Ok I'm fully delivered. When I arrived I found my car parked out front. They let me into the car before accepting delivery. I was able to do the full checklist and had zero pressure from anyone to accept before I wanted to. I've attached my delivery checklist. As far as issues, there were scratches on the front driver side bumper that they got the detailing folks and were able to mostly buff out immediately right then and there. Very accommodating bunch of people. I think someone else mentioned this, the stitching on the white interior is weird. I thought it was wrong but my mom who was there with me said she saw it on other cars too. The stitching looks like they only stitched one side and didn't stitch the other on a seam. There were no panel gap issues... Well, not really. My car's trunk was obviously closer to one side than the other when I looked closely but it didn't impede opening and closing. We compared it to the demo next to it and that car had the same "issue". There was no additional road noise from this and I'm not considering it an issue. Honestly there were no issues worth noting. I mean, if you were super picky some areas were a little dirty but it's a white interior, what would you expect, yaknow?
I was able to meet my SA that I had been communicating with during the whole process and she was lovely. The whole gang up front was responsive. Getting my phone set up as the key went without a hitch. As soon as I sat in the car to take it home I will guiltily admit that I did buy the acceleration boost upgrade. It was an instant process and I was too scared to break the car and did really get to test it out.
Some Tesla guy came by as I was finishing up my checklist, the only guy I didn't know any backstory on. He asked if I had waited too long and I was like "Yes. and yall need to shoot whoever is responsible for the EDD." I explained how the "delivery is dependent on location, product ordered, etc" is bullhockey and they need to be more straight forward. I proposed a solution and he countered with some insight that I'm going to try to convey without adding my own inferences:
This quarter's EDD SNAFUs were because they were attempting to change how EDD was calculated to be MORE accurate but instead ended up making it worse. He said that this was exacerbated by the supply shortages making things even worse. He also said that performance and standard range DO get delivered a little more what would seem unpredictably because less popular models are easier to "slot in" compared to the most in demand models.
I countered that there was no rhyme or reason because I saw people that ordered after me getting VINs and he didn't have an explanation for it. This guy seemed suspiciously informed and I didn't know his role in the larger hierarchy. I did let him know generally our overall experiences this quarter and he didn't sound surprised but more like he thought this quarter was an exception.
OK let's see, what else do we normally get asked. I ordered 4/11, I received my VIN 6/22 and my delivery date was 6/26. My VIN, as I mentioned, ended in 9998XX and was manufactured 6/2021 based on the sticker on the door sill. Tesla vision autopilot autosteer is OK. Not as good as my mom's 2018 Volvo XC60. The sound system is fantastic. It hit 103 today here in the Seattle area and the AC was able to easily cool it down 30 degrees in 3 minutes. My car's roof tint was enough to handle the heat, I am not going to need the Tesla roof sun shade I bought. The Youtube app is broken and Google says it's not secure enough, so don't count on being able to use that.
Oh, I asked why my phone didn't get access to my car 24 hours before the appointment. They said they used to do that but owners were honking horns etc. Now you get access to the car via app during delivery. I was fully signed out of the app when they gave my phone app access so I cannot speak to what's best for that.
Anything I forgot to cover, my ordering brethren?
