Tracking P85D delivery thread

[redp85d]

In production tonight hoping for a 12/12/14 or 12/14/14 pick up@ Factory . Ppl call me Mr.optimisitic :tongue:

 

[NorthShore]

Asking for payment?

Okay my P85S has been in production since 11/25 and at this point I just imagine it riding around and around the factory on that automated track for hours a day while the workers occasionally put on a lug nut or headlamp as it glides slowly past.

It's still in production but tonight I got an email requesting payment.

Is that a significant change or are they just charging me rent for the time my car is spending laying around the factory?

 

[gpetti]

Asking for payment?

Okay my P85S has been in production since 11/25 and at this point I just imagine it riding around and around the factory on that automated track for hours a day while the workers occasionally put on a lug nut or headlamp as it glides slowly past.

It's still in production but tonight I got an email requesting payment.

Is that a significant change or are they just charging me rent for the time my car is spending laying around the factory?

I had already paid for mine (and signed over my old car) - basically I had everything done for a potential December 4 delivery.

 

[andrewket]

If I had to guess, based on what little information has been shared by various DSs including mine, the recent bout of cars kicking off on top of the few that have entered production since the logjam, i think the problem will be resolved over the weekend and cars will be completed and continue according to the usual process, I.e. Some pickups will start next week and those of us getting deliveries will receive cars the week after. I was starting to wonder if they were actually rebuilding my car (it went back into build on December 2cnd) but presumably they would have to use a different VIN number?

Funny you brought this up, because I started to type this idea in a reply yesterday and decided not to post it. If Tesla completely destroyed a car that had never left the factory, maybe they could create a second one with the same VIN, but imho having a process by which this can happen is a dangerous. If two cars with the same VIN were to leave the factory, badness would ensue. Much better to just give you a new VIN. Remember that the VIN is encoded in several places in the car.

 

[sundoc]

What?? ... this is ridiculous. Why would the Montreal store have 4 Ds and the Toronto store have none? Are you sure?
I am busy this weekend but I am hopping on my plane on Monday and flying to Montreal to check them out. Wanna come with me?

Give it a few days... I suspect Lawrence will get a couple of them. All 4 probably went therefore store opening and the test drives.
Check out the Canada thread for pics etc.

Thanks for the offer to tag along if you fly out That would be awesome but unfortunately Monday is a schedule packed solid kind of day though.

 

[mrElbe]

What?? ... this is ridiculous. Why would the Montreal store have 4 Ds and the Toronto store have none? Are you sure?
I am busy this weekend but I am hopping on my plane on Monday and flying to Montreal to check them out. Wanna come with me?

If Sundoc can't make it, I would love to fly with you to Montreal. We would just have to make sure that they can schedule us for test rides.

 

[electrish]

If I had to guess, based on what little information has been shared by various DSs including mine, the recent bout of cars kicking off on top of the few that have entered production since the logjam, i think the problem will be resolved over the weekend and cars will be completed and continue according to the usual process, I.e. Some pickups will start next week and those of us getting deliveries will receive cars the week after. I was starting to wonder if they were actually rebuilding my car (it went back into build on December 2cnd) but presumably they would have to use a different VIN number?

I would really like to share your optimism, because that would mean that some of us might still take December delivery.

Your point of Tesla re-building the cars in the queue is a good thought, however, that would mean that they let forty-some cars go through before detecting the flaw. I think it's more likely that they may have detected potential problems after a handful of cars, after which they had to fix things by hand, caused the observed slow-down.

 

[andrewket]

I would really like to share your optimism, because that would mean that some of us might still take December delivery.

Your point of Tesla re-building the cars in the queue is a good thought, however, that would mean that they let forty-some cars go through before detecting the flaw. I think it's more likely that they may have detected potential problems after a handful of cars, after which they had to fix things by hand, caused the observed slow-down.

Sounds plausible. I get nervous about items that are built by hand. Inconsistent, generally more susceptible to annoying things like rattles that are very difficult to fix, etc.

 

[3s-a-charm]

I had a good laugh out loud about the image you painted below... thanks!

Asking for payment?

