Wiki Model S Delivery Update

[aerodyne]

<pendantic>
I wish everyone would stop calling it a tilting screen (which means up/down) and call it a swiveling screen (left/right). Tilting really is the wrong word (look it up).
</pedantic>

Not according to Tesla. Look at the order page.

Tesla is always right.../s

 

[aerodyne]

How many people put boring 19" wheels and boring white paint on a Plaid order. ;-)

I'm going for mileage -- rated at 396 in that config (I'm sure the white paint will improve the mileage). The June-Aug delivery target put me over the top. "Gosh dear, this car sure is peppy" is a nice to have but I hypermile all the time (the current Raven Ludicrous is sitting at 285 whours/mile lifetime average -- after several Wisconsin winters). I'd be in an LR if the durn things were gonna be delivered this decade.

I think the 19's are ok with the covers off, and a MY or after market center cap added.

Wish I stuck with white. Red is almost as hot in the Sun as black.

 

[WilliamG]

Does anyone have a NF479 order? I am curious what your birthday for the car was. Trying to gauge travel time from the factory. Stopped by my local store and 479's were just recently dropped off.

NF479 here. May 30th birthday.

 

[EMEV]

Interesting that we have reports of a NF482 built in June and a NF479 built in May 30th. If the number are not linear/sequential (meaning random within a range) then Tesla is building thousands of car per week.

 

[omarsultan]

I think the 19's are ok with the covers off, and a MY or after market center cap added.

Wish I stuck with white. Red is almost as hot in the Sun as black.

I got the 19s purely as a pragmatic choice for my AS tires, but they grew on me over the winter.

 

[Ormond]

If I look at the price breakdown on the app, it shows the base price of the car as $76,900 with a $53,090 Plaid upgrade. (This was when the price was $129,990 for Plaid and $94,990 for LR). Could that have been what you saw?

That could be it.

 

[aerodyne]

If I look at the price breakdown on the app, it shows the base price of the car as $76,900 with a $53,090 Plaid upgrade. (This was when the price was $129,990 for Plaid and $94,990 for LR). Could that have been what you saw?

My Monrony is also inaccurate with s price way lower than what I paid last Oct. Are not these things legally supposed to be correct?

 

[Ormond]

….So what was wrong with the bumper?

I could see it wasn’t fitted correctly. I’m not sure why it needs replacement—perhaps it has to do with the missing clip. The service man said it would have to be replaced.

@jebinc I am paying cash, so I wasn’t worried about loan rates.

 

[BPeter]

My Monrony is also inaccurate with s price way lower than what I paid last Oct. Are not these things legally supposed to be correct?

Yeah and I think they're supposed to be installed on the window. Tesla plays fast and loose with these, no one really cares and hasn't sued them yet over it.

 

[aerodyne]

I could see it wasn’t fitted correctly. I’m not sure why it needs replacement—perhaps it has to do with the missing clip. The service man said it would have to be replaced.

@jebinc I am paying cash, so I wasn’t worried about loan rates.

Be curious that know where the clip was.

A screw holds the aft upper ends of the bumper cover to the fender, attached via a rivnut in the fender. Screw was cross threaded, partly installed, and rivnut torn out.

I put a vice grip on the nut, removed the screw, chased the threads, and reinstalled the screw into the nut holding on with vice grips until seated.

If I let the SvC do it, who knows what would happen.

 

[EightYears]

Interesting that we have reports of a NF482 built in June and a NF479 built in May 30th. If the number are not linear/sequential (meaning random within a range) then Tesla is building thousands of car per week.

My NF482 has a 6/13 Bday.

 

[cwanja]

Interesting that we have reports of a NF482 built in June and a NF479 built in May 30th. If the number are not linear/sequential (meaning random within a range) then Tesla is building thousands of car per week.

They are not built in order so that people cannot guess quarterly production numbers.

 

[EMEV]

My NF482 has a 6/13 Bday.

In 13 days we had 3,000 cars built? The numbers have to be random within a range - and the "random" range seems to be 3,000 given the examples above.

 

[EMEV]

They are not built in order so that people cannot guess quarterly production numbers.

That is what I meant by my previous "random within a range" comment - and the range seems to be around 3,000 (for now). It cannot be random without a range or else they would run out of numbers...

 

[jebinc]

I could see it wasn’t fitted correctly. I’m not sure why it needs replacement—perhaps it has to do with the missing clip. The service man said it would have to be replaced.

@jebinc I am paying cash, so I wasn’t worried about loan rates.

@Ormond Did the same. It’s good to have few constraints/anchors that limit the optimization of solutions! Way to go on the rejection!

 

[jebinc]

In 13 days we had 3,000 cars built? The numbers have to be random within a range - and the "random" range seems to be 3,000 given the examples above.

No, more likely it means they pieced together some previously and partially built bastards that they now are stitching together for EoQ delivery goals!

 

[jebinc]

You might loose your deposit and place in line. With today's price hike, maybe consider keeping it and selling after 3 months...

Tesla offered a reject that they determined needed repair…. That’s much different than a picky customer rejecting a good car because they didn’t like the way that car looked back at them!

 

[zoomer0056]

Things tilt right or left or backwards or forwards. Swiveling is turning around a point or axis. So call it what you want! I would call it a tilting screen but I really don’t care since mine is fixed and sturdy.

Telescope backwards or forwards, turn (swivel) left or right, tilt up or down, swish it all around .... just sayin'.

 

[mswlogo]

How many people put boring 19" wheels and boring white paint on a Plaid order. ;-)

Agree on boring white. Mine is not a Plaid.

I was planning on getting other wheels but after adding TWRAPS to calipers I really like the 19” with covers on and plan on keeping it that way.

And it’s hard to beat the efficiency. Check out Trip A. That’s a round trip. I’ll use that extra range way more often than I’d ever use the extra power.

 

[zoomer0056]

Agree on boring white. Mine is not a Plaid.

I was planning on getting other wheels but after adding TWRAPS to calipers I really like the 19” with covers on and plan on keeping it that way.

And it’s hard to beat the efficiency. Check out Trip A. That’s a round trip. I’ll use that extra range way more often than I’d ever use the extra power.

Trip A must be city miles.