Midlife - my dashboard still shows my delivery date being 7 PM tonight. I honestly believe that I would not have heard anything from Tesla about the delay had I not contacted them. Throughout the past 3 months, I've tried to be the low maintenance customer and not pester the SC for status updates, but based on my experience, I would have to advise others to call the SC to find out what is really happening, at least until Tesla gets its act together with the dashboard tool. Now all that being said, whenever I've actually talked/emailed with the SCs, they've been fantastic and have bent over backward to help me out.
As of now (regardless of what my dashboard states), I'm scheduled to pick up the car on Wednesday the 29th at 2 PM. As you suggested, I will be calling the SCs to confirm the pickup a few times between then and now! If I don't get my car soon, I may have to fly to Jersey and have Jared take me out for a ride in his new ride.
It actually *seems* like there's one guy updating everyone's dashboard data, and he's busy this week keying in all the new VINs, and when he's done with that, he'll get around to updating everyone's production start/end and delivery dates!
Yeah, I know Tesla is a cutting edge technology company, so surely there is more automation on their dashboard database updates, but their core competency is building great cars, not great websites, so maybe the website updates are more manual than we would expect!
I'm still not "in production", but I bet a hundredth of a bitcoin a few of us see production end/start updates within a day of each other, and probably between Thursday and Monday, when the VIN updates are all in!