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On a gravel shoulder at sunset, a man holding a lug wrench stares into the empty open trunk of a white Tesla with a flat rear tire, one hand on his head

Oct 11, 2026 • 23 min read

Tesla Flat Tire: What to Do When There's No Spare

Tesla's Model 3 manual describes no spare wheel, so a flat leaves four options: Tesla Roadside Assistance, Tesla's $110 sealant-and-compressor kit, a tire shop, or a tow. Tesla says roadside help costs nothing while the car is under warranty, but its policy says you pay for the tire repair or replacement in all cases, and it covers a tow for the first 50 miles only when the car goes to a Tesla Service Center and Tesla does the tire work. Here is what to do in the first five minutes, what each option covers, whether the tire can be repaired, and what to tell a tow driver or tire shop.

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On a frost-covered driveway at dawn, a woman in pajama pants and a parka kneels at the front tire of a white Tesla Model 3, pressing a pencil tire gauge to the valve like a nurse taking a pulse, breath fogging, a coffee mug on the ground and the car's door open behind her.

Aug 25, 2026 • 18 min read

Tesla Tire Pressure: Right PSI and the Cold-Morning Alert

The right pressure for your Tesla is the number on the door-pillar label, and the car repeats it on the screen. The manual says tires lose about one psi for every 10°F drop, and the low-pressure alert fires when a tire is 20 percent under that label. Run the math and a correctly filled tire cannot reach the alert until about minus 8°F, which means the warning on a 30°F morning is a tire that was already low in summer.

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A driver in a winter parka standing in falling snow on a ploughed suburban street, holding a winter tire upright beside her, with a snow-covered electric car on a charge cable behind

Aug 6, 2026 • 9 min read

EV Winter Tires: What They Really Cost You in Range

Every guide says winter tires cost an electric car 5 to 10 percent of its range. None of them says what that number was measured against. Here is what the regulated data actually shows, and how to read the one figure that tells you the answer for a specific tire.

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