Just to state it again, Tesla does not make the consoles. The third party supplier could not seem to get quality finishes in the wood grains or CF, and Tesla rejected them. So we have black. Black also looks pretty neutral sitting down there. I have one in obeche gloss which looks nice, but it's only a little square of trim. Not all THAT important. And that one piece of trim raised the price $50.
I recognize that the trim not matching may not seem all THAT important to you. (Actually I really don't think this is something you are even qualified to weigh in on, since you received a center console that matches your car. It's pretty easy to deem something someone didn't get as unimportant when you got exactly what you wanted.) But I can't possibly overstate how important it is to me. You should respect that people feel differently about this before making blanket statements like "Not all THAT important."
You got on the waiting list for the console after you had ordered your car. When you ordered your car, the center console didn't exist. Perhaps that's one of the reasons you view the mismatch others are forced to live with as "not all THAT important." I, on the other hand, ordered my car knowing that I wanted the Tesla center console, and knowing that I wanted it to match my car's interior. The console was showing in the Tesla Store as "Coming Soon." It wasn't showing as "Coming Soon if we can figure out how to build it." It wasn't showing as "Coming Soon if we don't change our minds about the whole thing." It wasn't showing as "Coming Soon if the vendor we picked to build it doesn't screw up." It was just shown as "Coming Soon." To me that is a promise to deliver, at some point. Tesla broke that promise, to me, and to thousands of other Model S owners.
Every time I get in my car I see this ugly, glossy black rectangle staring at me. It matches nothing in my car, since I have the Obeche Matte trim. It reminds me, every single time, that Tesla screwed me over. I don't care that they had quality control issues with the part they promised to deliver. If the problems were really insurmountable with the vendor they selected, they should have gone back to square one, found another vendor, and kept working on it. They owed that to customers like me, who trusted them. Tesla violated that trust by selling me a $130,000 car that I expected to be able to put a matching console in, and then saying, "whoops--sorry--no console for you." They left me between a rock and a hard place. I could either install a console that didn't match my trim, or no console at all. That's just not right.
The way Tesla treated me and other customers who were waiting for the console in other trims has soured me on Tesla. I no longer enjoy driving my P85D the way I did. I've said it before--my Tesla grin is long gone because of this.
Plenty of people think I am over-reacting, and that's fine. I understand that. This is an important issue to me. I feel violated. I trusted Tesla, and Tesla let me down. I am left with a mismatched console that looks ridiculous in my car.
So please speak only for yourself when you say "Not all THAT important." Because it is THAT important to me!