So I was scheduled for delivery today Friday. Got a call around noon yesterday asking if I want to get it today, obviously I said hell yeah. Went and picked it up. They left us alone to look it over and said take as long as we need. We looked around and couldn’t find anything wrong, we had plenty of time so I kept trying to find something, anything, didn’t see anything wrong at all. Signed my paperwork and were out of there in 10 minutes. I’m not very picky person at all, so I keep feeling like I probably missed things that others could have pick out, lol. My teenager son has a great eye for detail but he stood me up today to hang out with his best friend.
It’s ok though, they finally got fully vaccinated and hadn’t hung out in over a year.
Drove about 130 miles today. Its a great car. Crazy instant torque, quiet, awesome features, sound is awesome (I was real nervous about that I might be disappointed with sound quality), rides very smoothly. We laughed over the stupid fart thing like we haven’t in long time. I got fsd and autopilot experience so far is kinda crazy. It suddenly tried to overtake a semi from the right side with sudden burst of acceleration but there was no actual lane on the right and had I not had my hand on the wheel and foot on the brake, it would probably have slammed into a barraicade because there was some work going on on the shoulder. Couple of times it realized that it made a mistake on navigate on autopilot and then tried to make a quick jerky move back to the right path. Like wtf! My Volvo just cancels all autonomous functions when it can’t figure things out, which feels safer than Tesla taking off like a banshee. I plan on using these features as an added something to avoid fatigue on long trips but keep 100% focus on the road. But I do hope that they will fix this soon. I understand (so I’ve been told) that it also gets better with time. We’ll see. Not a deal breaker though, I’ll learn its’ quirks. One pedal driving came pretty naturally to me and really like it. I grew up on stick shifts and have driven just about every machine except anything that flies.
Anyway, I’m pretty tired, better stop my rambling and go to bed. Thank you to all the posters here, your company helped pass the time a great deal. Hope to stick around this lovely website and run into you all now and then. It was worth the wait! If I may, I’ll say that to anyone waiting, just do whatever is required of you at whatever step you’re at, not much else you can do. Have all your ducks in a row, and wait. At any step when something changes jump on it quick. If you get a button to accept vision, do it before thinking, don’t waste your time. Got a vin? Call, email, any way you can get a hold of anyone at the SC to get your delivery scheduled. Pay your down payment as soon as you’re given the chance. Lock that *sugar* down! I know many here don’t agree with giving your hard earned money to Tesla before absolutely required. But if you can afford to have that money (without going broke) in Teslas hands for longer than necessary, what’s the harm? Hard for them to reassign your vin to someone else if you got it locked down as much as you can. YMMV. But I’m one of those people who once decide to move forward with something, I’m all in, whatever it takes (I do often have regrets afterwards though, so maybe don’t be me
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Ok, done for real this time.
Whats your VIN?
