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Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain
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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 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.