Collecting my new Tesla Model 3 Highland Long Range. Quality check and setup.
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Richard presents his new Tesla Model 3 Highland after picking it up on launch day in the UK. He gives a detailed walkaround, pointing out the premium interior features, new 18" photon wheels, and improved noise insulation. After pairing his phone and setting basic preferences, Richard notes small disappointments like no puddle lights but seems overall very impressed. He'll use the car personally over the weekend before providing full driving impressions and comparisons to previous models next week in upcoming videos.
Takeaways
- 😀 Richard is receiving delivery of a new Tesla Model 3 Highland
- 😊 He inspects the car and is impressed with the build quality and condition
- 🚘 The car comes with floor mats, a flask, charging cables and some free Supercharging
- 👨💻 Richard sets up Bluetooth, steering, mirrors etc and personalizes some settings
- 📱 He pairs his phone to receive calls and texts in the car
- 🔋 The car has 63% charge when delivered - policy is under 50%
- 🚦 Richard gives a first impression drive and will follow up with a review
- 😎 New seats, lights and noise improvements seem promising
- 🚨 Lack of light in door handles could be an issue at night
- 🤔 Single rear screen seems limiting for families with 2 kids
Q & A
What model and version of Tesla does Richard collect at the beginning of the video?
-Richard collects a brand new Tesla Model 3 Highland Long Range Dual Motor.
What color is the Tesla Model 3 that Richard picks up?
-The Tesla Model 3 that Richard collects is black in color.
What gifts does Richard receive with his new Tesla Model 3 Highland?
-Richard receives a nice flask and some free Supercharger miles as gifts with his new Tesla Model 3 Highland.
What charging cables and adapters come with the new Tesla Model 3 Highland?
-The new Tesla Model 3 Highland comes with a type 2 charging cable and a 3-pin cable.
What is the initial battery charge percentage when Richard collects the Tesla?
-The initial battery charge when Richard collects the Tesla is 63%. Tesla aims to provide the cars with less than 50% charge at delivery.
What does Richard plan to do in terms of wrapping or modifying the Tesla?
-Richard is considering doing some wrapping or modifications to the Tesla, such as adding a ceramic coating or doing a custom wrap.
What feature is still missing from the new Tesla Model 3 Highland that Richard wishes it had?
-Richard wishes the new Model 3 Highland had lights in the door handles to help locate them at night, especially with the black handles against the black car color.
What aspects of the previous Model 3 does Richard hope are improved in the new Highland version?
-Richard hopes the ride quality, cabin noise, headlights, and seat comfort and support are improved compared to previous Model 3 versions.
What does Richard plan to do after collecting the Tesla before providing his first impressions?
-Richard plans to use the Tesla over the weekend with his family before filming his first impressions and review on Monday.
What viewership actions does Richard request to get more Tesla Model 3 Highland content?
-Richard requests that viewers subscribe, comment questions to be tested, and hit the notification bell to see more Model 3 Highland content.
Outlines
😊 Overview and plan for new Tesla Model 3
The paragraph provides an overview and plan for testing and creating content with a newly purchased Tesla Model 3 Highland. It mentions collecting the car on launch day, using it as a personal and work vehicle, comparing it to previous models, and creating videos showing real-life tests over time.
🔧 Inspecting and setting up new Model 3
The paragraph describes inspecting the new Model 3, checking panel gaps and condition, noting included floor mats, rare screen, no front storage, heavier charging cable. It then shows initial pairing of phone Bluetooth, setting driver profile from phone app, adjusting seats and mirrors, and briefly testing control settings.
📱 Connecting phone and setting preferences
The paragraph continues by connecting an iPhone to enable text messages on screen, setting navigation and other preferences like lights, charging limit, autopilot. It also sets favorite radio stations, checks for USB storage, notes potential improvements like rear screens and lighted door handles.
