Lots of negative delivery experiences will hit the headlines eventually. It’s important to keep in mind that these are growing pains. I’d be shocked if any significant # decide to not get a Tesla due to a bad delivery experience. Plus, we don’t hear of the thousands of good experiences each week.
Next will be the service centers. I can’t imagine Tesla is going to be able to keep up with the service demand, not to mention parts availability for the body shops.
With TSLA, it’s so crucial to decipher what is fundamentally material to the company, and what is not. Complexities with the X ramp was.....Elon taking a toke is not.
agree. i’ve read some of the threads. my 9/17 delivery just got delayed. by 8/24 it was produced and on truck to rail yard. later found out it didn’t get shipped until a week or so ago so it must have been in holding lot for ~ 2 weeks. this correlated with some other experiences i’ve read in model 3 forums. as of today it’s in baltimore and it’s final destination is mt kisco. they’ll let me know monday, possibly, of a new expected delivery date. if not then shortly thereafter. i’m guessing a week delay in total.
i kind of expected to not have monday as delivery date. i assumed this would be delayed bc of the mayhem going on. i wouldn’t chalk it up to a bad delivery experience yet.
i will say that my friends (also my area) that got the white int P model had a much more efficient process. they were 4 weeks from prod to deliv and that was a month ago. it’s easy to use the P as an example because they had a clearly defined prod start date and one can see the migration of those deliveries from west to east. ( and there’s a lot less of them)
now that the black int Ps have started over the last month in bulk, and i assume more volume with the awd coming east as well, the efficiency hasn’t maintained but actually dropped a few points.
they are obviously working on this.
i hope its worked out soon as an investor. bc like i said in an earlier post, people that are new to tesla are much less tolerant than those like me who have followed for years, and also who have friends that have had early model tesla vehicles and have witnessed their experiences. i don’t think we have to worry yet, so i’m not being alarmist, and i don’t believe tesla is being complacent, obviously.
if the same exact logistical problems are going on 3 months from now, i may begin to worry.
i won’t worry if logistical issues arise when they start doing overseas deliv, that’s a new/different set of use cases. theywill have to work those out too.
i guess i just think that prod to delivery (east coast is clearly the example use case for me) going from 4 weeks to 5 weeks.... i hope it’s a temporary hiccup. and then they should go back to 4 weeks, then 3 hopefully. between that and the communication of the progress to customers..we need to see iteratative improvements. and i think all will be fine.
