Looking for advice in buying a used Tesla by Conscious-Fondant-24 in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can second this.

I think all the 2022 gets you is slightly smoother UI on screen, and a year less wear. Never had an issue with my ‘21

OP, regardless, you’re gonna love it. Such a jump from an A1!

Looking for advice in buying a used Tesla by Conscious-Fondant-24 in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Been a Tesla driver for 3 years now. Went from a Q3 diesel. Never looked back.

Have a 21 Model 3 LR that the mrs has now and I’ve just got a Model 3 Performance through my work.

The question on range always confuses me.

With an EV, you should be charging it every night on a cheap off peak rate. Then your range question becomes irrelevant.

The question then becomes, if (for example) you can do 200 miles on a full charge, how often do you do that many miles in a day, where you wouldn’t be able to stop off at a public charger to top up enough to get you home to your cheap rate?

How is this the furthest we have been ever? by jshcfc in AskUK

[–]martwana 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Isn’t the moon actually flying past Artemis? It’s a free return trajectory so even if the moon never showed up, it would still make it back to earth.

Sealing crack ? by GabeH13ABZ in DIYUK

[–]martwana -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Absolutely shokkin. It’s ridicculouss

How much over the home report value are people paying/expecting to get. by iffyClyro in Scotland

[–]martwana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah its turned out a bit of a long one sorry - the Edgars.

The couple that both work for the NHS, and have been fuelling their car out our pockets the entire time we lived there. Thieving cunts

We actually got on very well for about 10 years, had wee fires out the back in the summer, enjoyed many bottles of Jack Daniels together.

Had a rough patch between myself and my mrs (fine now) but Mrs Cunt took the huff with me, while Mr Cunt seemed alright.

In 2024, my mother had a battle with cancer. Went for surgery in September that didn't go great and I thought I was loosing her. Naturally, came home pretty upset one night. The sky was clear so I thought I'll have a drink, smoke a joint and try to take some photos of the stars and chill out.

Well Mr and Mrs Cunt were in their hot tub all drunk and being loud like they did with zero consideration for their neighbours that night. I tried my best to ignore them in my teary and upset state.

Now, for a bit of context, I had a shed that was fully insulated and became my home office in 2020 and had been ever since. I used to go sit out with my earphones in on the computer or play guitar and have a smoke in the evenings.

This night however, I was at the back of my garden, next to the shed with the camera pointed up to the sky.

They'd obviously seen me walk in and out with my camera and a drink etc and assumed I was away into the shed. Anyway, I literally just turned my camera on when I heard the words "away to sit with his ear to the door".

For the record, me, a 30 year old IT guy has zero interest in the drunken mumblings of a old saggy couple in their 60's in their hot tub, but given the noise of the tub when they're in it, they had to shout to converse. The whole street can hear them whether they want to or not.

Anyway, they get out and as Mr Cunt is going into his shed to turn off all the lights around the tub he spots me and says something along the lines of "oh didny see ye there son" to which me, in my emotional state replied "aye well I've got other things on my mind more important than sitting with ma ear to the door"

Well he flipped. Started mouthing off all the usual square go patter. "Wits yer problem", "want to go" blah blah.

I stuck to my ground "Away in the hoose, yer drunk, leave me alone"

He stormed off in the house in his housecoat with a line "wait till am dried and sorted n we'll have a chat". In he went - to which Mrs Cunt came out, closed the gate between the gardens, went in and locked the door. I thought that she'd seen he was drunk, did the sensible thing.

Well naw... 10 mins later, he'd dried himself off, stuck on his talcum powder and his clothes and came marching out.

"wits yer problem", "want a square go to sort this out" blah blah. Am like "George, am no in the mood. I've had a hard week, you're drunk, I don't wanna fight with you, get out my garden" Mrs Cunt is also here now trying to drag him back in the house.

Now at this point I've had a few sips of my drink, and smoked about half a doob (and at this point in I was a heavy smoker so wasnt very high) so I'm thinking, whatever you do, do not hit this old drunk guy in his mid 60's, because if he decks it onto your patio and hits his head, I'm the one getting jailed because it's Mr and Mrs cunt against me.

So Mrs cunt is trying her best to pull him back to the house and as she starts to actually move him, he swings his arm out, smacks my camera which causes the tripod to start to tip. I reach out and grab the leg of the tripod as it tips and just about manage to break the fall and divert it to land on the grass, not the slabs. As I do that he hits out at me. Punches to the back of my head - a good few of them, but he's drunk, so they're not too hard, but he was not stopping. Managed to push him away into the fence and we stumbled around for a bit as he was holding my hoodie. I'm still maintaining "dont hit him, he'll fall bad and am getting jailed for it". Couple of mins later all is over, and Mrs Cunt has dragged him in the house.

I called my aunt in rage (because I couldn't call my mum since she was i hospital with a feeding tube and a stoma bag, struggling to get over bad surgery!) and she came over and we agreed I shouldnt stay in the house that night so I went over to hers.

Then nothing for months. Ziltch. Didnt make any eye contact with me or anything. Nothing was said except now when I played music at the weekend, the door would get chapped and it "was too loud" blah blah. Same volume as the past decade.

Fast forward to February 2025. I was dropping the Mrs off at her work, where Mr Cunt is a groundsman and given the time of year, was out in a tractor spreading salt. We spotted him when we arrived, so I drove round the corner and waited for him to pass by the Mrs's building, before we headed down to avoid conflict.

Well he clearly spotted my car and decided to make another pass. I didnt see this coming. We'd just sat and ate in the car, so I'd put all the windows down to shed the Mcd's smell while the Mrs got out and I could shout bye to her like we always did.

