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I was at the Holiday Inn Express in Globe they've got two destination Chargers here which as I found out are free to use (without being a guest) if you're a member of the Holiday Inn Express some such thing?? don't know. I guess I was automatically enrolled because I have an American Express card.



Any word on your delivery? Or have you gotten your car already?

Nice perk and a good find..
They told me everyone was in training last week so nothing was done to the car.. DS would never return my calls and had to keep trying to get an actual person as it seemed to go to VM every time I tried so finally got an answer from a person, supposed to update me tomorrow. When you were there, did it look like everyone was in training?? lol
 
Nice perk and a good find..
They told me everyone was in training last week so nothing was done to the car.. DS would never return my calls and had to keep trying to get an actual person as it seemed to go to VM every time I tried so finally got an answer from a person, supposed to update me tomorrow. When you were there, did it look like everyone was in training?? lol

Yes, there were no familiar faces in the service department with exception of one they are supposedly in California training so they were telling you the truth I did not see anyone that I recognized. Was not able to get eyes on your car either I'm sure that it was around there someplace but for the free time that I had I did not see it. I was mostly in tow by the delivery people at that point. I'm guessing it must be in the shop which is generally off limits I was not able to freely walk out there.

The inability or "I don't know if I want to call it unwillingness" or perhaps lack of effort would be a better term, of the delivery specialists and the Reps to communicate with their customers after they have some of, and in some cases a significant portion of your money for a car that most have never seen is highly frustrating to say the least.

To their credit however I am finding communication post sale and on the support side of things to be far better as I have run into a few issues on my Model S. My mobile connector is apparently faulty and the right side condenser fan in the front of the car does not work along with a few items that were included on the due bill when I picked it up but I was told not to worry and that I would be contacted Monday and they will see about getting a ranger out here to my house to diagnose and or repair those issues. That would be awesome to save me a drive all the way to the service center.

I'm pulling for you and hopefully the delivery team will come through I'm certainly feeling your pain but I can tell you that once you're out the door driving the car the sheer thrill of driving one of these things does help mitigate the suffering on the path to get to that point, doesn't necessarily make it go away, but it's a much easier pill to swallow once you're actually down the road in the car.
 
Yes, there were no familiar faces in the service department with exception of one they are supposedly in California training so they were telling you the truth I did not see anyone that I recognized. Was not able to get eyes on your car either I'm sure that it was around there someplace but for the free time that I had I did not see it. I was mostly in tow by the delivery people at that point. I'm guessing it must be in the shop which is generally off limits I was not able to freely walk out there.

The inability or "I don't know if I want to call it unwillingness" or perhaps lack of effort would be a better term, of the delivery specialists and the Reps to communicate with their customers after they have some of, and in some cases a significant portion of your money for a car that most have never seen is highly frustrating to say the least.

To their credit however I am finding communication post sale and on the support side of things to be far better as I have run into a few issues on my Model S. My mobile connector is apparently faulty and the right side condenser fan in the front of the car does not work along with a few items that were included on the due bill when I picked it up but I was told not to worry and that I would be contacted Monday and they will see about getting a ranger out here to my house to diagnose and or repair those issues. That would be awesome to save me a drive all the way to the service center.

I'm pulling for you and hopefully the delivery team will come through I'm certainly feeling your pain but I can tell you that once you're out the door driving the car the sheer thrill of driving one of these things does help mitigate the suffering on the path to get to that point, doesn't necessarily make it go away, but it's a much easier pill to swallow once you're actually down the road in the car.

Good to hear they got you the car, it looks like new from afar and can take car of things down the road. Sending someone all the way out to you is above and beyond great service.

Yes the guy I spoke with mentioned they do need to improve communications but he said them being understaffed is an understatement and its so hard to keep up. You cant fault the ones helping and understand they're doing what they can but communication between departments should be improved.

I'm sure I'll be ecstatic when I get the car and should happen this week,, maybe.. lol
 
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Good to hear they got you the car, it looks like new from afar and can take car of things down the road. Sending someone all the way out to you is above and beyond great service.

Yes the guy I spoke with mentioned they do need to improve communications but he said them being understaffed is an understatement and its so hard to keep up. You cant fault the ones helping and understand they're doing what they can but communication between departments should be improved.

I'm sure I'll be ecstatic when I get the car and should happen this week,, maybe.. lol

Understaffed being an understatement indeed. The day I took delivery they were totally slammed I could hardly find a parking space when I arrived, service Bay was full and they had a couple of cars staged for delivery that were not yet in the gallery area where they deliver them from.

At least from a business perspective these are good problems to have so long as they can ramp to be able to handle it. But with model 3 coming on board in significant numbers in the coming months years their situation looks as if it's going to be tough sledding for a while.

With the Kierland store coming online and moving sales operations to that location that may help in the near term with Tempe now being only maintenance and delivery.

For now I'm just going to stay long on TSLA that I picked up at $36 and enjoy the heck out of my Model S lol!
 
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I have seen on multiple Tesla's the day of the week displayed with the date and time in the instrument cluster in front of the driver is there a setting some place on the touchscreen to be able to set that to happen? my car now only displays the time I would love to have the day and the date also unless it went away with a software update I'm currently on 8.1 in a 2012 M/S.
 
I have seen on multiple Tesla's the day of the week displayed with the date and time in the instrument cluster in front of the driver is there a setting some place on the touchscreen to be able to set that to happen? my car now only displays the time I would love to have the day and the date also unless it went away with a software update I'm currently on 8.1 in a 2012 M/S.
Older firmware, no longer available as of... 7.x? I forget.
 
