Just catching up on this thread and I have a few comments:
1) I’m confident that heated front seats will remain in the SR, contrary to a vague comment about them in the blog. There was a document passed out to customers two weeks ago stating this, and several Delivery Advisors have confirmed this in an email.
2) The blog states that SR+ owners can request a refund to downgrade to SR. I believe Elon wrote this but never communicated his intentions about it to the executive team, so nobody that answers the phone has been provided any direction on how it will work, what the restrictions are, or how to handle the requests. It’s sloppy, but unfortunately common practice at Tesla. I can understand why customers would be frustrated about this. We need to stop trolling people who are complaining about this because Tesla opened the door to the refund option and never put a plan in place to execute. They created their own mess here.
3) If you are planning on buying an SR, you absolutely need to make sure they build it in the system with the SR pricing. Don’t fall for the line that you can pay for it as an SR+ and request a refund later. You’ll be chasing Tesla for months trying to get your refund. Just don’t do it.
4) SR+ has had three different prices in the past two months. $37K, $37.5K, and now $39.5K (with AP included). Your perception of whether the SR announcement is fair will depend to some extent on which price you paid for your SR+. If you want an SR+ with AP, the current price is only $1,500 more than the SR with AP. If you don’t want AP, the SR is a much better deal. The worst case scenario is someone who just paid $39.5K for an SR+ but would have preferred not buy AP and could have saved $4,500 by waiting for the SR $35K option to come out.
I’m helping a friend take delivery of an SR next week. Tesla still has not figured out how to downgrade the price as it still shows an SR+ configuration. The salesperson has been useless in the process. I know the manager at the local store so I’ll likely have to call him next week and try to sort things out. Tesla does not make it easy sometimes.