Yep, you should be I great shape. Make sure you know who to call for insurance when you go onsite. Tesla will give you a VIN and then your insurance company has to send Tesla verification of coverage, real time. Also any down payments and duh, your drivers license.
Most important, someone to come along with you to take some pictures of that grin!!!!
A few pieces of info
- Automatic driving takes time to calibrate, but even if it does, don't use it yet, get used to driving the car first
- Don't change any of the default driving settings for at least a week. Get used to the way it drives.
- Your car probably won't have a full charge when you pick it up. If you need one, let the Delivery Advisor know ahead of time. (i.e. you have to travel from Nashville to Knoxville)
- Before you move, make sure that you know how to shift into forward, park and reverse
- Set mirrors and seat position
- Make sure that things like lights and wipers are set to auto if you may need them and know how to set them
- Set the radio or streaming to something that you can listen to for the trip home.
- If possible, as you drive off the Tesla lot, find a parking lot that you can practice basic driving in, before the onslaught of traffic.
- Know where the speedometer is.
- Set the navigation's home location and route to it. As with all nav systems, trust but verify.
The car is going to drive a little differently than you are used to. Try to get used to it in a parking lot, but in any case, especially in traffic, you will be often overwhelmed with everything, that's why you need to set everything before you drive. Most of this is recommended in any new car that you drive. I travel a lot and use rental cars, it's a practice that I try to get into.
If the Tesla delivery center is somewhat near you, go there and take a look at the cars and familiarize yourself on the area.
Lots of cars seemed to have just popped into inventory, so let's hope that yours isn't that far behind you.
Just about two years ago, a friend of ours had his Model S in for service. He texted us and said that there were a LOT of Model 3 on the lot. We jokingly texted our VIN to him and asked it was on the lot.
30 minutes later we got a text that it was. The next morning a quick email to our delivery advisor, 2 hours later a call, and at noon on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend we got our car! Insurance, down payment and all that stuff had to be finalized in about 4 hours on a Friday afternoon before a long week. (much like today).
Welcome to the club!!!
