5 things I don't like about the Tesla Model 3 Highland

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[@roccomandato8008]

i agree with you , turn indicator on the steering wheel is the dumbest implementation in decades

[@frovleeide9485]

You need an IQ at 58 to find out that the turn button is in top on the left side, and in the bottom in the right side when you turn the wheel....

[@roccomandato8008]

@@frovleeide9485 to understand this you only need a IQ of 01 , evidently , to understand that the steering is moving and often you have to put the arrow when it is upside down and find them on the steering is impossible, you have to have driven a car

[@woodypwx]

@@roccomandato8008 Exactly! I need to always check visually what I’m pressing if the wheel is not straight. It’s totally moron!c and unsafe

[@pavelblaha5243]

Thanks for the objective assessment, based on my few test drives with Teslas I can agree with everything you mentioned here.

[@TassieEV]

You don't need to justify it to avoid the hate from the Teslarati you know, kind of felt like for each of your points you were trying to cover your judgement from the potential hatred from the Teslarati don't worry about it just state your point and reasons for it.

[@dormelectric8610]

I have a RWD SR Model 3 2024 / Highland and I agree on every point you’re making. I experience those issues often. I can add more to the list: 1) Turn indicators are terrible in roundabouts, as you’re distracted by finding them when exiting instead of looking for cyclists/pedestrians, and other cars. That’s a huge problem in many European countries. 2) Autopilot doesn’t adjust the speed when a new speedsign is detected - it just ignores it, so you have to manually adjust to the new speed with the scroll buttons, or deactivate and reactivate manually. And it disables when you change lanes. Those are normally basic features included for adaptive cruise control. According to Tesla you need a 3000€ software upgrade for that. 3) The glass gets HOT if you drive in the sun, and you will feel that on your head (regardless of AC). 4) The charging port doesn’t unlock along with the car, like any other EV we had. You have to manually unlock it in the app. That may seem like a small thing, but it doesn’t make any sense, if the car detects you near the car and it’s not charging. However, most of the above is fixable with OTA updates, and probably will be. And value for money is just unbeatable. Compare to the RWD SR to any other 40000€ car, not just other EVs. If you can live with the qirks, buy this car. It’s awesome.

[@SeeliLeck3r]

Great review Chris 🙂 I want to change my actual EV , the TM3 Highland is on the list, I had a very long test drive, the cons are mostly the same as yours to be honest. Tesla are very cool and nice cars, as to be super efficient, but some snags are sometimes very annoying. But the ride is fantastic, so I have to wrap my mind around it It seems that you have awaken the wrath of some Tesla non-objective fanboys. And they dare to speak about "nitpicking".... funny 😅

[@DEEPNNN]

The personal experiences and dislikes in this video are consistent with many other similar videos for this car. Please add entry and exit for vehicles you test. I.E. How easy or difficult is it to access the front seats if you are tall, short or elderly tall or short. Currently driving a Kia Soul because we, as seniors, have easy ingress/egress to/from the seat pad. It's precisely why the ID.4 has risen to the top of our EV acquisition list.

[@sebbbi2]

Pretty much the same stuff we encountered 3 years ago when test driving a Model 3. Back then there wasn’t even a top-down obstacle view. Lack of front parking camera and lack of HUD (or any dashboard) were the biggest red flags for us. And VW felt better to drive. I guess it’s the same sporty vs confortable thing. Plus my wife hated single pedal driving. Other cars give you two modes. Tesla forces you to single pedal drive. Car just felt bad in test drive.

[@jasonblair4057]

The issues you mention are right on. I live in Canada and have to deal the same issues. The one other issue that irritates me is poor auto wipers. I had rain sensors on my other cars and it just worked. The ghost breaking you mentioned is annoying so I have stopped using cruise control. As it just breaks fairly hard for no reason. I have had my model for 9 months and I will replace it with an Ioniq 5 in a few years. Or maybe something else that has come to the market.

[@catmanscarchannel]

Never going to buy a car without stalks for indicator and windshield wipers.

