10 Simple Tesla Maintenance Steps for Increased Efficiency

• 95% of Tesla owners overlook simple maintenance tasks that can be done at home for free.
• Tire pressure is crucial; for most Teslas, it's rated at 42 psi.
• Using chill mode can extend tire life due to smoother acceleration.
• Regularly checking and replacing wiper blades can enhance visibility and safety.
• Activating HEPA filters can help eliminate musty odors inside the vehicle.

Now, let's dive into some essential maintenance tips for Tesla owners.

95% of Tesla owners miss these very simple maintenance items that you can do for free and mostly at home, starting with tire pressure. Now tire pressure on most Teslas's is rated at 42 psi. And for any car, if you're not sure what the tire pressure is, for example, the Civic Type R that I recently had was different from the front to the back. You can check it on your door jamb right here.

Now a great product to have in the sub-compartment of your trunk is this little compressor. I actually use this thing to blow up pool floats, basketballs, whatever, and it's just been an excellent item. I think it’s like $60 on Amazon and I’ll have it linked in the description. So we get a reading right there, you can see 39.5 psi. And then if I hit the plus sign you can see it says we’re currently set to 35 psi, so I need to set it to 42 psi.

Then I just hit this trigger and it automatically stops when it hits the pressure that you set it to. You can see why this is a really useful product. So keeping the proper tire pressure along with rotating your tires is basically a free thing that you can monitor. If you want to purchase something like this or get free air at a gas station, that's what you can do.

Now the other thing that people will say is that EVs go through tires so quickly because of how heavy they are. But like I've shown in the past, the Model Y weighs around 4,400 pounds. So does the Porsche Macan. There are other gas-powered cars that weigh approximately the same. Tire wear is certainly partially attributed to the weight of the car; there's no doubt about that.

But the more important thing is, because the electric motor, I almost said engine, is so torquey, putting your car into chill mode is actually going to save you a lot more tire than you think. People will say, oh well, you could just be easy on the throttle; if you don't have to think about it. You're taking the 0 to 60 time in a long-range Model Y from 4.8 seconds up to a little over 7 seconds.

So it's not as abrupt; it’s a little more rounded of a torque curve that will absolutely save the life of your tires. And you still have a quick car. You don’t have to drive like this all the time, but that will extend the life of your tires.

One of my favorite things about this is that you sit it down, you hit the button, and it goes. When I worked in IT sales, it was set it and forget it technology. If you work in IT and a salesperson says, “set it and forget it,” just think about me. I never said that; I hated it. People would come in from Dell and they’d be like, "this server and this SAN is just set it and forget it technology." I was like, all right, I'm out. Left the meeting. Done.

When your Tesla's in chill mode for an extended amount of time and then you bring it out of chill mode, it's like driving a new car. Because the acceleration is so precise, it feels a lot sportier and different. Some have even said it’s like having a new wife.

Now, the other thing you need to do is use Tesla. A lot of people think they can only use the app; they can’t go to the service center. For example, this right here is missing. I don’t know why one of these is missing. There’s also a clip up front that helps stabilize the reservoir for the windshield wiper fluid.

So I'm going to go to Tesla right now. They should have these parts in stock and I should be able to get them right from them.

We just saw a guy dancing, brain on drugs. But anyways, I have no appointment here. Pulling up to Tesla Service Center, Tesla owners, if you don’t own a Tesla, come here for like a Sunday service. We all come here and talk about Tesla and how great they are, and Elon and his tweets and how he’s great. That's what we do. Or at least that's what people think we do.

Anyways, I’m gonna walk in the service center here and see if we can get some parts or at least get them ordered and show you what they cost. Alright, so both of these parts that I needed, I was able to walk into service, and luckily they had them in the parts bin. It was $1.17.

So I know some of you would be like, well, why would you replace that? I just believe in keeping all this stuff in order because it could prevent something from happening in the future. It’s very cheap to maintain. It's easy to just go into Tesla and get it replaced. So we’ll pop these on and be on our way.

Also, shout out to the girl that gave me these stickers. She said she watches the channel. Her Instagram is negative space X. I actually think these are really cool. Nice artwork.

Next is wiper blades. These should be replaced every one to two years, depending on usage, and if you feel they are performing well in the rain. The blades that I have here are from dedc, and you can get them on Amazon. They'll be linked in the description.

