My P85D arrived around 1:00 PM today by truck, as planned. I have not spent a lot of time driving it yet, but I'll share some thoughts, and a few things that I don't think I've seen anyone else talk about that may help others who have not owned Teslas before.
In the short amount of driving I did do, the speed assist seemed to be working well. A lot of people talk about the speed limit signs popping up on the display when the car sees them. Unless I'm mistaken, they pop up when your speed exceeds whatever threshold you have set for the alert. (I could be wrong about this.)
My lane assist works. It is fairly subtle. It wouldn't surprise me, assuming this is possible, if Tesla adds a setting option to make the vibration more noticeable.
I only had the chance to try one fairly hard acceleration. I had turned onto a side road to turn around to head back home on a rural 50 MPH road, and turning back onto the main road I asked my wife (you may recall from my test drive post that she gets motion sick) if I could try one little, partial, acceleration. I didn't want her to get nauseated again. She agreed, so I accelerated some...not a complete flooring...from about 10 MPH to 55 or so, which resulted in her yelling, "No, no, no!", but me thinking, "that was OK, but it really wasn't all that spectacular." And then I remembered I was in Sport mode and not Insane mode! I have yet to drive my P85D in Insane mode!
As for some little tips for those of you who have not owned Teslas...
I'm pretty sure it's not possible to turn the radio off after you've turned it on, unless you turn the car off. You can mute the radio, of course, or switch to a different input or something. My wife and I sat in the car, trying to figure out how to turn the radio off for quite a while before she Googled it and discovered it (probably) is not possible.
This may be different for those of you picking up your car in person, but my window sticker wound up being in the glove box. I was wondering where it was. It also took me a while to figure out how to open the glove box. Had to go the the online manual for that one too. It turns out there is a little physical button to the right of the display that opens the glove box. Who would have thunk it?
I bought the all-weather mats from Tesla. Replacing the carpeted ones resulted in the circular holders for the carpeted ones being exposed on the passenger side after the all-weather mats were in place. It turns out that these just unscrew.
When you open the doors (perhaps just the back doors) the windows lower a little bit. Apparently this has something to do with clearing the opening, etc., but it surprised me at first. My DS happened to call me about 20 minutes after the car had arrived, and I think the only question I had for him on that call was about the windows lowering a little when I opened the doors.
I did set up one garage door opener and it worked smoothly. I do have one tip for everyone. The on-screen diagram indicates that you should point your remote just to the left of the Tesla logo on the nosecone. I was in the car, and I noticed my wife was pointing the remote to the right of the logo. And the car wasn't recognizing the signal. We tried again, and I made sure she pointed it to the left of the logo, and it then worked immediately. Maybe the batteries were a little weak in our remote, but in our case the exact location of the sensor and whether we were pointing the remote directly at it or not really did make a difference.
I also have a tip for WiFi setup. If you need the car's MAC address, you'll need to click on the little "i" icon within the Wifi Settings screen. It took me a minute or two to find this.
So far, so good!
