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We need to have a giant celebration when you finally get your vin. For real….
I hate myself for how much I’ve spent so far, and still have to spend when I pick it up
Believe me, everyone here will know the second I get it. I even have the picture picked out to make the announcement.
Nfletcher
Member
There is someone on here that you can pay via Venmo or maybe with some Doge to make that prediction. He hasn’t been very accurate but eventually after a few tries, the prediction comes true.
He's got one day left on my prediction of getting a VIN this weekend...There is someone on here that you can pay via Venmo or maybe with some Doge to make that prediction. He hasn’t been very accurate but eventually after a few tries, the prediction comes true.
Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is we got our Tesla!! If you have been following my earlier posts, we were assigned an older vin- 236,XXX with an older build date, and so were a little leary. We arrived at the dealership today with checklists and flashlights in hand ready to go over it with a fine tooth comb. We spent a good amount of time going over everything, and besides it being dirty, it looked good! All paint was good, panel gaps great, everything worked and passed our detailed inspection. Matrix headlights and Michelin tires. Our SA that helped us was SUPER- request Madi if you go to PDX, she was fantastic, super nice, allowed us as much time as we needed, helped us set up our phones once complete. Driving the car home was amazing- well the car drove ME home, as it calibrated very shortly and then autopilot the rest of the way! ;-)
I am 99.93523 percent sure this was a charge port missing car. At first I thought this because the car was dirty, and when i asked about it they said it had been sitting in a area with trees/pollen for a little while, along with many others waiting for parts, but wouldn’t say specifically charge port. Good news I thought, as i am ok with talking a car that was delayed for that reason. Drove home, washed the car, all good!
The bad news- in all our detailed inspection with multiple checklists, the ONE thing we didn’t do and no checklist said to do, was to stick your head up INSIDE the trunk. I was installing our floor mats, stuck my head inside, and looked up and saw THIS- NO LINER!!! ;-0 I was like WHAT?? Then it dawned on me, they must have to remove it to install the charge port pieces, and forgot to re-install??
In thinking about it, I dont think even if I had seen it that would have refused delivery- as it isn’t noticeable unless you stick your head in the trunk and look up. I will be setting up a service call to get it replaced/put back in, and who knows, maybe there is a tech at the PDX Tesla shop who is shaking his head right now trying to figure out why he has an extra trunk roof liner lying there . . .
#FocusingOnThePositives
PS- if you are in PDX and get assigned a M3 with a vin of 240,108, it does not have matrix headlights. You may not care, but if you do, heads up, as I walked the lot before I left and saw one without . . .
PPS- they had offered to take the car and have it washed, however it would have taken about another hour as they had to take it to a different location, and since we live on a farm with a 1/2 mile gravel driveway I decided not to worry about it. A touch annoying that it wasnt clean, but it shined right up when we got home and washed her. . .
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JB from the AZ
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Lol. I bought a cheap pressure washer at Sam’s ($40 off right now) and got the rain X spotless car wash and tried to wash on a 90 degree day in the sun. It’s not spotless and dried before I could hand dry, so ended up streaky. I know it’s my error, but it’s just not me to sunbathe outside while washing a car in AZ’s 115 “dry” heat.
Got hit with a 2 day pushback but I absorbed it to show Tesla I have what it takes. Didn't even check a VIN in the source code today. Actually this is a missed opportunity for Tesla, they should upsell people on the decals showing their high score as a badge of honor.
Congrats! Now I have to believe it's the thorough raking that did trick.Just confirmed delivery on 5/25 between 8am-12pm at my house.
It says they will be delivering the car at my house. Initially when I placed the order, it said delivery is not available so I opted to pick up at the Tesla dealership.
@T-J- it's gotta be coming any day, hour, second now. Your OD was 4,320 minutes right behind my OD. So here's to fingers crossed
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ChrgeMeUp
Member
I don’t raise a damn fuss about my wait. (Not much anyways) because I feel like yours needs to happen before mine. Lol.
Thanks for the encouragement! If it weren't for this community I'd be at my wits end.I read through your posts and can’t imagine what is going on at Tesla concerning your car. You got a VIN so have you toured the lot to see if it’s actually there? I agree with your sentiments, how can others have their car and not you. This sounds like a major screwup at your SC. It’s great how ‘calm’ you are. I would be ballistic and in someone’s face at the SC. It’s a let down to me to see someone who’s not done anything to screw up the order (making changes or such) get put off this way. I’m apprehensive your experience may be my experience when I try to get my car.
Hope the best for you happens soon.
Congrats!! Car looks great! Hopefully this is a testament of charge port ECUs finally getting sent out to SC's. Now let's hope some make their way down here to Florida so we can get our cars!
Starzwell
OD: October 28; M3LR MSM/Black/Aero/No FSD
Pretty sure nothing is missing. Or at least that’s the same way I have seen on all M3s (including my own)
JimInAllen
Member
Mine is VIN 247XXX and it doesn’t have a liner either, and I don’t recall ever having a car with a trunk deck liner.
Woke up to a new EDD! Pulled back 4 months.
EDD #4: 6/13-7/11
EDD #4: 6/13-7/11
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