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I also received this same information twice in person and once in email:
First, when I ordered my white/white/19" on Oct. 12th and again when I went to my showroom this past Friday and heard it from another SA:
The Freemont Factory is still (at this moment!) making right-sided drivers and won't return to making left-sided until (he thought mid?) November. He also confirmed what the previous SA stated: that I should receive a VIN by the end of December.

It appears someone should tell Tesla that only one nation in Europe is right hand drive. It might enhance sales in the remainder of the continent.
 
Ordered Oct 20th white on black, got email from my local SA stating they were notified by corporate that production for NA market cars won't start til early November so I should expect late Nov or early Dec delivery window. Hopefully that's true and we can get our cars before Dec 31st.

I ordered a SR+ on October 15th. I was able to talk to my SA yesterday, October 26th, and he said to expect delivery time to be another 8-10 weeks.
 
I also received this same information twice in person and once in email:
First, when I ordered my white/white/19" on Oct. 12th and again when I went to my showroom this past Friday and heard it from another SA:
The Freemont Factory is still (at this moment!) making right-sided drivers and won't return to making left-sided until (he thought mid?) November. He also confirmed what the previous SA stated: that I should receive a VIN by the end of December.
I also emailed my delivery specialist and she stated "end of December but, there are no promises".

In April, Freemont was producing up to 6,000 Model 3s per week and Tesla completed 97,000+ deliveries in Quarter 3.
So is there time enough to produce and DELIVER to all of us with outstanding orders in North America before 12/31 to meet our tax credit deadline? I believe delivery is required to earn the credit.

That being said, Tesla's decision to announce that cancelations will prohibit identical builds for up to a year only makes me believe that they expect (at least the thought of) cancellations from this point forward - but is it because 1.) they expect people may cancel BEFORE the end of the year out of anger/fear of missing the tax credit as the deadline approaches (Q4 2019) or 2.) because Tesla already knows that they will miss the deadline and expect orders to be cancelled in response (Q1 2020)?
Either way, cancellations may occur - so why does it matter which Quarter?
With that deterrent to cancellation in place, there seems to be no harm in confirming if they already know our cars will be late unless it's all about the fiscal/numbers.
I will hang in regardless - can.not.wait!
I thought you couldn’t order an identical build if you returned the car? I thought cancelations were completely separate.
 
It appears someone should tell Tesla that only one nation in Europe is right hand drive. It might enhance sales in the remainder of the continent.
Technically incorrect, there are two European nations that drive on the wrong side of the car. Ireland and Britain. There's a total of 63 or so nations worldwide that have their steering on the right hand side of the vehicle. Many of these are current or former British colonies.
 
Technically incorrect, there are two European nations that drive on the wrong side of the car. Ireland and Britain. There's a total of 63 or so nations worldwide that have their steering on the right hand side of the vehicle. Many of these are current or former British colonies.

Touché. Throw in Malta, too. Doesn’t make the ignorant comment about “switching the line over to right hand drive” any less irritating.

Why don’t they just say it like it is? They want to get the cars on the boat so they can be delivered this quarter. Delivering within the US is obviously much quicker.
 
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So I asked for an update at the Costa Mesa center & this is what the Operation Adviser said in an email:

"We are anticipating to receive vehicles 6-10 weeks from time of order."

So I placed my order on Oct. 1st, so on average say 8-weeks, I'm guessing I should receive a vin around the week of Nov. 18th?
 
Touché. Throw in Malta, too. Doesn’t make the ignorant comment about “switching the line over to right hand drive” any less irritating.

Why don’t they just say it like it is? They want to get the cars on the boat so they can be delivered this quarter. Delivering within the US is obviously much quicker.
I don't believe it.. I forgot about Malta! That's it, they are spread thin and trying to cover as much ground as they can. It's to be expected, doesn't make us any less annoyed waiting but first world problems in the grand scheme of things. As they say, all good things...
 
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I don't believe it.. I forgot about Malta! That's it, they are spread thin and trying to cover as much ground as they can. It's to be expected, doesn't make us any less annoyed waiting but first world problems in the grand scheme of things. As they say, all good things...

lol. Totally a first world problem. “Y’know, I had to wait 9 weeks to get my Tesla. It was horrible!”
 
Haha, I'm just kidding out of shock. He appears to have the only SA in the country with any knowledge of schedules.

The rest are providing highly informed explanations, such as, “The factory is busy retooling to produce cars for the Australian market. This is difficult because the motors have to spin the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere.”
 
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I said it in the tracker thread but i'll repost here just to give y'all a little hope - I ordered an SR+ White/Black on 10/4, and there's a VIN in my source code today (for the first time). It's something.
I saw that!!!! 10/8 here. Definitely hopeful. Looks like some SR+ in Canada too. We’ll know soon if North America is back and / or SRs are being produced. Seems to have been only AWD recently.