Wiki Model S Delivery Update

[josahua]

Yeah that interior trim is much better. I had to slow it down but the car they assigned me you'd notice it instantly.

Sorry Tigers. Will they honor the price before all of the increases after you reject?

 

[LucaRiv]

Basically "everything's in spec" was the worst thing they couldve said and I felt like they were just blowing *sugar* off.

specification at Tesla and Audi

 

[IamGaryGnu]

Ok lol I wouldn't get my hopes up for 100 miles of range on the S too much lol. We've yet to see AFAIK the 2022 range for the MS. You may remember that I posted here that this is big because any range increases will be in there. Because the auto industry typically updates cars for the new model year and not on the fly, the EPA only tests them once a year for that model year. So unless Tesla creates another model, or changes the name of a current car to get it retested (as was the case with the LR MS going to LR+ MS in order to get rated at 402 miles), the range for the MS is set for that year.
Basically, my point is that if there are to be any increases within model year 2022, Tesla will most likely change them at that switchover time. They could always unofficially claim the range, but it wouldn't be EPA AFAIK.
As far as those increases go though, I've heard that there is possibly around 10-15% more in these cars as they sit. So figure around 440 to 460 miles for the MS DM 19". Wouldn't be 100 miles sadly though.

FWIW my buddy’s Polestar 2 which he loves, is getting its range crushed in the cold weather, and keeps losing lte connectivity, where he has to go to the service center to get LTE to work again. They’re supposed to release a fix for that in about a month.
Tesla is so far ahead of everyone else it is laughable.
i looked online at the EQS and can’t get myself jazzed.
i want my blue baby, tech n all!

 

[Tigers]

Sorry Tigers. Will they honor the price before all of the increases after you reject?

I didn't ask but assumed. If they don't, I can find something else.

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Not even. The 11 year old prius I've been driving is built better. I can't believe these people shoving dash trim pieces in and then saying "it's in there now!" Ugh WTF

 

[DBV1]

These are my floor mats. The quality is amazing. Ordered from Teslarati. They say 2020-2021, but another guy has them in his new refreshed Model S

Those look great, except for the logo. I thought I read that one of those mats does not fit well since they were not made for the refresh. I wish Tesla All-Weather liners were available.

 

[Hayseed_MS]

I did not post through the night - I did not want to interrupt a @uthatcher and @2021plaid moment.

 

[mikera14]

Dec 1 at Alpharetta, noon... when you picking up?

I'll be easy to spot. I'll be wearing this. hahah

Did you get your delivery pushed back to 12/1 from this week or was 12/1 your original delivery appt? I'm picking up in Alpharetta on 12/2 but was originally supposed to be 11/27 - they said the truck was delayed or something

 

[Sigma4Life]

After 10 long months I finally took delivery of my car last night, 2 days before my scheduled delivery date.

I was told last week that my car should arrive on Monday and be ready for delivery on Wednesday. Being paranoid of shipping delays I went up to the service center at 5pm Monday to ask in person if the car has indeed arrive. They confirmed it was on the premises. Like any self respecting reservation holder I immediately searched the parking lot for my car and found it in pristine condition on the side of the building. It was about 50% through installing 2021.40.6. I immediately checked Tesla Software Update Release Notes - Latest Tesla Updates and was happy to see that’s the latest version available.

I proceeded to linger for about 15 minutes walking around the car, taking pictures. Just as I had gotten back in my car and was preparing to leave a Tesla employee walked out to check the car. I immediately hopped out of my car and started a quick convo about the car and that I was awaiting delivery on Wednesday but I was hoping to get it sooner, like tomorrow if possible. He said he’d go inside and talk to a deliver specialist with more info.

Ten minutes later he returns and said they were preparing my paper work and I could pick it up tonight. My jaw would have hit the pavement if I wasn’t grinning so widely. An hour later I was driving home with my car.

After waiting 10 months and being delayed 8 months from the expected April delivery, getting it 2 days early was a nice gift.

It was dark by the time I took delivery, but I have a few pictures from before delivery when I was stalking the car.

 

[Bonelaw]

Rejected VIN Nov19. EDD went to February Yesterday. Today got EDD of Dec11-Dec25. Again just an FYI for people considering rejecting VIN

 

[Dknj23]

After 10 long months I finally took delivery of my car last night, 2 days before my scheduled delivery date.

I was told last week that my car should arrive on Monday and be ready for delivery on Wednesday. Being paranoid of shipping delays I went up to the service center at 5pm Monday to ask in person if the car has indeed arrive. They confirmed it was on the premises. Like any self respecting reservation holder I immediately searched the parking lot for my car and found it in pristine condition on the side of the building. It was about 50% through installing 2021.40.6. I immediately checked Tesla Software Update Release Notes - Latest Tesla Updates and was happy to see that’s the latest version available.

