Recent content by ev_aspirant

^ This is so true. Is there literally another business (at least in the U.S.) where the actual price is completely opaque to the customer and the customer is considered a sucker if they pay the posted price? (There's actually a term for this in the industry- someone who pays the sticker price...

It sounds like your advisor is helping you through the process, but I will say as someone who switched from RWD to AWD (taking delivery a week or so from now), make sure that your advisor checks if there is not a hold on your account. There was some kind of tag on my order that marked me as...

Just off the top of my head, I thought of (and these could also be variations on the names for your car itself): FROOD, TRILIAN, ZAPHOD, RTHR DNT, or HRT GOLD (Those assume that VA allows 7 characters. I lived in Virginia for a decade, but I've been gone even longer, so I don't recall, lol.)

AWESOME!!! As we've discussed here, I ordered on 9/12, too. Hopefully that means I'll be matched to a car really soon (still no VIN as of this writing).

Positive. I've never actually spoken to my SA- we've just texted back and forth. When I've called my service center, I've never been able to get a person to pick up the phone, and they've never returned a message (I think I gave up after my third attempt). But based on the texts, she said that...

AWD!!!! There is no reason in the universe that my order should have taken this long. Tesla's ordering process is obtuse and annoying, lol.

My original quote was 5-9 weeks (ordered on 9/12). I hit 10 weeks this past weekend. Last week I got the same auto text as everyone else, which for me said my car would be built in 2-4 weeks from the text. Given that it will take about 2 weeks to get the car to my SC on the east coast, that...

I'm over 10 weeks and no VIN. AWD/Blue/19"/White/Tow

It don't think it does anything for the end user. It (presumably) reduces manufacturing costs.

My last job was for Mercedes Benz at one of their North American assembly plants. Auto plants are divided into sections (and I'm sure Fremont is this way). We had a paint shop, which ran 3 shifts 6 days a week. We had two body shops, which weld all the metal parts together and were largely...

That text went out to a lot of people, according to Reddit. Mine said "2-4 weeks." I think that was some kind of auto-generated thing to tell people whether or not to expect their cars by the end of the quarter or not.

You and me both! I just want my damn car.

When did you order and what options? Just out of curiosity.

I suppose this means you had a RWD on order? What did they tell you about the hold?

What was your exact config? Mine was Blue/White Interior/Hitch/19", which constitutes only about 1% of all AWD orders on the order tracking sheet (19/1671). So I'm not shocked that I haven't seen my fulfilled yet, though it's still a bummer. I've thought about placing a second order of a more...