Is this odd? Most cars have had several recalls, and if you have never taken your car in for recall work, you need to go look up what work was (not) done on your VIN and take care of it. Lots of cars are still out there with claymores for airbags, make sure your car isn't among them.
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Awesome! I recently inherited a car and you made it easy for me.
It's really mind boggling how big that airbag recall is.
I think it's the amount of recalls in such a short time combined with how long it took to ship the first one after you could place an order. And the ceo's attitude definitely doesn't help.
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Never by the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you're just paying to be a beta tester.
Not only are you likely to get the most problems, you're usually paying more for them as well.
Never by the first model og anything really, everything is rushed to market and nothing is done properly the first time.
Low VIN cars come with low VIN problems.
You would assume we have wipers down after decades without failure.
Wipers often are the only moving part still working after a car totalled.
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I'm shocked they sold that many
Who said they sold them? There was a recent story where there was a parking lot full of them that was spray painted "fuck Elon" so we can assume there are other lots of them rusting away.
I think the ones in that lot were sitting there waiting for recall work to be done before they could be delivered to ~~suckers~~ customers.
Over 2 million on backorder. They say avg 5 year wait, but if they've only made 11,000 (it was 4,000 for the first recall iirc) its gonna be waaaaay more than 5 years wait for those idiots
Except people 3 years into that wait are already getting called up for their turn. A lot of people are declining to take it up
A lot of people are declining a 20k markup for a foundation series.
A lot of people will also be declining since the prices don't match the initial specs, but we really don't have a clear picture on that yet.
"Backorder" meant "Idiots with a couple hundred dollars". "Orders" were a whole $100 fully refundable deposit. It was a complete non-commitment, and I know a ton of people who literally bought them solely to resell their "spot in line".
I knew a dude who put in an order for 5, just to ensure he could sell his "spots on the list". Dude was a service tech that couldn't afford even the fake $40k price, let alone the current $100k price. I've seen tons of stories like his as well, so there's a 0% chance even 20% of those are actually converting to sales.
Ahh didn't realize, thanks for the info!
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The truck was first shown in 2016, nearly 8 years ago, and only came out last year so there was about half a decade of hype building around this thing that was busy sucking in all the gullible rich people.
Honest question, what's there to be hyped about? I haven't ever looked into its feature set because it looks like ass. Do people just like the Tesla name or what?
I mean... It's unique in it's looks. I don't know if that's positive
It's unique in it's looks.
That's what they said about me.
For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck being advertised. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and depending on your criteria the most advanced/best car period. Perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups right now, so a lot of libertarian Musk fanboys are still fully on the Tesla train
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Now that it's available for sale, and ignoring the looks/stainless steel aspects, I think the biggest thing to be excited about is the steer by wire.
Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well because of it, and that'd really differentiate it from the other options.
Edit: the steer by wire with the 4 wheel steering.
Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well
I'm guessing here, but did 100% of these reviews come from a country with some of the worst fucking drivers on the entire planet?
What does that have to do with how a vehicle feels when driving it?
Let me get this straight: you not only actually want a vehicle that decides where to go based on software instead of with a mechanical linkage you can reliably control, but you also want Tesla, of all companies, to provide it?!
There's a lot of Tesla hate on build quaility on Lemmy/Reddit, but they actually have some of the most reliable power trains and exceptional software. There was some problems back in the very early days of the Model S with the 85kw/h packs, but they've moved beyond that now.
Given this is part of the power train, and software, it's right in line with their expertise.
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the idea of tesla making a pickup is pretty old, but it was not announced as a concept vehicle with an image and name until the end of 2019
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Oh no, anyway...
front windshield wipers that can fail
Seems irrelevant if the truck can't even get wet
The problem isn't that it can't get wet. The problem is that it mustn't get wet.
Very true. Now I'm angry at myself for missing an opportunity to use one of the worst contractions in the English language.
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Most expensive early access beta with pre-order ever. Tesla is the EA of cars.
EA is a more reputable company.
I'm still not sure why anyone thinks it looks cool... -It looks like a truck designed using a Vecktrex. (Ok, admittedly, now that does make it sound slightly cooler to me...)
I've seen a few around, and I always think "It's the N64 truck!"
The only angle I think looks cool is the one on the pic.
It looks cheap, even from that angle. Maybe especially from that angle because it highlights all the out of place looking plastic parts.
Elon downloaded blender and spend 3 minutes on a cube. Then forced the poor engineers to make his car "design".
Aren't you supposed to test that shit before going live?
Now it looks like cars have early access periods
fail fast
I mean most of the issues have been from the assembly process and not the fundamental design. However I would argue designing something you can't reliably assemble is just as bad. Adhesive needs to be done right on every unit and it's impossible to visually inspect it in this application. Clips are a pain in the ass but I'll take them over glued on trim any day of the week.
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11.000 people bought one?! I figured just a few museums would've picked one, to display in their abstract art sections, or the "even when we knew how not to we still built shit" section.
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I bet Simone Giertz's Truckla had working windshield wipers...
because unlike elon simone giertz is smart
No one requested self driving cars. Goodbye.
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