I proceeded to linger for about 15 minutes walking around the car, taking pictures. Just as I had gotten back in my car and was preparing to leave a Tesla employee walked out to check the car. I immediately hopped out of my car and started a quick convo about the car and that I was awaiting delivery on Wednesday but I was hoping to get it sooner, like tomorrow if possible. He said he’d go inside and talk to a deliver specialist with more info.

Ten minutes later he returns and said they were preparing my paper work and I could pick it up tonight. My jaw would have hit the pavement if I wasn’t grinning so widely. An hour later I was driving home with my car.

After waiting 10 months and being delayed 8 months from the expected April delivery, getting it 2 days early was a nice gift.

It was dark by the time I took delivery, but I have a few pictures from before delivery when I was stalking the car.

Congrats she's a beauty.

 

[Hayseed_MS]

Rejected VIN Nov19. EDD went to February Yesterday. Today got EDD of Dec11-Dec25. Again just an FYI for people considering rejecting VIN

Is pricing staying the same?

 

[2101Guy]

Is pricing staying the same?

everyone gets one free rejection, is my understanding

 

[Bill Price]

Where is @Bill Price ?

Right here...........how may I hinder you?

 

[Bill Price]

Hey, congrats! Im a little behind at 12,043, but who’s counting?

At least two by my count?

 

[Bonelaw]

Is pricing staying the same?

Yes

 

[Hayseed_MS]

everyone gets one free rejection, is my understanding

For me, it was most of high school...

 

[GrnSqrl]

Right here...........how may I hinder you?

I figured that was worthy of a “that’s what she said”.

 

[rdmdriving]

OK - well, I haven't yet officially, but will be rejecting the delivery. They did let me drive the car (which was great for a quick 10 minute test drive, talk more about that in a sec) but this particular VIN aint it.

In the bright sunshine today I get to the lot with the car and I get to see it. Things I notice instantly:

- the passenger rear door is both high and slightly bulges out and may or may not be somewhat crooked (look at the pics below, the driver's side rear door and the passenger side rear door).

- then, I notice that the rear bumper is super tight on one side, and looks half tight but not all the way on the other side. Hard to tell when it isn't bright outside, but when it is, I could clearly see some bumper clips were missing, causing there to be a 1-2 mm gap. Not the absolute end of the world, but not great.

-then, I notice that the edges (maybe, .5 - 1 inch ish) of the white lower dashboard interior trim is sticking out, where I can clearly see a gap between the silver trim and white dash trim. On the other side of the dash (passenger side) also edge sticking out. They told me it clips in and all cars look like that... uhm, no. Many of you guys know ive asked you about this or commented about. The trim seemed to be, idk, slightly bent? The tesla people shoved it back in but it started slowing coming apart again.

- the doors aren't flush with the body and depending on what you want to blame that on, hard to tell, but looking at both sides of the car's doors have wierd alignment issues, where part of the door is fully flush to the body, other parts arent.

- then, i feel around the rubber gaskets of the doors, and it is completely ****ed up on each door. Some of the rubber trim sticks out in places, other places the window goes in improperly.

So - to the part where I drive it:

They ask me to bring the car over to the service center (about 2 miles away) from the holding lot. So my luck I get to drive it. Thoughts:

- It was sort of a loud-ish cabin, a little louder than I expected, but a big reason I think is because its big ass car with half of it being hollow missing the shelves, but it wasnt bad, just not amazing. No crazy rattles and the road was a little rough.

- I floored it, felt great

- I LOVE the yoke, its so freaking cool! It feels like driving a video game or something. I honestly was most nervous about this and I thought it was AWESOME. Its so great. My biggest takeaway is that the yoke is a must have in all tesla cars.

- The visibility out of the front windshield is awesome. Like an IMAX screen. Way better than expected. Car does feel big (mostly in the ass) but definitely feels agile, and moves effortlessly which I love.

- I love the 17 inch infotainment screen. It needs a tilt function though. For real.

- I have had other EVs and Teslas and the model s drives just like the model 3 but feels more quality and less go-karty.

So - where I'm at:

- I haven't officially declined the car, I told them I'd go home to think about it. Technically, I never "accepted delivery" (thank god), so they said theyd cancel it and refund me and put me back in line for one for next spring if i want.

- This is a case where a lot of *sugar* added up. Not one thing was a major dealbreaker (the door is pretty bad imo), the interior trim coming loose from the dash and sticking out is just 100% absolutely LAUGHABLE in an $100k car. Terrible design.

- Tesla told me everything I complained about was "in spec" and they measured all of the gaps. It was "well, its a little off here and there but all in spec, there's just variability in manufacturing"....and with the interior trim as the guy was shoving it back under the silver trim piece "hey look man, it looks right now doesnt it?" Basically "everything's in spec" was the worst thing they couldve said and I felt like they were just blowing *sugar* off.

- I'm going to ask for a refund in the AM, put a hold on my account until mid-to-late Jan, and give them another shot. if the next one looks like this, I'm going to go with something else. A $50k model 3 would be suspect with this, a $100k Model S is not acceptable with this level of detail.

