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"We haven’t seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road t
by rsync 10y ago
"We haven’t seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt."
Which is not nearly as bad as the systematic, repeated adverse conditions testing they did on these cars in development and continued to do into the present.
Right ? Right ?
- raverbashing 10y agoYou mean like most customers in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland experience several days each winter?
- kwhitefoot 10y agoTo get to a cabin here in Norway I might have to drive 20km or more on a dirt road covered in snow and ice. When 4x4s first became popular here in Norway they were conspicuous by there absence in the mountains; most of the vehicles I saw at that time were Volvo estates (245) and Mercedes saloons (both rear wheel drive of course). I don't recall broken suspension or steering joints being an issue here with any brand of car (including Tesla) and the Norwegian roads authority (Statens Vegvesen) puts a lot of salt on the road.
- raverbashing 10y agoDo people in Norway do some kind of underbody anti-rust spray in their vehicles? like this? http://www.wheels.ca/guides/how-to-protect-your-car-against-road-salt-and-prevent-rust/ http://www.wheels.ca/guides/how-to-protect-your-car-against-...