Australian Model 3 Waiting Room

[moa999]

, someone in Perth was informed by their SA that orders made from tomorrow in Australia will no longer have UMC included... not sure how reliable this is

Wouldn't surprise me.. Better than a price rise. Particularly with the AUD hitting 0.68 today
But it should be made clear on order page.

Should also note they reduced the price of UMC to US$200 (A$325 inc GST) when they did this in the US.

 

[raxxy]

Won't be removed from existing orders. Perhaps new orders, and not until the page updates.

 

[garylovesbeer]

it extremely fun, can't help but accelerate past everyone and grin. I think if i had any more power/torque then it would be way too much for me and my city driving. my efficiency isn't great at the moment

not many blue ones around so I get a lot of heads turning which I've never had before in my other cars. it'll stand out even more with the ceramic coating.

I tried auto pilot on freeway and noticed that it didn't take into account the speed limit change even though it read the sign... got honked by a truck sitting behind me in the right lane but quickly fixed that issue lol. It's amusing watching at the screen during red lights and seeing what the radar/cameras pick up.

you won't be disappointed when your cars get here!

From reports the cameras are not yet "trained" to pick up the LED style speed signs of freeways in Australia. Waiting on future updates to software.

 

[garylovesbeer]

So did we legit just get one random vin today on the 20th? What's going on there?

Must have heard all my whiney complaining in Shanghai ...

 

[garylovesbeer]

Just posted on Whirlpool in Model Y thread:

So, someone in Perth was informed by their SA that orders made from tomorrow in Australia will no longer have UMC included... not sure how reliable this is?

Likely to be M3 too, then? Decontenting going on?

Shrinkflation. Damn them.

 

[Lerxt]

I think you need to re read my post and yours as you seem confused to the ordering process at Tesla.
Your are not placing an order to have have your model 3 built. As I said previously, Tesla ordered a defined number based on models and colours, each quarter. When your reservation matches one of the their ordered vehicles , then it is allocated based o order date, model and colour.
You can't place an order to have you Tesla built. Big difference to how everyone other car manufacturer operates, except Polestar now, which uses the Tesla model of allocations.

I’ve own Teslas since 2014, I know exactly what the process is. You seems to be trying to massage what you wrote.

“You are not placing an order but reserving one of their allocated matched vehicles”

This may come as a surprise to you but you are not. You are asking Tesla to supply a vehicle that matches what you ordered, when they get around to building one. It’s very simple. There is no point in making misleading statements. They are under no obligation to supply a vehicle in a time period, in a particular order or with specific specification beyond your basic configuration. You may not like that, but it’s in the contract that you signed.

 

[Lerxt]

I think ACCC will start to come down on car makers if they cant deliver cars within a satisfactory period of time.

Just look at KIA.

No they won’t. When you order a Tesla they specifically don’t mention anything about delivery times, and only say that they will sell you a car when they build one that matches what you requested.

 

[fobo]

It didn't do either for me.

100 to 80: stayed at 100
80 to 100: p!ssed off a truck driver @ 80

Both times the speed sign was successfully picked up on the screen

there is no way I would trust it to speed up or down based on signs without confirmation

My ford scans the speed limits, it picks up school zones, sometimes picks up exit ramp speeds on highways and occasionally defaults to 100 after first starting the car

 

[1ance]

#	Username	Order Date ▼	Model	Exterior	Interior	VIN Date	Delivery Date	Location
1​	MadFruit	28/11/2021	M3 LR	Black	White	28/06/2022	8 - 18 August	Melbourne
2​	Breezy_1974	1/12/2021	M3 LR	White	Black	30/06/2022	8 - 18 August	Melbourne
3​	o'leary	2/12/2021	M3 LR	?	?	28/06/2022
4​	Abraxas	3/12/2021	M3 LR	White	Black	28/06/2022	9 - 19 August	Melbourne
5​	PipPup	3/12/2021	M3 LR	White	Black	28/06/2022	11 - 21 August	Sydney
6​	ShireSparkles	4/12/2021	M3 LR	White	Black	28/06/2022	8 - 18 August	Sydney
7​	Nouche	4/12/2021	M3 LR	?	?	28/06/2022	19 August	Brisbane
8​	Brett J	11/01/2022	M3 RWD	Midnight Silver	Black	3/07/2022		Adelaide
9​	Wombat_T	13/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	White	28/06/2022	9 - 19 August	Sydney
10​	mjs2022	15/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	Black	28/06/2022	9 - 19 August	Sydney
11​	m3melb	16/01/2022	M3 RWD	Black	Black	28/06/2022
12​	tubbyx7	16/01/2022	M3 RWD	Red	White	28/06/2022
13​	MonsterRat	17/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	White	29/06/2022	13 - 21 August	Victoria
14​	thegreenguy	17/01/2022	M3 RWD	Midnight Silver	White	30/06/2022
15​	Exchief	17/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	White	28/06/2022	13 - 22 August	Brisbane
16​	baktoid	18/01/2022	M3 RWD	Blue	Black	30/06/2022	9 - 19 August	Brisbane
17​	Magicjia	18/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	Black	6/07/2022
18​	garylovesbeer	20/01/2022	M3 RWD	White	Black	6/07/2022		Brisbane

It's concerning to see only a handful of M3LR deliveries only just happening now from orders places last year.
Doesn't make me feel very enthusiastic about getting my car this year.