Other Note:

- The car was dirty, the exterior still had adhesive all over it and it had not been washed. There were black finger prints on my white center console still. That's how they were going to deliver this car to me. Incredible.

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I don’t have any advice for you per se, but I thought I’d just share a thought. My 2019 MS “Raven” Performance had a blemish in the paint beneath the clear coat which my SA pointed out proactively when I took delivery and told me to take it into a particular local body shop that would repair it and send the bill to Tesla. The body shop was excellent. They did a great job and got it back to me within 2 days. Anyway, my point is that if you could get them to cover the cost of going to a local shop where someone will take the time to not just push out a unit from Fremont but actually give the car some local love, you may end up with a better car. Obviously, this only applies if it’s alignment and cosmetics, not the actual guts of the car. Just a thought.

 

[aerodyne]

About 12/9...

Elon tweets strange stuff quite often. Many be as a often as not.

Plan for a possible 2 week slip to 4-20.

Expect, with some reservation, another blow out quarter/EOY.

I really don't think I would accept a delivery in Dec or January.

 

[Bull]

OK - well, I haven't yet officially, but will be rejecting the delivery. They did let me drive the car (which was great for a quick 10 minute test drive, talk more about that in a sec) but this particular VIN aint it.

In the bright sunshine today I get to the lot with the car and I get to see it. Things I notice instantly:

- the passenger rear door is both high and slightly bulges out and may or may not be somewhat crooked (look at the pics below, the driver's side rear door and the passenger side rear door).

- then, I notice that the rear bumper is super tight on one side, and looks half tight but not all the way on the other side. Hard to tell when it isn't bright outside, but when it is, I could clearly see some bumper clips were missing, causing there to be a 1-2 mm gap. Not the absolute end of the world, but not great.

-then, I notice that the edges (maybe, .5 - 1 inch ish) of the white lower dashboard interior trim is sticking out, where I can clearly see a gap between the silver trim and white dash trim. On the other side of the dash (passenger side) also edge sticking out. They told me it clips in and all cars look like that... uhm, no. Many of you guys know ive asked you about this or commented about. The trim seemed to be, idk, slightly bent? The tesla people shoved it back in but it started slowing coming apart again.

- the doors aren't flush with the body and depending on what you want to blame that on, hard to tell, but looking at both sides of the car's doors have wierd alignment issues, where part of the door is fully flush to the body, other parts arent.

- then, i feel around the rubber gaskets of the doors, and it is completely ****ed up on each door. Some of the rubber trim sticks out in places, other places the window goes in improperly.

So - to the part where I drive it:

They ask me to bring the car over to the service center (about 2 miles away) from the holding lot. So my luck I get to drive it. Thoughts:

- It was sort of a loud-ish cabin, a little louder than I expected, but a big reason I think is because its big ass car with half of it being hollow missing the shelves, but it wasnt bad, just not amazing. No crazy rattles and the road was a little rough.

- I floored it, felt great

- I LOVE the yoke, its so freaking cool! It feels like driving a video game or something. I honestly was most nervous about this and I thought it was AWESOME. Its so great. My biggest takeaway is that the yoke is a must have in all tesla cars.

- The visibility out of the front windshield is awesome. Like an IMAX screen. Way better than expected. Car does feel big (mostly in the ass) but definitely feels agile, and moves effortlessly which I love.

- I love the 17 inch infotainment screen. It needs a tilt function though. For real.

- I have had other EVs and Teslas and the model s drives just like the model 3 but feels more quality and less go-karty.

So - where I'm at:

- I haven't officially declined the car, I told them I'd go home to think about it. Technically, I never "accepted delivery" (thank god), so they said theyd cancel it and refund me and put me back in line for one for next spring if i want.

- This is a case where a lot of *sugar* added up. Not one thing was a major dealbreaker (the door is pretty bad imo), the interior trim coming loose from the dash and sticking out is just 100% absolutely LAUGHABLE in an $100k car. Terrible design.

- Tesla told me everything I complained about was "in spec" and they measured all of the gaps. It was "well, its a little off here and there but all in spec, there's just variability in manufacturing"....and with the interior trim as the guy was shoving it back under the silver trim piece "hey look man, it looks right now doesnt it?" Basically "everything's in spec" was the worst thing they couldve said and I felt like they were just blowing *sugar* off.

- I'm going to ask for a refund in the AM, put a hold on my account until mid-to-late Jan, and give them another shot. if the next one looks like this, I'm going to go with something else. A $50k model 3 would be suspect with this, a $100k Model S is not acceptable with this level of detail.

Other Note:

- The car was dirty, the exterior still had adhesive all over it and it had not been washed. There were black finger prints on my white center console still. That's how they were going to deliver this car to me. Incredible.

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Looks to me like it might be a repaint too. The bulging paint thickness at the door edges can be a clue. Do you have access to a paint thickness gauge?