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As someone whose 2018 Tesla Model 3 just got smacked by a semi and totaled out by my insurance carrier (with what did not appear to be damage that would total out any other vehicle)... I am hesitant to buy EAP or FSD on my replacement 2023 Model Y for this reason. IF YOUR TESLA IS TOTALLED 3...

Agree re need to offer extended follow distance well beyond 7 setting. That and auto pilot allows a lane change in front of a semi WAY too close. Auto pilot can recognize semi’s, so why can’t it apply different lane change safe distances in front of semis?

This drives me nuts! I thought it was using the volume setting on the phone maybe, but no. Doesn’t matter. I can turn volume down on my phone and on the steering wheel and it still relates to max in a minute or two.

what was the resolution to your smell issues? any updates?

any resolution to this smell issue. I have it too. I notice it for sure any time it is humid outside. but other times as well. It is noticeable. Musty smell.

I use the Stratos on my Model 3 this spring. 70% front 40% sides Nothing on the back (I was going to do 50% but they couldn’t get the film big enough to do it right away, then after waiting for them to get the film in, I realized it doesn’t need it. The non-tinted part on the back window is...

I did 40% on side windows, 70% on front windshield. Intended upon doing 50% on rear window, but installer had delay in trying to get the bigger film to do it all in once piece (I did NOT want that line for a half back window tint). While waiting weeks, turned to 2 months, for the installer to...

What did you figure out about this? I have had the same thing, but just thought it was something I had in the trunk. It was not. Noticed the other day that it seems to appear just as the hvac fan kicks in shortly after I get in the car.

It is super fast! I work on the 14th floor of my building. I park outside on a surface lot. I hit the AC on the app before I get in the elevator (car has been 106+ at start) and by the time I get to my car (minutes) it is in the 70's. It is AMAZING! Game changer. I loved the remote start...

Mine protrude too. Early on after delivery in April, I asked about it. They said they all do, within spec. I compared to every Model 3 in the lot for delivery and they all protruded, so I kind of shrugged and moved on. That said, there's no way they were DESIGNED to protrude. Nothing else...

intersting. A friend on this forum had a rattle in his Model 3 after delivery. Couldn't figure it out. Took it in for service to address and they found a loose TOOL rattling around in the floor pan. 11,000's ish VIN Nothing should rattle. If it rattles, get it checked out. not saying it...

Does not appear to be any blending. They had it 4 days, but that was partially due to my schedule as I was out of town for work.

did you do 35% tint all around on the windows? What did you put on the front window and rear window?

HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF! After sending my service advisor photos of my bumper, they offered to repaint it just off the photos. I just picked the Model 3 up from the body shop and it looks MUCH better (to me). I tried to get the same camera angles as my before photos. I would put the end result...

Ps Tesla offered to repaint my bumper without me even asking them to do it. I just send my service advisor an email with a few photos and said I noticed this, let me know your thoughts. And the first response was them offering to repaint my bumper. (A) I continue to be blown away by their...

Would you have done the whole front end in Clear Bra or just the front bumper. $1000 more (in Indiana) between cost of doing Xpel Ultimate on front bumper only to doing the whole front end (bumper, hood, fenders). I am definitely doing the front bumper, torn on whether to do the whole front...

What is more surprising is that these are getting past quality control.

No. Not recreating it for me. Putting it all in ONE PLACE for the benefit of EVERYONE. Like a photo record of what new and current Model 3 owners should be looking out for. A central resource. Maybe someone wonders about panel gaps and searches that and finds a panel gaps thread, but then...

I have a loaner Model S P85D as they fix a paint chip on my Model 3. It sounds like it entirely depends on if they have an available loaner at the time you drop off your car for service. I’m guessing the Indianapolis service center is not nearly as busy as those on the West Coast. When I...

No they do not! Nothing on the Model 3s during transport. They DO use wraps on the S and X though

My Model 3 is at the body shop getting a rock chip in the paint from delivery fixed. As I fret over the potential of getting my Model 3 back with mismatched Pearl White paint on the trunk, I am wondering what other issues all of you have had with your Model 3s (that you had to take back to...

