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Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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This isn't surprising at all. Have you ever looked at a Tesla up close? The fit and finish is bad. Like really bad. I have never understood how anyone could walk up to one, look at it and think "I'll buy this". Tesla has absolutely miserable quality control.
I've been in a Model S, and don't get me wrong the acceleration was absolutely phenomenal
But my Skoda Fabia (which for the first owner probably cost £15k instead of £70k+) absolutely beat the shit out of it for how well-built it was. (For the yanks - Skoda is a sub brand of the VW group - think of them as a slightly cheaper Volkswagen)
Everything is rigid and you'd need a sledgehammer to shift it. In the Tesla you could just grab random parts of the interior and wobble it about. Everything shifts about, rattles, and shakes.
The paint on my Fabia is flawless - it's of equal thickness everywhere, whereas for the Model S some parts were clearly thinner than others.
The panel gaps are a meme for a reason. On the Fabia, sure the panel gaps are wider than they are on a Porsche or something, but they're exactly the same everywhere. On the Tesla you'd see it completely flush at the top of some panels, and a 6mm gap at the bottom! It was so inconsistent.
And the rear passenger-side door's rubber seal where the window comes up was peeling off. This car is only 3 years old ffs!
I wish Tesla would license their drivetrain designs out to people who can actually build cars.
Skoda was the brand we'd take the piss out of in the early 90s.
I wonder if 2030s kids will be laughing at their friends being driven to school in a clapped out Model S, with half the panels falling away, one door a slightly different colour to the rest, and a battery that goes maybe 40 miles, going "Ahhh, your mum drives a Tesla!"
Skoda's and Lada's were the classic cars to rip people for having. Communist junk. VW really did a LOT to rehabilitate the Skoda image.
Some Skodas are better looking than their VW brothers. Especially the crossovers.
That's funny because my Jetta felt like it was going to rattle itself apart.
I'm currently driving a Scoda Fabia myself. The globe box just broke, because something inside got stuck, and the 20 year old plastic handle just didn't want to budge, and broke instead. Meanwhile, I just drove 1500km in it over the span of 3 days. It just keeps chugging along.
I rode in one for the first time a few months ago and it immediately broke any preconceived notions I had of it being a luxury product. The weather stripping on the doors was installed crooked and the material on the seats wasn't lined up properly either. That's just what I noticed in the first minute or two. It wasn't even old, it was brand new since the owners first Tesla was totaled in an accident (in which all the recorded camera footage was lost on impact, you know the most important time you would want recordings to work).
That's because the recordings are stored on a flash drive in the glovebox. Very easy to break with the right impact.
Putting it in the centre console shouldn't have been difficult.
That's why they sell them online. So you can't walk up to it in a dealership and see them up close.
Tesla has showrooms. It's just they're fully part of Tesla, instead of being little franchises with wingnut owners and weird regulatory capture.
Musk is a jack-ass, but the showroom model makes sense.
Tesla was only able to open these showrooms on American Indian Tribal Land due to car dealerships. Pretty smart workaround and I'm assuming a large money maker for some of the reservations.
Good god what are you going on about? The majority of showrooms are in malls. The delivery centers and repair centers that aren’t in malls are located in the middle of large cities.
Here and Here
There is also a delivery/showroom in Fife, WA but that's entirely on Puyallup Reservation.
I drive one and its the worst purchase I made to "save the environment".
Apparently I'm going to Tesla dealer ship near my and from what I heard the cars aren't actually there you just get to look at them on a screen . And there would be nowhere to get it serviced if something happened to it .
Weird, the Tesla showroom near me has plenty of vehicles to walk in for a test drive and a repair center outback.