Seriously,  could 2020 be any worse?
Hey guys,  welcome back to Because Tesla. My name is Erik and today I wanted to talk
to you about something special a lot of
you guys been asking about this.  I'm
talking about the white interior of the
Tesla Model 3.  So a lot of you have
already seen my video about my honest
review of the white interior that I put
out almost a year ago.  I've had the car
for exactly a year now so I wanted to
give you a 1-year update.  So how are the
seats holding up?  Do I still like them?  If
I had to do it all over again would I
choose white again?   Let's go take a look
at the car.
So it's been a little while since I have cleaned the white seats of my Model 3 so I'm gonna do that now.
So this is what it currently looks like.
This is all just blue jean transfer.
If you look over here on this side you
really don't see much.  This is where my
wife usually sits and she's not with me
all the time.   So I get all the wear over
here, and it's in the shade so it's kind
of hard to tell, but it is dirty.
So you could use baby wipes.  Anything that's non scouring that will, you know, not tear the
finish should be fine to use.  I'm going
to try this Chemical Guys interior
cleaner.  It says it is good for leather
and vinyl.  I use this actually quite a
bit on dashes and you know the doors and
around the seals here.  I use this on a
lot of stuff and I use it in my other
cars, but I've never really tried it out
on the leather seats here.
Alright, so,  just grab a clean microfiber towel.  That's usually the best thing to use,  and I'm
just going to spray a little bit on.  Let
that sit there for a minute.
Alright
Start scrubbing
Already I can tell... it's...I mean look at
that
and look at that.  Pretty good job
actually I'm pretty impressed.  As I come
down here you see where I didn't scrub.
So looks like this actually does a
pretty good job.
Alright,  so I'm just gonna spray the
rest of this down...
and just start scrubbing.
Already it looks phenomenal.
Alright guys, I'm not gonna bore you with me cleaning my seat,  so I'm gonna pause the video and
I will be right back when I'm finished
it we'll talk about this. Alright so I
just finished scrubbing these and for
the most part they look really good.  They
pretty much match the passenger-side.
Got everything off. The only part that really
kind of bothers me still is on the side
bolstering where you see kind of the
stretch marks in the fabric.  This is a
man-made leather, type of faux leather, 
whatever you want to call it, vegan
leather I think Tesla calls it that.  It's
like a vinyl but it actually feels a lot
like leather though.  It's very soft, but
it does have these little stretch marks
that do bother me and I think I can
still get these out, but I just need to
find something a little different to use
on that because what I was using just
now wasn't really strong enough. But
everything else looks good.  I scrubbed
the back of this. There was quite a bit
of darkness there so it's not just
blue-jean,  I don't think.  I think it's
just dirt and grime. This lighting is not
really good because there's a shadow
being cast,  but it is white just like the
rest of this here.  So I want to take a
minute just to talk about the rest of my
interior here, and just kind of go over a
few things.
Alright, so I'm in the car here, and you see that I've got, of course, the white interior.  The dash comes white.
The doors come white.  Seats of course.   I
installed this white matte finish vinyl
wrap on my center console,  because all
Tesla's come with a glossy black center
console and it does look very nice, but
it attracts a lot of fingerprints.  You
can see all the dust.  It scratches really
easily.  I just don't think it was really
well thought out.  I don't mind it being
an option when you buy the car,  but I
wish there were other options to choose from.
But... anyways it's an easy fix.  You can
wrap it whatever color you want.  They've
got carbon fiber.  They've got, you know, 
matte black, matte white, silver.  I've seen
all sorts of things.  You could do
camouflage if you want.  Whatever you know
you're into.  But that is something that I
recommend.  I think it really makes the
interior just pop.  So another thing that
I did after doing the white wrap,
I installed a white wireless phone charger.
This really does help the interior
because most the time I leave this cover
here open... like that... just because I set
my phone here.   My wife sets her phone there, and it
really just carries that theme of
whiteness, I guess, across the console to
where it makes a little "T" in your
Tesla.  I'll put links to all this stuff
in the description below if you want to
kind of pimp out your Tesla like mine.
But there is one thing missing.  If you
look here at the car
it is white, but all Tesla's come with
black even if you have the white
interior it comes with a black armrest.
And it's nice.  This is what if you were
to buy a black interior Tesla this is
the material it's made out of so it
looks the same as the white in regards
to the texture of how it looks and feels.
But...it just there's something missing
because everything is white but this.  So
what I've got to show you guys is a new
product that you can basically slip over
this to turn this white.  So Taptes was
kind enough to send one of these out for
review, and I want to go ahead and
install it and give you my honest
opinion about it.  So if any of you guys
were ever into martial arts this will
look very familiar to you if you had
the pads for your shins
and for your arms and wrists.  Kind of the
same kind of vibe here.  But it looks like
these are just held on with some straps
here, and if you're able to put on socks
in the morning, you're able to install
this yourself.  So it's gonna go over the
armrest like this, but I'm gonna have to
open it first.  You'll see I've got my
hidden compartment there, so I'm gonna
that was my main concern if this is
gonna block that or not.  So I'm going to
go ahead and install this and we'll test
out all the features and take a look at
how it looks and functions.
