Cars, VINs, deliveries and ships - what do we know?

[MrBadger]

Lots of conjecture going on. Nothing concrete that I have seen. Just trying to find out the firm evidence, nothing circumstantial.

Does anyone who has actually taken delivery of their car actually know for sure...

• Date your car was actually made - some people have even worked out production line from an internal sticker
• When you were first aware you had been allocated your VIN, maybe in source code, maybe Tesla themselves
• When you were officially notified/noticed you had been allocated a VIN (paperwork, call etc)
• When/if you were contacted to confirm details - was it a general check, or something specific.
  
• When you first were contacted about taking delivery, ie a firm delivery date.
• When you got your final invoice
• The delivery date you were first notified of
  
• When you actually took delivery (not necessarily same as above)
• What ship your car was on
• And if you definitely know what ship it was on (no guesses or internet conjecture, must be concrete evidence) when and where it left US, when it arrived in Europe and UK and anything else useful.

You may not have everything. Things not happening may be equally important.

Sometimes there are clues left with car - internal stickers, windscreen label, VIN itself, etc. Unless it was an official text or email containing specifics, chatting with Tesla staff does not count.

UK owners only please. And not only Model 3 owners - recent Model S and X can also respond. We all seem to be mixed up in this.

 

[Peteski]

They'll be far too busy driving their new toy around to answer stuff like that! I don't think I could answer ANY of those questions regarding my X delivery, lol. I certainly don't have a f****** clue what ship it came on!

 

[Talllbloke]

Good idea for a thread though!

 

[ewoodrick]

Trust me, as someone who went through the first wave in US, you will get it when you get it.

Even if you knew the exact production schedule, there's a lot of things that will change it. For example, if someone isn't able to pick up their car, then someone else moves forward

 

[MrBadger]

the problem in the uk is that there are probably as many ideas on how this is working as there are people waiting on cars! tbh, no one knows anything for definite, which includes tesla themselves, but lots of people are taking conjecture as fact.

So this is a vague attempt at trying to weedle out some facts from real world (well uk specific) events,.

Doesn't help that there is a long shipping distance between us and uk, via mainland Europe. Even with that, there are lots of unknowns.