When you got your new Cybertruck, how long before the software updated?

[evlfred]

Just hoping to get FSD 14.2 soon, our Y has it and it sucks going back to 13.2.9...

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[UberNoob]

Too many factors, just get it on a good WiFi and wait. AFIK it randomly checks into the mothership. Service will do it to if it’s in for service.

 

[ABILISK]

Are your settings not set to advanced? Because that should get it within 24 hours.

 

[NoGasWelcomeAboard]

NOT true… advanced does not help & Service is NOT able to expedite that first software update. How do I know?

Recently took delivery of 2026 Model Y with transferred FSD. That car took two full weeks before it updated car software from 2025 version to latest 2026. That update included going from FSD 13.2.3 to 14.2.2.5. Yes, car had excellent WiFi and “Advanced” setting selected.. Per Grok suggestion, also did a hard restart (pressing both scroll wheels until screen blanks). Service tickets submitted, but they could not help with expediting the new update. NOTHING helped except waiting it out.

 

[SCTesla]

NOT true… advanced does not help & Service is NOT able to expedite that first software update. How do I know?

Recently took delivery of 2026 Model Y with transferred FSD. That car took two full weeks before it updated car software from 2025 version to latest 2026. That update included going from FSD 13.2.3 to 14.2.2.5. Yes, car had excellent WiFi and “Advanced” setting selected.. Per Grok suggestion, also did a hard restart (pressing both scroll wheels until screen blanks). Service tickets submitted, but they could not help with expediting the new update. NOTHING helped except waiting it out.

Advanced does help. 2-4 weeks wait is normal for delivery software.

Standard can be even slower.

 

[georgek43]

Just hoping to get FSD 14.2 soon, our Y has it and it sucks going back to 13.2.9...

I too am a multiple and serial Tesla owner. I love the self driving capabilities and many, many other things about Tesla- enough that I continue buying them.

I also realize that my opinions may be location specific, as I do not spend a lot of time driving in high traffic urban areas. I usually drive in small city neighborhoods, suburban secondary roads and through small rural towns rather than interstates when traveling. Occasionally I’m on the interstate but I avoid them whenever practical.

I realize I may have a minority opinion, but I say unless all your driving is on crowded highways, ‘count your blessings’ and keep FSD13 for as long as you can. I traded my 2024 CT that had been running with FSD 14 since December. I received my 2026 CT this week with FSD13. I am so happy to have the scroll wheel speed control back! I found speed management in FSD14 to be terrible— too slow, too fast, constantly changing speed profiles, stepping on the accelerator when it too frequently lags even in ‘madmax’, often disengaging, and never getting it just right. Rather than relaxing, after 3+ months of using it, I still found 14 to be frustrating and aggravating.

For me, the speed management is so bad in 14 that it takes the relaxation out of self driving. FSD14 has some advantages in maneuvering like better lane centering, better lane changing and (imo at this stage) gimmicky E2E, and it’s marginally better in heavy traffic, but for me they are minor improvements compared to the aggravation of poor AI speed management.

FSD13 has a much more driver customizable way to set a PRECISE speed, a PRECISE speed percentage over the posted limit, and separates the assertiveness with chill-standard-hurry from the selected speed offset. Three plus months of experience with FSD14 says I can select conditions for speed and assertiveness of driving behavior far better than the AI, and you probably can too. Again, in my opinion, FSD13 is a far better, safer, less aggravating and more usable overall driver assist system than FSD14.

Once you update to FSD14, you are stuck with it- there’s no rolling back to FSD13 to reclaim the scroll wheel. Unless you have a very high tolerance for lousy speed management, I suggest you keep FSD13. I thought I’d really miss some of the advanced features of FSD14, but turns out that I really do not. FSD13 is really quite good, and for me the ability to set PRECISE speed overrides the FSD14 improvements and makes self driving far more usable and much less frustrating than FSD14

I will not intentionally update to FSD14 until the scroll wheel speed management function returns. With Tesla’s focus on gathering data for autonomy, that may never happen, but IMO (and in Tesla’s written legal advice) the vehicles are no where close to full autonomy yet. FSD is still classified as a level 2 driver assist system, and when FSD14 removed the driver’s ability to set speed, it no longer had the same level of assistance for me. FSD14 simply takes too much driver input to get the Goldilocks speed - I’m keeping FSD13 for as long as I can just to keep the ability to set speed with the scroll wheel.

Although I may be a minority, I’m certainly not alone in this opinion. Its only my opinion, but my suggestion is to think carefully before you update.

 

[koolio]

This may not be helpful since you already took delivery but when I got mine in Dec 2024, I transferred FSD from my 2020 Y. Before I left, I saw FSD wasn't pushed to my vehicle, so I asked my delivery advisor. He said, hold on...one of the engineering guys is on-site so let me ask him to push the update to your VIN. In 5 mins, I got the update pushed to it while I was sitting in the truck.

So for others out there, when taking delivery, might be worth asking them.

I also remember 4 years ago, I could connect my car to the wifi network at the service center and it'd push the update. Did it once for my wife's Model 3 back in 2022 but I don't think that works anymore.

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