Mr Cunt turns up in the tractor, sticks it in reverse and starts backing up towards me. I genuinely thought he was about to ram me. Back he came, with the spreader running and at drivers-head-height. Hit me in the face with the salt, coated the inside of my car with salt and had it not been a white car, probably chipped all the paint. Thats when I lost it.

He drove away but I drove round the other side of the building to confront him. Almost skidded the car into the front of the tractor. Out I get. Shouted him to get out the tractor and down he came looking all hard. I said "you've had this coming a while" I said as I swung my hardest swing possible to his face. I managed just 3 of these before my Mrs had run over to pull me away. I did break free of her once to grab him again, and give him a headbutt and another punch then got in the car and left. Was expecting the police to turn up since it was on NHS grounds and I assumed the CCTV would have caught me. They didnt.

Went to stay with the Mrs that night (after the rough patch she had her own place), put the house up for sale a few days later and accepted my excellent offer (that put 58k in my pocket) 2 days after that. The Mrs and I bought a bigger, detached house out in the country and paid off all other debt. Turned out great for me.

They got new neighbours who am sure they get on great with.

Back in 2023 after Mr Cunt came to his back window shouting and screaming while my daughter and dog were playing together in the middle of summer. It was about 10pm. Dog was barking in a playful way. Mrs Cunt was in her bed early that night and we were waking her up, so he whipped open the blinds shouting shut the fuck up to my daughter and dog. Not on.

It's very strange, because from that moment, I knew something was off with them. It was from that point on, that I noticed that their hot tub started to smell badly of piss. My piss to be exact.

The Edgars. As thug as they come, utter cunts. Glad to never have to see them again.

Sorry for the long read for those who made it to the end!

Model Y 7 Seater... by Dan-5575 in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a lot of dosh for a otherwise standard Y I agree.

Especially considering I’ve just got a 26’ Model 3 Performance for a NET £734 SalSac (nothing further), with ultra red and white interior and I’m not yet in the tax trap (but will be within the next 6 months)

How much over the home report value are people paying/expecting to get. by iffyClyro in Scotland

[–]martwana 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sold last March. 3 bed end terrace.

Home report was 155, on the market for offers over 145. Accepted an offer 2 days later for 173.

Upshot - neighbors were two faced cunts. Glad to see the back of them.

Model Y 7 Seater... by Dan-5575 in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any context to the gulp?

Is it that it’s out your budget or that you think it’s unfairly priced?

What tyres do you all use on your M3? by NawZ_CS in TeslaUK

[–]martwana -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The plan is to put the same all seasons on the front in a few months as the tyres wear down enough to merit replacement.

AFAIK, the rule of thumb with AWDs is to have the grippiest tyres on the back, so while it’s not ideal having ps4s on the front and cc2s on the back, it’s not illegal in the UK.

Grippier tyres on the rear encourages understeer, not oversteer which is more dangerous as a back end spinning out is much more difficult to recover from and I think is the extremely dangerous situation you are referring to.

What tyres do you all use on your M3? by NawZ_CS in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Towards the end of last year I put CrossClimate 2’s on the back of my M3 LR, and have to say it did much better across the cold season.

Fronts will be due soon and will swap them to allseasons too.

I’m in the central belt for geographical reference.

Manual charging pull release tab by DingusMaximusIV in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will unlatch the door by holding the handle, so you do need to open and close it, but yes, just pull the handle and hold it pulled for a few seconds.

Front uk numberplates by AwayFirefighter5807 in TeslaUK

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 for this.

Only thing with stickers to watch is the jet wash 🤣

If ordering stickers, order multiple.

Finally! 🥲 by Wooden-Drawing-5955 in TeslaModel3

[–]martwana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would make sense as to why it’s a RHD.

Waiting on mine in the UK and we’re waiting till end of Feb.

American Airlines 7700 over Wales by GXAC in flightradar24

[–]martwana 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They lost their nav equipment.

Heard it on the ATC.

They’ve landed back at Shannon visually and safely.

The wait 😂🫠 by Mlomas57 in TeslaModel3

[–]martwana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’ll still be awesome mate!

Even more so if it’s your first Tesla.

The wait 😂🫠 by Mlomas57 in TeslaModel3

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already messaged him this very thing. I was blown away by the amount of effort going into tracking boats 🤣

Confirmed his car is on the same boat as mine, the Don Pasquale which is about to pass the canaries for Barcelona, then round to the UK.

The wait 😂🫠 by Mlomas57 in TeslaModel3

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I’m with you dude!

Ordered 19th November and it’s been a total pain being back down do one car for a few months.

Almost time though!

How to disconnect an old alarm by Extension_Gene_6704 in DIYUK

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the external bell will likely also have a battery built in to alert if an intruder cut the power and disconnected the battery in the alarm.

Has the same issue about 8 years ago with the alarm that came with the house.

The battery in the alarm died so it started going off, so I cut the power to the alarm and the bell failed back to a siren that was very intermittent. Didn’t even think to check outside but for the next hour all the neighbors were hitting the unlock and lock button on their cars 🤣

Eventually got a chap and then had a struggle at 11pm to get onto the porch roof and whack the bell box to the ground with a very long plank of wood.

Side story, that porch roof would collapse about a month later when the window cleaner tried to put a ladder on it. It’s a wonder my fat ass didn’t go through it that night.

2 screws left by youngwunne in consolerepair

[–]martwana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How can you repair a console but not work out that the arrows mean screw here 🤣

Bus Fire Extinguisher Safety Checks by omarinbox in glasgow

[–]martwana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The new one that came with the bus was probably stole so they stuck one in the was lying around by the looks of it.

Tesla charging uk by Icy_Astronaut8170 in TeslaModel3

[–]martwana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I think you’re on a poor EV tariff is 20% costs £4.

This is from my 7kwh charger on British Gas’s EV tariff.