At what point did you (and can you) request a hold? My delivery person hasn’t reached out to me yet.
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Yes, cancel the order. Re-order later.
Absent at least a $5k discount to accept a '23 VIN, you're looking at a major loss should someone run into you or a tree falls on your car and it's totaled.
Plus this encourages Tesla's chronic bad behavior in selling "day old bread" at full price.
Trust me, they'll bend you over on trade-in for being "an old model year" so why let them do it to you twice?
n2mb_racing
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You can request a hold once your VIN is assigned. Just say you want a two week hold. You won't be able to accept delivery.
If you're close to your service center, take a drive out there and go find the car on the lot and look at it. Could either completely rule it out or rule it in for you.
RE: Fremont - possibly related to what appears to be a production shutdown/delay in MS vins for January production. My understanding is that S and 3 are not on the same production line, but maybe there are some linkages.
Tesla Model 3 Highland delivery from Fremont expected by the end of Q1 2024
Tesla begins trial production of upgraded Model 3 at Fremont factory
Tesla Model 3 Highland delivery from Fremont expected by the end of Q1 2024
Tesla begins trial production of upgraded Model 3 at Fremont factory
I don't think Model S production is going right now, it seems very quiet here, no new VINs assigned yet.
I agree, it has been pretty calm these past couple days. Personally, I'll be interested to see what happens. Back on December 17th my estimated delivery date was December 31 - February 4. However, on January 1st my estimated delivery date updated to January 5 - January 26. So, even though they pushed out the start of the delivery window, I'm surprised that they also shortened the end of the window.
I know that January 5th is another pipe dream on Tesla's side but these next couple days will be interesting as we all try to see what is happening with production.
rugar760
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Anytime upon receipt of the VIN. I waited couple of days and requested the hold via App messaging.
Production is done in batches, so you'll start hearing about vin assignments/deliveries again soon (the most recent batch was seemingly less than a week or two ago with EOY deliveries). Outside of unusual circumstance, everything I've seen shows that Tesla's recent timeline has been pretty consistently right around a ~month turnaround
Which I'm sure means the front bumper camera comes right after I got my car
Oh well.Agree that it was previously running a month, maybe slightly less here in the Midwest. Present orders are running longer - my December 6th order is now a month old, and current EDD is Jan 28 - Mar 10, or about 2-3 months total. Many order holders are reporting longer than usual forecasted lead-times.
My Est. Delivery: January 3 - January 19, moving forward day by day.
Furthermore (speculation) similar to my company Tesla Model S units all ship to rest of world from California. At year end they prioritize US shipments as overseas freight is Highly unpredictable and they need units sales to close out the quarter. In January they likely do a mass export to ROW including Canada as they have no rush to make numbers. I suspect the big gap lead time in January to March is to fulfill those out of US existing orders. You don’t ship overseas 1 at a time. The need bulk lots to reduce costs.
I got a vin assigned today MS LR Red, cream inside 19 inch autopilot steering wheel Ordered 11/21 59PF530
WTF!!!
WTF!!!
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n2mb_racing
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Ask what the build date is. Is it PF591xx?
There's going to be a lot of '23s floating around for a while.
Wow, got to be from last year production, ask for build date. I can't believe they are still building 2023
This data aggregated at the US level is saying 219 MS in inventory, presumably all '23's?
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