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Australian Model Y Waiting Room
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CryForMdlY
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Brilliant -- thanks for sharing. I'm hoping to be there soon in Port Melbourne (9 months of waiting has me itching all over).
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Ordered MY in June last year. Collected 3 weeks ago. Understand your long wait as been through - however all disappears on delivery day. The wait is worth it.
According the build date and RAV entry date 14/4, and the approaching delivery message received on 2/5. Mostly like the car was on Morning Cheery, I guess.
Hope it helps.
Picked mine up today! The Tesla showroom is about 15km from my house but almost drove 200k to test the car out!They certainly do!
Thoroughly pleased!! 
I think the funds should clear in a few hours, maybe depends on the Bank, I transferred the payment from ANZ and within 3 hours I got a text from Tesla that they had received the final payment! Fingers crossed mate!
EDD updated to 19 May - 6 Jun!! Can’t see the Vin and no sms so far, maybe somebody in front of me cancel their order?
Mine is on the Sunlight Ace, I ordered mid 2022, early march build. It is now drifting near Kembla (arrived just now), I was excited thinking I might get my long awaited car finally, after reading this post I feel FUBAR.
I actually didn't do a test drive funnily enough. Wanted to save the mystique for when it arrived. Have driven many, many cars, though as I used to run car rental branches for many years and have found the ride quality pretty good so far, not hard at all.
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That is awful, Dennis_zg. Are you getting the same "We are working hard to bring you your car very soon" responses with no real information from Tesla? Are they doing anything to make amends for the absurdly long wait while they deliver cars to people who ordered much later than you? Sorry you have been this unlucky. I hope they come through for you quickly somehow.
Port Kembla website now lists Grand Eagle arriving on Sunday 28th, down from Tuesday 30th. For those with MYLRs and others coming to Sydney.
Port Kembla schedule is like a kid playing with lego blocks. They have ships leaving before they arrive and ships docking simultaneously at the same birth Lol.
Someone posted this on whirlpool which seems more realistic and reliable.
I think this has been posted earlier but a few points
a) Most of the issues people are facing are completely outside Tesla's control. Shipping delays, quarantine problems with car batches etc and then a fight for trucks once cars are unloaded - these are all third party problems that no-one is immune to.
b) The level of sophistication of people buying Tesla's seems to far outstrip other brands. This means you're acquiring more information about your delivery than your equivalent Toyota or Honda buyer. Tesla has not matched that level of sophistication in its comms to you as a buyer.
c) I don't doubt they are working as hard as possible. They wouldn't be sitting on their hands. There's multiple reports out there of Tesla chartering their own ships to avoid the quarantine problems that others have faced and getting cars onto whatever ship it can to fulfil orders. My own car on Palmela took the most circuitous route to get to me (west to east) and suffered from major port delays in Brisbane at the end. That said, if it hadn't been for these delays, I would have probably gotten the car in April, smack dab in the period that the Tesla SAs told me to prepare myself mentally for.
Do we want more transparency from Tesla? Absolutely. Will that transparency actually result in anything more tangible than a better pre-purchase experience? Unless you own a vehicles carrier and have ready made stevedore and quarantine crews at a hitherto unknown port, I highly doubt it.
I chafe a bit at the fact that I've had to wait since July last year for my vehicle. Those that ordered in October-March are in some cases getting vehicles not long after I get mine (and some potentially before in the case of WA) but we've stopped talking about this because the big initial order block is now done and the backlog is moving relatively quickly. I can even see some people that ordered after me getting dates earlier than mine at a different delivery centre but again, there's multiple factors at play and I haven't seen any widespread evidence of people getting ahead of me without reference to one of the factors above plus the occasional cancellation.
It also bears repeating that Vedaprime offer a level of transparency which could bridge most of the gap here if you really want it once you get a VIN. I decided it wasn't for me but if you want a good compromise, it would seem to me to be the best option.
From what I know, if it was ordered by July 2022 then yes, otherwise no. My mate ordered his in Sep 22 and he didn’t get it, I ordered mine in Jan 23 and it didn’t come with one. Also, the SA advised that the UMC was never free, it was another item on the invoice which you had to pay for, most people were opting for the wall connector so it gives people the option to choose what suits their needs best. My daily commute is about 50km a day at max so I’m happy with the 15amp tail of UMC.
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Your SA is misinformed.
It was never on the invoice, and the price of the car did not change between 7 Jul 2022 (when the UMC was included) and 8 Jul 2022 (when it was not)
And the goalposts kept changing where they included it for all cars delivered in Jan-Mar 2023, plus all cars built before 27 Feb 2023.
And I had to argue with the delivery staff to get mine, as my 10 June 2022 ordered, Jan 2023 built car should have had a UMC but there wasn't one in the boot.
Today was car pickup day
Drove out of the delivery warehouse, immediately got a screw in the front tyre!
At least i get an early experience of Tesla Support….
Drove out of the delivery warehouse, immediately got a screw in the front tyre!
At least i get an early experience of Tesla Support….
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