So interesting things happened today.
The part was delivered and they did the install. Car was ready for pickup at 1ish. It went from climate-controlled storage to the SC and sat for about 4 hours. It was FILTHY and covered with “dust” of sorts by the time I picked it up. Definitely eye opening, so I don’t want the car to sit there for too long next time because of proximity to the highway, trees and whatnot.
In any case, I did the walkthrough and everything looked good (well as good as it’s going to get — we know that FWD alignment is just about impossible to be 100% perfect) and I was ready to go. Except I noticed one thing. The passenger side FWD handle was really sticking forward, almost hitting the front door’s handle. I called the SC guy over to take a look as it was definitely off. The next part was weird...
He opens the front door so he can basically adjust the FWD handle. He slid it back and it lined up well ... except we were both like, uh was it supposed to slide that easily? So he tries to slide it the other way and BAM slides right off the door. So here we are with the FWD w/out the chrome plate over the handle (interesting what it looks like behind there btw) and now I’m thinking, great do I need a new door?
He went to pull a spare chrome handle to try to install that to see if it works, but it did the same thing. We were trying to figure out if it needed adhesive or something, but the main tech said no. They brought it into the bay to look at it (we’re going on about 1.5 hours after I was supposed to just pick up my car) and a tech found the issue. There’s a piece of the clip that was recessed and bent back into the door handle area that was supposed to engage the clip to prevent it from sliding off. The tech was able to bend it back out and then there was an audible click when the handle was put back on. Phew dodged that bullet, and my chrome has PPF on it, so good thing I was able to reuse it.
After that, the car was ready to go, so I left with my car!
There’s still the one weird issue about my door opening at all kinds of weird times. They told me they were going to pull logs to see what was going on, but I needed a few more time stamps to know for sure what happened. It happened three times today already, where the door opened when I’m not even near the car. I’m thinking it’s just the key fob and maybe it needs to be reprogrammed or something. I’m going to collect more time stamps and have them look into it.
Didn’t have much time to mess around with the car as I had to take my kids to swim lessons, but it feels great to be in my car. After being in that signature P90D for 2.5 weeks, I can honestly say my car is better.
- I’m so happy I got the color combination I did. Blue is beautiful! Cream is beautiful! Oak is beautiful! The cream leather + headliner really makes the car feel more spacious than an all-black/grey interior. I never really imagined it’d make that big of a difference, but it definitely does.
- 22” wheels look amazing. 20” wheels FEEL amazing. It’s a lot more comfortable. Some combination of the weight (75kw battery pack vs 90) and the wheel size makes the car feel smoother yet more nimble on the road.
- 2016 steering wheel is weird. It’s a bit thicker, or something is just off. The new material + the size is just a lot more comfortable to me.
- I actually don’t miss ludicrous at all. I feel like the torque put down by the 75D is plenty and almost feels more natural. That’s not a knock against the P, but as people know 900+ ft/lb torque is just almost overwhelming
- The seats in the 2018 are way more comfortable than the 2016. The buckets feel like they hold me in the seat better, and I really actually enjoy the feel of vegan leather over the leather.
- MCU2 >> MCU1. Not only speed-wise, but the screen color is more vibrant. I don’t know why, but everything just looks crisper, and definitely much snappier. Swapping “apps” and live updating from nav is a lot smoother. I think the speed/color was a huge upgrade from MCU2 over MCU1. This isn’t a knock against MCU1 owners. Screen was still great!
- The materials used in the car are different between 2016 than 2018. Accessories that were sliding around, like my center console storage shelf, do not slide in my X because instead of plastic edges around the center console, they’re felted now.
More to come later, but I’m glad I got to experience both!
The one obligatory picture that I can post when we went out to dinner that I couldn’t before ...
