Mission Complete: "Sparky 2.0" (OG Sparky is my 2013 Volt with 126K miles) has been delivered! Thanks to the many folk who posted their experiences here on this thread, there were no surprises. Driving from Montgomery, AL, we arrived about 30 minutes early, because I built in a buffer for Atlanta traffic that thankfully never materialized. So, they opened up the car and let me begin my inspection process while waiting for my appointment time. I followed the "teslaprep" checklist that's been posted here before and only found 2 small problems. A piece of trim in the passenger foot well was not completely attached -- service fixed that quickly. There was a small scratch on the pax rear fender that didn't even fully penetrate the clearcoat. I will buff that out myself tomorrow. And unfortunately,
there were no front USB-C ports/wireless charging capability. <filling out the form right now> They said that it had already been noted (but they waited for me to discover it
) and I'd get a text message when the parts arrive.
Since we live 175 miles from the delivery center, I took the opportunity to drive around the area listening for squeaks, rattles and checking for any driveability issues before crossing that 100 mile threshold on the way home. The only thing I noticed was some low frequency booming from the rear hatch. There have been several threads on that and adjusting the rubber bump-stops seems to pretty well reduce or eliminate the noise. I'll work on that tomorrow as well.
Autopilot (TACC + Autosteer) worked well on the 2-hour interstate trip, with only 1 minor phantom braking event due to the shadow of an overpass. The final 30 minutes were on 2-lane state/county highways. As noted in the Owner's manual TACC is not well-suited for these roads yet and I had probably 3 PB events in the last 25 miles. Not nearly as bad as others have experienced, thankfully.
Mudflaps go on tomorrow. Homelink to be installed by Mobile Service on Wednesday and PPF and window tint within a week. All-in-all it was a good day!
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