Owners of demo cars, was the discount worth it?

[addictedtocars]

My demo car was delivered to my house end of March (Dec 2019 build). The thing with demo cars is that ANY issue you note down during during delivery will be covered exactly like you are taking delivery of stock/custom ordered cars with less mileage. My car was offered to me with 75 miles on the odometer for $2560 off which was too good to pass up IMO plus I got 2k free supercharging miles as an added bonus (it's actually 800 kWh of supercharging according to the history on My Account on Tesla website).

I'm considered essential worker so I still get to drive the car when I need to pop in the office and have done the weekend leisure drive around, have racked up almost 2000 miles in the past 6 weeks.

Also, I looked at it this way - with my car as a demo/showroom car, I'm guessing that this was "handpicked" so that it's virtually flawless as I can't find anything that sticks out as far as panel gaps, fit and finish issue that I've seen people discover during their delivery inspection. It would have been in Tesla's best interest to have their showroom/demo car looking at it's best OR any glaring issues was already addressed before it was even put out for demo or have been fixed before it got delivered to me.

FSD?

 

[GZDongles]

FSD?

My SA just showed me a showroom car with <50 miles on the odometer. $1650 discount. It has FSD, which I can remove and get $7k off, preserving the full discount.

 

[yerEVan]

I got an X demo car that was enormously discounted 3500 miles on it, and it was basically perfect when i got it. Anything missing that was to be included, like tow package, they gladly added on.

Your 3-4K is not that significant especially if it’s not your ideal color. I guess you could take that discounted car as it has very low miles for a demo car, and apply that savings to a performance boost upgrade.

 

[Imolared]

FSD?

FSD was activated on the car but I told the advisor I didn't want it so he removed the option taking $7k off the price, total car price was 51,210 after the discount plus tax and license (I'm in CA so about 10%)=$56,846 all up.

 

[ScoGold]

My SA just showed me a showroom car with <50 miles on the odometer. $1650 discount. It has FSD, which I can remove and get $7k off, preserving the full discount.

If you could say what models/specs that would be helpful. I’d imagine a $110k MXP would have a deeper discount than a $45k M3SR+

 

[GZDongles]

If you could say what models/specs that would be helpful. I’d imagine a $110k MXP would have a deeper discount than a $45k M3SR+

Yeah good call. It was a Model 3, white paint, white interior, dad.

 

[TypeRx]

All I can say is that there were folks in Q3-Q4 2019 getting up to $30K off of demo X and S models. Of course you will never see that kind of a discount on a 3. There have been several folks that have gotten $10K or so off of their 3 demos, but it appears that on average $1500-$3500 discount is typical. For S and X, a typical discount on a demo is a couple grand more than that. Of course there are outliers.