Got my car today at the San Diego deliver center! Red, white interior, AWD, aeros, EAP.
The Bad:
I was scared that the paint would be bad because someone else with the same config and very close VIN had a bad a paint job on the bumper and sure enough my bumper had a two major paint defects. They acted surprised that it was not noticed before it got to me and I would have been surprised too if I hadn't been reading this forum. They offered to repaint it or give me a new VIN. There were a few other very minor problems with the paint (not worth worrying about), the charge port door isn't quite flush, but otherwise the car looked great so I decided to accept it. How does Tesla expect to make money if they're shipping out cars to delivery centers with obvious defects? Wouldn't it be 10x cheaper to fix this in the factory? I refuse to believe that no one noticed this before it got to the delivery center. Anyway they told me that would use a Tesla approved body shop to do the repairs. Both the Tesla approved body shops in San Diego do good work but are very expensive. I'm hoping that the delivery person is correct.
The Good:
The delivery experience was great. 10x faster than any car dealer. I was in and out in 20 minutes.
The white interior is really stunning. So far I love everything about the UI and interior. Everything is so intuitive. The rear seats are much improved over the first gen seats, at least for people shorter than me, my head hits the glass roof (6'3" long torso). The front seats seem very comfortable so far.
The car is plenty quick for any practical purpose. I need to take some measurements with my VBOX. The AWD really puts the power down when making tight turns. I'm a little worried that all the oil I'm not using to drive the car will instead be used to make tires for it.
Autopilot finished calibrating right when I got home (30 miles on the odometer) so I'm looking forward to trying it out.
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