I collected from Trafford yesterday and was underwhelmed by the experience. My collection time was 1130 but it took me 20 minutes wandering around with the assistance of Google Maps to find the collection site. There was a queue, though when I was seen the process was quite quick.
The state of the car, though, was very bad.
View attachment 882717It was sandwiched between two others and frozen almost solid. It was filthy dirty.
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There wasn't much I could do to inspect it between the lack of room, the covering of ice and all the dirt. I checked it over as best I could. To add insult to injury, the car park was heavily salted and I ended up treading salt into the car.
There was condensation in the rear lights and the driver's door pillar camera.
I moved over to the Superchargers and connected it up, to find that I was automatically limited to an 80% charge due to the site being busy, and that, presumably because the LFP battery was a block of ice, the maximum I could get was 27kw. I drove it home and the cameras calibrated in a few miles, though I kept getting warnings abut the one on the driver's door pillar being blocked - whether that was the condensation or the low sun angle I am not sure.
I couldn't wash it when I got home because I had other things that I had to do, but mainly because my drive is sloping and doesn't drain that well, if I got it wet then it would be an ice rink today. The local hand car wash closed a month ago. I did take it out briefly yesterday evening, but since then it has been sitting on the granny charger (haven't got a wall box in yet) trying to get it to that magic 100% to calibrate. Fortunately I am WFH today, and may have a short window over lunchtime, but it is on the drive still frozen and still dirty.
I do need to use it tomorrow for an 80-odd mile round trip for work, so here's hoping.
The car seems ok but Tesla have to do a lot of work on the customer experience,