2024 Model 3 ordered

[Stephen-733s2]

Over £37k to lease a car for 3 years? I assume this is because you can make a tax saving as it’s a company car?

[Chipper]

Stephen-733s2 said:

Over £37k to lease a car for 3 years? I assume this is because you can make a tax saving as it’s a company car?

Yes. The brutal numbers are


£28550 + vat to lease a bog standard white long range model 3 highland ——————. but if you add 19 wheeels , light interior and paint it’s £31909 + vat.
Or
£36620 + vat to lease a M60 Ultimate I5


tbh this is probably the Best Buy


£22963 + vat I5 Msport 40 with Tech pack comfort Plus


All based on three year and 12000 miles per annum


Three year ownership of my previous model 3 which I bought outright through my company cost me in depreciation £25100 including the vat.

In essence buying the Tesla outright if you can is substantially a better financial decision ( obviously ) but IMO Tesla will drive that Long Range price down further. I think it will be £47000 later on this year maybe even £45000. Another annoying fact for me is I don’t think they will allow the performance boost to be added as it brings the car too close to the new performance version when it arrives .

Edited by Chipper on Friday 16th February 07:20

[CHARLESBERG]

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

[Dolf Stoppard]

CHARLESBERG said:

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

That seems quite a long way away. I would have expected April to June as Tesla tends to do things by quarters. I can’t believe there’s not a car you can be matched to in the next three months. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes though. I ordered last Sunday and it was showing April to May and I can now pick up in the middle of next month.

[CHARLESBERG]

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

That seems quite a long way away. I would have expected April to June as Tesla tends to do things by quarters. I can’t believe there’s not a car you can be matched to in the next three months. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes though. I ordered last Sunday and it was showing April to May and I can now pick up in the middle of next month.

I’ll wait and see then. As you say, I was surprised at how far away it was considering on the website it shows significantly earlier. Not the end of the world, it is a company car so I’m not having to worry about aligning dates or anything. I’ve been on annual leave so it seems to have taken a while between selecting the car on our company car portal and Tesla acknowledging the order.

How did you find out the date had come forward? Do they email you or are you having to check the app for updates?

[Dolf Stoppard]

CHARLESBERG said:

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

That seems quite a long way away. I would have expected April to June as Tesla tends to do things by quarters. I can’t believe there’s not a car you can be matched to in the next three months. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes though. I ordered last Sunday and it was showing April to May and I can now pick up in the middle of next month.

I’ll wait and see then. As you say, I was surprised at how far away it was considering on the website it shows significantly earlier. Not the end of the world, it is a company car so I’m not having to worry about aligning dates or anything. I’ve been on annual leave so it seems to have taken a while between selecting the car on our company car portal and Tesla acknowledging the order.

How did you find out the date had come forward? Do they email you or are you having to check the app for updates?

A mixture of texts / emails and updates in the app.

[CHARLESBERG]

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

That seems quite a long way away. I would have expected April to June as Tesla tends to do things by quarters. I can’t believe there’s not a car you can be matched to in the next three months. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes though. I ordered last Sunday and it was showing April to May and I can now pick up in the middle of next month.

I’ll wait and see then. As you say, I was surprised at how far away it was considering on the website it shows significantly earlier. Not the end of the world, it is a company car so I’m not having to worry about aligning dates or anything. I’ve been on annual leave so it seems to have taken a while between selecting the car on our company car portal and Tesla acknowledging the order.

How did you find out the date had come forward? Do they email you or are you having to check the app for updates?

A mixture of texts / emails and updates in the app.

Thinking about this slightly more after reading some more info from the company car people, I think this may have been arranged to align with the end of the lease on my current vehicle… I think this is June so if they can specify with Tesla when they’d like it that would make sense.

Something may potentially come up sooner but as I said before we’ll wait and see. I’ve order a standard range in blue with a tow bar.

[MikePRT90]

CHARLESBERG said:

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

Dolf Stoppard said:

CHARLESBERG said:

I’ve just noticed on the Tesla app (currently borrowing a model 3) that my order is now showing on there and has an estimated delivery of start of June to start of August. Seems slightly longer than the suggested February or March when you select options on the Tesla website; not sure which is more accurate? Does the app have a safety net built in or is the website keen?

That seems quite a long way away. I would have expected April to June as Tesla tends to do things by quarters. I can’t believe there’s not a car you can be matched to in the next three months. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes though. I ordered last Sunday and it was showing April to May and I can now pick up in the middle of next month.

I’ll wait and see then. As you say, I was surprised at how far away it was considering on the website it shows significantly earlier. Not the end of the world, it is a company car so I’m not having to worry about aligning dates or anything. I’ve been on annual leave so it seems to have taken a while between selecting the car on our company car portal and Tesla acknowledging the order.

How did you find out the date had come forward? Do they email you or are you having to check the app for updates?

A mixture of texts / emails and updates in the app.

Thinking about this slightly more after reading some more info from the company car people, I think this may have been arranged to align with the end of the lease on my current vehicle… I think this is June so if they can specify with Tesla when they’d like it that would make sense.

Something may potentially come up sooner but as I said before we’ll wait and see. I’ve order a standard range in blue with a tow bar.

I ordered my M3 RWD highland (White with 18inch wheels) with Tusker on 8th Feb and I collected it 23rd Feb from Brent Cross. Surprised with how quick this took but I did push this through every step of the way, and I guess I lucked out that they already had one delivered at Brent Cross. Was originally given a delivery date of 5th March but called Tesla on the 23rd Feb and was told it was at Brent Cross and I could collect that day if I wanted to, which I did.

[Carl9729]

I’m after just some general feedback with the buying process and experience of others, I’m not in need of a new car, it’s a want rather than a need at this time.

I have a 3 cars in the house, Mini JCW, Porsche Cayman GTS and a Nissan Leaf as the run around. I quite fancy the new Model 3 to replace the Leaf.

So I hear every now and then I hear Tesla offers deals on new cars, either stock/ pre configured or through supercharger schemes, I’m thinking of just putting my name down and getting them to let me know when such an offer is out there for me to pull the trigger.

Anyone else done something similar?

[Gone fishing]

Carl9729 said:

I’m after just some general feedback with the buying process and experience of others, I’m not in need of a new car, it’s a want rather than a need at this time.

I have a 3 cars in the house, Mini JCW, Porsche Cayman GTS and a Nissan Leaf as the run around. I quite fancy the new Model 3 to replace the Leaf.

So I hear every now and then I hear Tesla offers deals on new cars, either stock/ pre configured or through supercharger schemes, I’m thinking of just putting my name down and getting them to let me know when such an offer is out there for me to pull the trigger.

Anyone else done something similar?

The deals tend to be towards the end of quarter, and the best ones end of half yearr/year. March is end of quarter but there’s hardly anything this time, at least not yet, just the odd Model 3 with a discount, but they’re the old shape, and no demo cars. That’s not that surprising for the M3 as it’s so new.

Forget custom order if you want a deal, they’re always list price, and it’s not a custom order where you’re allocated a build slot, they just hold your details until a car matching your spec is shipped to the uk. Inventory is where you want to be, either published inventory or you can go into a service centre and see if they have access to cars they’re not publicised (it’s not uncommon, but typically the same deal as the cars they do advertise)

I doubt Tesla maintain a “contact me when there’s a deal” list, but there are websites like Tesla-info and EV-CPO where you can sign up to alerts/emails, and set your options like minimum discount.

Continental Europe are probably a quarter ahead of us on the new M3 deliveries and are starting to see deals, so I’d set you clock for late MayJune, sign up to Tesla-info wuth a min discount threshold and wait to see what comes along.