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#3,141
flowbee said:
Picked up my car yesterday at the Denver Service Center. Very smooth experience and amazing vehicle.. Really amazing.

Spent several hours last night testing the vehicle on various roads, doing launches, etc. Went out again this AM to "pick up breakfast for the family" (I can see many, many errands in my future, lol). Setting up homelink, Wifi, mobile app, etc all went without a hitch.

Current power usage average is 593 Wh/mi -- hahaha (yes I'm having fun w/ this vehicle)
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Enjoy and congratulations!!!

I don't see your car on the spreadsheet. If you don't mind me asking, when did you car enter production, when was it complete, and when did it leave California?

I hope to pick mine up in Denver this week. My car finished production on 12/17. My delivery people in Denver have not been returning e-mails or phone calls since then; not a good sign...

By any chance, did you see a grey P85D with 19's and a tan interior on the lot? That is probably mine.
 
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Regarding the Lane Departure Warning, I may have confused things by describing it as a chime. In actuality, it is more like a cell phone vibration. It goes "whirr whirr whirr" and takes about 1s start to finish. To activate it, turn off your radio and get on to a smooth road and then intentionally drift into the next lane. You'll hear it trigger once the wheel goes over the line. It's very hard to tell it apart from just standard road noise because it's not transmitting to the steering wheel. Either the feature is defective and needs a hardware re-working or it hasn't been enabled properly through software.

I am also hearing rumors from a reliable source of an upcoming firmware update before EOY that includes both active cruise control and the blind spot detection feature. Tesla is aiming to have autopilot out before June but that's currently where it's scheduled.

If anybody has other P85D questions or requests, happy to take them. I can also take video on my phone and upload it later for any questions.
 
#3,143
anxman said:
Regarding the Lane Departure Warning, I may have confused things by describing it as a chime. In actuality, it is more like a cell phone vibration. It goes "whirr whirr whirr" and takes about 1s start to finish. To activate it, turn off your radio and get on to a smooth road and then intentionally drift into the next lane. You'll hear it trigger once the wheel goes over the line. It's very hard to tell it apart from just standard road noise because it's not transmitting to the steering wheel. Either the feature is defective and needs a hardware re-working or it hasn't been enabled properly through software.
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It sounds like you may have one of several P85Ds that are having issues with this feature.

I don't have mine yet, but I tried this feature in the first Model S I test drove--a P+ in Natick. The steering wheel definitely vibrated quite noticeably, and it was not difficult to tell the difference between that and road noise. So it sounds like there may be an issue with this feature in your car.
 
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@Andyw2100: Thanks for that update.

It might be an issue with early model P85Ds. I test drove a P85D at Burlingame on 12/9 with Ali M (my sales rep) and it exhibited this problem and likewise my own P85D that I picked up on 12/19 has the problem as well. I have my fingers crossed that the firmware update resolves it.
 
#3,152
dbw77 said:
Just got email from DS, confirming NextGen seats in the front...

"I can confirm that your Model S does have the next generation seats in the front and it has the Napa leather seats in the rear."
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Here's to hoping I'll have the first Nex Gen Grey seats in production as I did switch the moment they offered the Next Gen seats in something other than Black and confirmed that day. :)
 
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For a data point, my car was delivered on Saturday 12/20 without the tan "next gen seats". Production started on 12/13 and was complete on 12/18. My DS informed me of this ahead of time, but when I took delivery the seats were not listed on the "Delivery Declaration and Due Bill" document. I had to get them to add it to the document. So not all cars are coming off the line with next gen seats, its still a mystery as to which car gets them.

- - - Updated - - -

By the way, quality control is a little suspect given the rate they are cranking cars. My car has a carbon fiber "yacht floor", yet I did not order it. Tesla made a mistake in the build, and did not catch it in QA, to my advantage. I pointed it out to the delivery experience specialist (he was a QA engineer helping out on Saturday) but he didn't seem to know what to do at that point. It does make me wonder if there are other things not quite right with the car. . .
 
#3,154
dbw77 said:
Just got email from DS, confirming NextGen seats in the front...

"I can confirm that your Model S does have the next generation seats in the front and it has the Napa leather seats in the rear."
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I was right in line with your delivery times and in fact, will be picking up on Tuesday as well. My DS had no notes to reference so he has to make a physical inspection to determine what I ended up with....NG fronts and Performance in the rear. That works for me for the time being!
 
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3s-a-charm said:
Fantastic! Congratulations! I've been in production since the 15th so wondering if I will be soon or diverted to the Black Hole! :)
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Black hole gravity is powerful..... Went into production 12/14, still there. I see builds started in December have a mix of finished / unfinished cars for pretty much every start day. There is nothing in the location, VIN number, color, options to figure out why some cars are finished in 3 days yet some take much longer. The answer must be in the tea leaves... Well, I am leasing so no tax issues here - as long as I get a good product I will be happy. Maybe Santa brings in a heated steering wheel too.
 
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svp6 said:
Black hole gravity is powerful..... Went into production 12/14, still there. I see builds started in December have a mix of finished / unfinished cars for pretty much every start day. There is nothing in the location, VIN number, color, options to figure out why some cars are finished in 3 days yet some take much longer. The answer must be in the tea leaves... Well, I am leasing so no tax issues here - as long as I get a good product I will be happy. Maybe Santa brings in a heated steering wheel too.
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There's another black hole opening up, one for cars that have completed production, but cannot get a transport:
I was initially quoted a delivery this weekend, my car finished production on 12/16, but it still has not been loaded on a truck yet (without any new delivery estimate!). It seems that a considerable number of other vehicles going to the same service center are sharing the same fate. This might even jeopardize a 2014 delivery.
 
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