Other Telsa cars : )
Posted on 06/12/2016 10:03:04 AM PDT by BBell
Yeah, gramps had me listening to a lot of oldies when growing up. We would have a contest to see how we could twist song titles. He usually won.
Yeah, gramps had me listening to a lot of oldies when growing up. We would have a contest to see how we could twist song titles. He usually won.
I can spot those old Lincolns from a mile away. They’ve all had their air suspensions fail, and look like low riders.
back in the early-mid 80’s my cousin bought a sweet expensive looking Saab... the front wheel fell off 3 weeks later in a parking lot.
6-7 years later had an uncle buy a similar Saab, he returned it soon after.
It’s not just Tesla...
"In more fairness", in 1989, I had a Toronado, which took me to a beer joint, and a painted angel broke my balls. Ford did not replace them, but I recovered.
The car wasn’t “practically new”, it was a 2013 with 70K miles.
Look at this video showing the Tesla owner demonstrating the bad ball joints on his car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdKZMlzQog
With ball joints that bad, the front end of that car must have been making horrible clunking noises for a long, long time.
The owner was clearly negligent in not having the problem addressed until there was a catastrophic failure.
The owner needs to read the warranty pages of his owner’s manual where it talks about the owner’s responsibility to seek service when there is evidence of a problem or an impending failure.
What I believe is the current warranty appears here:
This is not necessarily the same as the one that was in effect for the 2013 model year, but it is certainly similar.
All that said, I am not defending Tesla for requiring an NDA or tying that to a reduced repair cost. That’s unacceptable.
Aren’t all the wheels electric drive wheels on the Tesla?
Breaking a ball joint would probably mean electronics and electrical connections also were torn or affected somehow.
You’re right, of course, and I have my own “Saab Story” to tell. When the car was running well it was a terrifically fun drive. But something would go wrong every couple weeks. I’ve not owned another European car since.
The guy thought it was a real car.
Buyer beware, the Romans had a saying for that.
Yeah, cause that janky brand has no problems./s
I think you’re mostly right. The owner of something similarly priced, like a Maserati Quattroporte, would likely get similar treatment from Maserati under similar conditions.
But even the best car makers get things very wrong occasionally, how much more so novices like Tesla.
yea it’s horrible, mine failed while on my way to a service call while stuck in traffic on the Tobin Bridge in Boston.
Only the driver side failed so the car was tilted to the left.
Every pebble i hit felt like a boulder.
ugh
That POS car didn’t help me much with my boss at the time...
I ended up giving the car away for free, guy put on aftermarket coil over shocks...don’t know if he fixed the other 50 problems though...
Oh look the outbord rocket motor just fell off ...
And car makers need to own up to those problems and fix them rather than trying to cover them up, especially when problems have the potential to kill people, as happened with the GM ignition switch problem, which they tried to sweep under the rug while their customers were dying on the road.
Whether or not Tesla should have be legally liable for performing the repairs under warranty is hard to say without reading the exact wording, but as a "novice", they most certainly should have, since it appears that this wasn't an isolated problem.
But instead, they denied and deflected, accusing the complainants of fraud.
I remember an article, long ago in the Reader’s Digest, wherein a motorist had an axle break. It was a Rolls Royce, and he notified the company and ordered a new axle. Rolls replaced it free of charge, saying it could not possibly charge him to fix an axle, since Rolls Royce axles do not break.
Tesla, we have a problem . . . but don’t worry - we won’t tell anybody.
Didn’t Volkswagen get into trouble for something similar?
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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