I took delivery at the factory yesterday. I'll echo the general sentiment that it was a bit of a madhouse (although a relatively well orchestrated one).
Appointment was at 3pm, my son and I arrived at exactly 3 after hitching a ride from the Central Valley to Dublin BART, taking the train to Fremont and then an Uber to the factory. Checked in, given guest passes, offered refreshments, told someone would be with us shortly. I estimate there were 6-8 other people picking up cars with my 3:00 "group" along with their guests.
Indeed someone was with us within about 5 minutes to sign the paperwork, standing up at a bistro table. Sign here, initial here, print here, blah blah blah. Maybe 10 minutes total. Then straight to the tour, which was fun even though the factory was idle for Sunday. My 7 year old son was over the moon (and his dad was pretty impressed too).
Finally, shuffled off into the owners lounge for a ~30 minute group presentation covering the basics that I assume get covered one on one with a delivery specialist at the stores or during less hectic times. A couple questions, comments, and copious free chips and granola bars for my boy and we were finally ready to meet our own car.
We were escorted out to the tent and given a relatively unceremonious walk around, and a very brief session to set up a driver profile, pair a phone, etc. To be perfectly fair, the individual showing us the car asked repeatedly if there was anything else he could go over with us or show us, but at this point we had exceeded the patience of my 7 year old boy and were eager to hit the road for the 3 hour drive home. Had a nice conversation with the guy, who was actually a software engineer on the AutoPilot team doing some overtime at the delivery center. Tried every which way to get some info about when we'll get our TACC and AutoSteer back but he wouldn't be pinned down and just said they're working really hard right now.
Hit the road and stopped at the Manteca Supercharger for a top off on the way home, and to address a few "issues" we discovered after we started driving. The adapters for the mobile connector were set out on top of the trunk parcel shelf along with the window sticker and started rolling around shortly after we left. The "phone dock" that I was supposed to get as part of the premium package was nowhere to be found - a look around at the Supercharger stop found it in a cardboard box in the frunk along with a bunch of other items like the tow hook, license plate frame, screws, etc.
The temporary registration was stuck in the paperwork folder we received, I put that on myself.
Not exactly the experience I was anticipating, but I get it and can't really say that I'm disappointed either. I drove away with my dream car and listened to my son in the back go on about the "totally awesome" glass roof for the better part of an hour until he crashed.
I gotta say it was a good day. /IceCube
Now to figure out how to install this stupid phone dock.
