For 5 years, I have dreamed of owning a Tesla. For 5 years, I looked at EVERY single Tesla for sale on TMC, ebay, autotrader, cl, and others. I was doubting that I would ever be able to get a Tesla in the price range I was willing to pay. Then, with a stroke of luck, I came across a great deal on an 85 AP1 car that is incredibly loaded. Man, I was SO happy. I LOVED this car. It was everything I dreamed it would be. For once, the reality was as great as the dream.
Then Tesla screwed me. Royally.
My A/C seemed a little loud and there was a weird gurgling noise coming from under the hood. I called the Jacksonville Service Center and they told me to bring it in and they would check it out. I also asked them to do my 3 year service while they had it.
So, Friday morning, we dropped it off. I had already been told we would get a loaner - and possibly even another Tesla if one were available. Sure enough, they had a Tesla for us. And THIS is where the screwing begins. You aren't going to believe this, but they gave me a 100D to drive and told me I could pick my car up the next morning. So we left J-ville and headed to St Augustine to spend the evening downtown.
Man, that 100D was AMAZING!!!! Those premium seats were SO damn comfortable compared to my first gen seats (though before that day, I thought MY seats were awesome). And man, the POWER and SPEED. OMG!! This thing was a ROCKET!! I eventually had to put it in chill mode because I was scaring my wife to deaf. It was SO fun to drive. And that facelift. Boy, it just jumped out at us every time we walked up to it. Such a beautiful car. And the range. I could drive for an hour before I even hit the max range of my old rusty Tesla.
And then, we had to return it. We didn't want to. There was our "primitive, slow, horribly uncomfortable seating, poor range having, shitty, old 85" sitting there. I guess I had no choice but to load it up and take it. I didn't want to, but I had to.
Nary a word was spoken between my wife and I for 15 minutes after we left. The silence was deafening. Finally, I looked at my wife - the person who only 60 days earlier had told me what an idiot I was to buy a Tesla - and she said to me, "Let's sell this one and get a 100D". I was SO excited. YES!! Let's do it. Now, I'm right back at the same place I was - living in fantasy world dreaming of the day I can afford a 100D!!
Why Tesla???!?!??!!!!! Why did you do this to me? Why did you turn my incredibly fast, amazing 85 into an old outdated "Piece of crap" (yes, my wife actually used those words!!)?
Ok. So, while there is some truth to all of this - and anyone who has got a higher model loaner knows it - I do actually love my 85. The car is amazing and has unbelievably rooted out my '66 Mustang I got when I was 16, as my heart-felt favorite car of all time. It is my baby and will always mean a lot to me. But it did suck to think of it in the way for a while. But, as I drove from J-ville back to Savannah on I-95, AP doing most of the work, I remembered just how grateful I was to have it. I truly love that car.
Sorry for the click bait - but it was YOU who made the assumption that it was bad.
Then Tesla screwed me. Royally.
My A/C seemed a little loud and there was a weird gurgling noise coming from under the hood. I called the Jacksonville Service Center and they told me to bring it in and they would check it out. I also asked them to do my 3 year service while they had it.
So, Friday morning, we dropped it off. I had already been told we would get a loaner - and possibly even another Tesla if one were available. Sure enough, they had a Tesla for us. And THIS is where the screwing begins. You aren't going to believe this, but they gave me a 100D to drive and told me I could pick my car up the next morning. So we left J-ville and headed to St Augustine to spend the evening downtown.
Man, that 100D was AMAZING!!!! Those premium seats were SO damn comfortable compared to my first gen seats (though before that day, I thought MY seats were awesome). And man, the POWER and SPEED. OMG!! This thing was a ROCKET!! I eventually had to put it in chill mode because I was scaring my wife to deaf. It was SO fun to drive. And that facelift. Boy, it just jumped out at us every time we walked up to it. Such a beautiful car. And the range. I could drive for an hour before I even hit the max range of my old rusty Tesla.
And then, we had to return it. We didn't want to. There was our "primitive, slow, horribly uncomfortable seating, poor range having, shitty, old 85" sitting there. I guess I had no choice but to load it up and take it. I didn't want to, but I had to.
Nary a word was spoken between my wife and I for 15 minutes after we left. The silence was deafening. Finally, I looked at my wife - the person who only 60 days earlier had told me what an idiot I was to buy a Tesla - and she said to me, "Let's sell this one and get a 100D". I was SO excited. YES!! Let's do it. Now, I'm right back at the same place I was - living in fantasy world dreaming of the day I can afford a 100D!!
Why Tesla???!?!??!!!!! Why did you do this to me? Why did you turn my incredibly fast, amazing 85 into an old outdated "Piece of crap" (yes, my wife actually used those words!!)?
Ok. So, while there is some truth to all of this - and anyone who has got a higher model loaner knows it - I do actually love my 85. The car is amazing and has unbelievably rooted out my '66 Mustang I got when I was 16, as my heart-felt favorite car of all time. It is my baby and will always mean a lot to me. But it did suck to think of it in the way for a while. But, as I drove from J-ville back to Savannah on I-95, AP doing most of the work, I remembered just how grateful I was to have it. I truly love that car.
Sorry for the click bait - but it was YOU who made the assumption that it was bad.
