Seriously. Wheels fall off, suspensions collapse, and Tesla, which knows of the problems, blames the drivers.
If you're thinking of buying one, get your head examined. If you have one, sell it with a contract that has "as is, where is, with all faults" language in large, bold type.
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Not surprising, given the way he treats his employees, that the quality of his products is in the shitter.
I've heard of some folks who were very happy with early model S Teslas, but that's been a while ago and they may have changed their tune by now.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Like a bad boat: "As is, where is, as she lays".
As someone trained in 6-sigma and other quality measurement and
assurance schemes.
If 1/1000000 parts are bad they typical car has a dozen faults.
It was why all the traditional auto makers instituted it as well
in the late 60s into the 80s cars they made a large number of
them were crap. The worry was built on a Monday or Friday
would end up as a lemon law set of wheels.
The market had a hand in that too... you don't buy a known piece
of crap or you were fully armed to use the available lemon laws
to beat the dealer or higher up.
We can name the cars too, Torino axels, Ford pinto explode-a-car,
Chevy Vega, a great engine save for it was dead by 40K. Maybe
the legendary GM 350 V8 that if it did't crack a camshaft by
50K it would run well over 100K, took over 5 years for GM to
finally to sort that out and over 10,000 engine swaps never
mind those not known.
So a new kid on the block having issues is nothing new. That
they didn't learn that quality is a salable commodity that
must be built in or at least recalled at no cost gets old
very fast.
So that said why do people buy that crap... Status? So much
money to burn. Or plain stupidity!
Eck!
Quality is essential and is usually led by the notion that Safety comes first.
But lots of manufacturers (including Boeing) took a fork in the road that was based on the premise that extraction of profits was more important. So safety, quality, performance, and product life went to hell.
Who bore that cost? Well they're dead and buried.
Recalls are ubiquitous across the product spectrum:
BlendJet Recalls 4.8 Million BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders Due to Fire and Laceration Hazards
Hazard:
The recalled blenders can overheat or catch fire and the blender blades can break off, posing fire and laceration hazards to consumers.
Caveat Emptor applies across the board.
"get your head examined. If you have one, sell it"
Delightfully ambiguous.
Having worked ten years in a Chevy dealer I only seen one denial of a warranty claim, and coincidentally for Eck!, it was a 350 camshaft with a flattened lobe. I think the guy torqued the service manager off and that was why he had to prove he changed the oil in the 10,00 miles the car had on it, but he couldn't. Other than actual blatant abuse like hitting curbs with multiple parts damaged then everything got warrantied in the 12m/12K mile time frame. And I definitely did warranty work on some abused vehicles.
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