Great. My Model 3 was the first car on the top of the car carrier when it was shipped across the country to Indiana. Back end was facing forward and it got a rock ding on the back of trunk by the license plate. They did paintless dent repair and that ended up turning the small dent into a paint...

the good news: it was a loaner Model S as Tesla fixes a paint ship from shipping my Model 3 cross country. this incident got me thinking about whether anyone has recommendations as to 3rd party tire Road Hazard Warranties. not sure if I am going to do it, but I want to look into prices and...

Question to those who already have their Model 3: What do you do with all your free time, once you can stop checking your Tesla Account for a VIN 1000x a day and obsessing over analyzing the Model 3 VIN assignment spreadsheet?

VIN 123xx assigned today! White/19” Sport/EAP Configured 2/22 VIN Assigned 3/30 Indianapolis Delivery (no call yet) (Already updated Model 3 VIN tracking spreadsheet) Glad to see the flow start heading back East after the last 3 weeks of all West Coast (not complaining, just excited. The West...

To all my fellow VIN-waiters: Report on my recent experience. For the last few days, I tried playing "hard to get" with Tesla... maybe if I ignored my Tesla Account (i.e. only check once a day instead of 100x per day), it would get jealous and chase me instead by giving me the VIN I have...

Oh that is just cruel! Send Tesla the bill for your next therapy session.

I have learned way more than I ever needed to know about VIN regulations, procedures, protocols, norms, order in which vehicles are produced, etc. Countless hours scouring the internet and reviewing data. I also need my Model 3 to arrive soon so that I don't talk myself into any more expensive...

I looked into the VIN assignment process/procedure/regulation extensively in my obsession with waiting to be told my VIN by Tesla (i.e. VIN assigned to car, not us people being finally told by Tesla the VIN of the Model 3 we are buying). I found a lot of the same language you and others have...

I know it's still somewhat early/middle of the day, but I am seeing most if not all of today's VIN assignments shifting back to the West coast or at least closer to CA. I was so excited to see White/Sport VINs start to show up, but my excitement may be short lived if the CA and close to CA...

Dear Tesla: We love you and your eclectic founder, even if he has a terrible singing voice, so please bring on another record week of VIN assignments. The midnight blue and the red cars are beautiful, but how about a good run of white and black model 3s this week? While I am asking, if you...

With production ramping up, there's no way to really predict that with the limited data we have because only the most recent VIN assignments would be relevant to current production rates. Are they doing 1,000 of one color/wheel combo at a time (over multiple days)? More? Less? The sequences...

They also appear to be sending out VIN assignments to buyers (i.e. when your VIN gets assigned to your Tesla account) in rough groupings by delivery location. Sort by VIN assignment date, then Delivery Location and you will see a pattern emerge. There are 6-7 Teslas per car carrier, which...

p.s. the number nerd in my is REALLY hoping to get VIN 10000 for my Pearl White Multi-Coat/19" Sport Wheels Model 3 I figure there are 1,000-1,500 people who have White/19" Sport configuration order entered since the last batch of these were assigned, so maybe the White/Sport VINs will straddle...

I caught it after the fact, I mistakenly typed 59xx when I should have typed 49xx

Sequence goes bottom of my chart up.... so after White/Sport, you would go back to the bottom of the list with Black/Aero in sequential order it would be: 1. Black/Aero 2. MSM/Aero 3. Silver/Aero 4. Red/Aero 5. Blue/Aero 6. White/Aero 7. Black/Sport 8. MSM/Sport 9...

Prediction: Pearl White Multi-Coat with 19" Sport Wheels is up next for 99xx or 100xx, followed by Black/Aero Looking through the Model 3 Invites spreadsheet data this morning, I noticed a consistent pattern of production sequence (assuming production sequence follows VIN sequence, which they...

There may be some truth to this speculation. In addition to obsessively refreshing my Tesla Account to look for VIN assignment, I also have been stopping by the Indianapolis, IN Tesla service center every time I am in the area over the past few weeks. There has been a Silver Metallic/Aero...

If I refresh my Tesla account 1000 times a day will by VIN arrive earlier?

Has anyone done a DIY project and painted their Model 3 brake calipers red (or any other color)? Having them professionally powder coated obviously seems like the best, but most expensive option. Having looked at a lot of info/videos online though, the painting route seems to be an inexpensive...

Curious - when the car was transferred to your friend’s Tesla account, did anything happen to your friend’s (unused) Model 3 reservation? Was the car transferred and the friend’s (unused) Model 3 reservation still unused?