Alright, so I have it installed.  It does
match the seats, so that's one positive.
It doesn't hinder your release.  It stays
in place.   I will say as far as the straps go,
it does block a little bit of the
opening, but not so much that you can't
use it.
Yeah, probably really not at all see
there's a lip there that it covers?  Okay,
I do like how it does continue that
theme of the white streak that goes
through the middle of the console.
I do like that.
Okay so what are my honest
thoughts about this?  Do I wish it was
more of a permanent solution where you
would tuck it into the original up under
there where it looks more factory?  Yeah,  I
do wish it looked a little bit more
factory.  Because it does look like it is
kind of an aftermarket part.  Overall
though looking at it from a distance it
does look very nice.  It's got the same
type of stitching pattern that you see
on the car.  It matches in that regard.  But
you know you do see a little bit of
buckling right here where you can just
tell that this wasn't fastened to the
car in the factory.  So with that in mind
though,  for the price it's not bad at all.
Definitely cheaper than if you were to
take it to an upholstery shop that does
car interiors and have them put a white
one in professionally.  That would be you
know a hundred bucks or so depending on
how much work you were getting done just
this itself, maybe a hundred bucks.  I
don't know... you'd have to call around.  But
you know, for this, this is cheap enough that it does the
job it protects it it is padded so it
does add a little bit of extra padding
here for your arm to rest. And like I
said it matches the rest of the console.
So you know I think it's kind of cool.
It's personal taste though, you know.   I do
like that it's reversible too.  I could
take this off anytime I want if I get
tired of it, or if you know I show my
family and they don't like it for some
reason or they think it looks cheap or
whatever.  That's fine,  I can take it off too.
Okay so one year later, what are my honest thoughts about the white interior?
I'm gonna have to double down and say
that I love the white interior.  Yes you
do have to spend more time cleaning it,
but I am gonna go on record as saying
that the white seats are cleaner than
the black seats. Now think about what I'm
saying.  I didn't say they look cleaner I
said they are cleaner, and here's why:
Because you can see the dirt, you are
going to wipe the seats more regularly.
You're gonna keep them clean to keep
them looking nice.  I guarantee you all
that grime and jean transfer and
everything you saw on my seats are on
the black seats as well, but because you
can't see them as much, you're not
cleaning it as much.  So those seats are
gonna be dirtier for longer periods of
time.  The white basically tells you when
you need to clean your seats.  So hey, I've
got a cleaner interior because of the
white seats.   I also will say if you are
very OCD about the visual staining and
things like that like I showed you on my
bolstering the little stretch marks.  If
that is a big issue for you, don't get
the white seats.  Just get the black seats.
You'll be happy with that.  You won't have
to worry about it.
It won't be on your mind all the time,
but it
literally took me a minute and a half to
scrub this driver's side seat.  It's
not like a full day's job or anything to
clean your seats. It's not a big deal a
lot of people do it with just baby wipes.
In fact, I keep baby wipes in my glove
box just for wiping up spills and things
like that.   I've got two kids - small kids
in the back throwing things.  We're not
scared of going through drive-thrus and
drinking shakes and things in the car, so
they spill things all the time.
Everything just wipes up. The
material on these seats aren't very
porous, so it doesn't just collect in
there.  You can wipe it off and it's no
big deal at all.  Another reason that I
love the white interior is because of
the optical illusion it gives you that
the inside space is larger.  The car that
I test drove at Tesla had a black
interior, and I've sat in other Tesla's
that have black interior and as nice as
they are it does seem a little bit more
closed in, a little bit more
claustrophobic on the inside.  The white
though just opens everything up.  It's an
optical illusion that you just have to
see it in person to believe.  Because it
really does make it seem more light and
airy and just open on the inside.  So
that's it for this one guys I appreciate
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I just wanted to show you guys that I'm still testing out this heads-up display
that I got from Hansshow.   I'm getting
kind of used to it, but I wanted to show
you a kind of a cool feature that this
thing is connected to the CAN bus , not the
entertainment screen.  So if I've got this
turned off or I've reset it,  this will
still display because it's getting its
data from the CAN bus system.  The other
day I had a glitch where my microphone
just stopped working for some reason and
I fixed it by resetting the car by
pressing both scroll wheels at the same
time.  And I was driving down the
interstate while that happened so what
that does is it makes the screen go
black and it reboots and it takes about
maybe a minute to come back up.  But while
it was down I still had my speedometer, I
had my battery levels, I had everything I
need right in front of me still working
perfectly fine.  So I just thought that
was a cool little feature that a lot of
people haven't really discussed with
these heads-up display.
But anyways, I'll see you guys soon.  Take
care. Bye, guys.
