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Got some news, put down a deposit on April 30th, they asked me to configure a SR + and it was downgraded to SR few hours after my visit. May 1st: announcement of the new SR with 150 km & Tesla qualifies for the 5000$ EV inventive. I thought it will be the best deal ever since nobody got the SR locked so far. May 2nd: got a call from Tesla telling me that the SR that I bought will only get 150 kms at the delivery. So I had 3 options: cancel, upgrade to SR+ or drive a 150kms car. So I pay the extra and the car will be delivered next week.Anyone successfully got downgraded or have any update from Tesla with the SR+ / SR situation?
Got some news, put down a deposit on April 30th, they asked me to configure a SR + and it was downgraded to SR few hours after my visit. May 1st: announcement of the new SR with 150 km & Tesla qualifies for the 5000$ EV inventive. I thought it will be the best deal ever since nobody got the SR locked so far. May 2nd: got a call from Tesla telling me that the SR that I bought will only get 150 kms at the delivery. So I had 3 options: cancel, upgrade to SR+ or drive a 150kms car. So I pay the extra and the car will be delivered next week.
In Canada, it doesn’t exist anymore.So there isn't a 360 km version is what they mean... That sounds ridiculously horrible.
So Canadians are officially screwed on the downgrades, sounds cool.
My contract went from 47 600$ (SR with 352 km) to SR (44 999$)...if you are okay with the 150 kms...I guess you can do all the mod on the car to get it close to the clone SR+I wouldn't say officially quite yet. Tesla is full of *sugar* so who really knows, but I was told there was a window of opportunity for those who were conned into getting the SR+ at the same time the clone-SR+ was available, and they should be able to 'downgrade,' missing pretty much just the heated seats and 20 miles of range.
I'm waiting to see what the actual downgrade involves lest I be 'accidentally' downgraded to the 150km-range compliance car they specifically told me they'd never have.
After this fiasco is over I'll upgrade the stereo on my own, bypass the seat heaters with manual controls of my own design. Hardwire the fog lights on, and if it's top-locked on the battery, just charge to 100%.
Tesla has screwed so many of us badly in Canada. Lies upon lies, and yet, I'm still in love with the car. It's so sexy I can't let it go. Therapy in my future.
So Canadians are officially screwed on the downgrades, sounds cool.
My contract went from 47 600$ (SR with 352 km) to SR (44 999$)...if you are okay with the 150 kms...I guess you can do all the mod on the car to get it close to the clone SR+
Exactly lol
I seeAgain, it depends on when you bought. I picked my car up March 30. At that time there was offered a 352km SR vapourware special, and a 386km actual SR+. I could have bought either on that day, but was conned into the SR+ by comparing it to features of the vapourware car. For those in my situation, who purchased based on false information, we are apparently being offered to go back in time and get the SR version as it was on that day for anyone who did order. It's got nothing to do with the 150km version.
That was another scam. They specifically told me, after I checked with them multiple times, that the $5k federal rebate would never be available so I should go ahead and buy the SR+ right away. Then a month later they mysteriously made a compliance car such that we could now get the SR+, in BC anyway, for about $7000 cheaper. So people wanting the SR after that date (May 1st) would get an SR+ with a 150km range. Two different issues.
Tesla continues to fumble the ball on this issue by dragging it out and offering a litany of misinformation and misdirection.
They should fess up and make it right, sooner rather than later.
I see
For those of you who are casually throwing around the word "conned." Do you think any Tesla employees willfully lied to you? That they knew ahead of time how things would shake out and decided not to tell you to make an extra buck?
Y'all need to take some personal responsibility for your own actions. Nobody forced you to buy the car.
All car sales involve informational imbalances. I cannot imagine a world where sales staff are informed of the upper-management's decisions on an ongoing basis and keep all customers apprised of that information.
"Welcome to our Hyundai dealership! Got your eye on the new Kona EV, huh? Well let me tell you that corporate has already decided to add a much faster on-board charger next month, and is already developing a dedicated EV platform that will blow this current model away! ... Wait, where are you going?"
By your definition every car ever sold was a scam.
Those underhanded sales techniques are not my issue. Days after I bought my car Tesla decided to include AP and lower the combined price of the package by $1300. That was annoying but nothing more.
I'm not even discussing the physical features of a car. The first issue is the vapourware that was used to knowingly upsell people, and the second was being deceptive about the Canadian compliance car.
In both cases I cannot believe that Tesla had zero forethought regarding the timing. It's my belief that both instances were entirely premeditated, without regard for the customers who offer the lowest margins.
Don't get me wrong though. I love Model 3 more than I should, and relaxing in the car while charging up -- as I'm doing this very moment -- is my chill time. I'm just trying to be somewhat objective about events.
In these two particular instances, vapourware and compliance car, Tesla should be seen as very guilty by any objective judge.
I'm reasonably confident they'll address the first issue, but not the second. Had they not outright lied about the compliance car, and I'd waited only 30 days, I'd have saved about $7000, had the same car, and 5x the km of free supercharging.
They've not only lied to me and cost me directly, but indirectly they've devalued my car by about $7000 as well, again in 30 days.
It's quite the burn. If I do decide to get the performance MY in 18 months or so, I'll at least go in expecting to be deceived. A positive I suppose.
My speculation/hope isGetting back to the original topic of this post...
I just don’t see Tesla downgrading all of these previously sold SR+ models to an SR and issuing refund checks to all of those previous buyers. It doesn’t make any logical sense. Why would they do that? They’ve already sold all of those cars. They don’t issue refunds when prices go down.
There was one reference to a downgrade in a blog on the website last month, and complete silence on the subject since then. Tesla needs cash. They don’t need to be issuing refunds to buyers of previously purchased cars. I really have no idea why they offered to do so on the blog in the first place, but if they had any intention of doing so I think they would have done so by now.