 

[Ormaus]

It's concerning to see only a handful of M3LR deliveries only just happening now from orders places last year.
Doesn't make me feel very enthusiastic about getting my car this year.

Dont read too much into it yet, VINs will come out over the next few weeks, only then will we have the full picture.

Maybe Thursday is LR day? And Friday afternoon is P afternoon? Who knows

The table I send is really to try to get a trend. So far there is no indication that colour has anything to do with when builds come out. So far it seems to be entirely build date based for the allocation of VINs. Either that means they are building to order (which we have been told they are not) or indicates that there are more cars that they just haven't allocated yet and we will get some disparity towards the end of the AU builds where order dates for different combinations will shift quite a bit.

These things can change but the longer that Tesla holds to these patterns the more encouraged we can be that they will continue for a while.

Lets hope today will have some midday madness

 

[Silver Xu]

Dont read too much into it yet, VINs will come out over the next few weeks, only then will we have the full picture.

Maybe Thursday is LR day? And Friday afternoon is P afternoon? Who knows

The table I send is really to try to get a trend. So far there is no indication that colour has anything to do with when builds come out. So far it seems to be entirely build date based for the allocation of VINs. Either that means they are building to order (which we have been told they are not) or indicates that there are more cars that they just haven't allocated yet and we will get some disparity towards the end of the AU builds where order dates for different combinations will shift quite a bit.

These things can change but the longer that Tesla holds to these patterns the more encouraged we can be that they will continue for a while.

Lets hope today will have some midday madness

Finger crossed at 12:30 pm.

 

[j4rryd]

I don't understand how people can say that Tesla doesn't build to order... If that were the case then why are the rwd m3's vin allocations in chronological order? Surely we'd have some white with black orders filled ahead of say blue with white? That hasn't happened yet, all in chronological order within your rwd|LR|P ranges..

 

[Ormaus]

I don't understand how people can say that Tesla doesn't build to order... If that were the case then why are the rwd m3's vin allocations in chronological order? Surely we'd have some white with black orders filled ahead of say blue with white? That hasn't happened yet, all in chronological order within your rwd|LR|P ranges..

Not sure, but it could indicate that they have 100s of cars and have only allocated a small number so far.

 

[j4rryd]

Just doesn't make sense to me that they'd be playing guessing games with colour, interior and wheel combos etc based off trends when they have a list of orders that say in black and white what they need to make. In more normal times when they are trying to predict what car configs would be best to sit in a yard ready for sale that haven't been pre-ordered... sure.

 

[[Zombie]]

I don't understand how people can say that Tesla doesn't build to order

I'm sure at the beginning of each production run Tesla look at their order books and see they've got orders for eg 50% white RWD, 10% blue LR etc and build batches of cars to suit.

However they also know that a certain percentage of people cancel or change their orders along the way, so they're a lot more flexible and won't match specific cars to orders until much later - often not until the car is already on the ship.

That's very different from early Model S orders - if you go back to the threads in this forum from 2014 you'll see specific VINs being assigned in June and the cars not getting built until October ... and delivered between December and February 2015

 

[Silver Xu]

I don't understand how people can say that Tesla doesn't build to order... If that were the case then why are the rwd m3's vin allocations in chronological order? Surely we'd have some white with black orders filled ahead of say blue with white? That hasn't happened yet, all in chronological order within your rwd|LR|P ranges..

It means they don't build to specific orders, they build each combination (blue/red/white/black, black/white, 19/20) as much as they could and allocate according to chronological order.

 

[jimbart]

Time for some good old wild speculation!

So 15/01-18/01 orders for RWD Mostly got vins on the 28/06-30/06

Next batch seemingly started roughly a week later with an order placed 20/01 and if we follow assume the same number of orders placed, this batch might clear out orders upto 23/01..

Hopefully I'll something in this coming week for my M3 W/B ordered on the 22nd
No VIN or contact as of yet.

You're so close Mine is from the 29th, hoping to see my VIN soon

 

[cafz]

It's concerning to see only a handful of M3LR deliveries only just happening now from orders places last year.
Doesn't make me feel very enthusiastic about getting my car this year.

The LRs/Ps from late November/December 2021 were hit by a double dose of misfortune - there was some kind of issue where insufficient were produced in Q1, then the Shanhai COVID-19 lockdown in Q2. Assuming no more production problems, they should be able to catch up a bit on the backlog.

 

[VariableKarma]

I normally just read this thread and it is sometimes a very bleak read. I'm not responding anyone, I doubt it will help and I'm already kinda regretting this post, but I still wanted to provide a more prosaic view of our situation. If we take Elon's comments on face value that the recent price rises are to account for cost increases up until when the cars are delivered in up to a year from now. My particular Tesla is $11k more now than it was when I ordered it in Feb. If this is true, the earlier they can deliver a car, the greater the profit. All the risks with currency fluctuations and inflation are with Tesla on this. With that in mind, it is not in Tesla's interests to make us wait unecessarily. I suspect this is just where we sit in a global delivery strategy plus variations caused by unanticipated demand, closures, etc. I don't know anything, but I'm sure there is no other motive to delivery delays except this is how long it takes.

 

[resolve03]

My particular Tesla is $11k more now than it was when I ordered it in Feb. If this is true, the earlier they can deliver a car, the greater the profit.

That's if you sell, otherwise it doesn't really mean much as Tesla have already accounted for price rises etc for our cars.

If Tesla wasn't making enough on the cars they would push over the price rises which they have every right to as per the order agreement