Tesla’s highly popular FSD (Supervised) transfer program has suddenly hit a major snag. In a quiet update to the FSD transfer program page on its website, Tesla has changed the eligibility language for the current FSD transfer window again, sparking a wave of confusion for current owners hoping to transfer FSD one last time.
While the changes are currently live on Tesla’s support pages, the granular details regarding how existing orders will be handled are being pieced together by reliable community insiders. However, it is extremely important to note that while this breakdown appears accurate based on customer communications, Tesla has not publicly stated what will happen to orders placed before the wording change at this time. In addition, Tesla Sales has not yet begun reaching out to customers proactively, but we expect this to change in the short term.
Goalpost Shift
The core of the community’s frustration stems from a single shift in terminology.
On January 20th, 2026, Tesla changed the FSD Transfer program terms from requiring a delivery by 31 March to requiring an order placed by 31 March. This gave lots of customers flexibility and time, and opened up the window to get into the final few custom builds ahead of the Model S and Model X ending production.
Now that language has been changed back to its original form, customers must actually take physical delivery of their vehicle by March 31st to be eligible for FSD transfer.
The Nuances and Refund
According to Sawyer Merritt’s breakdown of the new policy, Tesla is drawing a hard line in the sand based on your initial delivery window. If you placed an order before this policy change and your delivery window was scheduled on or before March 31, 2026, Tesla will still honor the FSD transfer.
However, if you placed your order and the initial estimated delivery window was already stretching past March 31st, Tesla will not honor the FSD transfer.
For customers who ended up losing out on the transfer because their order window fell too late, or because they simply cannot take delivery by the end of March, Tesla is offering two immediate remedies.
You can either pivot and apply your transfer to an inventory vehicle, or you can cancel your order and receive a full refund of the $250 order deposit.
The Cybertruck Casualty
While being offered a transfer to an inventory vehicle or a $250 refund is a nice gesture, it completely ignores the biggest casualty (and likely cause) of this policy shift: buyers of the new Cybertruck AWD trim.
Many Tesla owners, especially those on HW3, jumped at the chance to order the newly available Cybertruck Dual-Motor AWD variant, fully expecting to transfer their existing FSD software over to a new vehicle under the rules publicly listed on Tesla’s website. The trim was well priced at an introductory $59,990 USD, which just jumped up to $69,990 today.
Because deliveries for this specific trim aren’t expected to begin until this Summer, every single one of those buyers is now locked out of FSD transfer. Further, because there just aren’t any Dual-Motor AWD (non-Premium) Cybertrucks sitting in available inventory to transfer to instead, these buyers are simply out of luck.
Unless Tesla issues a specific exemption for this trim, or rolls out another FSD transfer program in the future, many of these early order holders will have to decide if upgrading their hardware is worth leaving their $8,000+ software package behind.