What I like about these is that they come with two wiper strip replacements, so these will last you several years. If you feel that they’re not performing well, just go ahead and swap out the wiper strip and you’ll be good to go.

Now, when you put these on your car, it comes with this strip cover, this protective layer. After they're installed, go ahead and put this protective layer on the strips that you aren’t using. This way you can keep this secured and clean while you’re not using them.

For safe storage in your settings under service, just go to wiper service mode. When you click this, it brings the wipers up so you’re easily able to access them and deactivates the motors, allowing you to move this up along the side of the car.

So that’s the best thing to do. And after you've put these new wiper blades on, you can go ahead and press that again and it'll recess them back under the hood.

Now, it's never a Jeebe video if I don’t show Hydrosilex. Code JeebeOctober or JeebNovember will save you 25%. Everyone knows to keep their windshield clean on the exterior. I like this stuff because it puts a ceramic coating down so it lets the water bead off more efficiently than a regular glass cleaner.

If you don’t want to buy this, I get it. Don’t buy it. Use Windex, pee on it, whatever cleans it. What I want to tell you though is a lot of you vape and smoke cigarettes because you have anxiety and you think that's going to solve all your life problems.

So the inside of your windshield actually gets a film layer on it. I was just in a rental car and it just had this film of vape all over the interior of the car. All you need to do, you don’t even really need solution. Just don’t use Windex for this. If you have tint, I think there’s a little bit of ammonia in that which will ruin the tint.

But take a microfiber and wipe down the interior of your windshield. It will give you better visibility when the sun is setting. That glare will make this unseeable. If the inside of your windshield is dirty, don’t be a pig. Clean the inside of your windshield.

Okay, so, but you don’t have to. Alright, you don’t have to, but go ahead and click it and buy it. But you don’t have to.

The other thing you’re going to want to do, and you’ll probably notice this after about one to two years in some Teslas, the one we're about to show you, gets this musty, kind of stinky smell. We’re going to take the filters out, we’re going to replace them with these HEPA filters. They’re also charcoal cabin activated.

So this is not lazy charcoal; it's activated. I’ll have all this stuff linked in the description, but I like this kit, comes with all the directions, all that stuff. As you can see, it comes with all the tools you need.

You get this pry tool, you get the torque bit that you need, and you get this. So you have everything you need in this kit. This pry tool, especially for Teslas and just for plastics in cars, is very useful to be able to pop things out. I have a discount code; this is very cheap.

We’re going to take this one step further; this isn’t totally necessary, but we’ll just maybe give you longer-lasting results. We’re going to use this Cool It stuff. So what this does is removes odors and allergens. It provides a clean and fresh scent. You don’t need anything special. Just once you pull your filters out, you spray this in, let it sit for 15 minutes and it gives you a really fresh scent.

Then you put your filters in, and that should give you really long-lasting results. I’ll have it all in the description. Now once you’re in the car, you're going to use this pry tool to get three of these push pins released. Once these are released, the entire panel will drop down, and you're going to need to take this tweeter speaker out again.

It comes with this tool torque bit which will undo both of those screws. You’re able to release this entire unit. Some light there. You can see it fits perfectly in there. And that’s the easiest way to do this; just don’t remove this sensor, leave that intact.

Just undo these two, and you’ll have full access to the panel back here that you need to. So here are the filters that we just pulled out again. We already had these ones in here. Same exact filters; they are filthy. The great thing about them is it gives you directions on how to put them in, and then you have these tabs.

When you actually do the install, you’ll see why these are important because they stack on top of each other. You have to pull this bottom one up and then pull it out. The only way you could do that is with these tabs. So they are filthy. You can see the air conditioning has to work extra hard to operate.

Now, we’re going to clean it out and put in new filters. Very simple; you should be able to do this at home. Now something we just noticed: we looked at the filters. They’re $17 if you go directly to Tesla. $17 for one, so $34 for two, which is the same cost as these. So I recommend just getting these filters that I’m showing you from Vion.

It’s a better deal; comes with the tools, and it’s HEPA activated filters as opposed to the paper junk. Alright, the air filters are clean and we cleaned the AC system, making a night and day difference. Immediately smells better, I’m not going to lie to you.

