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California, The Land That Time Forgot
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jonquiljo
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Hundreds of cars a day?! I hope Buena Park is an enormous Tesla facility to deliver cars at. Thats like trying to deliver a traffic jam full of cars!
That is why they do the delivery events where you get your questions about the cars answered. The target for the Fremont delivery center is 15 minutes or less.
If it like the Sears around here, there is plenty of open space in the lot since the store closed.
Thanks haha. I will have fun on the drive back but its going right to my buddies shop for MPP sports coils, ceramic coating, tint and chrome delete so I am gonna be stuck driving my Fiat 500E for another week or so! Plenty of time to watch YouTube videos, etc.
I hope so as well, gonna stay positive until I gotta turn negative! They told me they are giving 3 day windows for pick up but I had until Saturday due to my location (~3 hrs away). If no delivery by Saturday, no longer my car. CRAZY company man.
Somebody in SF who ordered in mid October was just told they won't get their car this year (see post in SR/SR+ waiting room).
So the website showing until yesterday that new CA orders would be delivered this year was complete BS.
If you're in CA and you don't yet have a VIN, there's a decent chance you're not getting your car this year, regardless of when you ordered.
Website shows 5-8 weeks for CA orders as of this morning.
No Christmas miracle!
So the website showing until yesterday that new CA orders would be delivered this year was complete BS.
If you're in CA and you don't yet have a VIN, there's a decent chance you're not getting your car this year, regardless of when you ordered.
Website shows 5-8 weeks for CA orders as of this morning.
No Christmas miracle!
I hope that means a blowout quarter and year for the company. I remember when the stock was in the 30s.
adregia
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I don't believe the poster said this. The poster said they were told they would not receive a car until after Christmas.
For one thing, this is most likely speculation on the part of the Tesla employees. What's more, they could be estimating conservatively. They definitely could deliver a few thousand cars for the Bay Area in a matter of 4 or 5 days assuming the delivery centers are operating overtime.
I'm slightly skeptical, but hopeful.
Yes, you're right sorry.
Still, if they're still delivering October orders after Christmas, that doesn't leave many days to catch up with two more months of orders.
adregia
Member
I agree. To give you an idea, at the Costa Mesa delivery center, there has been little to no movement on November orders based on what can be observed with posters here, but October orders have been getting delivered at least for a week and a half now.
There are a few October order stragglers like me. At the rate I'm going, Nov and Dec orders will pass me up like a race between a P3D and a Prius. zooooooom
Those of you that haven’t been following deliveries over the quarters, and especially at EOQ, probably have no idea of what the delivery teams (and support account etc teams) manage to do in a few weeks. If you did you guys would be less concerned. Sitting in the Delivery Center during EOQ and watching all the owners come in and leave with their cars at this volume a day is pretty amazing. They have been doing this dance for many quarters now and refining it.
When I picked up my car at Fremont DC last year there can’t tell you how many parking lots down the street from them were full of new cars and patrolled by guards. I kept thinking the delivery center had to be at one of the locations, but it was even further past other lots filled with cars waiting to be taken home. I’ve heard similar things from southern California. Don’t think 100+ a day is out of the norm.
I recall someone on the east coast relay during one EOQ delivery day that he had to park his car down the street and walk to the DC as the lot was full. He was passing by another dealership with sales guys out front saying oh, looks like Tesla can’t sell their cars (lot was full). The soon to be new Tesla owner told them “oh those cars are already sold and waiting to be picked up and I’m going to get mine now”. He said at that point three Tesla loaded car carriers were pulling up on the street ready to unload. Said the guys were floored.
Be nice to your delivery staff. They’re working really hard to get your car to you.
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Garciajr6
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Im so glad im not the only one
LMAO i woke up actually thinking i had my VIN in source and was so heartbroken when i logged on to double check..... lol i need helpLol I ordered the same exact model as you did. Oct 25th for Marina Del Rey. Still waiting. No VIN, no communication. Website says deliver in 5-7 weeks from the day ordered. It is more than 7 weeks.
jonquiljo
Active Member
It’s really a question of how well their logistics personnel have this figured out. To me it seems nuts, but I never have worked in logistics. I hope everyone gets their car.
It will probably be easier in So Cal, as your weather is better than up here. The weather sux up here - well - not today, but it usually does this time of year.
The big factor will be how many hundreds of cars have to be delivered each day per center. To use the empty parking lots, they have to empty the lots from the day before. Trades have to be put somewhere too. I’m sure Tesla can pull it off, but it will not likely be a “calm” situation. Good luck to all.
Ordered 10/18 in Bay Area and my SA emailed that delivery will be after Christmas. He finished the email with, "Being where we are in the bay area, we usually get cars later because we don’t have “travel time”."
I have waited this long and can wait some more, but I will lose faith in Tesla if somehow they miss delivering in 2019.
I have waited this long and can wait some more, but I will lose faith in Tesla if somehow they miss delivering in 2019.
puppers
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Im so glad im not the only one
I just got my VIN T_T. FINALLY.
@jonquiljo Amazingly with all the new owners and kids sometimes in tow filling the inside, and dozens of people outside checking out their car in the lot waiting for paperwork to be signed, the staff all seemed calm and very professional.
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