Tesla Model 3 and Model Y Waiting Room and Delivery Queries (No referral links)

Is there any difference between this new car in inventory and the same model y purchased from the main link to model y? €5 in difference but is it an older spec or same?

https://www.tesla.com/en_IE/my/order/XP7Y218_a6d72ce9a66d066b33858f9a97e46046?titleStatus=new&redirect=no#overview

They are trying to sell 252 demo premium short range m3's for 44k as "new cars".

But you can order a new long range rwd for 45k or 48k in red.

Like they haven't even baked in any depreciation to the 44k price. What kind of a lunatic is going to buy it at that price

I'm not sure but that premium short range isn't available to buy new anymore from what I can see and a new long range is practically the same price and it would be a 2026 reg.

Their sales approach just seems so weird at times.

These cars were registered to Tesla, so were not eligible for the €3500 grant.

But agree that they are too expensive for a private buyer, there are also about 4k worth of extras which they expect to recoup on a second hand car..

Did salesperson tell you it can be refunded? I was only told you can push it out by 22 days up to 3 times. I'm closing on a property purchase so held off throwing down a deposit but will put it down tomorrow. Taking the Model 3 this evening for overnight test drive.

Note the sales person said the Iran war is leading to production delays. The M3 comes from Beijing but the Model Y comes from Germany. I'm thinking of holding off picking it up until July if possible so it a 262 Reg but it's not the end of the world if it's May/June when I collect.

Remember that if you defer collection for whatever reason then you are put to the back of the queue again. It can of course work to your advantage sometimes. Tesla will honour original agreement, unless specifically stated otherwise such as the Trade-in bonus.

Have been told the same. if the trade in value changes over the waiting period for the new car and you are not happy with the new value then they will process a deposite refund quite quickly. The reality now is they have more customers than stock, so no pressure.

The difference between FSD and what you saw, which was basic autopilot, is night & day.

You pay for the full fat version, which is excellent.

I had indicated but I didn't see anything pop up. When on the M1 motorway I had the button pressed on to stay in lane and GPS on it set to Tesla in Swords. I think it turned off to take the exit for swords but stayed in left lane instead of going to correct lane on the right.

Perhaps with more experience I could trust it more but it didn't appear to be reliable or safe.

Well the one I test drove had the enhanced autopilot active. If you press the button on steering wheel should it turn off motorway to your exit and move into lane if it's clear to do so?

If you press it on approaching a roundabout does it try steer on the round about or get in lane,?

It felt quite stiff when in autopilot but this didn't bother me much on motorway.

When I got off the motorway into swords a car pulled out down the road ahead of me and Tesla slowed nearly to a complete stop. The distance was quite long so it seemed excessive. Is say the car behind was thinking why is this lad braking with nothing in front of him. I would assume if FSD was available here it would be set to have better judgement.

I prefer the seats in the standard vs the original M3, and I put them on a par with the premium Highland/Juniper seats IMO. The material is still good quality and they are very supportive, heated, and electrically moveable. In the Irish climate you spend many months of the year wishing you had anything but fake leather seats anyway.

Plenty of manufacturers are putting fabric/pleather or fabric-only seats into their upper trim cars to appear more premium and offer something different.

The ambient light strip is mostly a gimmick and many owners have long since turned theirs off. Feedback on the rear screen was that it's too far away for kids used to holding a phone 30cms from their face (or less) so it wasn't used anywhere near as often as Tesla perhaps thought.

The fabric roof is barely visible from the front seats of the car, and really only changes the experience of rear seat (adult) passengers, so if that's not your use case…

Potential to allow water into the frunk is perhaps a more serious design change, then again we don't have any feedback just yet on whether this is actually a thing.

Question for anyone that traded-in a junker to secure the Q1 trade in bonus - did you have to show an NCT cert at any stage? Either at order time or at subsequent handover?

Have a situation where a cert is mislaid, but the disc exists and the expiry can be easily verified on the nct website etc.