AlbertOnMars
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I took delivery of my Model Y today! Ordered 2/4 and took delivery 3/23, so a bit over a month and a half. Delivery was easy, and I was told they were doing 80 deliveries today from this one location (which is a giant church parking lot two blocks from the Austin service center). There were well over 100 cars at this location, nearly all Model 3s and Model Ys (which makes sense, since they aren't producing those at the moment). I was able to take all the time I wanted to carefully go over the car before accepting delivery. I'm glad they don't attach the front license plate bracket and leave that up to the customer.
Vin is 136xxx and the car has all the recent updates such as the new headlights, heated steering wheel, and center console. Hatch cover appears to be the standard pain-in-the-ass-to-remove variety. No HEPA filter before anyone asks! I forgot to check the glovebox for the USB stick, I should go do that.
The car is beautiful, especially in the sun! Here's a photo of the Y next to my 3 (which I need to sell!)
Overall the interior and exterior look great, however, there are a few issues:
One thing that I wasn't able to notice until I drove away.. There is significant buffeting inside the car. At first I thought this was related to issues with the rear hatch I've seen others talk about here. However, after I got home and I was sitting in the car for a few minutes to get the car on my WiFi network so it could download a software update, it was still occurring. When I turned off the climate control, the buffeting went away. Turning it back on, the buffeting came back after a minute or two, so it seems related to that. I'm wondering if it might have something to do with the heat pump? My Model 3 (which does not have a heat pump) has never exhibited this issue. It's rather noticeable and not very comfortable.
I was told I could file support tickets in the mobile app for these, including attaching photos, and to do so before I've driven 100 miles. However, it appears you can only have one open issue at a time? I filed an issue for the buffeting first, since that's certainly the most important thing overall. I was expecting I could open additional issues, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I then wrote my Tesla Advisor to detail the issues, and hopefully he will get back to me fairly quickly. Otherwise I will drive the car to the service center tomorrow to point out the issues to make sure they are documented in time. I also need to get my Homelink kit installed, and I cannot schedule that, either, in the app right now.
Love the car so far, but will be happier once I can get these problems addressed. I've attached a few photos showing the paint, trim and door handle issues.
I do have the hitch, but haven't pulled open that cover yet to make sure it's actually there. Is anything supposed to come with the hitch?
Vin is 136xxx and the car has all the recent updates such as the new headlights, heated steering wheel, and center console. Hatch cover appears to be the standard pain-in-the-ass-to-remove variety. No HEPA filter before anyone asks! I forgot to check the glovebox for the USB stick, I should go do that.
The car is beautiful, especially in the sun! Here's a photo of the Y next to my 3 (which I need to sell!)
Overall the interior and exterior look great, however, there are a few issues:
- There's a significant paint defect on the front of the car and what looks like a rather poor attempt to cover up with touch up paint. I did point this out to two Tesla employees at the delivery location.
- One of the exterior black trim pieces (next to the right side mirror) has a rather noticeable chunk of plastic or something else stuck to it. Did not want to try removing it myself, and neither did the two Tesla employees after picking at a short bit with fingernails.
- There's an excess piece of material popping out of the headliner above the left rear passenger seat. Did not try pulling on this myself.
- Rear hatch seems slightly misaligned (noticeably larger gap on left versus right). Overall the panel alignment looks great, certainly better than with my 3.
- Right front passenger door sill has some raised paint bumps, one is fairly noticeable. This one doesn't bother me too much, and I found it's damn hard to take photos of!
- The front, right door handle is inset a fair bit. Never seen this before, but I assume the service center can fix this relatively easily.
One thing that I wasn't able to notice until I drove away.. There is significant buffeting inside the car. At first I thought this was related to issues with the rear hatch I've seen others talk about here. However, after I got home and I was sitting in the car for a few minutes to get the car on my WiFi network so it could download a software update, it was still occurring. When I turned off the climate control, the buffeting went away. Turning it back on, the buffeting came back after a minute or two, so it seems related to that. I'm wondering if it might have something to do with the heat pump? My Model 3 (which does not have a heat pump) has never exhibited this issue. It's rather noticeable and not very comfortable.
I was told I could file support tickets in the mobile app for these, including attaching photos, and to do so before I've driven 100 miles. However, it appears you can only have one open issue at a time? I filed an issue for the buffeting first, since that's certainly the most important thing overall. I was expecting I could open additional issues, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I then wrote my Tesla Advisor to detail the issues, and hopefully he will get back to me fairly quickly. Otherwise I will drive the car to the service center tomorrow to point out the issues to make sure they are documented in time. I also need to get my Homelink kit installed, and I cannot schedule that, either, in the app right now.
Love the car so far, but will be happier once I can get these problems addressed. I've attached a few photos showing the paint, trim and door handle issues.
I do have the hitch, but haven't pulled open that cover yet to make sure it's actually there. Is anything supposed to come with the hitch?
