Showing your age? I don't remember the last time I "rolled" down a car window. :wink:
Yep, I am. I guess that is part of the reason the whole event tickled me so much. I am probably the last person anyone would expect to be called that
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Showing your age? I don't remember the last time I "rolled" down a car window. :wink:
We traded in a 10 year old BMW and got low balled by Auto Nation, but we just wanted to get rid of the car. They obviously don't do many trade-ins as they were not sure what to do.
We drove this evening to Saratoga from San Jose and back home and had about 150 miles left in the battery.
Congrats, sueinsanjose!
If you don't mind, how much lower was the Autonation trade-in offer compared to the KBB value or Carmax value, etc.?
(Front license plate doesn't look too bad.)
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Unless I had the wrong Saratoga, CA, that is a 27 mile round trip. Was your car fully charged when you left? 177 miles seems like a little less than the 265/300 expected. What were your driving characteristics?
Awesome looking car! Congratulations. A couple questions, if you don't mind. How fast did the line seem? You mentioned parts missing in final assembly, were they all the same part or random miscellaneous parts? Congrats again.
Congrats, sueinsanjose!
If you don't mind, how much lower was the Autonation trade-in offer compared to the KBB value or Carmax value, etc.?
We were offered $7k from a private party and turned it down because we thought it was low. Auto Nation offered us $5k. We estimated that is what they would offer and took it because of the convenience factor. We did not want to deal with showing the car and trying to sell it privately. It is a pain and we did not want to deal with it.
(Front license plate doesn't look too bad.)
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Unless I had the wrong Saratoga, CA, that is a 27 mile round trip. Was your car fully charged when you left? 177 miles seems like a little less than the 265/300 expected. What were your driving characteristics?
It doesn't say anywhere that they charged after coming home from the factory, and we don't know where the start and stop points are in San Jose or Saratoga.
The car was not fully charged when we left the factory in Fremont. We drove in stop and go traffic to South San Jose. We then drove the other places mentioned. I think they advise charging it to about 80% most of the time, and then with the driving that is where we ended up. Keep in mind we just got the car yesterday, so we are trying to figure this out.
They recommend charging to 80%? Can you program this using the computer, or is this the "standard" charge mode? I ask since most will probably charge while sleeping or at work with no real way at present to monitor what the charge state is.
They recommend that you charge to 80% as it is best to prolong the life of the battery. There is a setting on the car to charge it this way, so you can set it up to charge to 80% and won't have to check it.
By default, Model S charges to the STANDARD charge level, which provides the fastest charging time and maximizes the life of the Battery by charging it to 90% of its full capacity.
This was mounted on the car when we picked it up at the factory.
We tried charging it last night with a regular outlet and extention cord and it did not charge. We believe the extension cord was too long (it was a really long one) because there was a message saying it was too weak of a charge. So we now have it plugged in with the cord provided and will see if that works. The power charger we bought is on back order.
Great first post!