Recent content by SteveM3Perf

Check this table out. It show’s that the newer M3P has a different, more powerful rear motor that it shares with the MYP. Max power is now 393kw compared with original 377kw Last thing to consider - is there a difference in perfomance between a Shanghai built M3P and a US built version? Mine was...

For those that keep mentioning that a M3P accelerates slowly above 60mph - have any of you actually driven one of the latest M3Ps? Recent cars (including mine built last year in Shanghai) now have the same more powerful rear motor as the MYP. This means that my car accelerates strongly well past...

Hi, What everybody is forgetting when they are comparing the 0-60 time of a Tesla vs a BMW M3 or Mercedes C63S is that for both these ICE cars to achieve their great figures - you need to use their launch control. You are waiting at the lights in your Tesla - they can stay red for any length of...

Hi, What has not really been mentioned is the fact that the latest pre-Highland Model 3 Performance (like our 2023 Shanghai built one) is supposed to have the same motors as the Model Y Perfomance - which have about 20hp more than those fitted on the launch year & pre-facelift cars. I have...

Elon stating no “Model 3 Plaid” could easily simply mean it will be called “Model 3 Spaceballs“ or something else - but not use the word Plaid! Lets all speculate what is in Elon’s mind to give the performance version of the refreshed Model 3 a quirky/interesting name! The fastest bird in the...

Hi I am surprised that Tesla are not considering using the strip of LED lighting around the dash and tops of the doors as a blind spot indicator. It should be easy to make this flash or change colour & flash if there is a vehicle in your blind spot! Cheers Steve

I reckon it will use two motors - but they will be more powerful and it will be called a Plaid. Suspension will be more sport focused and better brakes - for less fade (after spirited driving) I would like to see the much talked about cold rocket thrusters from the new Roadster make their way...

Hi, I think Tesla is saving some big news for the revamped Model 3 Performance. Both the standard range and long range are now showing on our country’s Tesla website - but the performance is absent. Maybe we will see a Model 3 Plaid?? Cheers Steve

This happened to our 2023 M3P on the drivers side when it was just a few weeks old. The mobile tech fixed it in about 30 seconds! Under warranty He slid out the original white mushroom clips and replaced them with stronger blue ones - promising that this was a permanent fix! 20,000km later - so...

Hi, Had a Tesla engineer at our house a few months back to do a small warranty job - he advised to stick with OE filter and he told me many of the 3rd party ones are causing problems. Tesla will supply and fit one at our house for a reasonable price - so that is what I will be doing when mine...

Going for Model AF S3XYAF! (Sexy As F@#k)

Hi, Being an owner of a 2023 Model 3 Performance and a 2023 fully loaded BMW iX - i can compare the tech in both cars as follows:- The UI on the Tesla is less confusing than the ID8 on the BMW. The BMW is equipped with far more sensors than the Tesla - which gives me much more confidence when...

Hi, I just drove from Yas into the centre of Abu Dhabi & back again on Saadiyat highway. I could have sworn that previously the car showed that this was a 140 km/h speed limit on the display. Today is is only showing as 120 or 100 km/h and all the other limits in town seem wrong (often 20km/h...

Have you tried the two finger salute? (resetting the system by holding down both steering wheel buttons to reset the system?)

Hi, I tried to enhance the plates on the Jeep - without any luck. The base resolution of these images is not good enough to reveal the plates when you zoom into them. Cheers Steve