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Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. We have our LR RWD scheduled for delivery this morning between 10am and Noon as we are in the Bay Area.

9:45am I get a call from the girl doing the delivery stating she is in Fremont and will be leaving soon and wanted to confirm address and payment. Yay.

So a few minutes later I logged into the app and sure enough there was the car appearing in the app showing it was parked in Fremont at the factory. I scrolled down to the bottom and saw the odometer showed 184miles on it. Boo! I told my wife, she was not happy at all.

We call our sales rep who tells the delivery person to wait on our delivery. Sales rep admitted this VIN was auto-assigned to us as it matched the profile of our order and that it had likely been used for some demo / test drives. They cancelled that VIN and are finding us a car now. She said to expect delivery by 2:30pm today. The app no longer shows a VIN associated to our account.

Fingers crossed!
 
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. We have our LR RWD scheduled for delivery this morning between 10am and Noon as we are in the Bay Area.

9:45am I get a call from the girl doing the delivery stating she is in Fremont and will be leaving soon and wanted to confirm address and payment. Yay.

So a few minutes later I logged into the app and sure enough there was the car appearing in the app showing it was parked in Fremont at the factory. I scrolled down to the bottom and saw the odometer showed 184miles on it. Boo! I told my wife, she was not happy at all.

We call our sales rep who tells the delivery person to wait on our delivery. Sales rep admitted this VIN was auto-assigned to us as it matched the profile of our order and that it had likely been used for some demo / test drives. They cancelled that VIN and are finding us a car now. She said to expect delivery by 2:30pm today. The app no longer shows a VIN associated to our account.

Fingers crossed!
How'd it go? I take delivery tomorrow morning.
 
It all worked out. Took delivery at 2pm and the car is fantastic. Paint is great. Only flaw we could find during inspection was the right side rear seat upholstery is slightly loose. Going to take photos tomorrow and send to our rep.
Amazing! Just took delivery and no major flaws I care too much about.

Any experience on how long is taking Tesla to deliver new LR RWD orders?

Also, has anyone managed to get the AP $3,000 fee waived for the LR RWD? It’s ilogical to give AP for free for SR but charge it for a more premium model.
Ordered 4/25. Took delivery today May 11th. Car built in May.

For the LR RWD and Standard AP is an optional $3k. For the other “menu” items they included it into the price at $2k more than previous when optional. Honestly, if you are considering Standard with AP you’re better off with Standard Plus for $1.5k more if you have wiggle room for the extra.
 
AP isn’t free on SR

My bad, meant SR+. Fully agree not including it for SR to incentivize higher trims, but for LR? It is an incentive to downgrade to SR+. I won’t because I want the longer range, but it sucks that I’m paying $3k for something that is free if you buy AWD for $5k.

Also some people would just go for AWD since it’s $2k more even if they don’t need it or wanted it , which is a waste of resources.
 
My bad, meant SR+. Fully agree not including it for SR to incentivize higher trims, but for LR? It is an incentive to downgrade to SR+. I won’t because I want the longer range, but it sucks that I’m paying $3k for something that is free if you buy AWD for $5k.

Also some people would just go for AWD since it’s $2k more even if they don’t need it or wanted it , which is a waste of resources.

Not everybody wants AP or FSD. We bought it on our first M3 and almost never use it so when we bought our second M3 we skipped it completely. For people who don’t want it, being able to buy the LR RWD for $44.5K is a great value.
 
How did you determine this? Considering ordering one, but would prefer new build vs from existing inventory.
Disclosure: I have order a M3 but am yet to receiver it. So take this post with a grain of salt. Hopefully, others who actually HAVE a M3 can confirm what I say.
AFAIK, the manufacture date is listed on the sicker in the door-panel. Once a VIN is assigned to you (but before you take delivery of it), the you can also ask your delivery-specialist.
 
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G78M3, thanks. Then I will plan on ordering the LR AWD.

Like AkinDC said, while 2k is not much in the grand scheme of things, you are giving up range. As others have reported, RWD will be more than fine in the Chicago winter. Also, if you contact a local Tesla store, it is very likely they will give you a free paint or wheel upgrade on a RWD vehicle so your savings could be 3k :) Full disclosure, I chose to save 2k and went with RWD. Zero regrets and the range is insane.
 
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When I was looking this weekend my sales person told me that LR RWD is now 4k less than LR AWD.

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Screenshot added for proof.
 
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