Model X 5 Seat Deliveries

[Kincaid]

Wow, somebody is very confused. Thanks for the pictures, it actually looks like my piece except it folds. The forgot to put the piece which runs perpendicular to the floor and behind the seats for the panel to sit on.

I also think that they have it backwards as the edge with the lip should mate with the standard rear panel and remove the current gap which I have.

Now what is the SC's next move?

beths11: I actually showed the Sunnyvale Service Center techs your picture of the rear flooring as it is installed in your car. They were dumbfounded and had never seen anything like it. Ouch. I thereupon hounded them mercilessly about how the Tesla folks in Oregon could get things done while 20 miles from the Fremont factory everyone was scratching their heads. They took it in good humor, but I have not heard from them since Thursday's experience, despite being told they would quickly clear things up and call me on Friday. I'm old enough to know that was not likely to happen.

Gwgan: if they still have the folding shelf piece when I go back, I will try to get it for you. You are absolutely correct: it was the upper shelf for a Model X signature edition.

On a more positive note, I spent yesterday driving up to Squaw Valley from San Jose CA through rain, sleet, snow and hail. While I delivered no mail to anyone, it was a wonderful drive in a Model X: great traction through everything and definitely fun. Plus, there were Superchargers right there in Truckee to nuke up my batteries for the return trip home.

 

[Kincaid]

5 seat Model X rear trunk floor update: The service manager at the Sunnyvale, CA Service Center reports that he has no idea when the parts to complete the rear trunk floor will arrive. The delivery Specialist at the Fremont factory reports that he has no idea when the parts to complete the rear trunk floor will arrive.
Does this mean that the only person who to date has received a 5 seat Model X with a completed rear trunk floor is beths11? If that is the case, or if only one or two others now have 5 seat Model X vehicles with a completed rear trunk floor, that must mean that the Service Center that delivered beths11 vehicle created a flooring panel on its own. Very nice work. But the facts are that neither the Fremont factory nor the Sunnyvale Service Center can report back to me that a supplier who is manufacturing the rear trunk flooring panels will be delivering them to customers, over one month after the first 5 seat Model X rolled out the door in Fremont. We have a very strange development.

 

[SMS16]

I picked up one in Austin in late December that was fully assembled, no missing parts.

 

[Jrogville]

What's the status on recent deliveries? Are people getting deliveries with no missing parts now?

I picked up one in Austin in late December that was fully assembled, no missing parts.

That's good to hear. How about some photos of both floor levels at the cargo area?

 

[SMS16]

I'm out of town for a couple of weeks. Maybe when I return.

 

[Kincaid]

I'm out of town for a couple of weeks. Maybe when I return.

"Maybe?" "Maybe?" So let me confirm. In Austin, TX, the word "maybe" actually means "of course I will send several pictures the minute I get back. I have great sympathy for all you poor souls driving around in a 5 seat Model X with dark chasms behind your second row of seats instead of an actual floor."

That's what you meant to say, right?

 

[lunitiks]

Of course he meant that!

 

[SMS16]

that's exactly what it means in Austin, "undercommit, overdeliver"

 

[Kincaid]

that's exactly what it means in Austin, "undercommit, overdeliver"

Whew. Glad to hear it. Excellent approach.

 

[e1ake]

Called SC in NJ twice this week. No date whatsoever.

 

[Amp Dup]

My service adviser wrote me this morning:
"I found out on Friday that the cover behind the 2nd row seat assembly will be available end of March. Once it becomes available a notification will be sent to owners with 5 row seat configuration to schedule an appointment to have it install."

I wonder if that actually means April or May.

 

[PedanticOne]

My service adviser wrote me this morning:
"I found out on Friday that the cover behind the 2nd row seat assembly will be available end of March. Once it becomes available a notification will be sent to owners with 5 row seat configuration to schedule an appointment to have it install."

I wonder if that actually means April or May.

Did they specify a year?

 

[Kincaid]

My service adviser wrote me this morning:
"I found out on Friday that the cover behind the 2nd row seat assembly will be available end of March. Once it becomes available a notification will be sent to owners with 5 row seat configuration to schedule an appointment to have it install."

I wonder if that actually means April or May.

Your service advisor was clearly mistaken, or perhaps he was referring to a book cover, mattress cover, cover charge, pillow cover, or the sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model cover. I often cover up the fact that I just feel like going for a drive in my Tesla by telling people I am going to lunch with a cover girl.

As for the genuine, redesigned, rear trunk floor panels for the 5 seat Model X, they will all be delivered and installed tomorrow, for all of us, including those owners who may have previously been given those nasty, obsolete, experimental prototype floor panels. Of course, when I say "tomorrow," I mean it in the same way Mark Twain wrote it and with the same attitude Tesla implements it: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

The truth is I have been enjoying the increase in TSLA stock, driving the car, charging the batteries for free. We have all adjusted to waiting first for delivery of the car, and now autopilot software, summon software, and of course the mythical rear trunk floor panels. But let's face it: we're all having a very good time, are likely now very offended by gas stations and those vehicles slopping around with reciprocating piston gasoline engines, and have likely become very adverse to driving anything but a Tesla: floor or no floor.

 

[Amp Dup]

And don't forget the sound system! I haven't yet had the courage to tell my wife I'm going out to sit in my car for an hour and listen to music. But it's certainly the most comfortable seat and best acoustics in the household.

But you may have coined a term: the "Tesla Tomorrow"!

 

[Kincaid]

And don't forget the sound system! I haven't yet had the courage to tell my wife I'm going out to sit in my car for an hour and listen to music. But it's certainly the most comfortable seat and best acoustics in the household.

But you may have coined a term: the "Tesla Tomorrow"!

Careful. Now you've exposed all of us. I explain my mysterious walks to the garage by claiming "I need to get my work bench organized." Then I sit in the car, and give the audio system verbal commands to play songs I have not heard in 50 years. It always comes up with them, with infinitely better fidelity than I ever heard them when young. Yesterday's big score was "Play Beechwood 45789" and the Tesla audio system played it immediately. Sometimes I even turn on the seat heaters. It's pitiful.

 

[Amp Dup]

Ahah! "getting the workbench organized". I can use that!

 

[SMS16]

Here are the long awaited pictures.

 

[Amp Dup]

This is an excellent array of photos! I can't believe I'm about to complain...
That long flat area looks great. I want that. Here's my question is it strong enough for a 175 pound person to crawl around on? I envision rolling out a sleeping bag for an overnight at a dog sports event. I can't see what holds up the forward edge of the panel behind the seats.
But, really, it is an encouraging sight!

 

[MP3Mike]

Here are the long awaited pictures.

So it looks like you got not only the front support but also the tie down D-rings as well. lucky you!

 

[SMS16]

This is an excellent array of photos! I can't believe I'm about to complain...
That long flat area looks great. I want that. Here's my question is it strong enough for a 175 pound person to crawl around on? I envision rolling out a sleeping bag for an overnight at a dog sports event. I can't see what holds up the forward edge of the panel behind the seats.
But, really, it is an encouraging sight!

There isn't much support on the forward edge, but as long as you have something in the middle attached to the weight on the front, you'll be all right. If all the weight was at the front, I think it would flip up. Yes luck, but very strange -- this was delivered in Austin in end Dec. How can they not know about this ...

BTW, if somebody needs more pictures --- have to wait another 2-3 weeks -- travelling again.