[@user-nf4st5kn6l]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@alastairhatt360]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SFzip]

The most annoying thing is the turning circle. Making U-turns and navigating in tight parking lots is inconvenient.

[@georgepelton5645]

@@SFzip I agree. I think the turning circle is even wider on my Model Y. This is something the VW EVs excel on, with very tight turning circle for ID.3 RWD.

[@djtaylorutube]

Model Y here, it's a barge! 12.1m turning circle.My Volvo 850 does 10.2m.

[@Harrythehun]

True, but still worth the price. The few extra times of e backing is not a problem. The Tesla cars are so much better in so many ways. The competition are great at few ordinary "car things" but not as total package.

[@sakupitkanen7574]

You pointed out exactly the main flaws of this car. Phantom breaking is THE biggest annoyance for me at the moment. Potentially the SW updates will fix this, but lately it has only gotten worse- not better. I just drove almost 5000 km in Europe and cruise control / auto pilot is unusable due to phantom braking. It is supposed to be Tesla’s flagship feature, but it’s horrible. Come on Tesla, you can do better.

[@michals1108]

yes I agree , as much I like Tesla I could not live with all these little annoying things thats why I drive Hyundai

[@axelramsfors9731]

Love your content!! I just want you to make make your videos in 4K instead of 1080p… I mean all smartphones today can even record in 4K

[@nmtb1972]

Some valid comments, but you should try to use voice control on this car. It is quite good.

[@enyaq_gorm]

If you have an American accent, for the rest of us it can't understand us

[@tonymcflattie2450]

Thank you! Great review

[@rempha]

You can control the distance in front by clicking right/left the right wheel (set between 2 and 6 )

[@tymanot]

When it comes to Tesla the most interesting are the comments...

[@nakfan]

Great series and very detailed pros and cons… Maybe you should start the cons video by stressing that there is indeed a pros video. Just an idea.

[@alexmaple4]

I could be wrong but I thiiiink you “resume” by pressing the road sign with the speed at the top of the screen?

[@woodypwx]

@@alexmaple4 It used to be like that (it was setting the speed limit value) but now by pressing the speed limit on the screen you are disabling speed warning sound instead

[@connclissmann6514]

We see that you are testing this car in the wonderful Bavarian summer or you would also have mentioned the poor performance of the Auto setting for wipers. The cameras are not good at detecting a wet windscreen so you manually wipe at times, while other times they auto wipe despite no rain whatsoever. This is one of the most requested software upgrades, I understand. Thanks for both videos.

[@hmo1234]

Latest sw upgrade has changed that!! 👍🏻😉 Do you actually own a Tesla? 👏🏻🤡

[@lukewdk2482]

Recent updates have made this issue almost disappear completely. Tesla gets data for when the wipers are activated manually when on auto mode as well so they use this to improve auto wiper function. They will continue to improve along with loads of other improvements that you get in over the air software updates over time for free. Including safety updates.

[@abraxastulammo9940]

2:11 Where is it, where is it...ah, THERE it is! 😅

[@MrGangstashit666]

Most other ev brands like BMW Does good job, For me Tesla is still best Ev. If you look at Mercedes their Eqa and EQB are just ice cars with battery under, i drove with it and it is boaring. I don't understand how people forget the price tag. In Belgium you have model Y and Model 3 for 35000 Euro. If you want basic EQA businessline (still much less options than Tesla you pay 59000 euro. I am not even talking abkut full option BMWix1 or Id 4 or even ID7. Big brands are jsut way behind in this. You don't compare a hous of 300k with house of 500k right? Tesla aren't far from perfect. Btw we drove 3000 km already never faced phantom breaking, yes cars sometimes beeps for cars that are on the side for no reason but it doesn't do lhantom braking.

[@tomb5552]

In short, you’re saying this is not the car for senior citizens.

[@catalin633]

Great video, thank you! I want to point out that you can set the Autopilot in the section Speed Limit so that every time you engage it, the speed will be the speed limit plus 5 (or how much you need) For me this is even better that resume speed as I always want to drive 5 km above limit. So I set it once and that's it.

