Been watching the forums for a while now, and a dilemma I have. There's some extremely passionate and informative folks on these forums, and I just wanted to see how folks felt. I'm certain as anything, that I'm sure I'm not the only one with this question floating about in ones head if recently ordered a new Tesla for early 2022.
Background here is that most of the summer I have been on the fence with a M3 and after test driving one, it's pretty much a given that being on the fence was no longer an option
The stars aligned for me in March, I couldn't order sooner as redundancies were flying around, and I needed to know 2022 would start with me still in employment. IT DID, and job is safe. So back in mid NOV I ordered as soon as the Model 3 Long Range said March on the estimated delivery. Crikey WHO KNEW Tesla would call me 2 weeks later, and say there's a car meeting my specification if I wanted it. It was a surprise, shock, delightful pleasure and heartbreak at exactly the same time. Had a 25 min chat with the chappy from Tesla, and since I was no way prepped, no charge point, no Oct GO, no smart meter, I had to just own up and say, I wasn't ready for it. It wasn't a problem, they could allocate the car to another customer, and put my order on hold until mid Feb. Which they have done. Someone out there was lucky enough to get an early Christmas surprise with a call from Tesla I think lol.
Anyway... to cut my rambling, the latest news flowing out of Giga Shanghai and around the interwebz is that the updates for 2022 include things like the laminate rear glass panel, the updated AMD infotainment, lithium 12v battery etc etc etc. These are all lovely bonus updates that are too good to ignore. I called the good folks at Tesla, to speak shop, and to see if and when my order releases in mid Feb, would my new vehicle include these updates. The conclusion of the call was that it's 50/50. Impossible to know. What I DO KNOW, inside info, is that a carrier vessel is due in around mid February, and my car most likely will be on that shipment if I go ahead.
The quandary:
If I'm going to finally get my M3LR in March, every molecule in my psyche is saying that an updated 2022 revision is the way to go. The problem I have it's early enough to clip the last of the pre updated stock, but late enough to clip the early shipments of the new updated version.
The questions:
What are the reasonable chances of picking up the updated M3 in that delivery? As I'm on order hold anyway, do you think it's better to opt out of that mid Feb shipment, and ask for the NEXT which would be Q2 (April onwards)? Should I keep an eye on people getting M3LR deliveries and see what's rolling off the ships? That's the main question, when do people feel / think the new cars will be creeping in to the Tesla collection points?
Compared to what I drive now (old 90s Vauxhall), ANY Tesla feels like an overdose of technological advances that in any light are insane. So I know even the 2021 refresh is a ridiculous car. My OCD is the issue, and had this been a couple of months ago wouldn't have given a second thought, but since the new M3 is right on us NOW, and an inch from my face I can't help to wait a little longer for this one instead.
Sorry this is a long wafflepost. Needed to get it into the open. It's causing me to ceiling gaze when I should be sleeping
Background here is that most of the summer I have been on the fence with a M3 and after test driving one, it's pretty much a given that being on the fence was no longer an option
The stars aligned for me in March, I couldn't order sooner as redundancies were flying around, and I needed to know 2022 would start with me still in employment. IT DID, and job is safe. So back in mid NOV I ordered as soon as the Model 3 Long Range said March on the estimated delivery. Crikey WHO KNEW Tesla would call me 2 weeks later, and say there's a car meeting my specification if I wanted it. It was a surprise, shock, delightful pleasure and heartbreak at exactly the same time. Had a 25 min chat with the chappy from Tesla, and since I was no way prepped, no charge point, no Oct GO, no smart meter, I had to just own up and say, I wasn't ready for it. It wasn't a problem, they could allocate the car to another customer, and put my order on hold until mid Feb. Which they have done. Someone out there was lucky enough to get an early Christmas surprise with a call from Tesla I think lol.
Anyway... to cut my rambling, the latest news flowing out of Giga Shanghai and around the interwebz is that the updates for 2022 include things like the laminate rear glass panel, the updated AMD infotainment, lithium 12v battery etc etc etc. These are all lovely bonus updates that are too good to ignore. I called the good folks at Tesla, to speak shop, and to see if and when my order releases in mid Feb, would my new vehicle include these updates. The conclusion of the call was that it's 50/50. Impossible to know. What I DO KNOW, inside info, is that a carrier vessel is due in around mid February, and my car most likely will be on that shipment if I go ahead.
The quandary:
If I'm going to finally get my M3LR in March, every molecule in my psyche is saying that an updated 2022 revision is the way to go. The problem I have it's early enough to clip the last of the pre updated stock, but late enough to clip the early shipments of the new updated version.
The questions:
What are the reasonable chances of picking up the updated M3 in that delivery? As I'm on order hold anyway, do you think it's better to opt out of that mid Feb shipment, and ask for the NEXT which would be Q2 (April onwards)? Should I keep an eye on people getting M3LR deliveries and see what's rolling off the ships? That's the main question, when do people feel / think the new cars will be creeping in to the Tesla collection points?
Compared to what I drive now (old 90s Vauxhall), ANY Tesla feels like an overdose of technological advances that in any light are insane. So I know even the 2021 refresh is a ridiculous car. My OCD is the issue, and had this been a couple of months ago wouldn't have given a second thought, but since the new M3 is right on us NOW, and an inch from my face I can't help to wait a little longer for this one instead.
Sorry this is a long wafflepost. Needed to get it into the open. It's causing me to ceiling gaze when I should be sleeping