Okay my P85S has been in production since 11/25 and at this point I just imagine it riding around and around the factory on that automated track for hours a day while the workers occasionally put on a lug nut or headlamp as it glides slowly past.

It's still in production but tonight I got an email requesting payment.

Is that a significant change or are they just charging me rent for the time my car is spending laying around the factory?

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Nice setup/color! That's what I originally had but changed to black.

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[crazybrit]

from the Tesla Motors forum:

VIN 53xxx P85D "In Production" as of 11/25. My DS told me today that they have had "vibration issues" with the front motor and therefore are running additional QC tests. He would not give me an expected delivery date

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I don't think there is any one issue, but a punch list of them. Monroney Sticker: Check, Seat Issue: Check, Motor Viration issue: working on it.

Here's hoping that they are getting down to the last few items.

 

[toto_48313]

What?? ... this is ridiculous. Why would the Montreal store have 4 Ds and the Toronto store have none? Are you sure?
I am busy this weekend but I am hopping on my plane on Monday and flying to Montreal to check them out. Wanna come with me?

Montreal is now the largest Tesla Store in North America.
Was there yesterday evening, and 4 P85D were there, and test ride were amazing!

REgarding my P85D (64774) My delivery specialist told me it wil enter in production on dec 8, and delivery planned for dec 20...

I'm selling my previous (04241) today...

 

[redox]

Asking for payment?

Okay my P85S has been in production since 11/25 and at this point I just imagine it riding around and around the factory on that automated track for hours a day while the workers occasionally put on a lug nut or headlamp as it glides slowly past.

It's still in production but tonight I got an email requesting payment.

Is that a significant change or are they just charging me rent for the time my car is spending laying around the factory?

Just to make you feel "better": I was asked for payment, had a delivery date. I paid. When funds transferred my DS called me to tell me the date was cancelled and no new date in sight.
I know, coincidence of course...

-- Greg

 

[lolachampcar]

I arrive to pick up my car with a check in my hand

 

[redox]

Sounds plausible. I get nervous about items that are built by hand. Inconsistent, generally more susceptible to annoying things like rattles that are very difficult to fix, etc.

Indeed. That's sort of the price to pay for being an early adopter. We're going to deal with a bunch of bugs to debug, but to be honest we knew what we were getting into.

I hope that after they ran the line for a few cars and found out the issues, they're going to fix the issues, re-run the same car specs through a whole rebuild on a new (fixed) prod line, and fix the first batch by hand so they can be used as loaners/test cars (but not customers).

That would mean new VINs for these customers of course. I wouldn't mind a new VIN, but I would mind hand-crafted patches. For that amount of $$ you kind of expect perfection.

-- Greg

 

[Cottonwood]

I've created a google docs spreadsheet where we can track this.

Hmmm.... What's up, Google is tells me that I no longer have permission to look at the spreadsheet?

 

[ariporad]

Hmmm.... What's up, Google is tells me that I no longer have permission to look at the spreadsheet?

Weird, me too.

 

[flyboyzz1]

I suspect Tesla shut it down. They didn't want us to be able to track how slow the line is moving.

:smile:

 

[andrewket]

Hold on.. Looking into it.

 

[gpetti]

Your point of Tesla re-building the cars in the queue is a good thought, however, that would mean that they let forty-some cars go through before detecting the flaw. I think it's more likely that they may have detected potential problems after a handful of cars, after which they had to fix things by hand, caused the observed slow-down.

I tend to agree with what you're saying, I.e they detected problems after a handful of cars that had actually completed production, unfortunately mine being one of them. They could be hand fixing the problems while also working on the line but I was musing that it's also possible that they might have just rebuilt a few from scratch which would also lead to a week delay or so. I'm fine with the hand fixed idea as I know that if there were relatively few needing fixing then they will be getting special attention

 

[andrewket]

Ok, access control to the spreadsheet has been fixed. It's a little worrisome, because I didn't change it. It had reverted to private, with only 2 named individuals other than me who had access. A bunch of you must have tabs on your browsers with the spreadsheet up all the time, because as soon as I fixed the permissions ~10 people connected within 15 seconds. It was funny.