Hello Everyone!

Many months ago I came across the news that Tesla released a new puddle lights for Model 3 Well, it was and still is China China-exclusive thing😭 but that encouraged me to find ways to buy it. My options were limited: either asking my colleagues who have relatives in China to buy it off of Tesla China site OR various auction sites like eBay etc. I didn’t want to risk getting the fake one so I found another way after reading the Drive Tesla article.

Tmall (formerly Taobao Mall) is essentially the B2C e-commerce platform and Tesla had an official store. As far as I understand it’s mostly for the Chinese market but Taobao has international shipping option to some countries including Canada and USA.

Tmall ordering was not complicated at all, even though all the interface is in Chinese. Nothing Google Chrome Translation feature could not handle. I registered a Taobao account with my Canadian cell number, used this Taobao account to register&link Alipay (Taobao would not allow me to pay until I did this) and placed the order by paying with my Canadian credit card.

There is an overseas payment option available so I was billed in CAD. The Yuan to CAD rate was pretty nice to my surprise. I got one front pair for 35.87 CAD + 26.11 CAD for the shipment fee. Please keep in mind that it’s an overall shipment fee: I purchased two other items from different Tmall stores and consolidated them in one package. The Weight for three items (pair of puddle lights + two other items) was around:~1.5kg

For reference, here are the timelines for my delivery to Vancouver, BC: placed my order on 4/21, got it delivered on 4/29.

Installation was a breeze and now I enjoy my new lights! They feel more bright which is probably due to the focused light image.

Here are some photos I took during this process: https://imgur.com/a/Hom3cV1

P.S: for some reason, Reddit removed my previous posts so all links can be found here: https://pastebin.com/65Hf4dsd

So I just picked up my 2021 model 3 on Wednesday, and it’s been amazing. But my only concern so far is the battery health. It’s a long range awd (I tend to take business and personal trips and wanted an ev that could do that), and at 80% charge, I was sitting at 266 miles, which if my math is right was about less then 10% degradation.

I was really happy with that math until I noticed today a 26 mile drive cost me 50 miles of range, and a 1 mile drive cost me 4. The math ain’t mathing anymore. Is this normal? I know there will be some loss range over AC (I am in Texas) and sentry mode, but almost two miles for every one mile??? That seems odd/bad.

While away on holiday I noticed my car had an update waiting for me and I thought why not update this so when I’m back in town I have a new update. Turns out that since I have updated this, my car alarm gets triggered every now and then. It has happened twice in 3 days and when I got back and drove to work and back, it happened again. (Service has been requested via Tesla App)

Anyone else have this issue?

Button under door handle left side?

I'm looking at Tesla for my first car (I don't own one yet). I am wary of the battery degradation and you'd have to get them replaced once they reach below certain health percentage. Did you guys replace your Tesla battery? if so when did you replace them? What was your total miles driven? Did you supercharge more than home charging? more road trips than daily commute etc. Please let me know what I should be cautious of or be aware of when owning a tesla regarding a EV battery. I have a NEMA 14-30 outlet, so I can charge my tesla at home if i do buy one. If I'm buying standard range, do i charge it up to 100% everyday?