Thanks, did they do anything for you at all? My brother had a similar pandemic-era problem with his GM pickup. It was supposed to have heated steering but some of the parts they needed to make it work were in low supply so they sold the truck without it and they installed later.
I communicated with Tesla yesterday and they told me the news of the new chipset (HW4.5) originated from a typo in one of the company's news releases and then has taken on a life of its own online. He said there are zero Teslas on the road with HW4.5 and what I have on my car is the latest and greatest. I doubled-checked this using AI and it seems to be correct. They took a few thousand off the price for the smaller screen and different colored headliner and I can live with that.
No, I bought the truck used, so it was mostly just my bad luck. I was hoping it was just a software update that could maybe be done, but they said no. I would basically have to get a whole new head unit and at that point why not just get something aftermarket.
Oh, well that is nice. I'm glad they resolved everything in one way or another.
Oh, I see. That's too bad! Aftermarket would probably be the way to go in that case.
Thanks. I still wouldn't purchase another Tesla at the end of the quarter. They're pushing out a lot of new car inventory built months before to meet their quarterly sales numbers and the odds are far greater of something like this happening. Lesson learned!