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We have #823 a P85 and for several years have been entering it in the local oil refinery sponsored car show. This year they added a category for "Alternative Fuel" because last year we almost won "Modern Muscle". This year we did win the "Alternative Fuel" category making this the first EV to win the Super Day Show N Shine car show sponsored by the Holly - Frontier Oil Refinery.

Has anyone else done anything like this with theirs?


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Ditto. There was much complaining at the time on TMC, and apparently Tesla didn't hear it (through official channels) or didn't care enough to address it.

I just realized that the calendar icon at the top of the screen displays the date and it changes daily as opposed to just a generic icon so I guess that might have been their work around, but it's not always visible depending on what is displayed on the screen
 
I just realized that the calendar icon at the top of the screen displays the date and it changes daily as opposed to just a generic icon so I guess that might have been their work around, but it's not always visible depending on what is displayed on the screen
That doesn't include the month or day name ("Tue") so it's only ~1/3rd as useful as the original display, even before considering position.
 
That doesn't include the month or day name ("Tue") so it's only ~1/3rd as useful as the original display, even before considering position.

Mine currently "does" display Month and date "it is currently reading Sep. 5" (there is however no day of the week as you state) Perhaps one must allow the MCU access to their calendar on their smart phone via blue tooth??? I can't remember if it was there before I paired my phone or not. But at least I get the month and date on the screen rendered in the calendar icon at the top.
 
We have #823 a P85 and for several years have been entering it in the local oil refinery sponsored car show. This year they added a category for "Alternative Fuel" because last year we almost won "Modern Muscle". This year we did win the "Alternative Fuel" category making this the first EV to win the Super Day Show N Shine car show sponsored by the Holly - Frontier Oil Refinery.

Has anyone else done anything like this with theirs?


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Not Yet! lol!! I'm finding it EXTREMELY difficult to keep this paint from getting chipped etc. If there is a pebble in the same zip code as my M/S it will find a way to ding it!! The paint seems awfully fragile and it has a white underlying base coat primer so any little thing shows up in a VERY BIG WAY against the darker Red. I used to blend my finish coat color into the primer , or use black primer on dark colors. Then the inevitable "paint chips" are not so painfully obvious. I will likely keep Tesla in business just buying touch up paint for this thing lol!! At this rate I'll have the car repainted in a few years by touching it up !!! lol!!
 
Good to hear they got you the car, it looks like new from afar and can take car of things down the road. Sending someone all the way out to you is above and beyond great service.

Yes the guy I spoke with mentioned they do need to improve communications but he said them being understaffed is an understatement and its so hard to keep up. You cant fault the ones helping and understand they're doing what they can but communication between departments should be improved.

I'm sure I'll be ecstatic when I get the car and should happen this week,, maybe.. lol

MAYBE... the post sale communication is better. "Update" the call I was to receive Monday never came. Two direct emails to the service center have gone unanswered, All calls I've placed to the Tempe service center get redirected to Tesla HQ.

I'm still hoping that this is not the norm, and perhaps with training and getting the Kierland Store up and running they don't have any wiggle room lol! Am going to reach out to them tomorrow as I never got a copy of the due bill I signed and never got to see the inspection reports and or what exactly was done as far as repair "pre delivery".
 
MAYBE... the post sale communication is better. "Update" the call I was to receive Monday never came. Two direct emails to the service center have gone unanswered, All calls I've placed to the Tempe service center get redirected to Tesla HQ.

I'm still hoping that this is not the norm, and perhaps with training and getting the Kierland Store up and running they don't have any wiggle room lol! Am going to reach out to them tomorrow as I never got a copy of the due bill I signed and never got to see the inspection reports and or what exactly was done as far as repair "pre delivery".

Update! Reached the service department yesterday. Appointment set for 9/20 early am. Fingers crossed...
 
More observations... It appears that there is no way to mute the audio except to turn it down.
Found out that I have a storage pouch on the leading edge of the driver seat cushion.
Studio/Ultra high fidelity sound is worth it. It is much better than stock system.
 
Press the left scroll key on the steering wheel to stop/mute the audio system.

You know what's funny is I actually already knew that :) not sure why I didn't remember it when I made that post but I've been drilling down into this thing so far trying to get my head around all of the little intricate capabilities that I'm starting to push stuff out the other side and forget stuff as new information comes in. Mwahahaha... My face is sore from the Tesla grin I've had since August 23rd.
 
I have noticed after living with the car, that the ride quality "is terrible"!! I can feel every imperfection in the road, even the smallest blips in the road result in being jiggled in the seat accompanied by pressure wave booming in the cabin. (but that's another matter) The shock damping rates are so stiff that the suspension is pretty much "non compliant" on all but the biggest undulations in the road surface.

Perhaps I'm expecting the car to be something it is not but at least for me it is NOT a very comfortable car to drive unless on the best roads surfaces out there. (such as smooth asphalt) ONLY!. Any other surface or road condition upsets the car terribly "along with my backside". I realize this is subjective to ones interpretation of a compliant ride but am wondering "am I alone on this"??
 
I come from a BMW with sports suspension, so I'm probably now the best judge. I'm actually fine with the suspension. I realize I could get a smoother, and probably quieter ride with 19s, but I love the look of the 21s so much more, that I'm willing to "sacrifice". The seats are firm, but I test drove a next gen seat Tesla before I bought mine, and I didn't love them any more than mine. But as you say, it's all very subjective. I've heard that the SC has a service bulletin to cut a couple of the seat cushion slants IIRC to make them a little softer. Something to try if they really are too firm for you.
 
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