Recent content by HFh

I went ahead and applied for financing earlier because, your know, car was going to be April, then September. Apparently my offer expired a couple weeks back but the profile never showed it. They did a re-apply last night. I accepted the terms. Profile showed it as accepted. This morning it...

Final update! Took delivery a few hours ago. Weird stuff with financing and expiration dates, but got through that pretty quickly. Ended up with the black 20” plaid instead of the 22” midnight plaid. Looks good. SO is driving it home in the rain now.

Update because I know you’re all wondering. Found another match but it would require driving to Tampa, and that makes no sense (that’s a general statement about Florida, not just about distance (sorry, couldn’t help myself)). So they ordered the canister of oil (as my SA calls it) to add to the...

Ooooh.

Well, got a call this morning. There’s a “containment hold” on the car. Something needs to be replaced on the rear drivetrain or some such. Will likely be another two weeks before I can take it. If something else comes along in between I can have that instead. I am annoyed but I’m getting a car...

So I went into the service center today because my tire on my plaid S is going flat. They told me no walk-ins but eventually they took me. While I waited I asked a service rep if they had any inventory. I was very tired of watching the blue & white 20” LR get pushed back. Turned out that they...

When I saw the hold, I called Tesla. I was told they were doing this to figure who actually plans on getting the car. Apparently for the Xes they get a lot of deposits that are later forfeited: “We have to assign VINs as many of seven times before someone takes the vehicle.”.

It is not. They just take them. I’ve never had a problem and the last one in September was my fourth Tesla.

Nope. Just plain old check. o_O

Yeah but then the dealers are very committed: they will spare no expense to fix your problems. 😒

Last year with my S the updated price didn’t show up until the day before. I also wrote a check on the spot rather than doing any of the other hooey.

This is exactly what happened last year with the new Model Ses. In particular, I had a month for my EDD, then one day everyone moved to some point far in the future, then two or three days later, there were new dates, mine was a few weeks. As the time got closer it narrowed to a week. IIRC, it...

Me, too, but it’s a six seater. I don’t remember when I ordered it. Actually, the same thing happened when I ordered my Plaid S: indeterminate date, suddenly it moved multiple months away, two days later I suddenly had a date range, and then shortly after a VIN. Or something like that.

Ah, so just like it was in September. It’s nice to know there are constants in the universe.

What’d I miss?