2017 three with 245,000 miles and still going…

I got a 2019 - 70k miles on it. RWD Long Range. How is your battery health ie how much has it started with and how much retained? Any advice for preventative maintenance? What have been your largest cost maintenance things so far?

Original battery?? That's awesome to hear I just passed 5k miles on my 2025 and that's my biggest worry Is the wide range of battery life.

That's awesome to read, thanks for sharing

That's awesome! Congratulations, and I hope you have many many many miles to come. 👍👍

Battery has degraded a bit over 20%. Supercharging is a little slower in the upper half than when new but not too noticeable. I bought new window switches for the door after a friend borrowed it and brought it back with them ripped out of the door 🤦‍♂️🤣 I think they were $27 on Amazon. The center console top is starting to wear through in the spot I always rest the point of my elbow when on autopilot holding the wheel… Can’t think of anything else besides tires and a couple 12v batteries

Original battery! and not treated nicely. It’s been run to its upper and lower limits on a lot of 10+ hour road trips and also supercharged often the last couple years. I moved somewhere more remote and “commute” out of state to get my kids, every couple weekends. I remember feeling concerned when it first went past warranty mileage, but keeping it for years/miles as a paid off vehicle turned out to be a good move in this case. I know the newer batteries have further improvements in chemistry and manufacturing processes too, so I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one and drive it into the ground again

From day one I always said I’d like to put 315k on it if it’ll go that long. Still crossing my fingers for that. I very much enjoy having no car payment but with a car I still love

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That's a great feeling for sure, they're pretty easy cars to love too haha. 315k is not an insane thing, I've seen a Model S that was on its original battery and had over 400k on it. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you 🤞

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Let me know when you want to sell it! 😆

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Good! We need a few to be “classics” in 40 years, and yours probably still won’t have as many miles in 2060 as mine does now at this rate 🤣 keep that baby clean and take care of her!

Any major repairs? Suspension maybe?

Hi, I have a 2018 LR RWD 3 with about 120k miles, mostly long commute. A few weeks ago I did the battery test and it is showing 82%. I bought my car with a 310 miles range originally, a few months after a software update changed it to 323 or something like that. But I was only able to charge it up to that level maybe once or twice. My current 100% charge is at 270. Everything runs well though.

I forgot actually. I got side swiped lightly by a semi truck who swerved to miss something on the shoulder of the road in heavy wind. It actually was a minimal impact/contact but I ended up off the road in the median at speed to keep from being run over. Had some damage on the passenger side front fender, door, mirror broke off so they replaced the whole door. And it started a squeak in the upper control arm on that front right corner so it got replaced too.

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My 2018 LR DM is near 105k now, 100% charge will display 276-mi and it's been that way since 4 years ago when it was around 50k. Getting the extended battery warranty has been on my mind lately because I've been driving a lot more. I've also been wondering how many miles other early Model 3 cars have been able to drive on the original battery and what their degradation has been. So it's good to know there's at least a few others that have a lot more miles on the original pack. I think the original Panasonic cells are simply built better. The 2021 packs are the ones I'd be weary of.

Mine dipped from 310 to 270 by about that mileage but didn’t change much from there 🤷‍♂️ good luck!

The 2017s are good cars. I had one I bought used with 11k miles on it. Drove it to 120k miles before trading it in on a new one last year. I miss the orange roof which got a lot of attention at the Superchargers. No real problems except for a rear door that wouldn't open which was fixed under warranty and the usual suspension issues. I'm really enjoying the improvements on the new one.

I’ll have to revise my goal up to 400k now that I’ve read that 😉

😂

There are only like 2,000 of the 2017’s if I remember right? Do you have the Alcantara headliner too? I guess there are a number of reasons yours will be a rare/classic…. 😜

Sounds identical to my experience.

Mine dipped one step at around 50k to like 280. A gradual one mile at a time dip to around 120k where it stayed at 270-272 for years. And another small step at around 220k when I took it like 14 miles PAST zero missing a charger on a road trip 🤣 🤦‍♂️ whoopsies… made it to that stop though! But it was like 5-10 miles lower at 100% from that time forward. has been holding for the last 25k without any more loss. And I try to avoid going below the rated 0% now that I know it doesn’t like that 😂

I love the orange roof. Always looks amazing with rain or frost on it…

I can’t imagine that being the case considering my VIN is in the very low 2000s. Alcantara and UV rear glass the stands out when it rains.

