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My comments are the first Model S’s with no parking sensors lost more. Those who took delivery in Sep 2016 vs Oct 2016 lost a lot more than someone who paid a little more for paint.

The first Model 3’s produced in 2017 are essentially the same as the Model 3’s being produced today.

Does your car also have homelink? If it does you saved 300 bucks and a LOT of hassle to get that installed today.

It has homelink
I guess my next car will still be a Tesla but I won’t be buying their cars when it first come out.
 
I'm in the camp of once you go black, you can never go black but most of my friends are not black paint fans because they just want color/shade that is the coolest in summer and easiest to maintain. On the flip side with black no longer being the free base color, this will mix up the fleet.
 
I bet it's because white is so popular they want to reduce cost and increase productivity.
So moving to a standard white solves the issue of having to paint so many multi-coat white cars and making it the base let's them reduce it from multi-coat to single stage paint job. Makes sense. It's why they did away with obsidian black. Now Id guess the white orders have increased.
 
A family member who worked claims at State Farm says plain white is the cheapest paint in body work.

In response to my niece being told red cars got into accidents more often, I did a little research and found that by a small margin, black cars hold the record, followed by red in third.
 
My theory is that they want to start selling the Model 3 as fleet vehicles and having a base price to compete in that space is needed. Thus the change. Most fleet vehicles are white for various reasons.

That's a good prediction I didn't even think about until you mentioned it.


Sorry to disagree with your incorrect information on what color hides defects, I own a body shop and auto dealership and black paint without question shows defects to a higher degree than any color other than a chrome or metallic wrap due to the reflected images on black, dark colors of reflective wraps.

Seconded. Black shows everything.
 
It has homelink
I guess my next car will still be a Tesla but I won’t be buying their cars when it first come out.

Sure. I’ve really been enjoying my Model 3 for an entire year. I don’t have enough time to where I can just sit on the sidelines if the car is acceptably good to me and it is a acceptable time to buy in the cycle.

I was 100% certain the Model 3 was not going to change much due to its mass market nature.

I’ve been right as there’s not substantial changes from July 2017 until now.

Substantial to me is from AP1 to AP2.

I highly doubt those Model Y owners are going to regret their day 1 purchases.

Unless they are constantly scanning for pricing differential daily after taking delivery.

I don’t recall ever caring about the prices of

Mazda 3’s
Honda Odysseys
Chevy Volts
Audi Q5’s

After I took mine home.
 
Tesla changes its standard paint color from black to white - Electrek

LOL, maybe they are trying to get more WHITE Model 3's on the road to balance everything!

I see alot of reds and blues as well!
Yeah I like that idea of having more of the other colors on the road. I've only have the M3 for a week and I've already mistakenly went up to someone else's car at a supercharger thinking it was mine. Glad I got the black just in time though, I like the way the black color complements the chrome lines
 
Solid white was supposedly dropped because it took multiple coats to apply uniformly and cost nearly as much as pearl white. Kinda strange to now bring it back as no charge color. I will order it when I get the refreshed S this fall. Thanks Elon!
 
Yeah I like that idea of having more of the other colors on the road. I've only have the M3 for a week and I've already mistakenly went up to someone else's car at a supercharger thinking it was mine. Glad I got the black just in time though, I like the way the black color complements the chrome lines

Agreed. You don’t need a chrome delete on black where on other colors the chrome looks pretty bad to me.

That said, I have a love/hate relationship with my black 3. On the one hand it looks amazing when cleaned/waxed. On the other, it gets dirty looking within seconds, and if you look even remotely too closely (especially in sunlight) the swirls and other imperfections are awful. You can create swirls with a clean fingertip. I pretty much gave up soon after purchase. The visible smudges around the door handle, the front trunk lid etc etc.

The paint makes me angry at times.

But...Tesla didn’t offer any other color my wife and I could live with:

Pearl white: No thanks. Reminds me of Cadillacs and in some lights looks so pearlescent which is...not my thing. Also accentuates the panel gaps - especially the larger side trunk gap (large) versus bumper gap (small). White is the worst color for seeing those black/shadowed panel gaps. Chrome works with it, though.