🚘 First drive impressions coming soon
The paragraph mentions planning to take first drive and provide full impressions on Monday. It encourages subscribing for more content and testing suggestions, concludes car collection and setup overview.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Tesla Model 3 Highland
💡Launch event
💡Collection day
💡Initial setup
💡Fit and finish
💡Ceramic coating & wrapping
💡Supercharging
💡Autopilot
💡Referral program
💡Dashboard customization
Highlights
This is his first drive of the new 2024 Tesla Model 3 Highland
He has owned every Tesla Model 3 incarnation and is now one of the first to get the new Highland version
He purchased and will be using the car as both a family car and for their company
The fit and finish seem perfect with great panel gaps and no visible issues
It comes with floor mats, a gift pack and heavy duty Type 2 charging cable as standard
The rear number plate holder now seems more solid and doesn't rattle
The seats are longer which should improve support on long journeys
The controversial removal of stalks will be tested in practice over time
Ride comfort and cabin noise reduction should be improved on the old model
The headlights have been changed and will be tested for improvement
Still no door handle lights to help find them at night on a black car
The initial phone and profile set up process seems quick and familiar
Extra rear screens could be a cheap plug-in accessory option
He will give extended real world tests and reviews after using it this weekend
Make sure to subscribe for loads more videos and tests of this new model
Transcripts
nine years since I collected my first
Tesla and then I've had pretty much
every Incarnation ever since I've never
had the Tesla roast of I've had
everything else and I ordered the first
model 3 two years before they came out
got one of the very first and then I got
the first refresh and obviously those
are videos of model 3s we run a couple
in our company so it's only natural that
we purchased one of the brand new model
3 Highlands so here we are on the launch
day Saturday the 27th of January and one
of the first cars to be handed over in
the UK so this is ours model 3 Highland
long range dual motor with the standard
wheels and rather than just boring this
car and testing it like a press car we
have bought this car we'll be using it
as both a family car and a work car and
so we've got loads of content to come
giving you some real life tests of this
car over the coming weeks and months I
think we'll be keeping this car for a
while uh so there' be tons of content
we're going to do some comparison videos
what we like what we don't like what's
better what's really improved what other
things we find out so there's be loads
of stuff coming up in the meantime this
video here well look this is the
Handover this is collection so I'm going
to go through a couple of things you
might look for on collection what's
included with the car a few of the
initial setup bits although we might
just film a separate setup guide uh how
it then appears on your app and then my
first driveing impressions of it and
then we're going to be straight to work
out as a family today to work next week
and we do loads of other tests so lots
more to follow initially though this is
it I'm Richard this is a new model 3
Highland
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and of course if you get questions that
you want answered about the Highland
we'll do our best so leave comments
below we'll try and read as many
comments as we can and then we'll pick
up on on other videos certain things you
want us to test see find out tell you
about happy to do so uh so initially
right this is Handover you buy the car
through through the app you turn up at
the time you say you're here and then it
just appears on your app once you accept
the terms and conditions and accept
delivery now this one's inside today
because it's part of a launch event uh I
don't think they're all going to be
inside but I'm privileged enough to have
this one inside here so firstly have a
quick look around the car and just check
for the conditions all okay so I've had
a look around this and it seems perfect
now fit finish build quality has been
brilliant with tessla for a long time
now uh and this one seems no exception
I'm looking at all the panel gaps down
here uh you see hold my coat in so the
Zips don't catch it all the fit and
finish I mean me and serge is over here
we've been around the car and we can't
fault it at all now we've gone for black
um it's a difficult color to keep and
often with black it is easy to get
Swirls and scratches but they've done a
great job preparing this car I can't see
anything on it at all at the moment
which is really nice to see now we'll
probably be doing some uh maybe a
ceramic COA and protection but I think
actually we might even go on and do some
wrapping of a car um do something a bit
different with this so again if you got
