Interesting. I don't think so, unless Tesla's being sneaky... Below is a photo from a Google search showing what I saw:
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Early '22 Exterior Refresh Tracking (Lights, Charging Door, Appliqué delete)
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Pretty sure they put them on when the temp plate comes.
In my local delivery center at least a few years ago there was literally a huge box of them.
EndlessPlaid
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Yeah they come with them. And they're actually black now to match the trim:
Tesla Plaid Model S - First Impressions! / OCDetailing
totally agree. If the appliqué was body colored it’d look like Tesla was just painting over the vestigial organ we know it to be, a half assed attempt at blending it in/hiding it. But painting it black gives it some design intention. Looks better black than body colored imo. Of course the ultimate would be removing the appliqué piece altogether and redesigning the trunk lid.
So confused.
Temp plate was a piece of paper taped to the rear window. Real plates came in the mail for you to just screw on at home, at least in my state.
@EndlessPlaid are you referring to the license plate frame (with model s written on it)? I'm not actually talking about that, I'm talking about the black plastic rectangular plate that you mount the license plate on in this new "refresh". See pic...
Fyi the new MX's also don't have this piece. Pretty sure none of the pre-lights refresh MS's or current MX's have this. Show me a pic that says otherwise and I'll eat my words
But eh, enough derailing from me.
Temp plate was a piece of paper taped to the rear window. Real plates came in the mail for you to just screw on at home, at least in my state.
@EndlessPlaid are you referring to the license plate frame (with model s written on it)? I'm not actually talking about that, I'm talking about the black plastic rectangular plate that you mount the license plate on in this new "refresh". See pic...
Fyi the new MX's also don't have this piece. Pretty sure none of the pre-lights refresh MS's or current MX's have this. Show me a pic that says otherwise and I'll eat my words
But eh, enough derailing from me
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EndlessPlaid
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Omg I'm an idiot lol! Sorry; I took your question to mean that you were asking about the license plate frame.So confused.
Temp plate was a piece of paper taped to the rear window. Real plates came in the mail for you to just screw on at home, at least in my state.
@EndlessPlaid are you referring to the license plate frame (with model s written on it)? I'm not actually talking about that, I'm talking about the black plastic rectangular plate that you mount the license plate on in this new "refresh". See pic...
Fyi the new MX's also don't have this piece. Pretty sure none of the pre-lights refresh MS's or current MX's have this. Show me a pic that says otherwise and I'll eat my words
But eh, enough derailing from me
No worries, I wasn't clear in my original post. I called it a plate holder thingy
Also, made a graphic to compare headlights, at least the aesthetics of them. IMO I prefer the look of the 2021 despite apparently sucking at their job vs. these new ones. The more pronounced inside "partitions" look... cooler? Also interesting to see that the new style seems to be a throwback to the original 2013 style less the silver paint on the inside and line embellishments. TBH I'd still opt for better performing headlights over aesthetics if given the choice, but I'm sad it's such a small incremental step. Tesla sucks in general at making kick-ass lighting in their cars both inside and out, but... as they say, better is better than best.
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I hope the eyebrows don’t dim out as fast as the last Gen. I had two go on the ‘17 S.
EndlessPlaid
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I actually have to disagree with you on the making good lights part. The Model 3 lights (on which the new matrix Model S lights are based) are insanely good. I mean crazy. I've never been in a car with this much spread, brightness, and depth to the lights, and I've been in some cars with really good lights.No worries, I wasn't clear in my original post. I called it a plate holder thingy
Also, made a graphic to compare headlights, at least the aesthetics of them. IMO I prefer the look of the 2021 despite apparently sucking at their job vs. these new ones. The more pronounced inside "partitions" look... cooler? Also interesting to see that the new style seems to be a throwback to the original 2013 style less the silver paint on the inside and line embellishments. TBH I'd still opt for better performing headlights over aesthetics if given the choice, but I'm sad it's such a small incremental step. Tesla sucks in general at making kick-ass lighting in their cars both inside and out, but... as they say, better is better than best.
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Well said, I prefer the looks of the 2016.5-2021 headlights but would happily trade off the looks for the better performance. Plus the blacked out housing look meaner and will suit the blacked out trim better. The new headlights have such a similarity to my old S' blacked out projector headlights which looked really good once blacked out.No worries, I wasn't clear in my original post. I called it a plate holder thingy
Also, made a graphic to compare headlights, at least the aesthetics of them. IMO I prefer the look of the 2021 despite apparently sucking at their job vs. these new ones. The more pronounced inside "partitions" look... cooler? Also interesting to see that the style seems to be a throwback to the original 2013 style less the silver paint on the inside and line embellishments. TBH I'd still opt for better performing headlights over aesthetics if given the choice, but I'm sad it's such a small incremental step. Tesla sucks in general at making kick-ass lighting in their cars both inside and out, but... as they say, better is better than best.
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I looked at the pics again and... I agree with you. It will look sick. Found a pic of a pre-2015 MS with the inside of the headlights blacked out. Very clean look.
I had two go out on a 2019. And I feel like the inside of mine on my 2021 are slowly fading already.
I hate that they eliminated the TESLA lettering form the black bar … new headlights look amazing
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I just spoke to the mobile tech (out to fix my charge port) about the headlights and the ability to retrofit and he said he doesn't believe they will do that. He said he saw an article Tesla put out about not doing retrofits (I'm paraphrasing here, my security cam didn't catch all the conversation ). Sad news, I was really hoping to be able to change them
). Sad news, I was really hoping to be able to change them Yep, different connectors most likely as I said.I just spoke to the mobile tech (out to fix my charge port) about the headlights and the ability to retrofit and he said he doesn't believe they will do that. He said he saw an article Tesla put out about not doing retrofits (I'm paraphrasing here, my security cam didn't catch all the conversation
There may be a way to build an adapter but you’ll lose light smarts and it’ll be $$$
Well, this is depressing. Think I need to block myself from these forums. Was happy with the car and now accepting the sad reality it’s outdated after 2 months.
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