Wow, interesting to see the vivid discussion here, and thank you again for all of your inputs:
Updates on my car: sent to SC today, performed an alignment and the report clearly showed that the front right wheel was off-alignment and beyond the tolerance margin (marked as red color from the automated generated report). The car drives smoothly straight after the alignment.
I used to lease 2 VWs, 2 Lexuses, none of them had any problems when I drove out of the dealership. The mileage of the 4 cars are all ~50 miles, which are far more than my new M3 (only 11 miles).
I have the knowledge of wheel misalignment issue, mainly learned from my very first 5-yr used car after hitting a rock on the road
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Unfortunately, after the SC repaired the misalignment, the navigation became malfunction (location service freezes so that you cannot use navigation and autopilot anymore). The SC said they cannot repair the issue today since they need ~7 days to perform a diagnosis from several components from the satellite receiver to central computer, and recommended to return my M3 since the repair will go beyond the return policy period.
I then drove to the delivery center to try to see any alternative solutions. One staff helped upgrade the firmware, which solved the problem.
The experience during the first 24h with my M3 is really negative haha. I almost never thought about buying a car instead of leasing and seems leasing is still more hassle-free. However, Tesla's leasing deal is awful. I need to buy the car and take care of the ownership.
Updates on my car: sent to SC today, performed an alignment and the report clearly showed that the front right wheel was off-alignment and beyond the tolerance margin (marked as red color from the automated generated report). The car drives smoothly straight after the alignment.
I used to lease 2 VWs, 2 Lexuses, none of them had any problems when I drove out of the dealership. The mileage of the 4 cars are all ~50 miles, which are far more than my new M3 (only 11 miles).
I have the knowledge of wheel misalignment issue, mainly learned from my very first 5-yr used car after hitting a rock on the road
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Unfortunately, after the SC repaired the misalignment, the navigation became malfunction (location service freezes so that you cannot use navigation and autopilot anymore). The SC said they cannot repair the issue today since they need ~7 days to perform a diagnosis from several components from the satellite receiver to central computer, and recommended to return my M3 since the repair will go beyond the return policy period.
I then drove to the delivery center to try to see any alternative solutions. One staff helped upgrade the firmware, which solved the problem.
The experience during the first 24h with my M3 is really negative haha. I almost never thought about buying a car instead of leasing and seems leasing is still more hassle-free. However, Tesla's leasing deal is awful. I need to buy the car and take care of the ownership.