suggestions and comments leave them in
uh leave them in the comments below but
we're going to probably do some wrap or
something with this car I do like the
red the Red's very nice but red is also
a little bit more difficult to do kind
of smarter Pairs and touchings black
white kind of our company colors so I
like the look of him in Black if only
you got a full-time Valor luckily we do
so that's good anyway onto the Handover
had a quick look around it it's all good
you get the mud flaps here fit of the
standard like look of it inside you can
come around come around come around uh
we've got floor
mats so was Keen yes they do come with
some floor mats so I've got a nice set
of floor mats here obviously it's kind
of familiar isn't it but it's just nicer
premium feel inside nicer seats got the
rare screen now which is
good and then what was nice I opened the
boot and there was a nice little gift in
there so I had a couple of nice little
bits to thank me for being an early
holder and buyer one of these cars so
I've got a nice flask here I don't think
everyone's going to get this I don't
expect too much but I was nice enough to
get that now what do you get in terms of
cables there's a type two the type two
cable here and this feels heavier than
normal I'm sure it is heavier um heavy
duty type two now do you get a three
pin well I certainly have so I've got a
three Pin cable here as well and then
you've got your kind of emergency pack
there as
well and I've got a lanyard a bag and a
poster very good so here the boot kind
of space all feels much the same
although this is now like a sort of
softer material rather than harder
plastic and I have noticed actually the
number plate holder is much better so we
typically had this number plate holder
rattle around and you close the boot and
it rattles but that's nice a solid
background there now so it looks smart
slightly different badging at the
back have a look around it the paint's
so lovely finished by look of it all the
panel gaps are great nice bit of shine
no swirls brilliant
so we got the 18in photon Wheels here so
we can actually take these covers off
and I guess one thing we can do as well
is have a look with the wheels behind
this we can maybe see if earlier wheels
from the earli model 3es are
interchangeable with this they could be
might not be don't know yet uh let's
have a look at tire size the same what
have we got Mitchell imp premacy e
premacy T2 tires so it' be intered to
see how these are like
two 3 5 45 or 18s has to be right at the
bottom that one didn't
let's have a
look yep double glazed kind of different
shaped back seats I think obviously got
our screen there so we'll do a bit about
this you know what you can do on that I
think you need to have bluetooth
headphones and you can listen to
separate stuff in the back so we'll
probably get some of them tried that out
I know my daughter is very keen to do so
and then in here that's not my driving
position let's have a look so we've got
these nice new seats and I'll be Keen to
see what these are like and and then
obviously the controversial no stalks
how is that going to work out in
practice I do like this nice bit of
material on the dashboard here I like
the ambient lights so with this model 3
uh there's a couple of things I'd like
to see and the test of time will prove
whether they work or not so uh what was
the problem with the old model 3 well
the ride was a bit firm it could be a
bit noisy in the cabin this should be
improved that's going to be good I think
the headlights could have been better
got different headlights how are they
the seats always found not quite
supportive enough so I'm interested to
see what they're like especially when
you do longer Journeys we do a lot of
days or as many hours in the car so it'
be good to see what they're like now the
one thing was lacking from the old model
3 that the new model 3 still doesn't
have there is one thing and that's
lights in the door handle so when you
come around especially at nighttime you
can't see where your door handles are
especially when you got black handles
and a black car it would have been
lovely just to have a little LED light
in here so you know where your door
handle is I would have appreciated that
but there promises and really good
things to address uh some of the little
niggles of the previous car it's a
brilliant car the model 3 always has
been and hopefully this picks up on that
and takes it another step further so
they will come by the way with up to 50%
charge they give you an email beforehand
but they do give you something like 100
miles of free supercharging so the
policy is no more than 50% state of
charge when you collect the car I think
they're going to be handed over so many
it's going to be difficult to do that
isn't it charge them all right up but
they do give you an email and you get
100 miles of free superch charging now
the other thing you need to make sure
