There is a good tracking sheet to help give more insight rather than just this thread. This thread has more info.
Hi, everybody. Here are the links for this project: Google form to add or edit your data Google sheet to view all entries How to filter and sort: Youtube video You can reach me on Twitter too if you have any questions or feedback about this project.
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When I ordered in early May, there seemed to be some order to the chaos, maybe more like a method to the madness. When I changed my order, it seemed like it all went to hell shortly thereafter. Basically it seemed like if there was no chance of getting a car to you in time to make the Q2 numbers, you were SOL. Then the dates seemed to be prioritized for what made sense for Q3.
While this idea was coalescing in my brain, I realized I needed to jump on an inventory car, if it was a close enough match. I started scouring every inventory site as they all weren't always in sync. My wife thought I was crazy. Once my EDD disappeared, I knew it was unlikely to get better. When my dates got pushed out into August, it validated my approach. When I watched 30 cars, in radius around my area disappear, I knew I had to act quickly even if my wife thought I was even somehow crazier.
Here is something that helped me find an inventory car. Besides the usual suspects. I looked on a map and found all the major cities within a range I was willing to fly or drive to. I looked up the zip codes in those areas. I plugged those zip codes into the official Tesla inventory tracker as well. In my case I set up 5 different pages and had a radius of 200 miles that resulted in some overlap.
I setup a separate browser window with just these 5 pages and would periodically refresh them. I was willing to waste the $100 order fee just to make sure I had one secured. I lost one early on when by the time I got in touch with my SA, had him find, and try and get the VIN for me, it was gone. Also keep in mind that you will pay whatever current price is for the car, which might be more than what your order was for originally. For me it was a $500 difference and an option I didn't originally want (7 seats) but now glad I got them.