Has anyone who has collected reserve on Day 1? Did you get the model Tesla as promised yet? (My toy car collection is waiting to be complete!)
FWIW referral "prizes" have taken "forever" to arrive ... clearly the Model Car should be easier, and much much bigger numbers, but Tesla does not have good history of "paying up on time" for the inducements it offers (instead of conventional advertising ).
I found the whole picking up the car very exciting but also very nerve wrecking. They had the car waiting for me under a Tesla branded tent and the Tesla employer ready to welcome me. He was very friendly and answered all my questions very well.
My Model-S was a whip-the-sheet-off reveal - 3 years ago - the Model-3, at Heathrow, was a warehouse full of cars diagonal parked like the start of a previous era Le Mons race!
I've had a Model-S for 3 years, car is for my daughter, but she was more comfortable that I drove it out of show room (sorry "warehouse"
). Handover was slick - in contrast to the woes of Tesla's hopeless Support and COMMs the place was bubbling over with people, including some Tesla owners drafted in during the "waiting room" stage to answer any questions, and delivery-drivers from other sites (also answering any questions) and our handover guy was Sales from a high-street shop (rather than service centre).
But i felt like I just didn't know enough about the car to drive it properly of the forecourt
I made notes from the process, and my daughter's initial misunderstandings / comments / etc and I've documented them in another thread if folk new to EV might find that helpful
What New Owners need to Know - UK FAQ
Had super fun tonight doing this when a mini cooper S was edging forward waiting for the lights to go green. Before he even had time to start moving I was around 100 metres down the road. I honestly can't express how much fun that is to do.
The only problem with that is that a) the lights don't change to red just as you are approaching anything like often enough and b) when they do invariably you don't have a Contender alongside
So I'm not surprised some M3 trims are misaligned, but I'm expecting a little better than my MX in that respect
Handover guy said that very few faults found at handover on M3 (compared to M-S/X). They literally took our car off the transporter 30 minutes before we got there, washed it, and handed it over (wound the windows down and they came back up wet, so he was right on that bit!).
The auto steering is very sensitive and seems to drop even if you take your hand off the steering wheel for a second - to indicate for instance.
Surprised about that. I would expect that if you take your hands off the wheel that after fairly short interval you will get warning message on screen, and then blue-flashing-surround to draw your attention to it, but AP should not disengage (unless you also get message that it has encountered something it can't cope with - can't remember the last time I had that, its very rare, and can't imagine it happening at all if you are just trogging along a motorway.)
If AP is not confident (e..g tight bend) it will take a tiny amount of force to disengage it, and I think fair to say you could achieve that by knocking the wheel. But if you are on the straight on a clear motorway I would expect fairly significant force to be needed to take-over steering from AP (i.e. in that situation I don't think "knocking the wheel" could happen)
Might be worth some experiments to see if yours really does disengage (repeatedly) that easily, and if so maybe the sensors will need adjustment?
What version software is being shipped on the car?
When we’re you first offered an update and to what version?
Can't remember the version, but it already had a software update with the "Schedule a time to install this" menu option
