I have been reading frantically through many forum threads and watching tons of YouTube videos, but everyday I find something I didn't know. Like today, I found out that Tesla does constant hardware improvements and changes to the Model 3, so you have to go by build date and not model year to know what you're getting. It's driving my obsessive personality bonkers!
Since I am running out of time on making any changes because I am taking delivery this week, I wanted to ask if the collective wisdom of the forum sees anything I am missing so I avoid years of regret.
Here's my Model 3 story:
Originally ordered an SR+ red/white/19, but the Tesla reps were saying I could miss the end of year tax break, and if I did, the forum was saying it could be March/April before I would get my car, which would be very bad since I already privately sold my daily driver.
I panicked and called the Tesla sales rep that told me there's a AWD red/white/19 in Dallas (I am in Houston) that is in inventory. It was used for test drives, but only has 250 miles on it. It has a build date of Oct 16, and they are discounting it $1050 for the miles. I have to fly there to pick it up. No issue, I have plenty of airline points, and it's only an hour flight and 5 hr drive.
I said let's do it.
Had a very nice fellow board member in Dallas area go to check out the car for me (pics attached). He said it's perfect. Cell phone pics in their artificial garage lighting made the bumpers look like they were repainted, but I am learning this is pretty normal for M3 red cars, and the member said it looked like a good paint match in person. Other internet pics of red M3s look similar. Assure no paintwork, and the CarFax is clean.
The loan is now funded, I put in my ACH for the down payment, insurance done. Waiting for Tesla to tell me the soonest I can go pick it up. Right now scheduled for this Friday, which was the original date of the SR+.
Am I making any mistakes? I do ponder the upgrade to Performance/Stealth, but that's a whole other topic that's just a matter of me controlling my car obsessions. This is going to be just a daily driver for me. I have 3 pretty wild "fun" cars in the garage.
These are more the relevant questions to me:
- Is $1000 enough off to having had up to a 100 people launching the car during test drives?
- Am I missing any hardware differences from a Oct 16 build versus a December build?
- Anything else I am missing that I haven't read or watched a video about yet that would make someone want to go back and look at something different in inventory? It's really fear of the unknown right now for me.
I know I get the 1 week return, but I really don't want to go that route.
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Since I am running out of time on making any changes because I am taking delivery this week, I wanted to ask if the collective wisdom of the forum sees anything I am missing so I avoid years of regret.
Here's my Model 3 story:
Originally ordered an SR+ red/white/19, but the Tesla reps were saying I could miss the end of year tax break, and if I did, the forum was saying it could be March/April before I would get my car, which would be very bad since I already privately sold my daily driver.
I panicked and called the Tesla sales rep that told me there's a AWD red/white/19 in Dallas (I am in Houston) that is in inventory. It was used for test drives, but only has 250 miles on it. It has a build date of Oct 16, and they are discounting it $1050 for the miles. I have to fly there to pick it up. No issue, I have plenty of airline points, and it's only an hour flight and 5 hr drive.
I said let's do it.
Had a very nice fellow board member in Dallas area go to check out the car for me (pics attached). He said it's perfect. Cell phone pics in their artificial garage lighting made the bumpers look like they were repainted, but I am learning this is pretty normal for M3 red cars, and the member said it looked like a good paint match in person. Other internet pics of red M3s look similar. Assure no paintwork, and the CarFax is clean.
The loan is now funded, I put in my ACH for the down payment, insurance done. Waiting for Tesla to tell me the soonest I can go pick it up. Right now scheduled for this Friday, which was the original date of the SR+.
Am I making any mistakes? I do ponder the upgrade to Performance/Stealth, but that's a whole other topic that's just a matter of me controlling my car obsessions. This is going to be just a daily driver for me. I have 3 pretty wild "fun" cars in the garage.
These are more the relevant questions to me:
- Is $1000 enough off to having had up to a 100 people launching the car during test drives?
- Am I missing any hardware differences from a Oct 16 build versus a December build?
- Anything else I am missing that I haven't read or watched a video about yet that would make someone want to go back and look at something different in inventory? It's really fear of the unknown right now for me.
I know I get the 1 week return, but I really don't want to go that route.
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