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Tesla's $235 Model 3/Y Air Mattress is 3.9 inches thick and fits the Model Y (except the Model Y L Premium) and 2024 or newer Model 3. Havnby, TESMAT, Snuuzu and Lost Horizon sell thicker or shaped ones, some cut, their makers say, to level the folded seats. Here is which one fits your Tesla by model and year, what each costs and what each pump plugs into.
Tesla's Wall Connector is $585 and the right home charger for most owners, but a Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive or a Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive or All-Wheel Drive can't use its full output. Here is which charger fits your car, your outlet and your budget, from $300 to $660.
A Tesla drive unit (the motor, gearbox and inverter in one housing) is covered for 8 years. On current terms the mileage cap is 100,000 to 150,000 miles, depending on the model and trim; the older Model S and Model X booklets read here set no mileage cap. After that, a Model 3 or Model Y can be covered for up to 2 more years or 30,000 miles with Tesla's one-time extension, if Tesla offers it for your car, 2,000 dollars plus 500 per repair visit in the US, but only if you buy it before the factory coverage ends. Here are the alerts that point to the drive unit, what owners have filed with NHTSA, and what repairs cost outside the warranty.
Tesla's US Extended Service Agreement costs $50 a month on a Model 3, $60 on a Model Y, $125 on a Model S and $150 on a Model X, before tax, plus a $100 deductible per repair visit ($200 on some older Model S and Model X). It starts when the 4-year or 50,000-mile basic warranty ends and can run up to 4 more years or 50,000 more miles, but never past 8 years or 100,000 miles on the car, so at the July 2026 price the most a Model Y owner pays in fees is $2,880. It excludes the battery and drive unit, which every Tesla factory warranty edition read for this page, back to 2017, covers at least that long. It pays off only if covered repairs cost more than the fees plus deductibles, and a car whose plan is cancelled can't be enrolled again.
In October 2026 Tesla sold six versions of the Model Y in the US, from the $39,990 Model Y rear-wheel drive to the $61,990 six-seat Model Y L. The $6,000 step to the Premium buys 36 more miles of EPA range, a glass roof, heated rear seats and 15 speakers. Here is what every trim costs, how far it goes and who it suits.
Every Tesla has lower car seat anchors in its two outer rear seats, and in the Model 3, Model Y and Model S the middle rear seat takes a belt-installed seat only. Three narrow seats fit a Model Y's rear bench on paper with about half an inch to spare, and the one hands-on Model Y report, from Australia, says three fit. This page sets out, model by model, which seats have anchors and tethers, what the owner's manuals forbid, the rear-seat widths against three narrow seats, and what the six-seat Model Y L and the three-row Model X offer a family with a third child.
Tesla's Mobile Connector is a $300 cable that plugs into an outlet; the Wall Connector is a $585 unit an electrician wires in, as priced by Tesla on October 11, 2026. On a 240-volt outlet the cable tops out at 32 amps, up to 30 miles of range an hour on a Model 3, and the wall unit reaches 48 amps and up to 44. For a Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive or Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive, Tesla says both charge at the same top rate, and its Wall Connector page adds the Model Y All-Wheel Drive. Also here: estimated hours for a daily top-up and for 10% to 80%, by model. Here are Tesla's speed tables for each outlet and breaker, its install estimates, what the extension-cord warning says, which cable works with Powershare, and what a red light on the Wall Connector means.
When a used Tesla changes hands, the balance of the original warranty goes with the car, Full Self-Driving stays if a previous owner bought it outright and never moved it, subscriptions end, and Tesla says Supercharging credits and some other features may not be transferable. Here is what each Tesla document says transfers, how much warranty is left by delivery year, how the ownership transfer works in the app, and what to check on the car before you pay, including the battery health test in the owner's manual.
Tesla Premium Connectivity costs $9.99 a month or $99 a year in the US, plus tax. Without it the car keeps navigation with traffic-based routing, Trip Planner and software updates, and loses the phone app's live Sentry Mode camera and dashcam viewer, satellite and live-traffic maps, and streaming over cellular. Tesla marks music, video and the browser as available over Wi-Fi without it, and names video and the browser as usable on a phone hotspot, subject to your carrier's fees. Here is Tesla's feature list tier by tier, who still has connectivity free and until when, and when paying by the year beats paying by the month.
Before a Tesla delivery appointment you upload proof of insurance once a VIN is assigned, submit final payment and accept any agreements, which Tesla says become available in the app within 24 hours of the appointment. Inspect the car before you accept: Tesla's warranty lists paint defects, glass chipped for any reason other than a defect, and general appearance among the things it does not cover, so a cosmetic flaw is easiest to settle before you accept delivery. Here are the deadlines, what to bring, what to look at, and what Tesla's documents say about refusing or delaying delivery.
