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Wailing wall for Australian Model 3 team VINLess!
- Thread starter WoodWombat
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Had a call from Peppers Finance today and after seeing all the posts on here I checked the page source on my account and a hidden VIN has appeared!
Model 3 Performance (White on Black)
No prior reservation
Ordered 30/8/2019
VIN assigned 6/11/2019 (9.5 weeks later)
VIN# 5YJ3F7EC8LF4886xx
From what people are saying, this looks like a 2020 delivery? I was originally told Oct when I ordered in Aug, but that got pushed out til Feb. So maybe that's accurate?
BTW - still looking to trade my P+ for P- if anyone has one...?
Model 3 Performance (White on Black)
No prior reservation
Ordered 30/8/2019
VIN assigned 6/11/2019 (9.5 weeks later)
VIN# 5YJ3F7EC8LF4886xx
From what people are saying, this looks like a 2020 delivery? I was originally told Oct when I ordered in Aug, but that got pushed out til Feb. So maybe that's accurate?
BTW - still looking to trade my P+ for P- if anyone has one...?
Just a note on VINs. I work in the motoring industry and we do not consider VINs personal information. Anyone can look up the VIN for any car that they see registered, they can also numerically generate all of the VINs in a range.
There are no public services that will get your personal details from a VIN, so redacting them is completely pointless
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Just a note on VINs. I work in the motoring industry and we do not consider VINs personal information. Anyone can look up the VIN for any car that they see registered, they can also numerically generate all of the VINs in a range.
There are no public services that will get your personal details from a VIN, so redacting them is completely pointless
Agreed from the motoring industry perspective. On its own it, it conveys no private information. The vin is also displayed on the windscreen. And some states make vin information readily available, or via a paid service.
Not everyone shares the same view - coming from privacy angle. It is easy from the vin to get the rego, and this could be combined with other information to breach personal security with what people share online. Also why regos are blurred in photos. There is also vin cloning - don’t want to derail the thread, but worth googling.
I’ve decided to respect those privacy opinions, just easier to stick with vin ranges, and the tracking spreadsheets out there are doing the same thing.
Jenny99999
Member
I have a VIN!! We are on a cruise at the moment and internet access is about a million dollars per minute so have resisted checking until this morning. Very excited!!
5YJ3F7ECXLF5874XX
5YJ3F7ECXLF5874XX
I have a VIN!! We are on a cruise at the moment and internet access is about a million dollars per minute so have resisted checking until this morning. Very excited!!
5YJ3F7ECXLF5874XX
I just found my VIN in the same range as yours.
P3+ Red/White
Sydney
How do we know what ship it’s on?
Jenny99999
Member
I haven’t checked ships yet as I’m on a verrrrryyy slow satellite connection.
We have the same spec cars, although I’m in Melbourne.
tessiestraya
Member
No VIN.
I'm sad.
Its just the worst when everyone seems to be getting a VIN except you, anyone else sharing my misery?
I'm sad.
Its just the worst when everyone seems to be getting a VIN except you, anyone else sharing my misery?
EcoCloudIT
Active Member
Yes, I’m seeing people that ordered not much before me with identical configuration (P+ blue with white interior) no reservation (I am an extremely early reservation holder) and not an existing Tesla owners (I currently own an S and X) getting cars allocated to them before me....I’ve moved from disappointed to angry....no proactive communication (only delayed and reactive communication) with an apology that my estimated order will be 200-300% wrong....
Purely from my observations there seems to be a lack of Blue P+ with White interiors being delivered? The more "standard" colours seem to be getting through.
EcoCloudIT
Active Member
I know of 3 in just the last week, however as I have requested to Tesla to then change me to any colour with even a black interior if I can get faster... simply not on to make an estimate and then be 200-300% wrong....I feel this will be the last Tesla I will own unless there is a massive turn around, sick of their service (or lack of it, being grossly understaffed) the stupid and easily avoidable “Tesla time”....very disappointed
EcoCloudIT
Active Member
yep, and still no allocated VIN (hidden or otherwise for me) which means if something doesn’t happen rapidly I’ll be not getting until Jan/Feb which means 90 days late (or over a 150 days wait from order to delivery for what was meant to be a priority customer, what a lot of pure you know what that is)....
jason66
Member
What date did you convert your reservation to an order? Perhaps they are prioritising order date over reservation date?
But being Tesla, the answer is probably they use a random number generator!
EcoCloudIT
Active Member
3 weeks after you, however what's the point of having a near day 1 reservation and being an existing owner and being told one gets priority if one does "not" get priority? Actually I can see the reason, for Tesla to move cars, however in Australia that is false and misleading conduct....
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