I don’t know if there’s a way to do this without working with a Tesla advisor, but once you place the order, you should get contacted by Tesla via text (as soon as you submit the order in my experience), and you can ask them to do it for you. You have to add FSD to your order and they’ll credit the $15k before delivery. I’m planning to go through this process but I haven’t started yet, waiting for my wife to test drive a Y (tomorrow). I’ll know more then.
As far as I have seen, they will get downgraded to standard Autopilot.
Your question is ambiguous. You have a 2018 and later bought the FSD package since you ask about FSD transferring? If so then you get FSD package. If you don't have FSD package then there is nothing to transfer and you are just buying a new Tesla unrelated to your 2018.
I ordered a Model Y because of the FSD transferability on July 21, got a vin today, July 24, A15xxxx, then was told my 2018 Model 3 I am trading in which has FSD beta does not have the firmware to make it compatible to do the transfer. This is after I did due diligence in the online purchase chat to avoid waiting the $250 deposit. No transfer, no deposit. I am hoping a manager can resolve but the delivery specialist assigned to me just says I am out of luck and money
As I mentioned earlier, my trade-in 2017 Model S got downgraded to Standard Autopilot after the FSD transfer. In 2017 Standard Autopilot didn’t exist as an option: back then it was EAP, FSD or no Autopilot at all.
I was told something similar by the first Tesla advisor who contacted me (also a 2018 Model 3), but every other Tesla advisor has said I can transfer FSD. Try contacting someone else. Not sure what about the firmware would make a difference.
That has to be dumb a$$ bull $hit. How could your current car's firmware have anything to do with buying a new car? FSD Capability package is NOT firmware dependent, but is an add on option that has been available for ALL firmwares for MANY years. Plus you don't have control over what firmware you get. Also if you have FSD Beta then you MUST have at least 23.7.x firmware for 11.4.x.
They don't literally transfer anything. They simply turn it off one car and turn it on the other car.
I’ve been told the same, then the opposite, then that I never bought FSD, then that I did but they can’t see it. Then someone “opened a ticket” on Friday and I’ve yet to hear anything since. Peak Tesla.
This is what happens when your CEO pulls policy out of their a$$ answering a question on an earnings call and then you must scramble to implement it.
They tried to pull the same *sugar* on me. Keep calling the Tesla central CS line or try different delivery centers until you get an advisor who understands that you can simply put a case in to do a manual switch. It took me two days but I found someone who was able to expedite it for me. Good luck!
My 2018 Model 3 that was stripped of FSD was left with adaptive cruise the day before I took delivery of the new car. My new Y was 90 miles away in Tucson and it seemed pretty weird driving the 3 “naked” to Tucson.
