Armed with a checklist that I created having watched other peoples' videos, my wife and I showed up at our appointment today to pick up our new white LR Model Y. This would be our 2nd Tesla: We already have a 3-year-old Model S. Well, I was told our Model Y was built on July 7, so I was thinking there was less pressure for the factory to push it out the door.
Insert sigh here.
The defects ranged from the stupid to the major: dirty hand-prints on the inside door panels, seats, and ceiling--to misaligned doors and lights. The event was supposed to take 15 minutes, but we wanted to check out the car first before signing. It took two hours.
So the dealership promised to address everything on our long list. Apparently that will take about 3 weeks. Assuming they can actually fix them. We'll see how that goes.
It seems like the factory got the rear seat motor controls working, and the rear hatch doesn't get stuck like it did for other people. Instead, the biggest issues were: Alignment. Alignment. Alignment. And a new one that I hadn't seen in other people's videos: a fingernail-sized overhang where the metal fender meets the plastic bumper under the headlight.
For some reason, our local dealership doesn't have a detailing department anymore, so there were all sorts of annoying blobs of dirt and stickiness from packaging that no one had bothered to clean up. And then of course there were the lights, hood, doors, hatch, fenders, and charging port that needed to be straightened out.
My wife thinks the problem is the car is mostly built by robots. Or maybe it's just the quality control department.
Geez, I wish they would get on top of this.
