After buying my spare wheel, I checked the lug nut size, which is 21 mm, so I put a wrench with socket in the well in the boot.
The torque is higher than other cars, so I probably need a torque wrench, but haven’t got one yet.
I also have a small suction cup also known as a dent puller, which is just the right size to pull the wheel covers off, so you can get to the wheel lugs. It came from Amazon.com.au
I then looked at lots of scissor jacks online, which was hard, not being able to look at them due to lockdown. In the end I went for a “Sealey Scissor Jack Heavy-Duty 1.5tonne” ordering it from White Rose Tools in the UK who are one of the distributors for UK company Sealey Tools as even after including DHL freight, it was less than buying it here in Australia. It only took 10 days from order to delivery. I placed it in the well in the middle of the boot too.
I have read that unless you have a jack with its own pads, you might want to use jack pads when you jack up your Tesla, so you don’t mistakenly push your jack up into the battery. That made sense to me, so I looked at lots of brands. Most were fairly thick and I thought if the car has a flat tyre, it’s going to drop the body closer to the road, so it may be hard to fit both the jack and thick jack pad under the car.
So I ordered the thinner pads from reverselogiclimited on ebay. https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/reverselogiclimited I ordered them from the USA and they arrived by post 18 days later which I thought was pretty quick to come all the way from the USA. I ordered the set of 4, just in case a garage wants to put the car up on a hoist and doesn’t have the right pads. The ones I ordered were called “Set of 4 Low Profile Tesla Model 3 chassis specific jack pads w/StorageCase”. They have a pop up magnet in the middle, which holds them in the jack hole, so they don’t fall out, and a large black rubber or silicon washer, which is soft against the underbody and the puck itself is a hard synthetic material.
I haven’t had to use them yet, so I hope they work as intended if I do need to use them.
Last Updated on 14/07/2026