[@georgepelton5645]

Personally, none of these issues would cause me to consider buying a different car. I have been driving a Model 3 for over 6 years, and the rear camera is great. Yes it would be nice to have 360 deg overhead view, but vision out the back is not a problem at all. With the camera it is better than many cars, like my SAAB 900 for example. I do like sport handling, and I am glad Tesla gives this priority over ride comfort. Using buttons for turn signals is something I think I would get used to easily, and maybe like better as I don't need to take a hand off the wheel. However if you signal exits from roundabouts, then it would be very difficult IMO. I don't signal my exits, nor do I trust anyone who does. Most likely they just left their signal on, and if I pull out in front of them there will be a collision.

[@hmo1234]

This guy is VW guy 😂😂😂

[@MrMichaelLundberg]

@@georgepelton5645 In Sweden you have to signal your exits from roundabouts. This is law and not doing it will result in penalty. And we have a lot of roundabouts.

[@MrMichaelLundberg]

Tesla is most certainly not a car I will buy. It seems all these bad decisions have been made by Musk. If they get rid of that guy and instead have a person that actually listen to what people want that could change. ID.7 is superior, unfortunately to expensive to me at the time. So I continue with my old petrol car for now.

[@ChipMIK]

"Vision" downgrade almost 2 years ago converted my 2021 TM3 LR from a fantastic 200 Km a day commuter car into a POS toy car where your fighting the systems and the OTA has introduced further issues while solving a few. Wipers still crap, CC/AP are outright horrible breaking for errors in the nav-map, bicycles not even on the road etc etc. Simply unbelievable a manufacturer like Tesla/Elon can be allowed to ruin peoples property like they have done by disabling the radar due to lack of components during chip-shortage and the pure greed that drives Elon. (No rainsensor, no stalks etc. etc.....But on a sunny day where the cameras aren't blinded, its a fantastic EV.

[@hmo1234]

Bull Shit! If you own a 2021 model, then Vision has done NOTHING like that! Idiot🤮

[@RichardStefanits]

I consider this as a major step back from the prefacelift. Even that was a disaster in ergonomics, and this one improved that. Having seen the differences between travel assist and "autopilot" with the gost braking feature, well, tesla should consider some basics if they want to sell number now the EV hype is about to fall on it's face.

[@sokoo1978]

Kia Niro also phantom brakes, I guess any car that has adaptive tempomat with camera + radar and maybe emergency breaking feature will break in similar situations.

[@emilianopanzavolta]

I'm used to drive a Tesla, I don't agree with you on the second point.

[@MrGangstashit666]

Just to mention, i think your resume button if it is set higher then speed limit won't work anymore with future cars. There a new law in Europe that it has to make sounds when going higher then speed limit.

[@thomash5342]

I have a brand new car with this “feature” on it that it beeps at me all the time. Doesn’t prevent me from resuming to the higher speed I’ve set. There is of course no guarantee for the future, but since the particular brand I’ve got doesn’t have a great track record of software updates I don’t see any update to that coming

[@MrGangstashit666]

Yes but i think now that it beeps you won't resume at higher speed. But i am also wondering is it accurate the speeds youre car recognize? I have mercedes, it is always wrong to recognize speed signs, my wife Tesla model Y does it much better but isn't perfect. I am wondering if other brands has working feature for recognize speed signa or gps data ​@@thomash5342

[@hrtlik]

You can buy aftermarket stocks now and front display as well - both non destructive 30 min installs. Inconvenient but once you do it, you have the best car on the planet for that price. This car is definitely very comfortable and I say it as Porsche Taycan Turbo owner with air suspension. If I were buying car today I would buy it and not Porsche - the price is just not justifiable vs new Tesla. I did not like old model 3 tho, this fixed all little things.

