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AdamEKM
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Took delivery of our Model 3 on December 24th at the Fremont Delivery Center. It's amazing! Tesla Model 3 Delivery
Regular customer not affiliated with Tesla or Spacex in any way. Previous owner in California. Day one reservation at the Monterey store.
We were in the delivery area for about an hour due to needing to change our address on the loan paperwork and waiting for the bank to approve. During that time we witnessed ~10x Model 3 deliveries.
Regular customer not affiliated with Tesla or Spacex in any way. Previous owner in California. Day one reservation at the Monterey store.
We were in the delivery area for about an hour due to needing to change our address on the loan paperwork and waiting for the bank to approve. During that time we witnessed ~10x Model 3 deliveries.
Took delivery of our Model 3 on December 24th at the Fremont Delivery Center. It's amazing! Tesla Model 3 Delivery
Regular customer not affiliated with Tesla or Spacex in any way. Previous owner in California. Day one reservation at the Monterey store.
We were in the delivery area for about an hour due to needing to change our address on the loan paperwork and waiting for the bank to approve. During that time we witnessed ~10x Model 3 deliveries.
I’m in Monterey as well. Looking forward to seeing it around. Hopefully! Congrats!
dturkes
Member
Hey that's me! Should've come over to take a better look
VIN is 1183 and have already put a couple hundred miles on it.
T-Will
Member
Hey that's me! Should've come over to take a better look
VIN is 1183 and have already put a couple hundred miles on it.
Ha nice! If you’re around town, would love to meet up to check it out (coffee would be on me).
EV-lutioin
Active Member
Took delivery of our Model 3 on December 24th at the Fremont Delivery Center. It's amazing! Tesla Model 3 Delivery
Regular customer not affiliated with Tesla or Spacex in any way. Previous owner in California. Day one reservation at the Monterey store.
We were in the delivery area for about an hour due to needing to change our address on the loan paperwork and waiting for the bank to approve. During that time we witnessed ~10x Model 3 deliveries.
I'm starting to really like that combo: Red with 19" sport wheels
Hey that's me! Should've come over to take a better look
VIN is 1183 and have already put a couple hundred miles on it.
Out of curiosity, what does your window sticker say for date of production?
dturkes
Member
graphix25
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From the warranty documentation. She is a beauty in all white.
RTPEV
Active Member
Here is my Occum's Razor explanation. Obviously this is a guess, but it's a simple explanation.
They are not building these to order. Basically there are just a bunch of exterior colors and two wheel options. So they are just building a batch of black, then white, then silver, then blue, then red, and then they throw on either 18" or 19" wheels on each car. There is no reason to assume they are not starting the production line in sequential VIN order and by the time the cars reach the paint shop they simply consult inventory to see if they are running low on a particular color and then do a batch of 25 or so cars in a particular color.
Then, once the car clears QA (or at least for major issues that can't be addressed by a delivery center), the car gets added to whatever equivalent of a Google Sheet Tesla uses for inventory.
Now in parallel you have delivery specialists (or whatever title they give--maybe I'm using the wrong term) that are working their way down the order queue. They see that Jane is next and has ordered a red car with 18" wheels and she wants to take delivery in Fremont. The specialist consults the inventory list for a red car with 18" wheels that's in Fremont and once he finds such a car, assigns it to Jane.
Not only that, but if said spreadsheet/list happens to be sorted such that new entries (higher VINs) get added to the top, that would explain why we see some high VINs get assigned and then the gaps filled in as time goes on. And maybe different delivery specialists have different ways of sorting/searching for matching cars so that's why some people are getting higher or lower VINs.
So you say, why can't this all just be done with software?
Well, it can, but said software would have to be written and communicate with an inventory control system, a customer vehicle management system, and whatever other internal delivery systems they have. I suspect at the volumes they are dealing with now, it's not really justified to automate that process at this time when a human (that is likely going to have to get involved anyway) can do the job in about 10 seconds already.
Cintoman
Member
Waiting for the white interior to start being produced. This can't come soon enough.
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Yes there is. In the days of early Model S production people here and other places had a very good count on the production speed at the factory by watching the VIN numbers. Tesla did not like that, they wanted to inform the investors about their production ramp up when and how they had to, not let them know by reading on-line forums etc. So they started to randomize the VIN number sequence in production to make it harder to guess on the production speed. And as far as I know they still do.
Garlan Garner
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navguy12
Active Member
Nice white interior. This exact color scheme is what I am going to get.
smorgasbord
Active Member
mtndrew1
Active Member
I swung by the Marina del Rey delivery center on my way home just for kicks. The place is lousy with 3s and they’re buzzing all over the place.But randomizing within a certain allocation of VIN's.
There's no vin 75,000.
There are numerous ways they can be giving out VIN's to cars, that are within a range, but way out of order.
I'm so torn between white, blue and red that i just can't decide...! They are all so beautiful....
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