you is if you're already a Tesla owner
and you're going to buy a model 3
Highland click through on your uh
referral account so you get your
referral credits on your own account
there's a loyalty section you can get at
the moment 15,000 credits and you can
use credits to buy things or buy free
supercharging stuff like that so make
sure you do that if you don't already
have a Tesla account well I'm going to
put down below my referral code you can
always put that in and that will give
you a few benefits as well I think a few
credits at the moment possibly a better
SE P Char depends what the policy is at
the time uh but we'll put my referral
code down
below you are one minute in your new car
there's already cans food and I'm EA a
macaroon as well yeah this is how this
car's going to live man you got to get
used to it I'm going up to McDonald's in
a minute as well so literally this is
how this car will live so before we get
going I'm going to whilst I set things
up in the car which only be a few
minutes I might as well plug it in to
top up the charge a little bit cuz that
test a win to here we got the super
chargers right next to us and I got some
free charging they just given me so
that's cool um so the car's actually at
63% you meant to expect it with less
than 50% uh right so I think we're going
to make a separate video about kind of
your initial setup properly but just to
show you what I do when I get in the car
um firstly uh I'm going to just pair my
Bluetooth for things like phone calls so
I'm going to pair a new device here open
my settings on my
phone and in here go to my Bluetooth uh
start my search
and then it should find my phone pretty
quickly there it is our device it's nice
and
simple pair yeah got that code then
accept the contacts
yes that's connected now now if you've
got an iPhone and you want to receive
text message in the car there is another
little step you need to
do so once it's finished connecting
there there it's connected
cool and I'm going to go to the model 3
Connection and here and here on an
iPhone you have to do show notifications
I think on Android you don't have to do
that do you have to do that against on
yours probably not and then I can do
sync messages and then it reconnects it
means it can display text messages on
here it can't do WhatsApp messages maybe
it will at some point but it doesn't at
the moment and then try my new message
so that's my Bluetooth now set up now
because the car is on my app and I
accept a delivery on the app it already
shows my driver profile up here uh so if
I wanted to add more driver profiles I
can do that but basically now if I just
move my seat and I just hit save someone
just opened the door next to me imagine
getting a dent in it straight away cuz
it parked at an angle here uh so that's
cool um easy entry I don't tend to use
that much to be honest um so then OB see
you go here and you can set your home is
already in there okay that's all right
then that's done uh so that must have
carried from my Tesla profile in fact
all my recent nav history is in
here and this is a brand new car how
many miles does this car have by the way
6 mil on the clock there we go shouldn't
see the VD number probably 6 miles on
the clock so now I'm going to have a
quick scroll through here and I'll do
things like walkway door lock in on uh
headlights
Auto uh wipers Auto and then OB you can
go to here and set your mirrors up a
little bit uh which to be honest again
maybe it saved us some driver profile
they seem about right to me to be honest
and save that that's good then you go
here set your steering so let's adjust
our steering here no stalks what's this
going to be like we'll soon find out so
I mean as I sitting there like seating
position view all feels pretty much the
same to be honest uh that's about right
Swit indicator I've knocked the
indicator already there we go uh so save
that I like steering we quite a long way
out you just come out quite a long way
so I just have a quick scroll through
each of these menus now uh standard mode
not chill uh I like to steering it's
kind of medium
setting auto shift out of park so once
the camera is a calibrated I can turn
this on and this is where you don't have
to sliit over a stalk or slide it on the
screen if you get in the car and there's
a wall behind you you just kind of it
would assume you want drive but it will
have to calibrate cameras first so
that's something I will enable and I'll
let you know how I get on with that uh
daily charging limit 80% actually other
than 90% there I think they changed it
on the other ones didn't they as I'm
charging now can't get it to 80 there
exactly battery temperature lows car's
not been used yet so Auto steer on
except I've read that a million times
before but you should accept and read
the conditions so I presume it's going
to need some kind of calibration for
that as
well autopilot activation single or
double click single click I think
