Hi! This is my first post. I'm about to buy a Model 3 today, which should be delivered mid-next week. The sales rep I'm dealing with says that to start the delivery process, I have to sign the contract and pay in full before the car will be delivered. Is this how it has worked for most people - or do you pay the delivery people when the car shows up and is accepted? Thanks for any help!!
Question about when to pay for car.
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Here is how it worked for me. I handed them a personal check when I picked up the car.
If you are paying by a check, just bring the check when you pick up the car. I believe that payment in advance refers to arranging financing and not if you are paying entire purchase price at delivery.
If you are paying by a check, just bring the check when you pick up the car. I believe that payment in advance refers to arranging financing and not if you are paying entire purchase price at delivery.
Just the deposit in both cases.
There are some states where Tesla can't directly sell and the check does have to be sent in beforehand, but outside of Texas I think that's pretty rare these days.
Akikiki
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Imolared
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Car delivered to my house and I paid with a personal check for the whole amount. Much easier to do it this way in case there's major issues during delivery that you deem huge enough to reject the car.
Hello everyone. First post on this forum. Just ordered my Model 3 yesterday! I filled out the delivery location, registration, and trade-in, but still did not select a payment method. I'm probably going to finance it with my credit union, but I don't want to apply just yet as delivery is probably more than 30 days away. Do I just leave the payment method blank for now? Also, does anyone know how long it takes for them to display an estimated delivery time frame?
Thanks! Is there any reason anyone knows of not to pay by ACH (sort of a wire transfer)?? I'm in a different state than the dealer and they're saying that they need payment in advance to send it out of state. I guess I'm okay with that, but I've never done an ACH and don't know if there's any reason not to....
I did EFT for mine the end of March. Since it was hands free delivered to me, they requested payment up front, the day before. No issues. The website didn't have my credit union as a choice and I was unable to do online, so I had to call and give them the routing and account number.
My bank had trouble with the ACH. So I paid with a personal check at delivery. I asked the sales rep before going to pick up the car.
MikeHolliday
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You may wish to consider the Tesla Financing. I tried my local Credit Union and Tesla was less. When I got my financing from Tesla in March it was 2.75% and I have been told that it may even be lower now.
Is that true the sooner you pay the sooner you get it?? I'm paying in full for my m3 but didn't want to just hand over 50k before I even see the car or before I see if there's gonna be issues.
dmurphy
Woof.
Just got a 2.49% rate from Tesla on a Model X ... can't complain about that; takes out any need to shop around, really.
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