Thank you, that's the one I worked it out to aswell, but wanted to get another view - hopefully the extra bank holiday now inbetween on the 19th doesn't distrust things too much, but if so, hey ho
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UK 2022 Orders to Delivery inc the shipping thread for posts with no shipping news
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Thanks everyone for their comments. A load of information in these threads to read through but it’s a bit of minefield. Before the end of year would be great but looking at everyone’s experiences, it would seem that is very optimistic. Do they batch make the model types and send for delivery. With it being a less popular colour, will that be back of the queue ?
MashinBenzin
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They batch build for the UK/Europe in the first few weeks of a quarter and then ship and deliver them - the intention being to have no cars on the move over quarter end.
At the moment we are seeing a load of July/August built cars(start of quarter) being delivered over the end of August and September (end of quarter).
They’ll probably be producing (in China) solely for China over the second half of August and throughout September, before starting the whole cycle again with RHD/euro builds in October.
Something of a simplification and will change as GigaBerlin ramps up, but that’s my understanding of how things work currently.
Great thanks. If I follow, you only find out if your car is in the batch is when it’s on the ship, and that is normally midway through a quarter. If you don’t get a notification of it being on one of those ships then it’ll be another 3 months before I’m likely to get an update.
Similar here - VIN is 615xxx. Spoke to Tesla yesterday who confirmed reg etc and the fact that 28th at Trafford was the earliest I could collect. I too assume it’s on Sunrise - they’ll be unloading that many that it’ll take nearly 2 weeks to sort them all out and transport them around the country to various collection locations.
MashinBenzin
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Yep. And you don’t get a notification until the ship is almost here. But you can find the hidden vin on your account within a couple of days of the ship leaving Shanghai.
On the official comms - i started getting texts on 11 August and was able to schedule delivery on 8 September. The ship had docked on 31 August. So from my experience, you start getting comms around a month ahead from possible collection dates.
Astrape
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You would think it was that simple however peoples EDDs can shift around at any time without any clear logic. Covid stoppages in the factory certainly have an effect bt its likely there are other factors, They do have to reset the production line between the model variants RWD colours etc. So they will run batches, M3P clearly gets a priority slot but colour variants give you a smaller batch to fit into. What no one knows is the extent to which they rebalance the queue according to domestic demand, or regional demand. All this has a butterfly effect on individual EDDs.
Regardless of the detailed EDD shifts you have summarised the main pattern perfectly.
Same - VIN is 615xxx as well, M3P/Silver/Black/AP. Being delivered to home as it's through OctopusEV, although when I spoke to Tesla they initially thought I was collecting from Trafford Ctr. Home delivery booked for 28th, and they gave me the reg number too. I've made the assumtion it's on Sunrise and Tesla rep confirmed that as well. Excited doesn't even closely describe it
Picked the car up last Thursday. Surprisingly I received the V5 today so I can now put my private plate on the car
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I wanted to do a ceramic coat on the new car before the paint got degraded in any way. I used Autoglym high definition ceramic coating that I bought from Amazon for around £50. It was really easy to use and I did it outside in the shade (after checking the weather forecast!). You get two bottles of liquid - one that you use to prepare the surface and the other containing the ceramic coating. After washing the car, prepare the surface and polish off. There is a special applicator for the ceramic coat that just wipes on but you have to be methodical in the application. After leaving it for around 2-3 minutes it beads up and you then polish off. Don’t leave it too long otherwise it’s difficult to polish off. Took me around 1-2 hours to do the entire car. The surface is like glass and super-smooth with a great shine. I’ve had it done professionally before and paid around £350 -£400. Can’t see any difference between the two but I guess only time will tell. There is enough material in the kit to do two cars so I suppose you could reapply in a year or two.
nrushforth
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Always gone with the Spigen ones.
I’ll be ordering once Elon pulls his finger out and gives me a screen to stick it on
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