Tesla's Premium Connectivity...is it worth it??

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11 ай бұрын

**SENTRY MODE STILL WORKS WITH STANDARD CONNECTIVITY BUT YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO VIEW IT ON YOUR PHONE**
Premium Connectivity vs standard
I've had premium connectivity since I've owned my Tesla. I'm going to go without it for a month and I'll report back to you with how it went.
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@malcolmsnaith7023 6 ай бұрын

I have been driving for 5 months, never used any of the premium features so didn't even notice when the free time was up. Sales staff never explained features, just said watch the manual videos.

@PhongNguyen-nz9kz 6 ай бұрын

So what was the report?

@lucasfunkt 11 ай бұрын

You didn't even mention the satellite maps, that's one of the best features I think and the one I probably miss the most. If you're ever looking for a layby on a country road, normal maps are no good, satellite makes that easy.

@thercsev 9 ай бұрын

I always forget something...just ask the wife!

@dathyr1 10 ай бұрын

Well, my premium connectivity 30 day trial has ended and will now see if I miss anything without it. So far I would say no, not missing anything I dseperately need. Being retired, I do just short daily trips around town and do not need to sit in my Model Y for any long time while it is parked. Charging is done only at home in the garage. 1 - I never used the more detailed graphical Navigation maps during my 30 days. 1a - normal navigation mapping is great and good enough for me. 2 - i use just the FM radio while driving, nothing else. 3 - Internet/streaming only worked when parked, so tried it briefly but not needed. 3a - I use internet/streaming on my home PC, so I get enough use of this then. 4 - Did not use any of the fancy music stuff - again FM radio good enough. All that said above, when I am parked in my garage the model Y does connect to my WIFI, so all this premium connectivity stuff then works. So I am not totally without using it if I want to sit in my car in the home garage and try something.

@thercsev 9 ай бұрын

My follow up video is coming out next week....check it out to see if my experience was the same as yours.

@SarahJonestoo 8 ай бұрын

Thanks. Would you be able to show us how to pair a phone with the car for your demo at at @2:43?

@thercsev 8 ай бұрын

Sure, I’ll make a short of it in the coming days. Keep an eye out for it 👀

@SarahJonestoo 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!@@thercsev

@gverran 11 ай бұрын

Now the big question that I would like answered. If the car did not have any connectivity at all using the car’s built-in SIM, but you paired the car over WiFi to a dongle that remains in the car permanently, what functionality do you loose? This is for cases where Teslas are brought into countries where standard connectivity is non existent.

@thercsev 11 ай бұрын

As far as I am aware, you will lose traffic visualisation and satellite maps. You will still have live traffic just no way of knowing where it is. I do like knowing where the traffic jam is, especially if it’s an area I know because I might know of a shortcut the car hasn’t shown me. All the other features will work once paired.

@OldManTony 11 ай бұрын

I’m sure I’d manage without it, however it’s only £10/month, and it would be like buying an iPad and never connecting it to Wi-Fi

@lucasfunkt 11 ай бұрын

Not really, I just use my mobile hotspot and still get to watch youtube, netflix ect that way. So as long as you have signal on your phone it's just the satellite maps and a couple of other features that you miss out on if you don't have premium connectivity.

@thercsev 9 ай бұрын

Very fair comment, you can just hotspot and get most of the features...although only £10/month...if you invest it wisely it suddenly becomes more than £10

@taffrhys 9 ай бұрын

When is the next video coming out??

@thercsev 9 ай бұрын

Due to come out next week....with a bit of a reason for my radio silence

@irandude1655 11 ай бұрын

I live in the city. It’s traffic everywhere and every time. Tesla map will just be orange all the time.

@lucm6463 11 ай бұрын

Good idea, I expert you will miss it, let’s see in A month 😉

@thercsev 10 ай бұрын

So far…I’ve found it annoying. Not because I’m missing features but because every time I get in it displays a ‘you haven’t got premium, you should get premium, premium is great’ *not a direct quote* 😂

@PeterJames143 6 ай бұрын

Your car has a build issue. The steering wheel is on the wrong side. You should take apart your car and put the steering wheel on the other side.

@kalchoudhury8150 6 ай бұрын

Actually the steering wheel is on the right side.

@PeterJames143 6 ай бұрын

haha. but unfortunately when the steering wheel is on that side you can't drive on the right side of the road. :)@@kalchoudhury8150

@thercsev 5 ай бұрын

Well I do live in the UK and driving on the right over here would probably reduce my life expectancy somewhat 😆

@mowcowbell 3 ай бұрын

Got a good laugh out of that. Seriously, the clean interior of the Model 3/Y does look easy to manufacturer for either left- or right-hand usage. For me as a right handed person, I would find using my left hand to access touchscreen items a bit of a challenge. I think the biggest challenge would be driving on narrow rural roads in England. I'm used to wide roads with emergency shoulders which are common in the midwestern USA.

@PeterJames143 3 ай бұрын

@@thercsev omg everyone over there is driving on the wrong side? How dangerous. You must change the law immediately. :)

@caradesalsa 9 ай бұрын

What’s the verdict! 😅

@thercsev 9 ай бұрын

Coming soon, enjoying my honeymoon currently 👍🏻

@saikalvakota7044 9 ай бұрын

Link for 1 month without premium connectivity please

@R0BBS 4 ай бұрын

I don't think £10 is that bad really. Cheaper than Spotify these days

@chukzn17 11 ай бұрын

The sentry is worth the £10 alone !

@lucasfunkt 11 ай бұрын

You get sentry on the standard conectivity you just don't get to view it on your phone.

@thercsev 10 ай бұрын

Sentry is good. I’m just sad I can’t make the car fart 😂

@PeterJames143 Ай бұрын

I am paying for premium connectivity. $99 per year. Seems like a no brainer to me, even though I wish they would just include it instead of nickle and diming me. The only feature from it that I need is the traffic visualization, so I can choose routes to avoid the orange roads. I spend hours every day commuting, so I want it to be as seamless as possible. No offense but the tesla center console youtube completely sucks and my phone is far superior, so I don't need Tesla's crappy youtube. If they had good youtube, that would be a different issue. Tesla could vastly improve the quality of their product by improving the center console. Allow casting from the phone to the console, make the center console possible to personalize. It would be nice if we would stop getting autosteer strikes from using the center console since THAT IS PART OF DRIVING. Also speed up the computer because the current computer totally sucks for youtube.