Blue: Not bad, but a little purple in some lights and the chrome doesn’t work with it to my eyes. I don’t know that I could wake up to a blue car every day.

Red: Also not bad, but a little pink in some lights. I also don’t like the chrome with this color and don’t know that I could wake up to a red car every day.

Midnight silver: Before seeing it, I was dead set on this color. All my previous cars have been silver or grey. I love these colors because they’re neutral and hide dirt/swirls well. The pictures on Tesla’s site are flat-out misleading. This color is grey sometimes, and a very pale blue other times, especially with any sunlight present. My wife calls it a form of dolphin blue, and it makes me insane. If they had a proper steel grey I’d have jumped on it. If they still had the proper silver I’d have jumped on that. This color is neither midnight nor silver, and is probably my least favorite color after having seen it in person. Very Pale Blue is a better name for it.

That said, it probably hides dirt and swirls the best!

So there you go. I like black conceptually. To live with it’s a pain in the bum. But I couldn’t live with any other color. If Tesla brings back silver I’ll cry myself to sleep every night thinking about what could have been.
 
So there you go. I like black conceptually. To live with it’s a pain in the bum. But I couldn’t live with any other color. If Tesla brings back silver I’ll cry myself to sleep every night thinking about what could have been.

Black is the sexist color by far if you wrap it in matte film. If you ceramic coat it is also a lot easier to clean.

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I wonder .......

I wonder if Tesla would sell a primed only vehicle?
Unseen areas are not painted anyway .... I'd like a primed M3, then take it to a paint specialist and have them do a first class paint job:
no streaks, no nubs, no scratches ........... and it would be the exact color I want.

A shop of that description painted my BMW Z3 and it is absolutely superb!!
 
This is great news. I have a solid white Model S because it was my favourite colour at time of purchase. Much crisper and more modern than the pearl white.
I was sad I wasn’t going to be able to get the same colour on my next car, now it’s going to be available for free!
 
Agreed. You don’t need a chrome delete on black where on other colors the chrome looks pretty bad to me.

That said, I have a love/hate relationship with my black 3. On the one hand it looks amazing when cleaned/waxed. On the other, it gets dirty looking within seconds, and if you look even remotely too closely (especially in sunlight) the swirls and other imperfections are awful. You can create swirls with a clean fingertip. I pretty much gave up soon after purchase. The visible smudges around the door handle, the front trunk lid etc etc.

The paint makes me angry at times.

But...Tesla didn’t offer any other color my wife and I could live with:

Pearl white: No thanks. Reminds me of Cadillacs and in some lights looks so pearlescent which is...not my thing. Also accentuates the panel gaps - especially the larger side trunk gap (large) versus bumper gap (small). White is the worst color for seeing those black/shadowed panel gaps. Chrome works with it, though.

Blue: Not bad, but a little purple in some lights and the chrome doesn’t work with it to my eyes. I don’t know that I could wake up to a blue car every day.

Red: Also not bad, but a little pink in some lights. I also don’t like the chrome with this color and don’t know that I could wake up to a red car every day.

Midnight silver: Before seeing it, I was dead set on this color. All my previous cars have been silver or grey. I love these colors because they’re neutral and hide dirt/swirls well. The pictures on Tesla’s site are flat-out misleading. This color is grey sometimes, and a very pale blue other times, especially with any sunlight present. My wife calls it a form of dolphin blue, and it makes me insane. If they had a proper steel grey I’d have jumped on it. If they still had the proper silver I’d have jumped on that. This color is neither midnight nor silver, and is probably my least favorite color after having seen it in person. Very Pale Blue is a better name for it.

That said, it probably hides dirt and swirls the best!

So there you go. I like black conceptually. To live with it’s a pain in the bum. But I couldn’t live with any other color. If Tesla brings back silver I’ll cry myself to sleep every night thinking about what could have been.
Yeah the smudges and fingerprints are everywhere. But I still like the black color the best. To me the other colors look a little less like a Tesla at first glance, the black defines the shape of the the car better in my eyes. What about do you think about shades of green?