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Sweet! Thanks!
I wasn't sure if you had it or not. So the Monroney doesn't list the Premium Interior and Lighting Package. So - why does it have the power liftgate and at least some (maybe all?) of the other features from that package?
I love a good mystery.
When I said decode the VIN I really meant the options list from Hank’s site. It specifically calls out “No Premium Interior” for your car, but does call out “TP03 - Power and Lighting Pkg” along with X001 for the liftgate.
For my car, I have “TP02 - Tech Pkg w/ AP” so looks like they added your TP03 as sort of a sub-Tech Pkg std option during the transition?
For my car, I have “TP02 - Tech Pkg w/ AP” so looks like they added your TP03 as sort of a sub-Tech Pkg std option during the transition?
Ahh, that's very helpful. I forgot that you could see the option codes at EV-CPO.
This is confusing - I'm trying to find more info about what the difference between TP03 "Power and Lighting package" is compared to "premium interior and lighting package". On a google search, the primary place that TP03 shows up is the Teslascout site (basically an alternative to EV-CPO for people in Europe I think?). I can't find anyone mentioning it by that name in forums.
I searched for cars with option code TP03 on EV-CPO, and only ones from 2015 and newer show up. I looked at the codes for at least 20 of them, and every one except mine has the Premium Interior Lighting (PL01) code in addition to TP03. Then I realized I could add a second code to the search, so I searched for cars that have both TP03 and LP00 (no Premium Interior Lighting) and mine is the only one. To me, that's making it seem like putting LP00 on there was a screw-up.
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I began looking for a used Tesla back in August of last year. I have a friend with two model S, and riding in his helped me decide what I was looking for. I was looking to pay $45k or less, and therefore expecting that I would likely end up with a 2014 or older.
Unfortunately, my requirements were pretty specific. I wanted either brown metallic or red, a textile interior (don't like the feel of leather), sunroof, tech package (if a car made when the tech package still existed), and preferably subzero package. The textile interior seems to have only been on about 5% of the cars, estimating based on EV-CPO archived listings. The subzero package was on maybe 20%. To give you a sense of how much those two requirements narrow the playing field, EV-CPO shows 7,847 cars in the archived listings. Of those, only 47 had textile seats and subzero package. Two of them are brown (one with no sunroof), and both well out of my price range. 12 of them are red.
So, by being very picky, my search dragged on for quite a while.
About 5 weeks ago roughly, a 2015 70D popped up on EV-CPO that fit my exact requirements - red, textile, subzero, sunroof. At $50,700, it was a bit above the price range that my wife had agreed to. But, with only 38k miles, it came with a 4 year/50k mile warranty, all wheel drive, and was a year newer than the best I had been hoping for (actually based on the VIN it's from the end of 2015).
Before I could get wife-approval, it was gone.
A few days later, in a thread about CPOs, a list member posted that he had just put down a deposit on this exact car. He seemed perhaps not sure that it was what he was looking for, so I sent him a message saying that if he decided to not buy it, to please let me know. After 10 days or so, I hadn't heard anything, so I figured he was probably enjoying his new Tesla.
But then I got a message from him saying he had turned it down due to cosmetic defects. I quickly got some pictures from the OA (conveniently, I live in the neighboring state as the original buyer, so the car had already been delivered to the nearest service center, and I was already communicating with the OA in the region), and decided that the cosmetic defects weren't enough to keep me from buying it, so I put down a deposit before it went back up online.
It has some scraping on the rear bumper, but after some thorough polishing, it's only noticeable when you are up close. I may have the bumper resprayed at some point, but for now it's not significant enough for me to bother. I'll post pictures of the car later.
The actual process of getting my car went surprisingly quick. It took about a week from the time I put my deposit down until it was delivered to my driveway. Most of that intervening time was spent with me securing a loan, going down to visit/inspect the car, etc..
I still need to get a list of what (if any) items were fixed or replaced during the mechanical refurb process. Overall the car seems to have been well care for, with the exception of the scrapes on the rear bumper.
Now I get to return my leased Nissan Leaf, and I've been enjoying tooling around in my shiny new Tesla the last few days.
Wow! This is very much what I'm looking for.
Oh - I checked, I don't have the interior lighting that comes with the premium package (at least not the lighting strip in the door panel), but I do have the exterior lighting that comes with it (door handle lights, fog lights, puddle lights).
My understanding is that the wiring is all there for the additional interior lights, and I could buy aftermarket ones to put in there. Is that correct?
My understanding is that the wiring is all there for the additional interior lights, and I could buy aftermarket ones to put in there. Is that correct?
You can find a lot of details about options and features for your 2015 here;
Undocumented | TeslaTap
Undocumented | TeslaTap
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