Agreed. Hopefully he’s on someone’s ass about his dealerships not prepping every Tesla for delivery. There’s just no excuse.
Huh? There is no evidence Elon thinks it's acceptable to deliver a new vehicle like that!
They may not have seen it. This is really an end-of-line test issue and not an SC issue. I bet they all have check lists of things to look at and don't look beyond that list. When Tesla identifies and issue I bet that it is added to the checklist until it is fixed in general assembly.
You mean, that he bothered to respond to this kind of comment at all? The only time a CEO even bothers to interact with employees or the media is when they are a startup. Tesla is not a startup but Elon responds to this kind of thing occasionally. The lands him outside of the box.
He responded because of the reviewer.
As a Tesla buyer that loves the vehicles I fully agree. We should know all the things that can go wrong. He showed a problem that existed. It’s not fake. Maybe it won’t happen to us but it did happen.
I thought the same thing when I saw it posted, been crickets from him as far as rust, range, gaps, etc posts. This one for some reason got a response, maybe because it was so egregious. I personally think it is good for them to get addressed publicly because silence on the issues does not instill confidence.
**Range Rover has entered the chat""
Top bolt 'nut' vibrated off and fell down into the door. Imagine if the lower one did that as well.
Seems like a part of the truck that you'd want to make sure had the right tension and loctite from the factory. Not as bad as wheel nuts but still (BTW, had a friend get Tesla service a few years back and they didn't tighten the nuts all the way on one wheel ... highway vibration got him to pull over and saw it before the wheel came off.)
ugh. That's no fun.Top bolt 'nut' vibrated off and fell down into the door. Imagine if the lower one did that as well.
Quote from owner of that CT: "The plate to secure the top bolt in was broken. So there was no place to thread-in the top bolt."
Seems like a part of the truck that you'd want to make sure had the right tension and loctite from the factory. Not as bad as wheel nuts but still (BTW, had a friend get Tesla service a few years back and they didn't tighten the nuts all the way on one wheel ... highway vibration got him to pull over and saw it before the wheel came off.)
Image below: Top bolt 'nut' vibrated off and fell down into the door.
Quote from owner of that CT: "The plate to secure the top bolt in was broken. So there was no place to thread-in the top bolt."
So if they know it's a simple issue with it not being torqued down enough, it should never be an issue again, as they have learned what spec to torque it to and they have the QA to "rinse and repeat" and check it going forward. Problem solved.
Heck I'd be pretty tickled if I got any sort of direct reply from Musk on any of my tweets
