Model X UK deliveries in 2016

[Tanflado]

That's great news Tanflando they havnt corrected my one yet ordered at end of july which is showing

• Model: Model X 60D

• Vin: 5YJXDCE23HF*281*5

• Estimated Delivery Range: May - Early June

however I do know this is incorrect but somehow I am not expecting them to correct this, I am expecting the next change to say we have gone into production at the end of the month when the next right hand drive run is done.

I was thinking of temporary sites having a generator, but I have no idea if that is feasible? Running on a bucket of Uranium perhaps

That's great news Tanflando they havnt corrected my one yet ordered at end of july which is showing

• Model: Model X 60D

• Vin: 5YJXDCE23HF*281*5

• Estimated Delivery Range: May - Early June

however I do know this is incorrect but somehow I am not expecting them to correct this, I am expecting the next change to say we have gone into production at the end of the month when the next right hand drive run is done.

It is a guessing game , why on earth should my car be showing to be further down the line than yours ordered two months earlier?? My car went into production apparently a week or so before Christmas. I still doubt that March 1st delivery will come to fruition. It still says it is in production...........go figure??

 

[Tanflado]

Great news! . Shouldn't be too long before My Tesla updates to " in transit from factory in Fremont to port in US".

This whole process is ridiculous, the amount of times I check My Tesla each week is bordering on OCD!!!!!!!!
42 year old checking excitedly each day like a bloody child..........roll on delivery!!

 

[DJP31]

This whole process is ridiculous, the amount of times I check My Tesla each week is bordering on OCD!!!!!!!!
42 year old checking excitedly each day like a bloody child..........roll on delivery!!

Oh it can get worse . Give it a couple of weeks and we can have a guess which Maersk ship you're on so you can track it across the pond

 

[Lowey007]

It is a guessing game , why on earth should my car be showing to be further down the line than yours ordered two months earlier?? My car went into production apparently a week or so before Christmas. I still doubt that March 1st delivery will come to fruition. It still says it is in production...........go figure??

Met with delivery specialist yesterday and amongst other things, was asking why production date has changed from 26/12 to 13/02 and what that mean re delivery;
Not quite sure was the first answer with the admission they had underestimated the no of cars they could actually build and ship being added. What guarantee didn't I have about the car actually going into production on 13/02? Unfortunately zero although no reason why it shouldn't.
Tan- to comments on ur point about how can urs be further behind when you ordered first.... Some cars apparantly "slip through". !! Asked if mine could slip through cheekily
Finally and re delivery, depending on where in the schedule you are determines the delivery date which from production date can be anything from 8-12 weeks...

 

[Tanflado]

I'm not seeing enough scaling up of service centres for the sigificant increase in vehicle numbers that M3 will bring. I'm sure its on Tesla's mind but its not trivial to achieve ... ditto the Supercharger Ramping-up, but I suppose that can be done more quickly, and money might have been needed for the M3 production line in the short term.

Met with delivery specialist yesterday and amongst other things, was asking why production date has changed from 26/12 to 13/02 and what that mean re delivery;
Not quite sure was the first answer with the admission they had underestimated the no of cars they could actually build and ship being added. What guarantee didn't I have about the car actually going into production on 13/02? Unfortunately zero although no reason why it shouldn't.
Tan- to comments on ur point about how can urs be further behind when you ordered first.... Some cars apparantly "slip through". !! Asked if mine could slip through cheekily
Finally and re delivery, depending on where in the schedule you are determines the delivery date which from production date can be anything from 8-12 weeks...

Sounds like we need to call Freemont directly and speak to the production manager to actually get some proper answers........! it does amaze me how little information Tesla staff in the U.K. Seem to have? In my last life (20 years ago)I worked in the motor trade with various manufacturers and it is incredible how poor Tesla communication is in comparison and that's Tesla staff working for Tesla not a distributor selling a suppliers product! In this day and age with technology there really is no excuse.
I Have a small holding of Tesla shares as I truly believe in the product /company but if they want to become a volume manufacturer with the impending release of the model 3 things really do need to change .

 

[arg]

I was thinking of temporary sites having a generator, but I have no idea if that is feasible? Running on a bucket of Uranium perhaps

Perfectly feasible - just requires a large diesel generator. Tesla have quite often used diesel generators to allow them to test/commission Supercharger sites if the connection to the grid turns up late. They also ran diesel generators to power the site at Harris Ranch in California for a period of weeks when grid power had failed - see photo here: Harris Ranch is not working 11/18/14

So a modest size lorry with a generator and a couple of superchargers on the back would be straightforward to put together. The PR impact of deliberately using diesel to charge EVs might put them off.

