I confirmed my delivery day as 9-15-2022. I'm considering tesla finance. However, the app doesn't give me the option because I initially indicated I would pay cash. Do I have to apply for Tesla Financing over the phone? Thanks.
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Don't worry, when they are ready to take your information, they will contact you.
EDD is a moving target as you might have read from the thread posted by multiple members. If you get a VIN assigned, you better be ready to take delivery. If the delivery rep is in good mood, you may push it a week or so, definitely for a month or more. Since you have a trade, why not just drive it to pickup the new car yourself instead of dragging your wife and baby with you?
We both need to be there to sign for the car.
Have yet to get inspected as I do not have my registration. Pickup date was 8/5/22. Local GM dealer, Klick Lewis had sold Teslas up till recently when the supply dried up. So, they know to lift them and inspect them. I will be going there after receiving my registration card.
Update: Tesla reached out to me to confirm delivery and offer an earlier delivery of 9/13/2022, which Im inclined to take. I asked them how do I initiate financing through Tesla. They then unlocked the feature in the app. I applied and got an instant approval of 4.49. So far, this is the best actual quote I have received. I may continue to look and refi if I find something substantially lower. P.S. I lost my wallet and it took me 7 hours to find. You can imagine what I was thinking. I know I need my ID to pick up the car. I have a 3 story home and searched it to the point of exhaustion. Right before giving up, I searched her car for the 3rd time and found it. Couldn't even watch my Chiefs lay down the law against the Cardinals.
Picking cash first even if you intend to finance is actually the best option, and what I've done for all of my deliveries due to the fact that the delivery date can continually get pushed out and lead to repeated hard credit pulls when the offer expires and needs to be renewed. This allows you to (of course) pay cash, find 3rd party financing, or use theirs.
Once you've confirmed your delivery date such as you have (but certainly not before you've been assigned a VIN), visit your service center in person (or call if it's not a short trip away) and tell them you want to switch to Tesla financing. They should be able to reset your payment method choice in a minute, then you can just sign in and pick a new one. I only say to visit in person asa lot of service centers redirect their calls to a central call center, which isn't always as helpful. Sometimes if you press the button for sales (which isn't a lie), you'll be routed to the guys there on the floor.
They put 4 strips of some kind of fabric tape on the underside of the housing that is behind the display. Looks cheap and temporary but it is doing the job of stopping the rattles for now.
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Leeclanual
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The tape is on the underside of the housing so you can’t see it unless your head is in the footwell.
WilliamG
Hinge Fanatic
How can that stop the rattles? The rattles are there because of the two plastic pieces that come together as a shroud. They seem to have just taped one piece, but not to the other… weird.
zoomer0056
Active Member
I’m not clear what two pieces you are referring to. Here is a photo of the upper side of the shroud if it helps.
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zoomer0056
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That pic is much better, it shows context. The other pic was zoomed in way too much. I am with @WilliamG in asking how does this solve the problem?
WilliamG
Hinge Fanatic
Here's a video of what I mean. Apologies to those that have seen it too many times... The rattle is because that top large piece is not secure against the bottom piece. Felt tape would (likely - since I haven't fixed this myself yet) need to wrap around that bottom right edge. I've tested this by when it rattles just putting my fingers back behind there and it shuts up.
I don’t have two pieces, it’s one piece and it doesn’t move up and down much.
WilliamG
Hinge Fanatic
It’s two pieces. It’s connected at the bottom. Yours may well be connected more firmly than mine, but it’s two pieces.
We as owners should not have to fix these minor issues ourselves but, we can find something better than tape! Even to jam the tip of a toothpick into the gap at two or three points around the display bezel would be better.. LOL
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