I have not. My DS indicated that they don't set a date until the vehicle is on the truck, which I understand since it probably avoids a lot of rescheduling. It's been 2 days for me as well, so hopefully that will happen today!
Why is everybody making a big deal of this black hole? When i ordered my Audi A4 back in 2012, on the moment I bought it I had to wait 6 months without ANY status updates, 2 weeks before the car was delivered the dealer emailed me for the payment. It is normal to wait
DS just called and we scheduled delivery for 12/22 in the morning.
Looks like I'll be driving up probably late Sunday in hopes of avoiding a little bit of traffic, although probably not...
So, 5 day countdown begins now.
I think it has to do with access to information on the Tesla website. When I ordered a custom Range Rover back in 2012, it took about 4-5 months to deliver. There was no site I could log on to. There were no "black hole" forums or Excel spreadsheets where I could see what VIN numbers were being built. All I could do was sit and wait. I was on the verge of forgetting I had even ordered the car when I got the call from the dealer saying the car would be delivered in a few days. Now that I have access to see the progress of my P85D, I am addicted to checking on an almost hourly basis. I read the forums, I call and pester my DS when I get new information from the forums, etc. I guess that's one of the perks or weaknesses (depending on how you look at it) of online ordering with real time status updates. You see the same behavior with Ebay, Amazon, etc. You are correct when you say it's normal to wait. But the adoption of online ordering by Tesla just changes how we wait
I think its clear that the power of a forum like TMC, while invaluable, gives us sufficient information to know that while we are waiting, other owners who ordered after we did are getting deliveries -thus we knew that there was something different going on with our cars. In my case I was already talking to my DS about delivery (regardless of what the dash said) and it was actually the dashboard that told me the car was going back into production - before he had even been told. Then a day later he had to tell me that in fact my car was not on a truck but was being delayed and he had no idea why - or when it would now be delivered. So to compare with mastaace example, if the dealer said the car would be delivered in the next few days and you had completed payment, insurance, registration, booked a wrap appointment etc. and then a day later he called and said it was not available anymore and he couldn't tell you why or when it would now be delivered, then two weeks later the situation was still the same, that would be equivalent. I guess a company promising a car in December and then slipping the dates is not that unusual but I would get annoyed whichever company it was, particularly if I was planning around it (though I only did this when I had been told it was shipping). There is no reason I would be less annoyed because the company is Tesla. If anything I suspect I hold them to a higher standard because overall I see them as above the usual company shenanigans - and perhaps because I spend a lot of my time evangelizing for the company I'm a tad disappointed. I know this is naive - but it may explain why I (and others) may seem excessively annoyed.
