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My pick-up appointment is on Saturday at 10AM - finally feeling like reality. Saturday will be day 97 since I ordered (April 18). What a LONG wait it has been.
M3 LR, Blue, 18in aero, no FSD.
M3 LR, Blue, 18in aero, no FSD.
hafnium911
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Ouch
I wonder if white paint is more common so there will be a bigger batch made for the base configurations?I hate to point this out, but I ordered 6/16 (white/white, 18", no FSD) and I was notified about my VIN on Monday morning. Talking with the KC folks, they said that cars for our area get transported by train to Chicago and then trucked down to KC. My current EDD is 7/24-7/28 now and has been for a day and a half. I'm thinking if your car was ready that it should have been on that same train as mine to Chicago. Have you talked to any local Tesla folks there in Chicago to see if that might be the case?
scenicroadways
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No, I've had a bunch of them too. It started out as good as late July, then kept moving right, then REALLY far right to end of Sept, then back again to late Aug-Sept. The default 10-16 could be a good sign for you because many have gotten VINS right after that. I keep checking local inventory because it's so hard to wait...
jrmt23
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No clue, I don't understand Tesla's logistics.Ouch
The Model 3 Performance isn't a common configuration (in relation to SR+/LR cars) but they definitely got VINs sooner.
Madison order (pickup in Schaumburg) and still at 8/25-9/14. I wonder if our orders would come in at same time.
And I think the cars were in Chicago yesterday. Rumour is some getting to Canada tmrrw.
GasWho
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scenicroadways
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Thats great info to know! I figured Chicago would be a "hub" which made me think I would get my car sooner. It must just be random though, or depend on what colors and configurations they made. Have not talked to anyone from Tesla yet.
I would guess that we would receive our vehicles at the same time considering we received vin on the same day. My window still shows July 29 - Aug 4. Haven’t heard anything from Tesla either
I think it could depend on whether or not your state is a "ZEV" state:
State clean car programs—requiring that a certain percentage of new vehicle sales in a state be EVs or other zero-emission vehicles—are considered a key regulatory tool driving adoption of fuel efficient and electric vehicles. Twelve states—Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington—have adopted California’s low-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicle regulations for light-duty vehicles, with Washington enacting legislation in 2020 and Virginia in 2021.
- State Lawmakers Driving EV Policies in 2021
I was a little surprised that they all go to Chicago with KC being literally right in the middle of the country and having a lot of rail routes coming in, but I'm getting the sense that Chicago is the hub for most of the upper midwest. If they are going to truck cars from there all the way to KC instead of using rail directly here, I imagine nearly anyone from the Dakotas to maybe the Louisville area will have their car routed through Chicago, probably including some cars going into Canada.
ETA: This is pure speculation on my part, at least as to which areas use Chicago as a hub. It's NOT speculation (insofar as you can trust the sales associates) that Tesla ships cars from Fremont to Chicago via rail and then trucks, at least to KC. That seems like pretty solid info and matches up with the timelines I've been given since getting my VIN earlier this week.
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Yeah that's 3 of us now with 6/22 Chicago orders and that EDD!
Delivery scheduled for 7/31 at 10 a.m. (home delivery, which I wasn't expecting, see you there @blkgenius !). Got a text with a link to schedule it, didn't get an e-mail (got an e-mail a half hour later saying about the same thing, even though I had already scheduled), didn't hear back from my SA.
Pumped! Now need to work out the "financing is good until 7/29" thing with USAA but I have to imagine they can sort that out somehow.
Pumped! Now need to work out the "financing is good until 7/29" thing with USAA but I have to imagine they can sort that out somehow.
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M3_p0\/\/3r
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Mike8403
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I hope they can sort that out for you as well. Mine will probably be over the 90 days as well.
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