So, 3 years and 14 days after I placed my reservation, 6 months and 21 days after our order and a painful 51 days after our original delivery date, we picked up my 90D, VIN 2279 this morning at the factory.
We arrived at the factory in our loaner Nissan Rogue (awful car, btw) just in time for our 11am appointment and was met at the delivery center by our delivery
orientation specialist (DoS) who got us signed in and told us he would meet us right after the factory tour.
The factory tour was, without a doubt, amazing. We saw far more than I expected to see and were closer to the action than I had ever been in any other factory tour (the Boeing factory being my main comparable prior tour). The tour guide was knowledgable and was genuinely passionate about Tesla's mission and products besides being an car geek. If you haven't taken the tour yet, stop what you're doing and get an appointment now
After the tour, we were taken back to the delivery center, where I did the final paperwork and took delivery of the car.
Delivery experience
- There were only 2-3 other deliveries at that time (another X and maybe 2 S), which was surprising since I would have thought that Saturday morning would be a popular time.
- The DoS spent over an hour with us, giving us a detailed overview of the exterior features and charging, interior and came with us for the first drive where he talked through the autopilot. He was thorough and very helpful.
- My DS only dropped by once to say hello - that was surprising as I thought she would have been the one to do the orientation with us. It didn't matter as the DoS did an excellent job.
Fit, Finish and Options:
- The car had 12 miles on it at delivery, lower than I expected.
- Fit and finish was good - there weren't any obvious blemishes or scratches when we took delivery. We did notice a couple of door trims that weren't perfectly cut and a plastic piece of the front passenger's seat had a gap in it. We noticed all this after we had driven out of the factory. The 3rd row seats looked a lot better that some of the other earlier deliveries I had seen photos of on the forums - no exposed wire or poorly cut carpeting.
- Love the Obeche Matte trim. I can see why they made it an upgrade in current builds
- The black multi-pattern seats are great! They look richer in person and the pattern adds visual texture to them and I'm now glad my last minute change to the black leather seats fell through.
- We got the sunshade, FYI @
K-MTG - haven't had a chance to try it yet since it was mostly cloudy today in NorCal
- There was a well packed box with the 2" hitch and a wire for the tow adapter - this was surprising since we had ordered only the hitch, not the tow package. The DoS said it was super simple to install them, so we didn't walk through it during delivery.
- There was a box with the blind holster kit in the glove compartment. I didn't try installing it since my phone is a USB-C and the kit only had only µUSB and lightning adapters.
- We got the standard audio and it sounds, well, standard. The audio is generally acceptable and didn't exceed even my low expectations.
- The spoiler is fixed
Congrats to those who got the non-P with active spoilers, but it looks like that party has ended.
The first 100 miles:
After pick up and a quick lunch, we drove down to Santa Cruz along I-880 and 17 and then back up to San Francisco via Half Moon Bay along US-1.
- The car is amazing. It drives like a dream and even with no P and no L, the acceleration is like nothing I've experienced so far.
- It took me about 30 seconds to trust the autopilot features - might have something to do with all the Tesla videos I've watched in the past few months. Autopilot worked flawlessly, through the heavy traffic in San Jose, the curvy mountains roads on 17 and the ups and downs along US-1. Of the 100+ miles I put on the car today, about 80 were in Autopilot mode.
- No issues so far with the doors or windows. I was stopped on a shoulder along US-1 and tried to open one of the falcon wing doors against a strong wind and it stopped early, but that is potentially by design.
- I think I saw
@ohmman on a ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk:
https://goo.gl/photos/WYeQbfJsJBbvMu1P6
- Parking the car in our tiny garage was tricky. The falcon wings barely open and the rear liftgate hit the garage roof when it opened - I remember reading that there was a way to set the max height for the opening, but I can't find it now.
Some more photos here:
https://goo.gl/photos/eL1jZ63W2M8bDF367
More tomorrow once we've had some rest!
