Do it anyway. Have the order placed on hold. Worst case you lose $100. Best case you save $4000.
Yup, ordered a month back, price had already gone up $1000 since my test-drive. It's gone up another $1000 since. Now with Radar gone and all the associated issues and limitations with AP and safety features, I am going to try and eke my order out as long as humanly possible. I'll probably go ahead with the order if any of the following conditions are met:
- Tesla reintroduces radar once the shortage is no more (unlikely they will do this)
- Through some miracle, Tesla actually provides a fully functional Tesla Vision product that works just as well as on cars with radar, without the nerfed max speed limit, larger following distance and terrible forced auto highbeam implementation
- $7500+ tax credit comes back into play and it looks like it may not be very long lived
- Austin starts producing MYs with 4680 cells and better overall quality. Although I probably still won't purchase this without the Tesla Vision situation being sorted out.
To be honest, one of the primary motivators for my Tesla order was the AP experience and I'm miffed about Tesla pretending that their current radar-less car is just as good as what they were shipping. I am concerned that they will never walk back from this and that the overall AP experience will suffer a permanent degradation in capabilities as a result. If that were to happen, I might just have to accept the $100 loss and look elsewhere for my first EV purchase in a few years. Fingers crossed for the future. I really was hoping to give Tesla my money for my first EV purchase for everything they did to kickstart the current transition to EVs from ICE vehicles.