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UK 2021 Model 3 Q4 Collection and Delivery Experiences
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it’s free until the car is registered to you. So you’ll have a few minutes after you collect your keys and pop it on charge.
Simonix
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Have you had it connected to wifi overnight? Also, have you checked in the app?
Quite a few people on here, and others I know have had theirs "magically appear" even without any software update
If you’ve already requested warranty on the light unit wait until Tesla has made their decision before you try to improve it! You want it to look as bad as possible. If they simply won’t replace it then try the rectification.
Yeah to both, connected to WiFi all night and a lot of yesterday, and keep checking the app but nothing there yet. Might do a reset of the car and see if that does anything
Mine activated after a few hours. It was after I got delivery accepted text. Things I'd also done up to them activating:
- Connected the car to my phones hotspot/wifi (brielfy though)
- Emailed [email protected] to ask them - didnt receive a reply though.
So, it could have been any of them (or totally coicidental). I didn't get any updates though before they activated.
Didn't get chance to take any photos of my car after I got home, and its rained pretty much since! I did take one before I got into it though...
Did a reset and still nothing unfortunately, might contact support
Picked up my M3P yesterday from Thorpe Park, super smooth pickup experience - just showed my ID, they brought the car round, key cards were handed over, and the car instantly popped up in the app on my phone. They then left me to inspect the car.
Absolutely no issues with the car, some small scuffs on the rear and drivers side but they just wiped off with a microfibre cloth. Paintwork and panels are pretty much perfect from what I can tell. Car came with about 45% charge, which was plenty for getting where I needed to be.
The staff at the handover let me take the car around the carpark of all the hundreds of other Tesla's parked up waiting for their new owners, which was a pretty incredible sight - and a good opportunity to get used to the controls before heading out on the road.
I am absolutely in love with driving it, got used to hold mode a lot quicker than I expected and it's so nice barely having to use the brake pedal - and it's so fun and easy to drive. I would recommend to everyone to just keep it in hold mode, and not bother with any of the other settings. I was very pleasantly surprised as I was going from only driving 1-1.6l manual petrol cars in the past, I had never even driven an automatic before! The difference between the casual and sport mode (Performance model) is massive! The acceleration in sport mode is unreal, and a lot of fun. After a couple of attempts with Enhanced AutoPilot (mainly being freaked out by when it's going to stop for the car in front), I eventually got used to it and it works amazingly (especially great for stop and start traffic on the m25 xD) - you just have to learn to trust it knows what it's doing. It also calibrated within the first 25 minutes of driving, although a lot of which was in traffic. Even got my first supercharge in, absolutely painless experience and instantly charged the card on my Tesla account. Heated seats, steering wheel, etc all work great.
Car seems to have come on version 2021.36.5.5 - so not sure if I'm due an update? But no real issues with the software so far other than Spotify acting a bit strange until I logged in with my personal Spotify account, since then it's been flawless. We've had a lot of fun blasting random sounds out of the external speaker.
Overall - I am blown away and can't believe I finally have the car! All of you waiting to pick up are really in for a treat! Good luck, and have fun!
Edit: Just added a quick pic from the passenger from while we were looping around the car park and a pic of the car when it was being brought round by the staff member. (Apologies about the low quality, it was a still from a video).
Absolutely no issues with the car, some small scuffs on the rear and drivers side but they just wiped off with a microfibre cloth. Paintwork and panels are pretty much perfect from what I can tell. Car came with about 45% charge, which was plenty for getting where I needed to be.
The staff at the handover let me take the car around the carpark of all the hundreds of other Tesla's parked up waiting for their new owners, which was a pretty incredible sight - and a good opportunity to get used to the controls before heading out on the road.
I am absolutely in love with driving it, got used to hold mode a lot quicker than I expected and it's so nice barely having to use the brake pedal - and it's so fun and easy to drive. I would recommend to everyone to just keep it in hold mode, and not bother with any of the other settings. I was very pleasantly surprised as I was going from only driving 1-1.6l manual petrol cars in the past, I had never even driven an automatic before! The difference between the casual and sport mode (Performance model) is massive! The acceleration in sport mode is unreal, and a lot of fun. After a couple of attempts with Enhanced AutoPilot (mainly being freaked out by when it's going to stop for the car in front), I eventually got used to it and it works amazingly (especially great for stop and start traffic on the m25 xD) - you just have to learn to trust it knows what it's doing. It also calibrated within the first 25 minutes of driving, although a lot of which was in traffic. Even got my first supercharge in, absolutely painless experience and instantly charged the card on my Tesla account. Heated seats, steering wheel, etc all work great.
Car seems to have come on version 2021.36.5.5 - so not sure if I'm due an update? But no real issues with the software so far other than Spotify acting a bit strange until I logged in with my personal Spotify account, since then it's been flawless. We've had a lot of fun blasting random sounds out of the external speaker.
Overall - I am blown away and can't believe I finally have the car! All of you waiting to pick up are really in for a treat! Good luck, and have fun!
Edit: Just added a quick pic from the passenger from while we were looping around the car park and a pic of the car when it was being brought round by the staff member. (Apologies about the low quality, it was a still from a video).
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Can confirm there are no superchargers at Thorpe Park. And (for me at least) supercharging was not free on delivery day.
ChorleyTesl4
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badbadger06
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I am 48 hours in now and still hasn't been updated for me, been connected to wi-fi with 20mbps download speed at least when i have checked pretty much the whole time and also tried using phone as a hot spot to see if that does it but nothing still. Like others have said though they had it appear in the app out of nowhere after only a few hours. Seems very random.
Not got it activated on mine yet but the Tesla wasn’t playing ball with my WiFi extender so ended up tethered to my phone last night and this morning. On the plus side my rear light lenses are condensation free and clear this morning - no hairdryer needed!
FlyingTimbo
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That black finish looks fantastic.
I'm collecting mine this time tomorrow now.
I'm collecting mine this time tomorrow now.
Just added a couple of pics to this post
Thanks for this, I'm in a similar boat of having never driven an automatic before. I did get to test drive one twice so at least I have some idea.
I didn't even get to test drive, and got the hang of it within minutes of getting behind the wheel. You'll be absolutely fine, it's so intuitive and easy!
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