New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
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Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#2Light being able to shine straight through part of your car that's meant to be solid is scary. Does anyone know how common it is for cast metal of this sort to have damage like this? I am kind of surprised their manufacturing would have this issue
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#3This is kind of the perfect Tesla story.
New delivery buyer is digging around under the hood to confirm their brake fluid reservoir cap is in place, as there had been recent reports of missing caps.
Finds the cap is good, but that the cars frame is cracked instead.
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#4"It's within spec"
- Tesla
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#5Light being able to shine straight through part of your car that's meant to be solid is scary. Does anyone know how common it is for cast metal of this sort to have damage like this? I am kind of surprised their manufacturing would have this issue
In a well controlled process it should not be common. Bigger parts have been casted before without issue. Tesla cutting corners?
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#6If this vehicle were truly unsafe to drive (according to US safety standards), what legal recourse would an individual consumer have to have this fixed?
Unless the user gets in an accident, is there a way to actually prove the frame is structurally defective?
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#7> The Tesla Files episode revealed that the BEV maker instructs its technicians always to provide feedback orally. Internal documents obtained by Handelsblatt stated: "Do not copy the report below into an email, text message, or leave it in a voicemail to the customer."
I don't know how serious a crack in the front casting on a Tesla is, but this kind of policy is pretty egregious.
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#8Light being able to shine straight through part of your car that's meant to be solid is scary. Does anyone know how common it is for cast metal of this sort to have damage like this? I am kind of surprised their manufacturing would have this issue
Cast parts are more brittle than forged parts. Once the cracks are visible you've already lost a great deal of strength. I wouldn't ride in this car.
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#9The weirdest part of this to me is the customer.
You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts... and you still bought one.
What else could it be missing that you can't practically check for?
Still I guess at least it's good to see Tesla living up to the reputation for American cars to be generally shit build quality. I feel like they're going a bit overboard on that factor though.
Re: New images and video confirm Austin-made Tesla model Y has cracked front casting
#10The weirdest part of this to me is the customer. You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts ... and you still bought one. What else could it be missing that you can't practically check for? Still I guess at least it's good to see Tesla living up to the reputation for American cars to be generally shit build quality. I feel like they're going a bit overboard on that factor though.
>You knew the manufacturer had a reputation of forgetting hard to check parts... and you still bought one.
Yeah but the company is run by a hip cool memelord who's gonna get us to mars, and his cars have nice softwares like my iPad. Who cares about the metal parts of the car's rigidity structure? That's just something old boring people think about. Everyone knows EVs are more reliable than ICE so no need to ever look under the hood. $TSLA to the moon! /s
>Still I guess at least it's good to see Tesla living up to the reputation for American cars to be generally shit build quality.
The shit build quality has less to do with being American, and more to do with Tesla chasing higher margins, high margins which in part come from cutting a lot of corners in places where customers aren't looking for, which in a tracic-comedy way is what most American auto-makers did to get to their shit-build quality reputation.
To be fair, many brands have QA issues all the time, but that one from the article is so big and obvious it should never have made it passed inspection.