Well, today was the day! I got my new Tesla Model 3 LR! The delivery process was pretty smooth -- They brought the car to me -- I felt a little rushed to just sign for it so the delivery lady could just move on (I didn't love that) Also they put it on the street (there's side parking) But I live on a corner, and I know other cars have been side swiped so unfortunately, I didn't really want to take a few minutes to walk it. I just wanted to get it in my driveway. I'll say I inspected it about 60% (i'll do more tomorrow when the sun is up) BUT everything looked mostly good. Few things (really one) I have issues with.
1. There's this scuff on right below my hood by my front headline, it looks almost like my car rocked forward on the truck and hit another car. This not only scuffed the paint but it slightly pushed it in.
2. There's a cap on the hood hinge, when I opened the hood / closed it a few times I heard a clicking sound. Then the clicking stopped (the cap came off) I think it was just loose, I thought I broke it, but after looking at the other side -- I figured out how it was put on and just re-attached, no more clicking (i'll keep an eye on it) but it seems to be fine now.
3. SMALL dark spot on the top of the car interior. Not even worth creating a service appointment, i'll lookup what solution to use and just do it myself. Or combine it with the above #1.
My Driver side mat was put on up-side down. I thought it was both funny and annoying. How did I figure this out? Well, I went in the car with just socks on and my feet stuck to the velcro
. I corrected it with a slight eye roll. Like really... nobody noticed that?
All panel's seems to be reasonable to me most perfect, a handful maybe slightly off but nothing that will bother me. i'll make an update once I can dedicate an hour or so to really look the car over.
Communication between tesla and me was pretty non-existent outside of delivery day. They called be Just before they left the service center to confirm i'd be home. They showed up 15min later. And the lady didn't even really speak to me, she just handed me an iphone to sign for the car. I wish maybe she would have explained how to get in the car (since she left it locked). I fumbled around a bit on the app and figured it out. Weird because I watched like a million videos of this same issue and somehow it was still a problem for me, I recommend closing the app by swiping up and re-opening it. Not sure if that was the issue OR I literally just had to wait a few minutes for everything to connect, I think it was the latter that did it.
To those who have order and are waiting for that delivery day, STAY STRONG! And try not to spoil it with watching too many videos like I did
But let's be real, that is prob not going to happen.
Now, I need to start to work on getting a Tesla Wave going in my town...
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