We picked up our cyber car tonight, the experience went something like this.
We drove our current car to delivery, it was in an industrial business park, nothing fancy, with simple glass room offices next to rows of garages, similar to a storage facility.
The office's were painted white with some funky Jetsons style round chairs and a picture of a tesla model s on the wall.
Getting there was something we should have planned better, we assumed a relative would take us but when the time came they backed out.
We started looking into an Uber; I called our DS to see if they had a shuttle but the shuttle was busy, our DS did offer to pay for an uber but we declined, instead we opted to drive our Prius and just leave it there for a couple days (with their approval of course), doing that got us to delivery on time.
Once we arrived, they sat us down to fill out our registration paperwork and a couple other things, they gave us a tesla branded pen to sign with.
Most of the loan paperwork was done ahead of time so it didn't take too long.
After the paperwork was complete we walked outside to a garage door which our DS opened and presented to us our car.
Sadly the experience was not like the videos I had seen on YouTube; I expected a warm showroom with our car in the center where we could inspect and learn about the car in peace.
When the garage door was opened there was our MX in the garage but it wasn't alone It was next to a new Model S that had what I assume was a new owner and DS going through its features.
Our DS presented us with our keys and proceeded to walk us through the details of our new car, I was so enamored I honestly barely noticed the car next to us with people in it playing with the touch screen.
I do have to give props to our DS he was extremely patient with us, the timing ended up right at my 2 year olds bed time so she was not helpful at all, pulling on cup holders, crying and slapping me for attention every time the DS tried to talk.
We plan to send that guy a nice thank you for enduring that, but I guess it's somewhat expected with family vehicles, he says it happens more than you'd think.
Anyways we walked through the details of the car, I inspected the crap out of it, there was a significant amount of tape and residue around the car that looked like chipped paint, They called in a detailer to clean up everything they could.
There was a couple damage points we noted, scratches on the roof, there was some micro scratches on the passenger side top window chrome, a paint blemish on the passenger side of the frunk hood (like a raised drop of paint, only visible from one angle), there were a couple places on the b pillars with what looked like sharp metal shavings in the paint.
Did I mention it was freezing in the garage, like literally freezing, that made it extremely difficult especially with a cranky kid in the car threatening to break everything (we just can't have nice things with kids I guess)
Anyways, despite all that it was so exciting to finally get our MX I didn't really care that the experience wasn't as glamorous as I'd seen on YouTube.
We drove her to a super charger just to get that figured out and get a bite to eat.
Then we proceeded to drive home, I definitely missed not having autopilot, but I did atleast have cruise control.
The ride was wonderful, our baby is now safely tucked away in our garage charging up for the adventures ahead.
