I should add that the waitingfortesla.com website updates much more often than the Twitter feed. Just for grins, I refreshed it once a minute to see how often it updates and my one-time test came up with four minutes. I also noticed that the six blue/white MYLRs listed this morning are all gone. Congrats to anyone who picked one up.
Picked up my 19”/Blue/White/7/MY on Sat. Experience wasn’t all that great. I had much better experience from Lexus, and even Honda was better; they brought the car into the showroom and had a cover on it, and ‘unveiled’ it before showing me the features etc. Lexus is far better, even bringing flowers for the Mrs. etc. Tesla?, nothing. Your car is out front, look it over, sign this, and piss off.
Maybe that’s what I get for picking it up instead of having it delivered, but it still sucked. I was also disappointed there were no mud flaps, given that it’s Colorado, seems weird. The dealer had originally said it had some damage to the hatch and that I would need to bring it back in a couple weeks to get that fixed, but they must have already put a new hatch on because it was fixed when I took delivery and there was some debris in the 3rd row seats and scuffs in the trunk area as signs that work had taken place. I pointed these out and the guy handling my delivery said “If you don’t like it you can refuse delivery”(and of course get back in the waiting line).
Anyways, bottom line is that the inventory claiming thing worked, and I see others are trying it.
Best of luck to you in intercepting inventory before the deadline, but I would like to point something out:
It seemed crazy that Tesla made a price cut, not something you see at lot especially during inflationary periods. Well, now we know why. V4 hardware is in the pipeline. Since it has more and higher res cameras, and supposedly HD radar, so no retrofitting is possible. They had to clean out the v3 stockpile. Also really sucky they removed ultrasonic since it seems existing cars will never get top-down view, and likely only get poorly functioning partial replacement for the ultrasonic sensors given no camera can see the areas needed.
This whole thing has kind of made me rethink my plan for how long to keep it. If they are always forging ahead with new stuff it May be better to trade up every 3-5 years. So for me, I’m only getting partial paint protection in the critical areas. I’d do the whole vehicle if I were keeping it for 10. That brings me to my final point. Those who have orders pending but arent likely to make the tax credit window MAY want to consider holding off until the V4 hardware is available, because it really is a huge upgrade.
As always, just my opinion and like an EV battery, your mileage may vary. =P
