So a quick report on how this all ended. With a latest EDD date of September 6 to November 1, I got a text last Friday afternoon saying a VIN had been assigned, schedule Delivery and final tasks in the app. I scheduled in the app for pick up today (Monday) at 10:30am at Carlsbad, California. I financed it with Bank of America. 72 months at 3.34%. I had to text Tesla and have them add the amount financed and Bank of America to the Motor Vehicle Purchase Agreement. That document, by the way, shows up in your documents section of your account. It was about 4 or 5 down the document list. I did the application on Saturday. By Monday morning Bank of America had the loan documents over to me to sign electronically (the 3 hour time difference helped as they are on Eastern Time). Pretty seamless. They told me that Tesla would just want to see those documents to pick up the car. I brought an extra nitpicky friend along with me to help me pick the car up. He's had 2 Teslas and was determined to find even the slightest thing wrong with it. The staff at Tesla were friendly enough. Nothing special, but not like some of the bad experiences people on here have talked about. They didn't seem to know much about the car. How the doors or the tow hitch worked. But they were friendly enough.
They had just pulled the car out front as we arrived. My picky friend kept walking around the outside of the car , and poking around the inside of the car. He said that never had he had a Tesla at delivery as perfect as this one. He struggled to find an issue with the paint or panel gaps, but was unable to find any. Inside the car he looked as hard as he could and found a little bit of trim around above the rear right door a little bit shoved in and slightly not right , and a tiny, and I mean a speck, of glue residue on one. Which the service advisor told us to report in the service section of the app, which I did. The service was to be a mobile service appointment on Thursday. He said they'd probably pull the trim off to clean it and reinstall it 100% perfectly. In fact, the issue was so picky and trivial, I cancelled the appointment. The service advisor told us early on our visit that Tesla is so confident about the panels and doors, that they don't accept any requests to adjust them anymore. I dunno. That's just what he said. And none needed any either. The FWD's work perfectly. All the doors and hatches perfect.
The only disappointment had nothing to do with the car. My electric meter at home was running backwards mid-day from the solar, so I hoped plugging the car in would either just slow the meter down or stop it. However, it flipped the meter to running forwards. I'm going to need more solar panels up there. I'll charge midnight to 6am in the meantime.
The car drives great. No rattles or anything. The active noise cancelling is very effective. My picky friend says he's now completely dissatisfied with his model Y now that he's driven in this thing. I also was afraid it would feel like you are driving a big boaty, bulky thing. But it does not at all, to me. While I'm completely dissatisfied that my Boeing at work has a yoke instead of a side stick; I really like the clean, open, and uncluttered feel with the yoke in this car. Once I figured it out, the tilt screen is really a lot nicer feature than I was expecting.