Our first service call for the Tesla.

We have traveled over 17,700km in the 5.5 months we’ve had the car, most of that during our east coast road tripping since December 1. We are supposed to schedule a tyre rotation at about 10,000km, but we have been travelling too much to be in one place long enough to book it. Since we’re in east Melbourne for a couple of weeks, we booked a mobile service through the Tesla app. It’s so easy and impressive. No form to fill out with identity and payment, since they already have those details. I just chose my preferred day/time and location (since we’re staying with friends and currently have no home).

Luke arrived in his Tesla Model S, with the back seat converted to a mobile service vehicle with drawers, tools etc. He jacked up our car, popped the wheel covers, swapped the front and rear wheels, put it all back together with torque wrench etc. Rotating (swapping) the tyres evens up the wear, since rear wheels suffer more from hard acceleration. He also inspected each tyre for any damage. He said that the tyres look good and that our mainly long distance driving has faired well, since there’s less frequent extreme acceleration than in city driving. We should get more than 50,000km out of these tyres before needing replacement.

Total cost, as quoted, was $59.40. Great service.