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Australian Model Y Waiting Room
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My hidden VIN has now appeared in RAV with date of entry 14 August. Build date July 2023.
Build date 15/07/2023 here
Guessing we're on Turandot which is due to dock in PK on 29/08/2023 (left Shanghai on 08/08/2023)
Should take about a week to offload the cars and transport to the delivery warehouses and deliveries will run for 3-4 weeks after
That was my initial thought too but the Turandot won't be anywhere near Australia until next week so I doubt that cars on it will be on RAV already. Maybe Glovis Caravel?
Yes, use the VIN to track which ship it is on via molace.com
If you want to get fancier you can then check estimated port movements for that ship on your local port authority site (for me it is Fremantle).
Or you can pay third parties to do the above for you.
What is important or a key spec to you, may be different to someone else.
Irrespective of the comments you made about things changing, the decision should be made by the customer to "jump ahead" and take an older car without those items, or keep their place in line. Simple as that.
There is absolutely zero point in the "inventory" portal if their practice is as you say, just allocate abandoned orders to the next guy with an order sharing the same color/wheel combo. Kinda defeats the purpose of that page existing, does it not? The abondoned one they tried to give me wasnt even from NSW, it got trucked in from another state so they are fine to move cars around.
Mines in RAV. Got added yesterday. Got an 07/23 build
i was thinking about waiting for the refresh, but tbh i prefered to buy an "end of life" model cause all the problems have been ironed out. Plus as others have mentioned above Tesla just adds stuff whenever so its not like a Toyota where you got a S1 or S2 etc, the best Tesla is the one you can get today, but like everything, a better one will be there tomorrow and then next year and so on!
i was thinking about waiting for the refresh, but tbh i prefered to buy an "end of life" model cause all the problems have been ironed out. Plus as others have mentioned above Tesla just adds stuff whenever so its not like a Toyota where you got a S1 or S2 etc, the best Tesla is the one you can get today, but like everything, a better one will be there tomorrow and then next year and so on!
That only works for that particular shipping line, though. For some of the other lines that are used to ship Teslas to Australia, you have to go through commercial data brokers to get the manifests.
Makes sense, mine isn't on that one.
I also read somewhere else that when the car shows up in RAV, the boat with the car on it has to have hit aussie soil, so in theory, my MYLR was/is on a boat that came in around the 7th August (built 19th July)
Probably Morning Cherry, it got into Port Kembla around then. It's currently waiting for a berth in Port Melbourne.
This was answered one page ago in this thread
The short answer is that it is usually better to wait until closer to delivery.
My Tesla rep suggested not to pay until you're under 5 days to delivery, the NL company I ended up going with will pay 2 days prior
Leave until 2 days prior. Maybe a week if going through finance / NL
My NL paid early in May and started my repayments in June, but the car was delayed a couple times and I only picked up in July
The price drop and increase in NSW plate fees made it messy for some too
Just got a ping that my car has arrived in Australia, hopefully not too much longer now
Midnight Man
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I'm guessing your vehicle must have been on the Glovis Caravel then, as that ship arrived in Brisbane yesterday?
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