now and we've got just some standard
settings all like Lane departure
avoidance and stuff that speed limit
Zone chime chime when the speed limit
changes I've not noticed that was that
on the last one against can't remember
one of the updates probably one of the
updates isn't it yeah well look let's
see how I'll get on with that let's try
that uh so now I've got my phone as a
key plus the two key card you still get
those of you child locks off walkway
door locking is now on so when I walk
away with my phone it will automatically
lock notifications if I left the door
open on so again headlights is here uh
leave the headlights on off to exit I
won't worry about that so here is where
I can now change my colors of my I like
a kind of purple blue I
do uh I'll play that later there we go
foot whear lights Auto
display this is all pretty standard if
you've had a model 3 Model y then it's
all the same scroll function lock rare
display so there's an option to just
close that rare screen off if you don't
want the kids watching it
anymore anything I would say about
having one rare screen is that if you
have two kids and it's quite a good
though isn't it that's just a standard
thing why is that not like a little
module you buy for a little bit more you
know it could even be like a sort plug
andplay thing you'd pay for another 5600
P or something uh online routin I think
this is quite an important one come to
navigation turn on your online routin
and also just turn up your nav because
it often default to be muted and then
you won't hear anything and you wonder
why and you're trying to drive along I
just you nav so online routing
on Sentry mod on camera view on remotely
uh dash cam I like to have so I presume
I'll just check in a minute pin to drive
glove box pin so these settings here
look okay cab overheat protection we
don't really need that in the
UK um so what the tire pressures 4444
they two do tend to come with slightly
high tire pressures because of shipping
it stops and getting flat spots the
recommended as it says here is 42 PSI 44
is high and it is a slightly chilly day
7° so I need to be adjusting those a bit
later on so shame I haven't done that
but that's just the way it is and it
gives me uh what have we got month of
Premium connectivity I've just got the
standard autopilot this but at some
point maybe we can upgrade I will now
what do I listen to in the car bit of
capital dance select select it Little
Star as a favorite
Radio One
sometimes uh what have we got now so I
know we just pick off a few of the
standard things I got some stuff
um I'm sure everyone's loving knowing
what I listen to bit of LBC yes LBC news
yes I'm not not Radio 4 no Joe has that
bit of radio X can go in there uh so
there we go a few Basics bit of heart
dance can go in there where's uh X yeah
that'll do for now so sometimes um you
see a button we have to refresh and
certainly with the older cars and when
we do a factory reset at work before
handing it over to your owner you will
find sometimes that things like the um
radio stations doesn't pick up doesn't
list all the radio stations straight
away in which case do a scroll wheel
reset you click and hold it in and it
reboots and then often you then get all
that stuff um so that's done uh let's go
to here favorite so I've got that there
phone's paired my seats in a good
position I can see out there I know my
wipers are on all I've got to get these
two now is the stalks and the indicatory
things I tell you what let's just check
well let's just put some climate control
on so in climate control now by the way
um under the seat setting here you've
now got the heat and cool function so
I've got the cooled seats as well that's
quite cool um but what I was going to do
is just open the glove box do we get a
USB stick in
there yes it's at the back of the glove
box still so's a USB stick in there for
your dash cans excuse the back of my
head I do like this little material
along here I think it looks nice but
it's very familiar I what I would like
to see is that the seats are just a bit
longer than the old seats and I think
they are I think they're just that
little bit longer and more supportive so
that's good to see um there we are so
this is me collecting uh this car uh I'm
going to take it out for a quick drive
and give First Impressions now I'll tell
you what I'm going to use this car
literally my family over there of our
dog and everything we're get in a car
we're going to be using it this weekend
on Monday I'll film my kind of First
Impressions and review and we'll do a
little follow up on that this is just
about really collection and what to
expect so I think I'll use it and then
give first review on Monday if that's
all right uh so for me for now that's it
but Gins Serge you take it out let try
yeah there we go okay so make sure
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you very soon time to go play
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