Tesla Model 3 - V3.0

Not bitching about the car, fabulous car I'm bitching about the company and their treatment of people.... I wasn't aware this thread was a dictatorship and you could only say good things about Tesla.

People should be aware not to put any credence on the dates they put on the website. Ireland and UK dates are the same but Tesla don't service the Irish market. I pulled the stats on UK and Ireland last year. Ireland should be getting at least 60% more allocation to be comparable with the UK.

Waiting times in Ireland 7 months in my case waiting time in UK 5/6 weeks.

At least other OEMs are trying to be someway realistic on the potential delivery dates and also possible to get a deposit back

Is indeed, but as I said also might give people realistic expectations. If there was a p***k like me ranting like this 6 months ago on this thread might have made things a bit easier in my "Tesla experience" 😜

To quote a Tesla rep

"Our customers are our advertisers" 🤣

Congrats Dloob on getting your vin allocated. What date did you order? Just trying to figure out where I stand on my Sept 17th order. Thanks in advance

Jayus you should have had something by now.... What spec did you order might be worth giving CS a rattle.

Your going from a LR to then if your Jumping to a performance. You should have a better chance then. There were a good few that popped into inventory around delivery in Dec. Again I'm know someone who ordered I think a red performance and waited from before June to December. But whites, blacks and Grey's were in inventory but think only 1 with tow hitch. Can't you get an after market one.

No grant on LR and performance so even bigger price jump.

Speaking as someone who went through the process recently I agree with your points made. The uncertainty over the lead time between initial order to delivery is painful and not reflective of a premium brand. Those on this thread who have ordered should be clear of this when they are ordering (or before they do). A agent may say "I would expect its the end of this quarter for delivery" - the reality is they have no way of being anyway certain of that. If you are ok with waiting up to 6-7 months for your order than podge's views are irrelevant. If you are not then they are very relevant. I wouldn't consider it "bitching" either.

In my case the long wait time caused a good bit of uncertainty regarding what to do with my trade in which happily didn't result in a loss but in another market it could have. It also caused hassle with other items such as a the EV charger grant and I was almost booked in to fly abroad when I got a weeks warning of a delivery date. All these things can be rectified by Tesla if they operated in a more logical fulfillment manner and gave people more certainty (for example first come first served by market). Overall their volume levels clearly need to increase to meet the ROI demand.

Don't get me wrong - I was glad I waited, car is brilliant and the after care so far has been very good. The ordering process would make you think again about buying another. If I was to get to that stage the chances are I would get a car in stock so I didn't have to wait around.

Aye we were in it from around the same time glad it worked out for you, well worked out for me too in the end, we both have our arses in an EV ( both getting nicely warmed by heated seats too).

But Tesla need to reflect delivery timings to reflect not only the chip crisis (which is affecting them now). The delivery estimates are the same for the UK and Ireland which is in no way realistic especially after Brexit when even more RHD go to UK because of additional logistics needed now for Ireland.

I had the same with VW and and ID4 mid last year but at least they came back and said it will be severely delayed now and gave me my deposit back.

Tesla model is suck it up and we'll let you know whenever. I was advised 6 week for delivery and turned into 7 months and no return of deposit.

It's ok for them now as the hype will sell car but premium needs premium service. Not once in the whole debacle did they reach out bar the text mentioned above.

Was weeks and months waiting, I'd contact and the next days something would happen (eg. Finance application, finance approval).

All the time same generic responses, your order is being processed we will reach out soon..... *£&@ off!

Got the same 🎉

Nice! What did you both order and when?

Bog standard white with aero wheels. I didn't get a choice of home delivery and I am in Cork but I'd almost rather pick it up in Dublin so I get to drive it back 😁

I did not know this, I'll be filling up in both Ballacolla and Mahon if so! Thanks for the heads up 😁

It all depends on what you are selling....

if its a €50k BMW then you need to shop around for the best price, but if its a €2,000 Fiat, then you could probably afford to take the hit and just let Tesla dispose of it..

Trade in offer came back at €39,620

(March 2020 SR+ - Made in USA)

Think it could be worse for those picking up from now on. My pick up was in Walkinstown which is a pain to get to from a public transport point of view. Think they are doing from there for when there is a large number of pickups or perhaps it was because Sandyford had the charger construction going on?

Friend got an ioniq5 , and drove from wex to belfast. on the journey after overtaking a few cars, he was prompted to enable automatic overtaking. from then on, the car would overtake slower cars automatically, without them having to do anything, press anything or initiate the maneuver .

I triple checked that they didn't have to do anything for them to over take , as my understanding was this was a restriction in european law. as someone with FSD, I have to initiate the maneuver in europe :(

anyone know if the law has changed ? I can't find details of it changing, and assume this is a bug in the ioniq 5, as my friend can't find a setting to enable or disable it, there was a one time prompt after manually overtaking a few times (with lane keep and cruise enabled)