I Regret Buying My Tesla Model S Plaid...

good morning ladies and gentlemen I hope you are having a fantastic day if you are new to the channel my name is Parker Nirenstein I am vehicle virgins and today I am going to tell you why I am starting to get very upset with Tesla and why I

regret

buying

my Tesla Plaid. I also feel like it's been so long since we did a casual Vlog in the canyons with the McLaren, so let's take a look at this little thing. She's been pouring rain in the south. California recently which has been amazing because look at all the beautiful greenery, we needed the rain but it's made it a bit harder to film, look how disgusting the McLaren is right now, this thing is so dirty I had to drive it .

The last few days because I had a flat tire on the Plaid, which we'll talk about in a moment. It was a big problem that car had a flat, but let's take the McLaren out for a twenty-one thousand four hundred tear. and thirty-eight miles, this car has honestly been so epic. I know it doesn't get the love on the internet and from many of you like my Lamborghini Huracan did, but I wish I could explain through the camera how wonderful this feels. Driving is very engaging and puts a smile on my face every day. Now I said I would never sell this car.

There's a 99 chance it'll stay that way, but I'm curious what you guys would think if I sold this car and used it. As a down payment on the new successor to the Lamborghini Aventador, the scramble, the spec of this car is so special to me that I really can't get another one and I love the roof scoop, but there's something epic about a Lamborghini V12, so give it to me know seriously. question, would you want me to sell the 600 LT and get the rebuelto? The mountains almost seem fake at this point with all the vegetation so spectacular.

It's time to add it to my favorite driving path. Oh yeah, this place is too epic. Damn they are. people are like putting on a concert at the top of the canyon, okay my tires are worn out from the last track day but let's try some launch control because I haven't done it in a long time with the extra power when The car was stocked, launch control was great, but with 900 horsepower it doesn't launch us, it's a little scary to activate launch control, click this launch button right there, launch mode active, no , that was with traction control on, let's try it with traction control off.

Launch mode correct, traction off, oh man, we're spinning. Damn, I used to film here all the time for reviews, but I guess someone bought that lot and put all these rocks in there. R.I.P. on top of the Malibu canyons now and it's time to talk. about the Tesla now I would have done this section of the video on the Tesla except it has a flat tire and is stuck in my garage so I have to deal with getting tires for that car not exactly the easiest thing so I have owned it of the Tesla Model S Plaid for the past 14 months and most of the ownership experience has been amazing.

It's been fantastic for the content. It's also been really cool to have a car with over a thousand horsepower that goes from 0 to 60 in under two seconds. I love it. The fact that it has autopilot is very nice for long trips or if you are in heavy traffic. There are a lot of things I love about the car, but there are some things I absolutely hate and haven't experienced with any other car. manufacturer in my life, so here they are since I have the Tesla Model S Plaid. I've had seven punctures. Yes, that's right, seven. I've had this car for three and a half years and I'm actually going on four years. now and I've never had a single flat tire, now you could say it's bad luck but there's actually some science behind it.

My other friends with Tesla Model S frames have suffered a similar fate and it really is a pain in the ass when it's on. your daily driver, so why do you get flat tires more often? There are a lot of different reasons why the thing is very heavy, it's 4,500 pounds and they've decided to put it on these 21 inch wheels with really low profile tires, that's fine if it's not a high performance tire and they have a bigger sidewall. thick, but not good when you have a 4,600-pound sedan sitting on a very thin sidewall on a high-performance Michelin Pilot Sport 4S, it turns out the tire's weight rating is basically inadequate. drive the Tesla and Michelin actually basically comes up with an answer to this with their upcoming Michelin Pilot Sport S5 (I think it's called), which will have a higher weight rating for a specific tire that is dedicated to heavier EVS, so I basically admitted the fact that the tire really couldn't handle how heavy the car is now.

If you get the 19 inch wheels it's much less of a problem, you have a thicker sidewall and you have that smaller wheel. The reason I bought the 21 is and this is another thing that really bothers me with Tesla originally. I was told that to get the top speed of 200 miles per hour, which of course I don't have yet, you have to get the 21 inch wheels now which really didn't make any sense to me but I figured Tesla knows better so I bought the ones. 21 inch wheels. The reason that bothers me is that I knew I was going to get upgraded wheels and put replacement wheels on the car, that's just what I wanted.

