Tesla Model S Plaid One Year Ownership Update! It Can Only Go Up From Here

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You know it’s a car Kyle hasn’t put many miles on when the 1 year video is under an hour 😂

Yes!! More road trips in plaid and R1T . Longer the better!! Glad your keeping it! Rivian videos lately have been awesome!

When discussing the MPP brake kit. I mentioned it’s a rotor and caliper upgrade - it’s not! It’s a rotor and pad upgrade. Excuse my fumble there

I’d love to see more Model S road trips, maybe one like you guys did before to Glassier Park and Moab. Or maybe even Salt flats and get some drone footage of that car like the opening scene from Knight Rider.

Great video , I have the original Plaid refresh right before they refreshed again, strange they did that so soon w the new charge port, taillights, headlights, etc. LOVE my car and I have the same mountainpass brake set up and I even run the same 295/35 20 square setup on custom signaturewheels. I have intuitive lowering links like you are getting and I love them. Never selling this car. Keep up the great videos 🙌🏼

wish Kyle could experience going to a service center as a non-Youtuber. If he thinks EA charging is bad, experience an authentic Tesla service center experience. It would be the subject of every video posted.

Totally agree the model S Plaid is the ultimate all in one car. I got one of the first here in Europe late last year. 10k miles trouble free. Thinking hard about track pack, mostly because brakes are weakest point. On Autobahn this is the king. Leaves everything else behind and is a comfortable and efficient tourer. For me it's a keeper for years to come.

Fit the mudflaps to the front wheels and stop the stone chipping. The flaps are quite discreet.

I'm about 14 months into my Plaid experience. The car is fantastic, I love everything about it. I really haven't done anything to it other then switching out the Pirelli summer tires out for Michelin's during our Midwest winters. The factory Pirelli's are a great tire, very smooth and quiet. All the body seams are not perfect. But I've never seen a car that was. The brakes are really the very minimum it should have. But then I never use the brakes any way. This was my first EV and I was curious how road trips would be into more rural areas. That was joyous surprise. The trips I took, the car wound up waiting for me at the charging bay. I did a lot of research before making this purchase. So I knew what to expect. If my intent was to flip the car like a lot of people did. I would be one sad sack. Musk playing with the price of cars like a toddler with building blocks has lost about 40% of my buy in price. Since I planned on keeping the car for a minimum of 5 years, it's a non issue. I can't say anything about Tesla service as I haven't had any need. All in all, it's a very comfortable car for any type of use. It can carry good amount of stuff too. I really like it more than I thought I would. One of the bigger perks is that regular maintenance is basically non-existent. There's just not much to worry about.

Sounds like a lot of the issues stemmed from the accident. Sounds like a bad hit to shear an entire side of your suspension off

Kyle you need to test the lotus eletre on the 10% challenge as I think it could beat the current champ.

Rented a Model X Plaid on Turo for 3 days. My feedback was this: I could see myself owning it and overall really enjoyed it. However the chrgeport was already broken and had to be opened and closed manually. The instrument cluster shut off randomly a few times and wouldn't come back on until some time later on future drives. And the Falcon wing doors creaked quite a bit over rougher roads. I can see peoples criticisms for the price for sure,

ALLYSSA, PREACH IT SISTA! AMEN! HALLURLOOYA! The problem Kyle is that there are a lot of people out there that think they are capable of driving that fast, and they ain't. They also sometimes do thoughtless and careless things like launching or driving fast on residential streets that have a high probability of a child, pet or toy darting out in front of them. Just sayin.

Please test track package. Hoping the new Model S gets it as optional equipment from the factory.

The biggest problem with the car that you didn't mention is that you can't adjust the suspension much - certainly not as you need it for performance use. The air suspension is a compromise between comfort and performance, but they definitely hedged toward comfort so it really isn't viable for real track use. The most recent track mode updates do slightly stiffen the damping more than before, but the hardware is the limit. The problem is it's integrated into the software so it's hard to put something more performance on it. That's different than the rest of the suspension. While the suspension arms don't allow adjustment into the range necessary to tune the car to turn in well and the bushings are too squishy for the extreme loads the car can generate on track those can be upgraded and the car doesn't care. Same goes for the brakes - it's clearly a cost move to use the same brakes as the LR, and for 90% of even Plaid owners they are fine, but for real track use performance pads are a must, and bigger, higher capacity rotors are also a good idea. The track pack brakes bring back what they originally planned for the 'Plaid+' model, but they are super expensive and unnecessary once you have good iron brakes. Both options are mechanical so the car software doesn't get upset when you change them though. It's a killer road trip car and it's a hoot and I agree with both of you on the power - it's completely unnecessary and even dangerous in the wrong hands, but I'm glad we get to play with such a crazy car! Best car by far I've ever driven for all sorts of use cases!

OE tires almost always suck because they are optimized for comfort and noise, but most of all price. So they are typically lighter weight but due to a reduction in material, which usually shows as narrower treadwidth as well. This is consistent for any Mercedes spec tires on Tirerack.

Cool, you are in Loveland, right down the road from us. I am watching your Plaid videos right before my on Plaid experience.

Looking forward to the Hogback with this! (and comma)

Be at ease. If you consider the fact that your Model S Plaid is as fast or faster than exotic cars that can cost over $1,000,000, it’s an incredible bargain. Even if you add the $20,000 Track Pack…