[@VSEVstudies]

Then you realize that these are just wasted money and it was just fine without additional screen and retrofitted stalks :)

[@hrtlik]

@@VSEVstudies we have a lot of roundabouts in Europe and it is borderline dangerous to cross hands and fingers to press turn signal. NCAP will give you minus points if car does not have stalks from 2025 or something like that.

[@VSEVstudies]

@@hrtlikI live in Poland I understand what you are talking. A lot of roundabouts here as well. I have previous generation Model 3. A lot of people get an additional screen because they are used to see the speed behind the steering wheel and they want CarPlay as they were used to it just to confess a month later it was a total waste of money. Real owners, not KZbin reviewers with not more than 1 week of experience with the car get used to it. I’m against this cost saving. I understand when EuroNCAP decreases points. Just to mention that it may not be worth extra 300 EUR to retrofit stalks after you drive it for at least 1 month. For rental car - yes, worth it. Additional screen - practically worthless. Unless you want Apple Car Play and 3rd party navigation. But there are handy phone holders to be placed behind the steering wheel and it’s a cheaper and better solution, cause you have no lag and have more functionality. I use basic autopilot all the time and that’s the default mode how car drives. That’s why I’m totally fine with only one button for wipers and changing wiper modes via rotating wheel. I can safely see the current mode on the screen. I know why Tesla is doing this - you will not want to switch to legacy automaker’s car because it’s too much buttons you perfectly forget about why are they. Because there are useless start-stop engine buttons and additional moves to start or stop the car and so on.

[@hrtlik]

@@VSEVstudies yeah I am from Czech Republic. I would get stalks for safety. Not screen, one screen in the middle is fine for me. But the option is there for reasonable money.

[@babnu]

Most of the button issues are nitpicking. Owners get used to it in no time. There is no phantom breaking in US anymore. If my car slows down there is usually a good reason (bike or pedestrian)that other cars will never know. I have 2019 model 3 that’s little loud and bumpy. My 2022 model S is very comfortable albeit not as comfortable as Mercedes top trim. FSD is a game changer in US. It will come to Europe. You have the hardware already. Your car keeps on giving you year after year with OTA updates that are free and add new features that are useful. Safest cars around. Beyond that we are all conditioned in life. Hate and love for a car or team or company or a person are two sides of the same coin….

[@hmo1234]

@@babnu What would you expect from a german VW guy? 😂😂😂😂

[@PH61a]

It took me about 5 seconds to get used to having no stalks. This guy is obviously a VW guy for sure. Many options in a Tesla a not even available in a VW. I should make a video about all the problems and limitations with VW ID-cars. It would be a video 3 times longer 😀

[@HansKruse]

I mostly agree that the things you mention are not positives. How important they are will depend on the individual. I have a model Y now for half a year and 32.000km already. I came from a model S with air suspension. The comfort is not on the same level as the S, but I find it good almost all roads except really bad ones. Not a show stopper for me. The car is cornering really amazing well and I would not like to give up on that. The parking is fine for me. The auto pilot is working really well for me. If there are places where I know that the current European version will not handle it well I disengage. On the motorway I have no phantom breaking and I have one hand on the steering wheel with a little weight and the car recognises this. No problem. I have seen on previous videos that you wigle the steering wheel and you should do that. Also you should NOT try to steer while in auto pilot, it is not designed to let you steer. So if you understand how it works you will have no problem and it works very well. I also know that the autopilot will be improved via OTA updates. The main thing for me is how it drives even at high speeds very well and long distances effortless

[@vicheaterx]

1. beats the crap out of deutsche EVs, 2. you don't get locked out of it like VW IDs, 3. totally unreliable software compared to BMW and VW :))) 4. price 10k lower than VW and 15k lower than BMW/Audi EVs, 5. maintenance plans really rip you off compared to germanische manufacturers.

[@alicanim1881]

Tesla is the best EV like how an EV should function but not best as a car. All things you mentioned her will make Tesla more expensive. And it is anti pattern, it is against to human reflexes.

[@mravecsk1]

Most of the things are about getting used to them. SEXY stalks are sorting out most them anyway...

