Alright long post is long. This is a Tesla buying experience. Not my personal car but I was involved from test drive to picking up the car. Ordered mid Feb and just picked up the car yesterday. So about 3 weeks for a base 3.
Not sure how this compares so other brands but it's been years since I got a new car. It took like 6 hours to deliver the car. Had an appointment at noon, they looked pretty busy. Took about 30 min to inspect the car. Over all panel gaps is good. But lots of small issues. Lots of left over adhesive on the car from the protection wrap they said. Rub marks on the roof panel, they said it was from the black rubber gloves they use and it just leaves streaks in the headliner. One taillight had a chip in the plastic, passenger glass had a scratch on it, front bumper had a paint chip, and a gouge that can catch your fingernail. Bolts holding the hood on had paint flaking off exposing metal bolts.
Took a few hours to replace the glass, taillight. However really had to work them to swap a bumper, as originally the reps were just saying they would put touch up paint on, but the bumper was still gouged. Also when they replaced the glass they put a scratch on the wood trim on the dash.
so at final inspection it was like 5 pm already and everyone was hella tired. They replaced the bumper but now there's scratches on the fog light lens. So basically we just put it on record to fix the dash and the fog light. Not sure if this will really be fixed in the future. Also they painted the bolts, but it looked like someone just brushed on some white out. As they painted on top of the flaking paint......
So not sure how to feel about this. Maybe it was cuz it was a Sunday and they were trying to rush things out. But I felt it was quite sloppy and caused more damage with every fix. I don't think I was being overly picky. The trim rubber pieces also have very rough excess molding on them.
I'm still on the fence when and what model to order as they say the bc grant money is running low.
