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Re: Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked

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Post by sdinsn » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

fgonzag wrote: post #160

sdinsn wrote: post #68

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> He was neither given rental nor Uber or loaner etc That's surprising. Whenever I take my honda in for service, I always get offered a loaner (even if it's just a couple hours of service)

It's a focus, I don't know why people expect luxury service for a 30K car. I had a shelby 350 and ford would even give me a loner while in regular service if I wanted. The tesla in the article is priced at 57k, I'd expect pretty good service for that price.

Honda gives me a loaner for my Honda civic which costed about 20k...

Re: Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked

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Post by romaaeterna » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 6:28 PM UTC

ogre_codes wrote: post #154

romaaeterna wrote: post #108

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> That ONE Tesla failed with fewer than 6,000 miles is not surprising or remotely concerning. Yeah, it "just happened" to be one owned by Car and Driver. If they are seeing this sort of failure with review models, you can be sure that the real failure rate is big.

How can I be sure? Why would the other owners keep quiet about it, some grand conspiracy? Everything that happens with Tesla gets amplified 10 fold. If the failure rate was "big", I'm certain we'd have heard about it by now. Regardless, this isn't a special review unit, C&D leased the Tesla from the dealer like any other schmuck, it was just luck of the draw. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29515368/tesla-model-3-…

You misunderstand. Of course it wasn't "a special review unit". It was the randomly selected review unit.

As in any test methodology, if your random sample has problems, it's a bad sign for failure rates for the batch.

Re: Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked

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Post by jessaustin » Mon, Jan 06, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

ilikepi wrote: post #56

droithomme wrote: post #46

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I put 60,000 miles on a Jeep with a check engine light. Also spent thousands on trying to fix it at various shops which would replace all sorts of things, to no effect, including about 5 attempts to replace a costly computer board. Eventually had a redneck guy working out of the back of his pickup truck have a go at it. After hearing about the history he spent hours unplugging, cleaning, and replugging every single w…

> And the light stayed off. Are you sure he didn't just leave that particular light unplugged?

It's a good idea, but such a ruse would be easy to catch. A properly-wired check engine light illuminates whenever accessory power is on and the engine isn't running: i.e., right before you start the car, every time you start the car.