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Tesla Model 3 in Australia
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WoodWombat
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I have the same exact spec on order and also exactly the same lack of any sort of information from Tesla. No VIN, no invoice, nothing. I am 8/4/2016 reservation and 31/5/2019 order, with an edit required to correct for Tesla's weak support systems on the following Monday.
At this rate, August sounds more like October.
Techno-phile
S100D, P3D- in garage
Just a heads up for those that have not been able to find their VIN...
I was in the same boat, although regarding a MX rather than a 3. I ordered on 9 July and then checked every few weeks for a VIN... nothing. Just the dreaded Hidden VIN message.
Then I stumbled on this trick on one of the Canadian pages. Enter the following address in your browser:
view-source:Tesla SSO – Login
and replace the RN with your reservation. Doesn't matter that the reference is to the Canadian webiste. Then search for a "5Y" number and if a car has been allocated to you your VIN will be present.
I found mine, 5YJXDCE20KF186XXX, which looks legitimate as a buyer in Canada who ordered on 10 July also has a 186xxx VIN and has already received their Model X.
Hopefully this might help some of us who are worried that our call has not progressed in the queue!
Now if only we had a shipping manifest for Model Xs like the one Vedaprime has put together for the 3. I may have found the VIN but still have no idea what boat the car in on or when it might arrive!
I was in the same boat, although regarding a MX rather than a 3. I ordered on 9 July and then checked every few weeks for a VIN... nothing. Just the dreaded Hidden VIN message.
Then I stumbled on this trick on one of the Canadian pages. Enter the following address in your browser:
view-source:Tesla SSO – Login
and replace the RN with your reservation. Doesn't matter that the reference is to the Canadian webiste. Then search for a "5Y" number and if a car has been allocated to you your VIN will be present.
I found mine, 5YJXDCE20KF186XXX, which looks legitimate as a buyer in Canada who ordered on 10 July also has a 186xxx VIN and has already received their Model X.
Hopefully this might help some of us who are worried that our call has not progressed in the queue!
Now if only we had a shipping manifest for Model Xs like the one Vedaprime has put together for the 3. I may have found the VIN but still have no idea what boat the car in on or when it might arrive!
5171 white seats. Def not expecting anything til October. The VIN wasn't "locked" to my order yet, but it looked like a probable match according to them.
Lol just read the Perth post. Oct 15. So I will reset my expectations, only 2.5 months late but okay.
Blue heaven
Fair Dinkum Tesla
You're throwing money at a $70,000+ car when a combination of public transport and ride sharing would be a far better financial alternative, the second alternative that is a $25,000 Camry that will get you from A to B in the same time. So I also assume you live in the bare basic home that is sufficient to get from one day to the next, recycle all building materials and furniture rather than purchase new to impress the in laws, don't have a swimming pool, and lastly never dine out because there is absolutely no return on investment in any of those.
So in summary people can purchase whatever they damn we'll choose, waste it or invest it on anything that gives them pleasure because there's a fair chance they may have well worked hard for it, but anyone who concerns themselves with ROI really needs to look at their full lifestyle.
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My first post was automatically converted into URL that will just take you to your homepage. You need to copy and paste this text exactly and thenchange http$ back to https!
I think what he's saying is he doesn't care about a battery and would rather spend his money on a car that brings him joy. While you may get joy from a battery pack, I'd rather drive a fast car and live in a nice house.
People have their own priorities.
No I disagree. Ppl can choose what they do actually. I am not puritanical.
I am keen on the car cause its good and I don't want to buy another ICE. And I made that decision in 2016.
I believe in climate change.I invested in pv which has a long roi in my situation.
I dont think my decision is going to make the difference to climate change but I hope many more ppl will move
But I'm not going to buy a battery until they are more economic. Too expensive in my particular situation.
And I realise the choices I have are a luxury.
Ideology is expensive for most.
Russian
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I've been quietly letting them go about their business. Figured it was a good strategy for getting my car as soon as possible.
But if the reward for being patient is getting ignored, I might have to start nagging them every few weeks too.
Fair enough, however that doesn't make the reasons that some people cite for spending the money on batteries non-reasons.
Great. Well then. You are the first known from Brotonne Bridge. Cars were spotted on trailers near Sydney airport - probably coming from the port going to Autonexus.
(This will frustrate the people not having received calls from the earlier ships - myself included.
But congrats to you, I see you were a very early reservation holder, so am glad you got the call.
Everyone’s situation is different. If you are not a large electricity user, or use the majority of power during the day and not at night, a battery is unlikely to make sense.
In our case, we were spending well over $4k p.a. on grid electricity. Our first post-solar electricity bill was more than $1000 less than the corresponding quarter last year. The next bill may even be in credit! The economics look different in that scenario.
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I felt the opening comment about concerns beyond ROI being only for rich(er) people implied something to that effect (like "silly rich people, throwing money away for frivolous reasons").
Of course, with the ROI on a vehicle (any vehicle, even an EV) being markedly worse than the ROI on batteries, we've got an entire thread full of silly rich people throwing money away on frivolous things that will never produce any notable ROI.
I am a rich(er) person throwing money away on something that is a hopeless investment.I felt the opening comment about concerns beyond ROI being only for rich(er) people implied something to that effect (like "silly rich people, throwing money away for frivolous reasons").
Of course, with the ROI on a vehicle (any vehicle, even an EV) being markedly worse than the ROI on batteries, we've got an entire thread full of silly rich people throwing money away on frivolous things that will never produce any notable ROI.
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