TBF i never worked on a Y

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I liked the way they looked when they first came out, but now the other manufacturers have copied many of the same ideas while Telsa’s own styling has sort of stagnated.

I used to work on them (along with other cars) professionally.

Saw half a dozen Teslas get stuck in the parking lot during my two years there, usually picking someone up. The cars would just shut down and refuse to move. Sometimes they had to be towed.

The plastic trim and underbody panels are poorly made and poorly fitted. You will often notice edges cut off of them so they almost fit in place, but often the one on the underside of the back trunk will have a ripple to it.

The metal body panels are also bad. Uneven spacing between panels is common. Often a quarter panel will have a small gap (as it should) on one side of the car, but on the other side the panels are actually touching. Other times the gap will be uneven along a single seam.

Nearly everything on the car is held together by single-use plastic push-pins, or metal self-tapping screws into plastic and metal panels. If you are really lucky you will get a metal screw into a nylon backing. Where Toyota or Subaru would use a reusable screw or fastener, Tesla alway uses something cheaper and disposable.

We also commonly came across loose fittings on connectors on various wiring harnesses, which we could sometimes fix by just jamming the wire into the hole. Not really something we ever saw on other manufacturers.

I lived in Fremont for a few years, the site of one of their factories. My friends who worked there had so many stories of problems being noticed on the line, and being told to just move it along.

Maybe they do unusually bad work in Fremont, and the Teslas made elsewhere are better. I’ve mainly seen these issues on Models S, X, and 3, i left that job before the Cybertruck was available

Separate from all that, i personally think the touchpad display seems unsafe. All functions of the car to be performed or modified by the driver should be possible without looking. A touchpad requires you to look at it, whereas physical buttons can be felt before being pressed.

Consumer Reports gave the X and S 30/100 in reliability, among the lowest scores they gave in that category.

At the end of the day, they are terrible cars. Teslas have the highest rate of of malfunction and low mileage service of any manufacturer in the US by far.

They are beating Ford at their own game!