The Tesla accessories worth buying for a Model 3 or Model Y, with Tesla's October 2026 prices and the version that fits your car, plus the add-ons Tesla's own manuals say to skip, starting with screen protectors.
Dated quotes and estimates for a Tesla windshield run from about $846 (a $536 cheapest-glass quote for a 2021 Model 3 plus an estimated camera re-aim) to $3,418.50 for OEM glass on a 2020 Model X. Tesla's Windshield Protection Plan costs $16 a month on a Model 3 or Model Y, in the US only, and includes up to one replacement a year with no deductible. Here is the per-model math, whether Tesla or a glass shop should do the job given the cameras behind the glass, what your insurance deductible changes, and what to expect afterward.
Every Tesla ownership guide on this site, grouped by the question that brings people here: something is wrong, charging, winter, battery health, what it costs, buying new or used, and software. Each entry says which question the guide settles and where its numbers come from, so you can go straight to the page you need.
Tesla's own spec for a Dashcam and Sentry Mode drive is short: at least 64 GB, a sustained write speed of 4 MB/s or better, USB 2.0 compatible, formatted as exFAT with a TeslaCam folder, and plugged into the right port, which on most cars built since 2020 is the USB-A port in the glovebox. Many "Dashcam unavailable, check USB drive" errors trace back to one of those five lines. This page decodes the on-screen errors, walks through formatting on the car and on a computer, explains the 24-hour footage buffer, which needs a 1 TB drive and, per NotATeslaApp, a car with the newer AMD media computer, and names the three likeliest drives at the makers' October 2026 list prices.
A black or frozen Tesla screen almost always comes back with the two-step reset Tesla publishes: in Park, hold both steering-wheel scroll buttons until the screen goes black and wait about 30 seconds, then, if that fails, power the car off for two untouched minutes. The car keeps driving, braking and steering while the screen is dark. If the screen stays blank, two recalls decide whether the fix is free: a worn memory chip in Model S and X built before March 2018, and an overheating processor in certain 2021 to 2022 cars fixed by software. Here is the full ladder, which cars each recall covers, and what a replacement costs.
There is no single Tesla Supercharger price. On September 8, 2026, seven Tesla site pages in Washington and Texas showed Tesla drivers paying anywhere from 17 to 50 cents per kilowatt-hour depending on the site and the hour, with other EVs paying 39 to 52 percent more at the three sites open to them. A Model 3 adding 100 miles pays about 5 to 12 dollars at those rates, against about 4.50 at home and 15 on gas. Here is why every site is priced differently, what a full charge costs by model, how the congestion fee works, and how to read your own rate before you plug in.
A Tesla charging slowly is usually doing what its charger allows. A standard 120-volt outlet adds 2 to 3 miles of range an hour, a 240-volt outlet up to 30, and a Wall Connector up to 44, per Tesla's own home-charging page. At a Supercharger the rate falls as the battery fills, drops in the cold, and can drop again on sites where two stalls share one power cabinet. Here is every documented cause, the number that counts as normal for each, and the one setting that quietly caps your car.
Tesla's owner's manual lists four scheduled maintenance items for a Model 3 (five on a Model Y, which adds its HEPA filters): a brake-fluid health check every 4 years, a cabin air filter every 2 years, a tire rotation every 6,250 miles, and caliper cleaning every year only where roads are salted. Priced from Tesla's own shop and dated tire quotes, five years and 75,000 miles of that schedule plus the tires and wipers it leaves out comes to roughly 280 to 460 dollars a year depending on who rotates the tires, with one set of tires making up most of the bill. Here is the schedule for every model, each item priced, and how the number compares to RepairPal, CarEdge and AAA.
A frozen Tesla door handle opens from the app: the Unlatch Door quick control pops the driver door without touching the handle. A charging cable frozen in the port comes out with Controls, Service, Inlet Heater, which warms the port for up to two hours, and since software 2026.2.3 a Model 3 or Model Y will also release the cable if you pull and hold the rear left door handle for three seconds. Here is every fix Tesla's own manual documents, what the charge port light colors mean, and how to keep both from freezing again.
The Tesla Model Y L is the six-seat, long-wheelbase Model Y. In mid-October 2026 Tesla sold it in one version, the $61,990 Premium Launch Series, rated at 332 miles on its configurator. Its third row has 31 inches of legroom, 5.2 more than the seven-seat Model Y Premium, and Tesla's manual gives LATCH anchors to four of its six seats. This page covers the price, the range, the third row in numbers, car seats and the battery warranty.
No. The $7,500 new and $4,000 used federal EV credits died for vehicles acquired after September 30, 2025, and the home-charger credit followed on June 30, 2026. What's left: a loan-interest deduction worth a few hundred dollars a year, and a shrinking map of state programs.
The federal tax credit is gone, and a Tesla referral link no longer gets a car buyer anything. Updated October 30, 2026: the free FSD month it gives owners instead, what the loan-interest deduction is worth, and why promo APR beats both.