Yes original 2017-2018s are usually pretty good. But after 300k would be a bigger gamble afterwards. But for someone that drives a lot, you should try hw4 fsd, totally worth it.

Checked with Google, you know if it’s on the internet it must be true…. and it estimates only 2,500 of the 2017’s were built. The alcantara was also only done for a short timeframe but I don’t remember exactly when. This says January 2018 Tesla had a “temporary supplier issue” and switched to the textile. So only early cars had Alcantara on the headliner

https://preview.redd.it/48lazrslgo9g1.jpeg?width=2556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4508c42aa14ee6bae2fce44d221ec98f9cb8e738 Did some off-roading in southern Utah. I wasn’t kidding that it hasn’t been babied. I am very happy that it stayed together anyways

I have a 2018 LR AWD and about to hit 100k miles. I get about 240 miles when charging to 100% (for travel). It’s been years since I’ve seen 300+ range.

Early 2018. 62k miles here!

Do you have the data saved on gas savings? Not to call you a liar, but I like numbers, and I'm not sure how you could possibly save much more than $15k over 240k miles. Assumptions: 2.50/gallon for gas. .34/kwh super charger 20% of the time and .14/kwh level 2 charge 80% of the time. Based on these assumptions you're saving $14-15k over 240k miles. If you SC more than you level 2, your savings are far less since the cost is dramatically closer to gas pricing.

How did your friend lose your window switches

I just got a '18 MS at 46k!

Well gasoline in CA has been $4+ for years, and I was charged for free at work so your assumption don’t work

Didn’t lose, just pulled up too hard and broke them up off the switch. I didn’t really care to drill him for details honestly. He had been there for me through a divorce and a window switch wasn’t a big deal to me

For more detail: Approx. 210k miles was done entirely on the free charging by my employer. I charged at that end, parked at home, drove back and charged there again. That’s why I deep cycled the battery a lot instead of keeping it in the middle. Also drove about 50k of that with carpool passengers who offered and paid me for mileage to have me drive them since fuel for me was “free”. Win-win, and a good chuck of change for me… only the last 35k miles has been heavily done on superchargers due to divorce and out of state move, running back and forth for the kids. That part did start to cost a lot. But I had already realized the benefit of 210k free vs. $4-6/gal depending on years and location along my route. You also didn’t account for oil changes. Those start add up after this many miles too. If you have free charging benefits at work, or a home charging setup where you have cheap electricity or super-off-peak pricing, or some people with excess solar that would just go back to the grid, the numbers start to look appealing. If you’re just supercharging all the time, its a different story

I’m curious what the fuel mileage you used for your calculation. I just compared straight across to my previous vehicle monthly fuel bills when I switched to the Tesla, and extrapolated across 210k back when I did it and it was about $55k at that time. I am sure you can do better on fuel costs in a Prius, but that wasn’t what I compared to. I’m sorry I didn’t provide more detail in my original post for context. I can see why that could feel misleading. I was comparing actual costs from the old car had I kept driving that Vs. buying the Tesla

Not only was oil changes not calculated but also all those brake jobs a gas car would need, timing belt replacements every 80k miles, and all those fun repairs that gas cars have past 120k to keep the check engine light off.That’s thousand of $$. Congrats on that mileage! Edit typo

I still can’t believe 245k miles with no new brake pads but that’s real 🤷‍♂️

I’m assuming lots of highway and supercharging ain’t cheap now. Not sure about the money savings but def glad to hear the battery and brakes holding up.

It’s not cheap as a long distance roadtrip vehicle now this year. It’s closer to a decent gas vehicle. but it was cheap as hell when my job charged me up everyday for all those other years! YMMV 🤷‍♂️

2019 172k on our suspension is squeaky currently have a service scheduled but I think we will try to grease them our self wish us luck!!

Yeah, that’s my plan when it happens to me, a grease needle seems to do the trick. I had to make a similar repair for clicking on my Nissan hubs and it’s been good for over a year. Good luck!

Also until the last 2 years super charging was like .20 cents kWh in a bunch of places and .34 cents was the high in most places.Not now though .34 is the low and most I've seen is .55 cents. What are we going to do when we get to .90cents kwh

Personally, I'm going to keep my P85D with Free unlimited lifetime SC as long as humanly possible lol

That’s the regenerative braking doing its wonders. The brakes are only used enough to keep the rust off of the components unless you brake hard. I hope my m3 lives as long as yours. Mines a 2025. I heard the 2021s had defective batteries.

Just curious. Are you stupid?