I made and picked out some good ones and came across the firm and I love the look of the wheels so I essentially paid 4500 for the upgraded 21 inch wheels for the Tesla just because I thought they would get those 200 miles per year. one hour top speed which would have been great for half mile racing events, obviously you don't go 200 on the street, it's starting to get windy outside so I don't want the audio to be terrible, but yeah I'm annoyed with 21 inches. wheels because they lied about the maximum speed. I spent extra money on them, that's fine, huh, but the real complaint is that the flat tires get so many nail punctures that it's actually crazy and for some reason, because the size of the tires is super weird.

That low-profile, high-performance 21-inch tire made for a sports sedan isn't the same size as typical sports cars, so you can't put Audi R8 tires on the Plaid, which is why they don't make many tires for the car. , so sometimes your Sol lasts like three four months and you can't get a new tire now. I've plugged a ton of tires, that's seven sets of flats, seven new tires regardless of where I've probably had to buy like 12 different tires for the Model S Plaid since I bought the car and they cost about 500 each, so it's not exactly the most relaxed experience, but it's what really bothers me the most and I know it sounds a bit like I'm complaining here, it seems a bit misleading on Tesla's part.

What I hate the most are MSRP drops. I have never seen this before with any other car. When I bought my Tesla Model S

plaid

I paid 139,400 and at the time it seemed like a great deal, obviously very expensive, but for a thousand and twenty horsepower car, a nice interior autopilot and all that seemed like a reasonable deal and it was at the time, but here's the problem right after the plots came out. it actually sold for way more than the tag 150 160 175 and the I buy a car that I want to drive and it's obviously an advantage if it holds the value, but it's something to wait and it's not the end of the world if it depreciates, obviously the E63 had depreciated like crazy, the culin just went down the hill down, um, but this is a different scenario with Tesla. of the used car market just supply and demand and adjusting the price and over time as the miles increase the cars will be worth less and less is old news.

Tesla did something that really bothers me and that is the price drop. car not once but twice so originally for my spec I paid 139k and to get my spec now it's 116k and if you wanted to get a base

model

it's a hundred and nine thousand for the Tesla Model S platform so they didn't drop the price. once but twice this is awesome for anyone looking to buy a

plaid

now super excited for you guys honestly some used plaids are a great deal right now and maybe take advantage or wait a couple of years and they will.

It will be even cheaper, but I don't love the fact that they just dropped the price of the car, so all these Tesla fans who bought the Plaid also supported the brand I've invested in, Tesla, which, as you know , in the long term it has worked very well, but recently. Not doing it that well, but treating those customers basically like you don't care about them by lowering the price by twenty-two thousand dollars is a bummer because you basically sunk every person's loan at a time when the interest rates were incredible. I got like 2.25. so it made sense to finance it, uh, and now my finances are completely immersed in the car before they lowered the price.

I probably could have given the car to Tesla and gotten back about thirty thirty-five thousand dollars. I wanted to keep the car for a while. In the meantime, I'll keep the car for a while. I won't be selling it, but there are a lot of people who are bummed about this, so obviously I won't realize that loss until I actually sell the car. At this point I'd probably have to give Tesla a check for 10-20k and the car just to get out of the finance payments, which I'm definitely not going to do. It looks like I'm going to be with the Tesla Plaid for a while now there's one last thing and it feels so typical with all these other issues and that was Tesla's fully autonomous beta.

Fortunately I didn't pay the twelve thousand dollars and I think it could be even more. that now for the full autonomous driving beta I just signed up for the service well the problem was it took me seven to nine months of payments before I was considered eligible and driving well enough and believe me I wanted Create as much content as possible. autonomous driving as possible, so I tried every trick in the book to make sure I got the perfect safety score. It was very difficult because I used it as my daily driver and every time someone wasn't the one driving every time someone on the freeway made a lane change in front of you, which seemed like a totally safe dumb change. points there are a lot of different things that they would just dock points for so I was pretty bummed that I was paying I think it was 250 or 300 a month for seven to nine months and I got nothing out of it literally nothing that I just they removed the money and gone, sorry you don't rate, seems a little silly, well guys let me know in the comments section below.

Do you think it's a little strange, strange and a little unfair to lower the price of cars? Just think about any car you own and imagine if they started giving that car away for 10 or 20,000 less. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it makes sense and honestly it's no big deal, but I felt like it seems a little unfair, especially the full price. beta version of self driving and then they definitely need to work on that tire issue because it's just absurd, it seems like they just didn't do enough testing honestly on the road because if they had put tons and tons of miles on the road 21-inch wheels with the 4S that came on the car, there's no way they didn't have a ton of flats because everyone I know who's 21 and the Plaid just gets flats all the time, well guys I hope you enjoyed today's video as always, please browse. the channel and subscribe I hope to see you the next foreign video