Tracking P85D delivery thread

[breser]

For those that have take delivery for this or past cars, how much preparation (time) does the Delivery Center have to do to the car after it arrives?

Depends largely on how busy they are. Usually no more than a day or two.

 

[MrMax]

As expected, my VIN changed from EFP to FFP this early morning (02:18 GMT+1). There are no overseas deliveries in the spreadsheet with indicated 2014 (EFP) VIN's now. Very comforting to see that many of you are taking delivery! Thanks for all pictures!
Heated steering weel comment : My current BMW's heated wheel gets very hot fast, and needs to by turned off after a few minutes, even in Norwegian cold winter, unless you use protecting driving gloves ;-)

 

[Winston]

Finally got out of the black hole and took delivery yesterday. It wasn't a great time to do it: it was dark, rainy, and the place where they keep the "new car deliveries" is also not very well lit.
I only drove it for 20 min, enough to reach the detailer to get it OptiCoat'ed.

My detailer found a small chip on the rear right wheel on the hub side. It looks like QC caught it at Tesla since its marked green already.


I'm surprised they let it pass, but anyway: what's the best way to get it fixed? I emailed delivery@ this morning but haven't heard back.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

-- Greg

I have a feeling the green marks are to do with alignment. I remember seeing this in a video I watched recently.

 

[D.O]

not the new gen. But tan seats black header. New gens coming in 2015.

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Perfect, now I know I did the right decision black header and tan looks exotic!

 

[sundoc]

Got that delay message as well sometime late last night. Sucks.
Lets see how this pans out.

 

[RAW84]

My car went into production today!!!

But then I recieved this;

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So you'll buy the car in 2014 and they'll ship it to your house in 2015....this seems to be the 'options' they were thinking of offering wk057

 

[berryja]

@docgarner, @zzzzdoc, @boeing777, @Craig, @Yak-55, @berryja, we could have a car hauler heading for the Sunshine State via Marietta I would think. Any word from your DSs?

 

[Andyw2100]

I have a feeling the green marks are to do with alignment. I remember seeing this in a video I watched recently.

I can't watch that video, but it appears to be the video on "Dream Cars" which I did record and watch. Can you tell us about what point in the video you were referring to, so we can try to find it on another video?

More importantly, if the green mark is just there to verify a proper alignment, then it should be on all four wheels, right, and on everyone's cars? This should be pretty simple to check.

 

[andrewket]

I added a new item to the summary page on the spreadsheet:

% of orders delivered with seats as ordered. With 12 orders delivered, we're at 50%. I expect this to fall quickly.

 

[electrish]

@meltoots, @LisaNeedsBraces: Any updates on your delivery dates? Our cars may be on the same truck.

 

[Andyw2100]

I'm also annoyed. If Tesla had been upfront about the heated steering wheel I would have my car now; as it is I'm at least two months out 

I'm actually writing to make you feel better--less annoyed. But to do that I need to explain why you are wrong about the above. And you are actually wrong for a couple of reasons:

1) If you had ordered earlier you might have wound up in the same boat as others who did not get the heated wheel. You might have the car, but no heated steering wheel.
2) If you had timed your order just right, and ordered so that your car went into production after Tesla started adding the heated steering wheel, you still wouldn't have one because you live in California. For now they have only added the heated steering wheel in the three coldest regions and California is not included.

Here's the most important part. It's related to number 2 above.

As I understand it, Tesla still has not officially added the heated steering wheel to the winter weather package. They are including it when they can, and doing so for cars being built in the coldest regions. Unless you have a guarantee from someone that the car you have ordered is coming with a heated steering wheel, it still may not be. If this is important to you, you should definitely talk to someone about it.

 

[Winston]

I can't watch that video, but it appears to be the video on "Dream Cars" which I did record and watch. Can you tell us about what point in the video you were referring to, so we can try to find it on another video?

More importantly, if the green mark is just there to verify a proper alignment, then it should be on all four wheels, right, and on everyone's cars? This should be pretty simple to check.

It's a shot of a worker assembling the drive unit, once they've put all the bolts in, they use a marker to draw a line over the bolts and onto the motor assembly.
It seems like it could be a sort of tamper seal. Although, I don't know if the same applies to the wheels.

 

[lsnetman]

VIN 65089. Production complete. Looks like the original 12/26 delivery estimate was pretty accurate.

 

[Vger]

FYI: I was at the factory yesterday just to use the supercharger, and BOY was it busy! They have big tents set up for the delivery area, and it looked as if (roughly) they are delivering perhaps 20+ cars a day. I saw a number of P85D's rolling out, but did not have time to try to survey more closely.

 

[redox]

I've been thinking more about this.

Could the fact that the color green was used to mark the chip indicate that they were giving this flaw the "green light" to pass inspection and continue on through to the customer? Might they use a color-coding system? Green for problems that are deemed trivial enough to note and then ignore, yellow for problems that need more review, and red for problems that need to be corrected?

Very possible. It is indeed not something that is very visible, and if it's not critical to safety or performance, maybe it's not a "big deal".

-- Greg

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I have a feeling the green marks are to do with alignment. I remember seeing this in a video I watched recently.

Yeah, that's also what my detailer told me yesterday. The fact that it's next to the chipped part may simply be a coincidence.

-- Greg

 

[RobinF]

It's a shot of a worker assembling the drive unit, once they've put all the bolts in, they use a marker to draw a line over the bolts and onto the motor assembly.
It seems like it could be a sort of tamper seal. Although, I don't know if the same applies to the wheels.

Marking nut/bolt combos are common practice and tells anyone inspecting later if the nut has backed off from the original torque setting. The green wheel mark I suspect is not that but, as suggested, a QA Pass mark. Obviously the wheel was chipped in the factory probably when the tire was mounted to the wheel. From a structural standpoint it will not be an issue.

 

[P85]

Is it just me or are the new P85D owners very silent? Wold be nice if someone could post more videos of the performance and so on. Most videos today are demo cars and not actual delivery cars..

 

[KOL2000]

Is it just me or are the new P85D owners very silent? Wold be nice if someone could post more videos of the performance and so on. Most videos today are demo cars and not actual delivery cars..

Couldnt agree more. Especially would love to hear from someone upgrading from P+ to D.

 

[skilly]

Is it just me or are the new P85D owners very silent? Wold be nice if someone could post more videos of the performance and so on. Most videos today are demo cars and not actual delivery cars..

all 3 of them

 

[commasign]

Is it just me or are the new P85D owners very silent? Wold be nice if someone could post more videos of the performance and so on. Most videos today are demo cars and not actual delivery cars..

In the shop getting paint protection, tint, etc.,