Fernand
Active Member
When I got the Model 3 Medium Range Premium Interior EAP a year ago, the premium interior featured satellite maps, traffic updates and music streaming. Good stuff. Now, these features were not complimentary, I forget the amount, but with the premium interior it was NOT the base price. I looked far and wide for any limitation or disclaimer at the time, but there was none. I figured it's like the unlimited supercharging on the Model S, and in reality it doesn't cost them much since they need connection to the car 24x7 for data culling anyway.
So today when this surprise came by e-mail I was not happy, at all.
Your complimentary year of Premium Connectivity is ending on 12/31/2019. After this date your car will switch to Standard Connectivity.
Complimentary my butt. It was presented as a trim feature. If they had stated it was for a limited time, at the outset, that would have been fair. But this feels as if they came to repossess the subwoofer. The satellite maps and real time traffic were major features.
I'm the last person to whine about how self-driving is a work in progress, it's great, and I added $3,000 cash to the $5,000 that I paid for autopilot, solely for future features (and literally nothing at the moment).
But now this, while it may not break the bank, is, to put it politely, inappropriate in the case of the late 2018 Full Premium MidRange EAP case, because nothing at the time indicated the traffic/satellite maps were a temporary trial or a "complimentary" bonus, it was shown as a feature.
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So today when this surprise came by e-mail I was not happy, at all.
Your complimentary year of Premium Connectivity is ending on 12/31/2019. After this date your car will switch to Standard Connectivity.
Complimentary my butt. It was presented as a trim feature. If they had stated it was for a limited time, at the outset, that would have been fair. But this feels as if they came to repossess the subwoofer. The satellite maps and real time traffic were major features.
I'm the last person to whine about how self-driving is a work in progress, it's great, and I added $3,000 cash to the $5,000 that I paid for autopilot, solely for future features (and literally nothing at the moment).
But now this, while it may not break the bank, is, to put it politely, inappropriate in the case of the late 2018 Full Premium MidRange EAP case, because nothing at the time indicated the traffic/satellite maps were a temporary trial or a "complimentary" bonus, it was shown as a feature.
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