Working on narrowing down what I'm looking for in my first Tesla and curious to see what others who bought feel like they wish they had or feel like they were glad they got. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
So far I think my hit list is:
2016.5
EAP - Which I can always buy later.
Premium Sound
Pano roof
Would an extended warranty be worth it on one of the 16.5s?
Seeing you are in Arizona and based our own MS, I'd bring up whether you might want to look for one with ventilated seats. We love ours and it has gotten into the 90s-100s here so have appreciated it. Our car was Ordered 12/31/16, refreshed front, AP2 and Tesla offered the ventilated seats around that time so that's in the time frame I think you are looking. We love our Pano roof with the Tesla Sunshade to open it up sometimes and keep the bugs out for the most part. We have a 75D and my husband's one regret would be that he wished he had maybe ordered a larger battery, the 90D was available at that time. The 100D came out sometime after the 90D (and he would have ideally loved the 100D battery) however I think at that time the ventilated seats were eliminated for newer vegan seats by the time the 100D came out but could be wrong. The Model X was the only car that had the ventilated seats until this very brief offer period on the Model S.
We manage fine with the 75D but of course you always want more if you can. Not so much a problem with more Superchargers and destination chargers around if you travel. Our mobile charging kit came with all the major adapters--the J1772 would be our most used. We also ordered at the time when we got free supercharging for the lifetime of the car even if we sold it. So if you travel alot that might be something to consider as well.
We took our car in to Tesla when they started offered the uncorking. Mostly knew about it through this website but there could be others out there that weren't aware of it so might not have been done.
When we bought our car we paid extra for the Premium Upgrades package (what was included changed up as time went on) with autolift gate (nice to have as the rear hatch section is heavy), ventilated seats, fog lights, premium sound, forgot what else it came with but some of that was made standard later in 2017. Also bought EAP -- husband wouldn't order a car without, loves his TACC on the highway. We paid extra at that time for the cold weather package (rear heated seats, heated side mirrors, heated wipers). Had the parcel shelf too for the cargo area (might have been part of the premium package). BTW if the car has EAP you get not only TACC, Autosteer, but AutoPark, Summons and I think something else. You can't buy EAP now, just AP with TACC and Autosteer. The rest of the features EAP came with are now included under FSD.
The MS is a great car. Good luck in your search. Don't know if this will help but here's the config on our car (ordered 12/31/16, delivered 3/17).
No real issues with the car other than we had the MCU replaced once back in 1/2018 for the yellow border issue. It's appeared on the replacement as well. We did take our car in each year so far for the annual maintenance service which was sold at the time (don't know if they are still doing that but something to find out I guess). I believe if the original owner bought the extended warranty plan (not maintenance plan) that would pass on to the benefit of a second owner.