[@Popdog76]

Preferred your wife’s reviews as she was more balanced. Negatives was due to lack of time to read the manual which you should have done.

[@henvan8737]

In short, you’re saying this is not the car for senior citizens if your mind is set and you can't accept any change in your live. Even the VW ID3 and ID7 has many deficiencies.

[@marcohillenga5068]

Where did he mention that? And why would you want change when the formula for a car is already good?

[@pavici]

Are you being paid?

[@markplott4820]

Battery life - there is no such TESLA vehicle named Highland. but the 2024 model 3 refresh exists. there is also no such Tesla vehicle named Juniper , either. FAKE NEWS.

[@sevenofnine2208]

You've convinced me. I'm buying it. There's no better EV in the world. I'm glad to have the name of a scientist from my country. I've watched all of your movies and waited for this one. I'm sorry, but what you're saying doesn't hold true. Suddenly, unnecessary criticism and poorly presented problems that this car has. If I hadn't drive it, I might have believed you. Uncomfortable, unstable, distracting. It's really inaccurate and ugly presented . 😔

[@nakfan]

Have you watched the first video which is all praise?

[@tkermi]

You are just another biased Tesla fanboy. Or have a personality that doesn't allow objective and realistic thinking. There are practically no products that are perfect and as such it's extremely important to highlight the shortcomings too. Not only give praise.

[@ricco123tube]

Decent car but some of the super advanced stuff just doesn't seem to work that well. I had the car over a weekend and the weather was absolutely terrible. It did 2 autonomous stops for no reason and when it could not see the line on the dual carriageway it behaved very oddly, twitching from side to side. Wipers were terrible and infuriating. People say you get used to the indicators, but imo you just learn to put up with them. Other aspects are great, but this car isn't for me.

[@witteveenjeroen]

It's very good review. I'm a Tesla model 3 Highland owner myself. But that doesn't say that you shouldn't buy it. I'm very happy with it.

[@enyaq_gorm]

I owned one for 14 months (not a highland) and I agree with all of it. The phantom braking you had Chris is out the full experience. Mine used to do full emergency braking on the motorway. It really wasn't good at all and very scary. As you say when it gets confused it steers crazily and fights you when you want to correct it.

[@alastairhatt360]

None of those not better items are valid! What you can swipe up or down? So your eyes don’t get more tired looking down as opposed to the left or right? WT? Are you serious with any of these. Why are you adjusting the steering when you are auto steering? You have asked the car to steer then you want to adjust…. Make up your mind. If unsure where you are reversing. Stop get out and check!,, ridiculous negatives. I have a model 3 and none of these things are an issue. Also most cars have niggles you won’t like…

[@hmo1234]

Come on! You have your head up in old Legacy VW cars🙈 Comfort is on level with everyone, but you should have Comfort RIMS and not sport wheels! HUD is right next to you - you dont move your head - only eyes. You know what - this is all BULL SHIT! 😂

[@fgerstm2069]

Yes, you move your eyes away from the street. A real HUD is much better.

[@hmo1234]

@@fgerstm2069 Bull shit! You dont move your eyes more if you have a normal gage- or HUD, in such studies shows can distract even more. Tell me Batman, do you own a Tesla? No, I did’nt think so, then you would’nt post such BS 👏🏻🤡

[@marcohillenga5068]

Typical fanboy behavior. Tesla can’t do anything wrong. But you forget that he makes these videos of every car he reviews. Just accept that your car isn’t perfect for everyone else.

[@laddtrycksberoende]

Comfort on level with everyone? Are u drunk or a fanboy? Even though highland is a bit better then earlier model its no where near a car u can call comfortable. Sporty maybe if a hard ride is whats counts but no. Tesla model 3 has an horrible setup. Over sprung and under damped….

[@hmo1234]

@@marcohillenga5068 Listen clown - should we keep fact and not VW hore? 👏🏻🤡 Yezzz…..

[@user-nf4st5kn6l]

I see, this car is not for stupid drivers!😂😂😂