My first Tesla

Nice congrats!! Did you notice a lot of rock chips as a secondary owner? I know Tesla paint is weak from experience

Definitely a couple dings- but I plan on picking up the paint repair kit from the app and doing a little TLC

Smart move Though about PPF but it’s way to expensive especially for a daily Car looks sweet tho Love the red

Congratulations

Are you in Reno NV?

Austin Texas

Congrats!

Red for the win! Congratulations!

Congrats!

Is the lower grille on the front of the car broken?

Nah I used object eraser to remove my license plate and it fucked up the surrounding area lol

Do you have an android? Phone key doesn’t work great on androids for some reason.

iPhone 16 Pro

The phone key not always being reliable could be because you don’t have the Tesla app running in the background. And the usb drive being unreadable means that it hasn’t been properly configured

I do keep the Tesla app open in the background, I do however close the app and reopen it when phone key misses. Or I’ll toggle off and on Bluetooth. The thing about the USB drive I should’ve specified is that it becomes unreadable as soon as the glove box is closed. When it’s inserted, dashcam is active and working. Then before the glove box can even fully close, something disengages and it displays please insert USB drive. I have Tesla looking at it next week. Getting a little cold feet in my second month

Congrats 🎉👏 I'm pretty sure there's damage in the lower air vent fyi

Its object eraser from hiding my license plate

Do you have permissions enabled in your phones settings for the Tesla app? Go to settings > apps > tesla > then turn on Bluetooth and location permissions to always on. Then make sure your Bluetooth settings for your phone is also on. That should make your phone key work. After researching this issue, you could do some troubleshooting yourself. Unplug the USB drive, then hard reboot the car by holding down both steering wheel buttons until the screen turns black and then the Tesla logo pops up and once the screen goes back to normal plug in the usb drive again. If that doesn’t work, then check the connection of the USB drive to the port. If it feels loose and it’s not firmly connected it could’ve been damaged by items in the glovebox or it has just worn out over time. Your car is a 2023 so it should be under warranty so if it is truly a hardware issue, best thing to do is to take it to a service center to get it checked out and if there’s something wrong it should be covered under warranty

Yeah definitely that’s what I’m banking on. I did perform a soft reset and a hard reset by holding down the break pad but the issue persisted. I also bought a Samsung USB drive and formatted it but no luck

It probably is just the USB port then. Book an appointment with the service center and it shouldn’t take that long for them to fix it. And with the basic warranty still on your car it shouldn’t cost you anything. And in the future limit the amount of things that are put in the glovebox to only a few things. An item could be hitting the USB drive or pushing it further into the port that could be causing the damage (although Tesla didn’t really think it through with the location of the USB port, it should be moved somewhere else)

I have an android. Only one time it got disconnected for some very odd reason and wouldn't connect back. I had to uninstall and reinstall the app and set up the key again. Other than that, it's been smooth.

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the app. It worked for me recently.

Congrats. I have the same car in dark silver (the free metallic gray color) and have really loved it. My lease is up at the end of the year and I'm figuring out which Tesla to ugrade to. Though I am also considering a used Model S as well. And, yeah, like others have said, I would make a service center appointment to get the USB port figured out. Sentry mode and it's ability to record an accident are great. Enjoy the new ride!

Love mine, you will love yours too!

There will always be rock chips on used cars, some have less and some have more you just have to check when you buy it.

She’s a beauty bro best purchase I’ve ever made enjoy

I have an android i dont have issues. Zfold5

I guess it depends. But a few of my friends with Samsung always had issues with the car opening right away. One of them even gave up and started using key card. Maybe they fixed this issue because I noticed this about 2 years ago

Agreed, even brand new cars sometimes are delivered with rock ships or they’re delivered perfectly and your first drive home. You get one, part of life owning a car, PPF is cool but very expensive and doesn’t add any resale value and protects against most, but not everything in terms of chips.

Do u feel the rwd is fast enough at accelerating? Can u do a 0-60 test

I have limited miles but normal paint hold up. My 2020 didn't have anything wrong at 20k miles. My 2023 doesn't have any at 5k. I don't have a lot of miles, but they are windy backwoods roads, and such. Both blue paint.

Yeah, a lot of it happens on highway type roads, but in the northeast this year the salt and snow was a bitch, have a couple chips on a car with 3K miles. They’re not really that bad touchup will make them pretty much invisible, but annoying with the new model three but that’s why I refuse to pay for any other paint color because their paint is shit and the first couple chips always hurt

I know I did. They were painted over with touch a paint but it didn’t really help. Can the chipping be avoided just by applying some extra finish of wax?

No only ppf but ppf is hella expensive plus it won’t protect against every single chip Also doesn’t add resale value but if you have extra money it’s good to add

Great Congrats！Shinning color

🥳 Enjoy the FSD 🥳🥳🥳

I’d put some PPF on the lower rear quarter panel. The lower area behind rear doors. That area will take a lot of hits from rocks. Without any PPF, it will get peppered with stone chips.

Rock chips are overrated. It's car. It lives its life outside. It's going to get dirty, it's going to get chips. It's not a rocketship.

Spicy. 🌶️