Even your bucket of uranium option isn't out of the question - the US Army built one to be carried by truck (OK, 6 shipping containers...) back in the 1960's that would power a supercharger: http://atomicinsights.com/ml1-mobile-power-system-reactor-box/

There's a few more modern designs looking at small reactors, though these are intended to be buried in the ground rather than transportable:
What is U-Battery? | U-Battery
TOSHIBA - Multipurpose Energy Station 4S

plus of course whatever the military are up to nowadays (submarines?).

 

[Tanflado]

Just had a reply back from my delivery specialist,


I can confirm that your car has now completed production and is due to make its way to the transport over the weekend.


This means we are looking at the first 2 weeks of March for arrival in the UK. This can alter slightly but it is roughly around then

I ordered 26th August, went into production around the 18th December and today it is out of production .Transport to the UK must be around 9 weeks.
Hopefully this gives a good indicator of process times.......However I have just logged into My Tesla and it still says in production......!

Some nice positive news to start the weekend, I will need to get my finger out and arrange how the hell i`m gonna charge the thing......??
I would be interested to hear what charging options others are considering/gone with. I was thinking of a Rolec as the price seems quite a bit lower than Tesla`s offering??
Also is anyone buying this through their LTD company, I will need to arrange finance for a decent chunk of it , i have had a rate of 2.6% offered on financing 60k can anyone recommend a lender that they have used in the past?

Enjoy the weekend,

Tanfaldo

 

[WannabeOwner]

I would be interested to hear what charging options others are considering/gone with. I was thinking of a Rolec as the price seems quite a bit lower than Tesla`s offering??

There was some recent chatter here: Anyone near Hertford?

I have Rolec as Tesla was not available at the time. If I was doing it again i would have the Tesla charger.

 

[GoodieGetter]

Just had a reply back from my delivery specialist,


I can confirm that your car has now completed production and is due to make its way to the transport over the weekend.


This means we are looking at the first 2 weeks of March for arrival in the UK. This can alter slightly but it is roughly around then

I ordered 26th August, went into production around the 18th December and today it is out of production .Transport to the UK must be around 9 weeks.
Hopefully this gives a good indicator of process times.......However I have just logged into My Tesla and it still says in production......!

Some nice positive news to start the weekend, I will need to get my finger out and arrange how the hell i`m gonna charge the thing......??
I would be interested to hear what charging options others are considering/gone with. I was thinking of a Rolec as the price seems quite a bit lower than Tesla`s offering??
Also is anyone buying this through their LTD company, I will need to arrange finance for a decent chunk of it , i have had a rate of 2.6% offered on financing 60k can anyone recommend a lender that they have used in the past?

Enjoy the weekend,

Tanfaldo

Great news!!!! Not long now for you to wait but it gets more painful!!

Regarding my tesla mine still says at Tilburg. Delivery 19th Jan

Re chargers take a look at this site for info. Just insert MX where you see MS

The Must Have Accessories for your new Tesla Model S

 

[WannabeOwner]

Re chargers take a look at this site for info

Excellent info, not seen that one before, thanks.

 

[Tanflado]

Great news!!!! Not long now for you to wait but it gets more painful!!

Regarding my tesla mine still says at Tilburg. Delivery 19th Jan

Re chargers take a look at this site for info. Just insert MX where you see MS

The Must Have Accessories for your new Tesla Model S

Nice one GG, I'm excited so god only knows how you must be feeling with delivery imminent.....??

Thanks for the link will check it out

 

[T28Yau]

Still no change in "my tesla" page as may June delivery. I ordered in August 2016.

 

[doublebo7]

Tesla UK ustomer services knowledge is farcical. My production date of 26/12 was brought forward after I requested some options to be cancelled! In fact my MX90 had completed production by 22/12!
Delivery did show end of Apr/May but that has now changed to end of Feb/March.
Can't believe the incompetence with regard to deliveries especially when customers are spending a fortune for a not so luxurious car. My anger is also directed to trade in's, after 6 months I received a one word valuation which not surprisingly was £6K lower

 

[WannabeOwner]

My production date of 26/12 was brought forward after I requested some options to be cancelled!

My guess is that your vehicle, then, fitted a manufacturing "profile" that was being made earlier; particularly if you switched something like 7-seats to 6-seats, or from coils-to-air as early on the other models were "delayed". Tesla definitely has problems with supply-chain (hence their on-going expansion of in-house built components)

My suspicion is that UK staff know little about production scheduling because the factory doesn't either. i.e. Factory juggling production for other reasons - supply chain maybe, the Boss needing great Q4 results, so priority given to locally-deliverable vehicles so more sales closed before 31-Dec etc.

