Tesla Model 3 in Australia

[WoodWombat]

Anyone know how long it usually takes Tesla to generate an invoice after the finance comapny asks for one? The email from Pepper is the first movement I've had on my order since placing it so I'm not sure if it suggests there will be imminent progress or not...

It depends on whether Tesla is ready to give you one. For me, my finance company requested the invoice weeks ago, and there has been no sign of it. If I had a vehicle assigned then I suspect that it would have been issued instantly.

 

[Matthewmm]

Hi All,
Thought i'd give update (not sure how to do that on google sheets thingo)
Std+
White
Cash
Reserved 17/10/17
Ordered 4/6/19
Vin:4431xx

Call from Delivery Guy: 30/8/19
Invoice Received: 3/9/19
Invoice Paid: 4/9/19
Delivery to home (Fremantle: perth) 4/10/19

Hope this helps.
Matthew

 

[nl_carey]

Confirming (because I've just been on a Model 3 test drive) that the first BNE orders are being delivered today. Just put my order in for White SR+ with FSD (thanks Morris).

 

[Stratman]

Received my new Telsa 3 phase mobile charging interface today to go along with other extra's many of us have been collecting. eg wheel caps, charging pad, puncture / compressor kit etc. Need to make up some adapter cables for the various sockets we might encounter off the main highways.

Now, just need that phone call and booking appointment from you know who!

 

[Vostok]

The new TOOL album has been 13 years coming and I was surprised (and happy) to find myself having to turn it up 20% more than other modern releases because they haven't over compressed it but it has the audio fidelity of a NEW release and not the old studios from the 1970s. I'm not an old-school "magnetic tape" or vinyl purist... I think digital sounds way better if it's done right.

Weeeelll, it’s not necessarily indicative of a lack of dynamic range compression. When CDs first came out, a lot of audio mastering engineers could not get out of the learned habit of leaving 3-6 dB of “headroom” in the master to avoid saturating magnetic tapes and to keep responses nice and linear. But they were no longer mastering to magnetic tapes but to a stream of 1s and 0s.

So in the early days, many if not most CD’s were mastered with completely unnecessary “headroom” and as a result sounded a lot softer than ones that did not. With a CD, there is absolutely no reason to not master the source all the way to 0 dB. Same with digital music files that replaced the CD.

The only way to know is to import the audio file into an audio editing tool and do a level analysis to see how many samples are in the 0 to -3dB range. If the answer is under 0.05%, the levels were underdone for absolutely no reason.

 

[to4garret]

Invoice for my 4434XX vin had a build date of 24/07. That seems a bit late for Capricon? Just putting it here since it might help with figuring things out regarding the ships

Thats interesting, my VIN is also 4434XX (White P3D+) but with a build/compliance date of 09/07/2019. I dont understand how there could be such a gap in build dates if the VINs are assigned sequentially during the build process.

 

[Insectia]

Got the call today

Pick up Melbourne 24th September
No reservation
Ordered 11th July.
SR+ black

 

[Kangojack]

I've gotten a bit behind with this thread over the last week...has Australia still not started mass deliveries yet? It appears cars in NZ are now making their way to owners in the South Island as of today.

Oh.. you missed the Amex saga.

 

[Kangojack]

Tried an iPhone once, never again, it is too restricted and cannot do much that I need from my phone.

Yes it’s a trade off.
Either you have a smart phone that just works or you battle with software and configuration.
Your Tesla will be locked down and secure just like an iPhone.

 

[Sentry_TC]

Thats interesting, my VIN is also 4434XX (White P3D+) but with a build/compliance date of 09/07/2019. I dont understand how there could be such a gap in build dates if the VINs are assigned sequentially during the build process.

Yeah its P3D+ blue for me, so seems like those are all the performance pack cars, but its such a big gap. Thats why i thought itll be interesting to mention it, maybe VedaPrime can comment

 

[aegidius]

Either you have a smart phone that just works or you battle with software and configuration.

Haven't had any such problems with Android - just a whole lot more choice and configurability (ducks flames)
Now if we just had an open Tesla app ecosystem...

 

[jyavenard]

ce from YouTube in raw audio but I'll test it anyway because it's INSANE.

- Paganini Caprice no. 5 (Paganin / Sumina Studer)

Any other suggestions?

FWIW, this stream is using Opus, 48kHz 16 bits, bitrate is about 160kbit/s. Which is better than AAC of the same bitrate.
YouTube best audio quality is Opus @ 160kbit/s ; or AAC 128kbit/s

But how will you connect to the audio system from your phone? Bluetooth? in which case it will either be SBC which is awful, or AAC.

So regardless, it's lossy.

 

[Kangojack]

Haven't had any such problems with Android - just a whole lot more choice and configurability (ducks flames)
Now if we just had an open Tesla app ecosystem...

Sound like you are a tinkerer.
An open Tesla app ecosystem. You can only dream.

 

[Kangojack]

FWIW, this stream is using Opus, 48kHz 16 bits, bitrate is about 160kbit/s. Which is better than AAC of the same bitrate.
YouTube best audio quality is Opus @ 160kbit/s ; or AAC 128kbit/s

But how will you connect to the audio system from your phone? Bluetooth? in which case it will either be SBC which is awful, or AAC.

So regardless, it's lossy.

I think are on the wrong forum. This thread is about Tesla’s not audio blah blah blah.

 

[aroth]

An open Tesla app ecosystem. You can only dream.

I second that dream. I wrote a custom media-player app for Android (and Android Auto) that I use constantly for in-car audio. Would happily port (or more likely, rewrite) it to Tesla's platform if I could.

 

[vindicatorsk]

Haven't had any such problems with Android - just a whole lot more choice and configurability (ducks flames)
Now if we just had an open Tesla app ecosystem...

I'm right there with you, IMO -- I've been involved in free and open source software for over two decades and how closed the Tesla ecosystem is makes me sad.

 

[jyavenard]

I think are on the wrong forum. This thread is about Tesla’s not audio blah blah blah.

My answer was in context. People are discussing what songs they are going to use to test the model 3 sound system, YouTube streams have been mentioned several times.
And if you want audio quality, YouTube is the last place you should look at IMHO.

 

[jyavenard]

Had a missed call from Lauren from Tesla, wanting to confirm next Tuesday's delivery. She said she was going to send all the information by email. Missed the call 3 hours ago, no email

 

[TH232]

Had to pass by Autonexus in Perth today. Was there about 1:30pm. Had just missed the truck offload but witnessed the Model 3's being parked. I directly counted at 19 but could easily have been more as very hard to count the ones parked deep in the pack. There were 3 Blue Performance cars so I assume one of those puppies is mine! Attached are a few photos. If anyone wants to take a look they have parked them at the front, under shade cloth so clearly visible. A red Performance was the last I saw parked so will be the closest to see. For those that missed it the address is 21-25 Ilda Road, Canning Vale. I took a few videos of them getting parked I can try to upload if people are desperate to see more. The key cards appeared to be taped in protective packets to the front. They all looked fairly clean except one black one with Aero wheels which looked like it had a bunch of road grime on the rear probably from the short truck ride from Forrestfield train offload to Canningvale. First time seeing Model 3 with my own eyes...they look much better in person for sure. Now they are here, how long do we have to wait?

 

[Anubis]

Now, just need that phone call and booking appointment from you know who!

Voldemort????