Agree. This seems to fall more into the category of OCD rather than practical or useful. When you first pick up your car, they give you as much time as you want to look it over for defects. Spend a lot of time looking it over very carefully and let them know if there are any defects that you identify. If you can't see anything after a thorough inspection it's not worth having a detailer comb over it in fine detail. Other than perhaps detailers, no one else is going to notice anything that you didn't didn't notice after a thorough close up inspection. Not to mention the fact that Tesla likely wont be willing to fix the defects for free anyway if you accept the car and drive off the lot and then show up later reporting defects. For all they know, you could've caused those defects on your own after you left the lot. Particularly things like paint chips, etc.
I have good reason to expect there to be more defects than is normal for a new car, especially one in that price range. I don't expect that I'll be able to notice them all when I first inspect it; I'll likely get caught up on the more obvious ones. By the time I see it in good light without those distractions, I'll find more problems but it'll be too late to get Tesla to fix them.
Perhaps if I had years of experience detailing cars, along with the tools needed to measure paint thickness and panel gaps, I'd be the right person to inspect the car and know what to demand from Tesla. But I don't and I'm not. I do have some money, enough to buy the car, enough to hire the expertise, enough to make the car what it should have been and keep it that way.
I want to spend that money wisely, and I don't consider dropping $75k on a car with a worse paint job than my old Nissan to be wise. If there was some other company that offered all that Tesla does but did it without this flaw, I'd buy from them, instead. But there isn't, so the best I can do is get a Tesla and plan to remediate it.
As I mentioned above, I don't expect Tesla to be competent at fixing the paint and finish, so I'm not going to ask them to. I will, however, want them to adjust panels that don't fit properly or have uneven gaps. I definitely want them to fix problems like the back seats not going down when the button is pressed or excessive noise when the HVAC system is on or any damage to the interior. These aren't vague concerns; they're actual problems that multiple owners have discovered and Tesla has generally made good.
So that's why I'm not crazy to plan to have it detailed and protected. You don't have to care about these things. Nobody said you had to go through the same process. Nobody even said you had to buy a Tesla. Maybe you'll be happy in a traditional, low-tech gas-burner.
