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Model 3 Highland (US) Waiting room
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darkrai
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darkrai
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No delivery of RWD with white interior that I know of in Cali.
You can schedule the sale to Carvana for a day after you're supposed to get delivery of the new Tesla. Or, maybe I should say a day after it actually happens.
Although, and I don't know how your state works, but in Arizona, the price of the Trade-In is subtracted from the new vehicle price in order to determine Sales Tax. If your state is the same, selling for $500 more, but paying tax on the whole value would likely be a losing proposition for you.
For me, the Carvana quote was $3k higher, and tax difference is about $2k.
Remember too, there is something in the FSD transfer (if you're doing it) that requires you to keep your current vehicle in your Tesla account for up to 48 hours after getting the new one. So don't cut that one too close!
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darkrai
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Good call! Wow it shows Apr-May with white interior. That sucks.
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Remember, if you are doing FSD transfer but not trading-in to Tesla directly... The terms require you to keep the current vehicle in your account for at least 48 hours after delivery of the new car! I recall (from last FSD transfer window I believe) saying that Tesla refused to do the FSD transfer because they sold their current vehicle sooner than the 48 hour window. So be careful scheduling too close!
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No reason to apologize! It’s exciting stuff. Truthfully, if I had a person say they were in the market for an EV and had the funds for any of these vehicles out here. I’d support any option. The elective vehicle world is mind blowing. The technology we have on the road now would be considered science fiction in the early 2000’s.
Ugh, this is so incredibly inconvenient. So I have to make a down payment first without being able to sell my car? Or how do people manage this?
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Old Duck
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I feel your pain. I also ordered on 01/10, and also ordered an AWD. However, my EDD updated this morning to Feb 23-Mar 5. Maybe because I live a 9 hour drive north of Fremont. The very first EDD they gave me was just Feb - Mar and maybe that will turn out to be the most accurate.
True! I agree plus LR VIN numbers are very low in comparison with number of orders which also are in the same train.
Of course they want to drive sales to Model Y.
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I just sold my i4 e40 to come back to Tesla, if that tells you something. Generally the "premiumness" of the BMW wore off after a few weeks. Other than being a very efficient electric drivetrain (averaged about 4mi/kWh) it was kind of annoying to drive. Pedal calibration and stopping was not smooth, the iDrive 8 OS was just "ok", and the car felt unnecessarily big for the lack of interior space and storage. Also the car felt very slow and heavy.
My i4 had these options:
* vernsaca leather upgrade (seats are hard compared to Tesla)
* HUD (my eyes basically forgot this existed after a while)
* driver assistance professional (as good as radar equipped Tesla autopilot)
* harmon kardon (worse than long range Tesla sound system)
I can tell from this thread and some posts on Reddit that many people have not "custom" ordered a car before. After my experience of factory ordering a BMW and a Mazda, the wait times and lack of updates is "normal". Not saying its acceptable, but that its just a different but expected difference between buying a car off the lot of a dealership. I will say that it's nice that the BMW portal shows build and shipping milestones in a timeline, BUT sometimes the timeline went backwards.
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