It’s kind of annoying to put in there. There’s a certain income threshold. I’m not sure what it is, to where you're going to be like, “this is not worth it to me.” I don’t know what that income is; I’m thinking it’s around $200,000 a year. So if you’re over $200,000 a year, you’re probably not going to worry about it. If you're under it, most of us are, you’re probably going to want to do this because it’ll save you some money.

So on to the next thing. Alright, so now we are going to be cleaning out the AC condenser at the front of the car here. We’re just removing these plastic covers. When you’re removing these plastic covers, try to start from the edge; that way you can see where it’s plugged in at. You don’t want to pull from the edge and then break a clip.

Just pull right on top of the clips like that, and you can kind of move along so you don’t break anything. And then it all comes out nicely. But you can see there; there’s where all the clips are and that’s how it all works.

The other maintenance item that I had done that I was just reminded of, this 12-volt battery here. I got a notification from Tesla that it was low on charge. So for $116, they came and did it; next day, took care of that, no problem.

It’s also a lot cheaper than I expected. So now we have to get this tub out. Let’s get this all removed. Also, some people have asked; these are 3D mats, 3D trunk and frunk mats. I’ll have the discount code in the description for that.

Yeah, so we’re gonna undo these right here, and this tub should pop out fairly easily. A little 10 mil action, huge open space here. This is kind of incredible. And this is where Tesla is; see their packaging is just amazing. The high voltage cables here are labeled in orange so it's easy to identify them.

But yeah, it’s just to have this space to store stuff in. And then here is the part that we are trying to access right here. So we’re just gonna pop this off with the clips and clean it out. Let’s see how dirty it is. 65,000 miles and I’ve never done this.

It’s going to help the AC system run more efficient. This is what 95% of Tesla owners miss when maintaining their car. It’s going to let the car run more energy efficient and probably not stink as much in the cabin. Let’s see what’s in here.

Alright, I just noticed this says “super manifold” here with a Tesla logo. I don’t know what that is; kind of funny. Okay, so for this, there are some clips. There’s a clip here and it’s just a. You pinch like this and it slides down through this. So you need that.

Then you have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of these clips. Just press up on that tab and then you’ll be able to pull back like this. Then you have one more clip over here. Again, it's a pinch and push down through, and that releases this entire plate.

I recommend doing this with someone if you can. Just helps to have an extra hand to hold and then pinch and pull. The access is going to be tight; I’m not going to pull off the entire panel. I just need to be able to pull it back and then be able to vacuum it out.

But look at all the junk that is down in here. You can see up in these corners especially. There’s just bugs and dust and like straw and all that stuff that you see on the sides of the road as you’re driving, doing road trips. This is going to help a lot, letting the car run efficiently.

Now that we're gonna close this all up because I have access, I'm gonna give this a quick wipe down with this all-purpose cleaner. 25% off, linked in the description, broken record. I’m not going to spray it directly onto the surface because I don’t want any chance of overspray to hit everything.

So I’m just gonna take it to the side here and get this dirty microfiber covered. Then we’re just going to do a little wipe down again. You don’t have to do this; it might not change much, but it’s just good to know everything down here is clean and taken care of and it doesn’t take that much more effort.

And you’re down here anyways, so you might as well do it. It really gives you access; look at all that. It really gives you access to everything in the engine bay. You can even see these strut towers here.

Get some of the, as I like to call it, blue liquid off. You guys are like, I’m not taking advice from this guy; he called it blue liquid. You’ve never made a joke in your life, and I get it but like loosen up a little bit. You know, stop fighting Internet wars and do something in the real world. That’s all I’m saying.

Oh, I like this. I like this texture. That’s something I’d play with as a kid for like 12 hours straight. Yeah, so quick.

Yeah, a quick wipe down here just makes it all look good. I don’t know that Tesla would ever actually do this service. It’s tough to say, but here at the Jeebbs Organization, we showed you how to do it for yourself. This is investigative journalism, if you ask me.

It’s all cleaned up. Let’s package it back up and we’ll be good to go. So that video should have been helpful to you. A lot of low-cost items that you can just do on your own out of your own convenience and get to understand your car a little bit more and how it works.

Now, if you want to see how to properly wash your car, click this video right here. This is very helpful. It’s nice to watch; you get me narrating it. It’s been nominated for some Academy Awards. It’s an excellent video. Click this to perfectly clean your Tesla.