Thanks it was a bit of a feel thing. I make the 250 mile trip to the delivery center excited to finally get the car. After waiting over a year you have only 3 days to take the car or it goes to the next guy. Except 2.5 of those three days the car isn’t even available for delivery because it still needs to be “detailed” and is only actually available on the last day evening. So I adjust work schedule to bend to Tesla’s timeline. There’s a lot more Tesla nonsense to this story I won’t get into, but I’m already going into this thinking
why is this so difficult? How about some flexibility here?
When I arrive I walk right past it thinking that’s the only Plaid I see, let’s hope it’s not that one. The hood gap is off. It’s basically dark outside and I’m using my phone to light the car. As I get closer I see some plastic sticking 2-3 mm out of the left hood gap. I call over one of the people and tell them they seem to have left one of the shipping protectors in the hood. We open the hood and turns out it’s the liner too big for the space. “Don’t worry they can order you a new one.” It looks ridiculous and I don’t know how a car can leave the factory like this.
Back of the car trunk gaps considerably off. Trunk operates fine. Quarter panels seem fine. Paint has light swirl marks but I expected that.
Inside the driver seat has a ripple that I can’t unsee. “We haven’t noticed that in other Plaids but it should flatten out a bit with time, but probably not completely.”
Steering wheel has the dreaded worm. “They all have that,” which I’m starting to believe is true.
Then I’m thinking I can barely even inspect this car and there’s no provision for proper lighting etc to do so. If I’m already seeing all this within 5 minutes what else would I find during daytime. “Don’t worry you have 100 miles to notate and flaws.” That’s fine, but do I really want to play this game of trips to the service center, Uber credits, back and forth, being without my car for days or weeks?
After waiting all this time a lot of the initial excitement has faded, and I recently bought a new car tired of waiting. I don’t need this car, it’s just for my enjoyment, I felt like taking this car with these defects and knowing 2022s are soon to be built wouldn’t provide the experience I wanted. So I regretfully passed on the car costing me a lot of wasted time and money but oh well. If the car was without obvious flaws I would have taken it. I’m a Tesla supporter and shareholder but wtf get your act together Tesla. Yeah I should probably lower my expectations, but why is quality control
on a $1T market cap car manufacturer?
Pictures later to follow when I get to a computer.