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FrozenExplorer
Member
Congrats! Love the reference, very clever! I went with "DELTA T", an ode to my academic/professional background and changing times. Sadly, no car to attach it to
Schmozy
Member
Ok, so on a completely different topic: I'm fairly new here. What's up the all the squirrel avatars? I know folks set them as some sort of good luck charm, but what started that whole craze?
People use squirrel avatars to help influence getting their car earlier. Like a rabbits foot, something people do that IMO has no bearing on when you get a car.
I'm also interested in understanding the pattern. Those who got their VINs, what was the time between the "Get to know your Model 3" email and VIN?
ClinScientist
Member
Yeah, I feel the same way. I don’t want a rushed to deliver car. Especially since we’ve waited this long already! If it makes you feel any better: from a source that works at the factory: most days they’re just sitting around waiting for parts, so there’s not a lot of rushing going on. Many days they ask him to not come in and/or leave early.
quick feeler, not sure if this appropriate for this forum.
I received my LR AWD 3 weeks ago, and it is an amazing car, maybe best I've ever driven, but my lower back is disagreeing with seating position, elect power, maybe primary right foot driving, so I think I may sell if I can get out close to whole. Seems used ones are quite high, any tips from the waiting room on best way to liquidate a 3 week old car with less than 2k miles?
I received my LR AWD 3 weeks ago, and it is an amazing car, maybe best I've ever driven, but my lower back is disagreeing with seating position, elect power, maybe primary right foot driving, so I think I may sell if I can get out close to whole. Seems used ones are quite high, any tips from the waiting room on best way to liquidate a 3 week old car with less than 2k miles?
Ok ok ok I get it, but counter point, how many on this page without the squirrel avatar got their car quicker?! Hmmmm??
shipwreck75
Member
For my other Utah people. I got an update from a person I kept in contact with that works delivery support. I’ve been told that I will be taking delivery next week and having a vin before the end of this week. Really hoping this will be true. I ordered 6/11. She informed me that while the edd can be accurate for most people, it’s not the case for everyone right now. I have a large 20 day gap in my august 12-September 1 date and would point to me not being near a vin, but she assured me that’s not the case even if it’s not more narrow.
In SoCal. I ordered week of 6/27 Model 3 long range AWD, gray ext, black int, aero 18", autopilot, no FSD. Waiting on VIN with EDD 8/24-9/13
Extant
he/him
Wow, this is really killing me!
I ordered 7/12, and my EDD is 9/5-9/25, has been for several days, while I see everyone else with similar or later order dates and EDDs for late August early September! Do they send the cars in a slower trucks to Midwestern states? Or is the influence of the big three that powerful in this area?
Anyway, very happy for those who have been getting VINs and have EDDs within a week or two. I can't wait to be there guys!
I ordered 7/12, and my EDD is 9/5-9/25, has been for several days, while I see everyone else with similar or later order dates and EDDs for late August early September! Do they send the cars in a slower trucks to Midwestern states? Or is the influence of the big three that powerful in this area?
Anyway, very happy for those who have been getting VINs and have EDDs within a week or two. I can't wait to be there guys!
Southern California here.....I ordered July 5 - LR AWD, White, 18" aero wheels, no FSD. Still no VIN, though my EDD shows 8/17-9/6
Extant
he/him
I think that the "Get to know your Model 3" is a new thing. My guess is that it was motivated by the longer lead times and people getting antsy and wanting to cancel their orders and buy other cars. I was on the fence a couple of weeks ago and stopped looking because my EDD finally appeared and it wasn't November. Many people have other stuff going on in their lives and asking them to wait several months for a car is not feasible, no matter how good or cool it is (or both!).
When I went to RSVP, I had choices of dates going into September. My first thought was "so they already know I won't get my car before the last of these chats happens? Otherwise, what's the point of getting to know my car if I have been driving it for a couple of weeks..."
Sorry, long winded answer to say, we don't know yet. The best way to get an idea of trends is to contribute and check The Worksheet. I don't have a link handy, but you can find it by searching this thread.
Keep in mind that the contributions there are far from a statistical random sample, so they are skewed. I spent some time playing with numbers a couple of weeks ago and one thing that stuck in my mind was that since April/May the average time between order and VIN was 39 days. It is probably longer now.
Extant
he/him
Congrats! I wonder if putting on hold and then resuming is the same as a new order.
I just posted a message about the average time between order and VIN being 39 days for orders in the April/May time frame. You are right on the mark!
ellingmel
Member
Whelp -was supposed to pick my car up tomorrow. It was supposed to be delivered to Spokane on the 6th. Delayed - to be in Spokane today. They called 15 minutes before they closed today to tell me it won't be there till Friday. Scheduled now to pick up on Saturday. Agony. Especially since I took the day off work tomorrow and told everyone they would see it on Thursday - will be pulling up in my Nissan
Extant
he/him
Wow, I thought that when my EDD went from non-existent to November to the current one that meant that the US factory was finally operating at full speed. I hope the trickle of parts doesn't stop.
scenicroadways
Member
It's also weird that the performance only has a 4-7 week timeframe. Somehow they have enough parts for that one. Or maybe it just gets so few orders that they can usually always fulfill them easily.
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