared to my other 2022 model is the silver trim which reflects on the windshield.

If you want the swivel screen you gotta go up a step to the luxury models. As for HUD, how would this work in a car??

Swivel screen 👍🏼

You can just install aftermarket. I did with last model 3. It lowered the screen though, but i liked it. So much nicer if you are parked you can swivel it towards you to read.

Aftermarket has all of these although the roof shade is expensive

ALRIGHT OP GETS IT HES NOT EVEN REPLYIN YALL MADE HIM SAD AF

Aftermarket does not have a HUD. Aftermarket has digital clusters.

You'll be begging for Musk to come back if they replace him with what would inevitably be a Harvard MBA who doesn't know the product and doesn't know the customer.

I think there is a ton of talent inside Tesla and at this point and for quite some time, Musk has been nothing but a hype man. I won't miss him for a second. It it weren't for Musk, Tesla would have a quality work truck to compete with the F150 lightning and the Sierra EV instead of the Cybertruck. HE pushed that garbage through and refused to compromise when the design turned out to be undoable in is proposed form. He should be long gone, and he would be if he didn't have his family and buddies on the Board.

It’s just a C1 HUD I bought from eBay, it plugs directly into my OBD2 port.

They call them heads up displays which is very similar anyways

Aliexpress can falsely advertise all they want, they're still not a heads up display. We want a real HUD on the windshield like other modern cars with actual functionality, especially from a "tech" forward car.

Well in that case there are ones that plug in the extra obd2 port on Amazon for under 40 bucks that do project onto the windshield

Test drove it today. Best car I’ve ever driven. The FSD is also incredible. I also liked the cyber truck but the FSD on that was glitchy.

I'm confused about the hate. HUDs are so great. I basically never look at my instrument cluster, never have to take eyes off road. Speed, rpm, directions are all right on the windshield.

Ah shiiiiiiitttt

That is absolutely not the same. Can you stop arguing so confidently over something you've never used?

I used both actually? Can take pics to prove it. And it's close. Guess people don't want to hear the new model Y can easily be imitated at a fraction of the cost Explain how it's "not the same" then I'll understand your seethe more

It wasn’t included in all model Y launch editions. White interior just got the normal dash trim. I was disappointed to find this on mine.

Wow I’m surprised. I thought it was one of the listed extra of the launch edition. Was your car a later launch edition? Maybe they already started transitioning to no launch, or ran out of parts early. Did you ask Tesla to replace it?

the old dash on the model 3 is the best dash. Enough said

Looks boring and adds a lot of places for dust to accumulate.