I totally agree. My three month free FSD expires next week. I've given it a really good workout. What a pain in the butt. Never know if it's going to stop in the middle of an intersection, take a turn at full speed, change lanes for no apparent reason, etc. They should have to pay me to use it.
EAP is:
You've clearly not used those "features" - I call them gimmicks and party tricks.
Got it, yes. But for me, number one, and number two are all I really care about. Especially number two. And I don’t even use the automated part of that. I just tell it when I want to change lanes with the stock, and the car decides when it’s safe and moves into the other lane. I love that feature so much, and I’m completely addicted to it.
It's frustrating for sure, but maybe be comforted that you aren't really missing much
I’m hoping the price for EAP comes down…as more teslas are sold it would make sense to lower the price point and sell more EAP at a reduced price, I think/hope.It's frustrating for sure, but maybe be comforted that you aren't really missing much
My bet is that they aren't building it for USS because it's not great to start with, they're probably making versions that work better as well as using just cameras. Gotta have hope
So in the end it actually is costing me about $2000. I just got an updated trade-in quote from Tesla. After telling me my car was worth $16,300, now it’s worth $14,000 because I’m transferring the full self driving. As much as it’s a pain in the butt, I’m thinking of selling my car to Carmax for $16,000 instead.
Sell your car on Craigslist. You’ll get a lot more than Carvana or CarMax (and, of course, from Tesla). I sold a 20 year old Prius, for which Tesla offered me $800, and Carvana $1800, for $4,500. I picked up my Model Y on Monday, put the CL ad up on Tuesday, and sold the car on Thursday…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that you are right, and I would greatly benefit from doing that. But it just seems like such an enormous hassle. People not showing up, people lowballing. Deals falling through left and right. I hate to say this, because it sucks, but I think I’m just going to eat the money and trad it in at Tesla. I would love to be convinced not to do this!
I’ve sold two cars on CL and my wife one. You weed out the serious offers from the low ballers over email (no phone calls until we are arranging where to meet). Put it this way: you can always sell your car to Carmax/Carvana, why not throw a $5 ad up on CL and see how it goes for a month…if at the end of the month you still have the car, then go the Carmax/Carvana route. You’ll prob have a few thousand additional $s in your pocket…and if not, well, you aren’t worse off anyway (other than the $5 CL ad)
I live in the city. Fortunate to have a two car driveway. But I have no other place to put a third car. These are the kinds of realities that I’m facing, in addition to a very busy work life, and three kids that keep me very busy. Tesla ultimately knows this. And that’s why they lowball. What am I going to do? They have me over a barrel! I’m so disillusioned by this entire process, that I really just want to be done with it. They have beat me down!
If you aren’t going to sell it yourself, at least see what Carvana/Carmax are offering; both gave me better deals than Tesla did for my trade in and both would have arranged transfer of car (one would have come to my house and the other I had to drop off someplace) within a day or two…that’s what I was going to do but my brother convinced to try CL…and he was right.
Carmax is offering me $2000 more than Tesla. The problem is, Tesla is making the full self driving transfer so difficult, I would have to keep my model 3 until the full self driving is transferred. That could take a day or longer that I would own two cars (Both the 3 and the Y while I wait for the transfer.) Ridiculous! Of course, if I trade it in, I don’t have to worry about any of that. Tesla knows this, and is using it to their advantage. They’re completely manipulating the system.
