Can confirm - a very helpful Tesla guy just called me back, for VIC the blue/white plates are given to those who say they want to add their own custom plates after delivery. If the invoice says "STANDARD" and a $190 fee, the slimline plates are still the ones they get.
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Australian Model 3 Waiting Room
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Ordered and installed.... Just waiting for the car!Thank you both, clarified everything!
Now to go back to thinking about when I should purchase/install the charger (June order / Feb to May delivery)
From what order date? My order from Feb says slimline premium plates, which is a separate itemised cost so I'd assume id be getting them?Apparently all new VIC deliveries are coming with blue and white regular plates
Like an idiot I bought and installed a charger about 7 weeks ago. Was expecting to have my car by now and yet, still no VIN.
Same! Mine has been installed for about 4 months now and nothing! Ended up turning the thing off. Couldn’t bare seeing that green light with no car…
I've turned mine off. Was fine during the day with solar but a waste of power at night. I'm waiting for my sister to come and charge her Tesla on it.
I saw at least one CBR person post on FB. Mine is 15/2 Red black. No update yet.
I'm thinking I'll wait for the VIN before going through the process since there's still a good 6 to 8 weeks before the car shows up!
How long did the process take to install the charger for you? From delivery of the unit itself and organising installation? I'm guessing it can be done in a couple of weeks pending availability etc.
I purchased my gen 3 wall charger from the Tesla shop on a Monday, it arrived by the Thursday to inner city Melbourne.
I delayed the electrician appointment a couple of months, but when they came the install was done within a morning. My run of electrical cable (from switch box to wall charger, through the ceilings and walls) was less than 3m total. The further you need to run the wiring, the longer (and more expensive) it’s going to be.
I’m guessing with the current tradie market; the lead time for an electrician - from booking to installation - is going to vary a fair bit.
The biggest risk i think you face in getting it installed “early” is that Tesla release a gen 4 wall charger after you’ve had it installed. But there’s been no talk or rumours of any new wall charger hardware being in the works.
And of course you could go with an alternative non-Tesla wall charger
bennett_461
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I'm not sure I'm fussed on the blue plates. Anyone know how they are fixing the plates to the front of the cars in Vic?
It should hopefully be earlier than that, it’s scheduled to leave Melbourne tomorrow for Port Kembla. NSW Port Authority has it at Port Kembla on Friday. I’m still hoping the GC cars come off the ship there and get trucked up but even if they don’t, a week and a half for the ship to go from Port Kembla to Brisbane seems unlikely to me.
I’d recommend an electrician who has done Tesla Wall Connectors before. They have to know a little bit about commissioning the wall connector itself, which involves connecting to it with wifi. I’d hazard a guess some “old school” sparkie’s might get confused by the commissioning process.
In addition I found it comforting the electrician did mine has done a lot of installations before because the things they need to do to make the high current safe. For example mine could describe to me over the phone how to reorganise the limited space in my switch box so I wouldn’t have to pay a fortune for an additional box.
Yes. Any electrician is qualified for this knowledge, but I liked that he’d done enough of these to know what needed to be done with little prompting.
If finding one via google is difficult, try joining the Facebook “Tesla Model 3 & Y Australia” group. There’s a few recommendations there.
danwale
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Any electrician should be able to do it, it's best to ask if they are familiar with them though, they still have to know to run the right gauge wire from the switchboard for something that will be pulling a high constant current. Some installers offer to help setup the wifi connection as well so someone experienced will do that faster.
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