Salt Lake City Open (mostly)

Stopped by the Salt Lake facility today and was delighted to learn they are now officially open. Mostly.

I say "mostly" because they still can not sell new cars but they can now sell used Teslas. They hope to have around 30 of those on the lot shortly.

But maybe more importantly, they now have sales staff that can actually talk to customers about Tesla vehicles.

Test drives were not available today but I was told they should be able to start offering those in the next few days.

The service center hours remain Mon-Fri 8-5.

Used sales hours are Mon-Sat 10-6.

KJD said:

If any of our wonderful elected officials cared about clean air they would allow Tesla to sell new cars without any restrictions.

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With luck that will be taken care of in January's legislative session.

Looking good

Had the car in to the SLC store for it's 12,500 checkup today and saw that not only do they have a new, huge American flag but an almost as huge Tesla flag as well.

Now with luck next month the legislature will follow what I've heard is the governor's lead and allow the store to start selling new as well as used.

ModelX said:

Thanks for the update! I will be sending some appreciation cookies tomorrow (I work). Hope they soon have sales staff and test driving Model X; so that next year they need more cookies!!

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They've got sales staff there already. Pretty big sales, parts and service staff. Such a change from just a few months ago when the place felt all but deserted.

The only remaining glitch is they can not sell new cars. Hopefully that will be remedied in January's legislative session.

BTW, they said today they'll have a X on display there "soon".

Vexar said:

I'm expecting they inherited the mast from the previous land owner (a dealer), and decided "oh, what the heck, let's make a big Tesla flag." If any sales center ever deserved a big flag, that would be one of them, they truly got jerked around by the state government.

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They said the territory manager came by and he really wanted flags.

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Mostly accurate except it says the store does not offer test drives. They do.

Piney999 said:

that flag is awesome! I want that for my house.

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Aerial shots here:
Update on the Salt Lake City Tesla store turmoil - Page 9

The store has been without a flag for a while now in part because of the condition of the flag pole.

Nice to see this past Friday (the 19th) that the pole was being tended to. Lots of work ahead so it may be a while but eventually the pole will again be a gleaming white and that huge Tesla flag hoisted high to let everyone know Tesla is here in Utah. And here to stay.

Flag pole finished and new flag flying.

And now with a fresh supply of inventory lined up facing State Street with parking lights on:

dgpcolorado said:

In addition to the flag, the SLC store now has a lot of CPOs out front, including two Xs, since they are allowed to sell used cars. Wasn't like that when I last came through in March.

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Speaking thereof.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/keep/teslanight.mp4