Can't believe the incompetence with regard to deliveries

To my mind this relates to new models (i.e. it has historically been the same). Problems are found (either in production, or on shipped vehicles) and production is then adjusted, with delays. The rate at which Tesla has ramped-up production of MX has been slow (compared to, say, the new GM Bolt EV) Lack of experience in that area, lack of cash to fix issues post-delivery, production started before all issues solved, or just the desire to pay as much attention to detail to possible. Annoying for you and I think it very important that Tesla fix that (with the upcoming launch of M3),

Doesn't make it right of course, and I don't know how a car company solves that - short of being "huge" and having much more experience of new model shipping. Huge-company has more sway with suppliers than small-company of course, so supply-chain may be another problem, along with the very high levels of innovation - Falcon-wings may well have still been a problem at launch, 7-seats + Coils definitely turned out to be ...

The up-side, FWIW, is that later-shipped models will be more sorted.

after 6 months I received a one word valuation which not surprisingly was £6K lower

I didn't trade anything in but from what I read the trade-in valuations don't really exist until the delivery date is firm.

Hopefully the Reps get uncomfortable with all the flack they receive and that improves the process upstream. Again, no consolation for you though

 

[ShaneX]

Hi All,
The March delivery date in place when I ordered, has now changed to April/May on Mytesla.

OK I now understand TeslaTime, but still, this fast and loose approach to delivery committments will cost me an unforseen £1500 because of 5 years of Vehicle Tax.
Has anyone tried to get Tesla to recognise this additional cost and compensate in some way. Sure, I recognise I benefit with exchange rates since I made the order, but still, it would be good to know before i get back to my DS.

Completely separate issue: the MX is about 1 foot wider than just about any other big (to me) car out there: XC90, Discovery, Porsche Cayenne etc. Yikes! Am starting to look at streets nearby, going "won't be going down that one"... anyone got any early feedback on driving such a big car on UK residental streets?

ta

 

[robin_]

Hi All,
The March delivery date in place when I ordered, has now changed to April/May on Mytesla.

OK I now understand TeslaTime, but still, this fast and loose approach to delivery committments will cost me an unforseen £1500 because of 5 years of Vehicle Tax.
Has anyone tried to get Tesla to recognise this additional cost and compensate in some way. Sure, I recognise I benefit with exchange rates since I made the order, but still, it would be good to know before i get back to my DS.
ta

Have you spoken to your DS? I don't believe the car actually has to be here in order to register it.

 

[ShaneX]

DS has admitted she does not know any more than whats on Mytesla.
I was hoping to see what way others were dealing with this issue, before going back to DS with a proposal.
I heard they can register a car when landed in NL, or possibly when on ship, but my DS cannot say when that will be, so this is more about getting the principle agreed with them about who pays- one of us will have to!

 

[robin_]

DS has admitted she does not know any more than whats on Mytesla.
I was hoping to see what way others were dealing with this issue, before going back to DS with a proposal.
I heard they can register a car when landed in NL, or possibly when on ship, but my DS cannot say when that will be, so this is more about getting the principle agreed with them about who pays- one of us will have to!

The DSs have access to far more information than what is shown on the portal.

 

[WannabeOwner]

anyone got any early feedback on driving such a big car on UK residental streets?

Not so much streets, but Wifee won't take the MS anywhere she has to bay-park that is tight-ish (that's pretty much all of them ...) in particular the train station (I might park at the far end, waist would appreciate that too!, but she doesn't want to if in heels / evening & dark / raining / etc. and I don't blame her) and any client car park of the type that is scattered about / after thought, rather than built on a generous grid system - that, too, is pretty much all of them ...

I take the view its just a car. All our previous cars were too ... but I have had the MS wrapped, so it has some protection against squeezing up against a hedge or similar.

 

[Tanflado]

Hi All,
The March delivery date in place when I ordered, has now changed to April/May on Mytesla.

OK I now understand TeslaTime, but still, this fast and loose approach to delivery committments will cost me an unforseen £1500 because of 5 years of Vehicle Tax.
Has anyone tried to get Tesla to recognise this additional cost and compensate in some way. Sure, I recognise I benefit with exchange rates since I made the order, but still, it would be good to know before i get back to my DS.

Completely separate issue: the MX is about 1 foot wider than just about any other big (to me) car out there: XC90, Discovery, Porsche Cayenne etc. Yikes! Am starting to look at streets nearby, going "won't be going down that one"... anyone got any early feedback on driving such a big car on UK residental streets?

ta

Dimensions of the MX is a concern, I have been out there a few nights ago measuring the width of our gates , thankfully they will accomadate (just) but narrow roads or cars parked each side is a real worry. Patience will certainly be required!