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Yes, but overall dirt roads are no problem for cars. The Tesla blog writes "The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road t
by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes, but overall dirt roads are no problem for cars. The Tesla blog writes "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."
That doesn't make sense: what has the length of the dirt road to do with needing two tow trucks? One truck runs out of fuel on this long road?
Tesla may be perfectly right that the car has been used on bad roads, and perhaps in unreasonable ways, but them being long dirt roads can not and must not be an issue. Standard cars will do hundreds of thousands of km on dirt roads.
- _s 10y agoSpeculating: One that can haul the car over a dirt road (off-road tyres / suspension?), and one normal one (road tyres?).
- ptaipale 10y agoSure, but that does not have much to do with the length of the dirt road. But once again, driving on dirt road is not off-road. Dirt roads can be somewhat bumpy, but on the other hand they typically do not have such sharp-edged potholes that paved roads may have.
- simonh 10y agoYou say typically, but Tesla has sold over 100k cars and has never seen anything like this before. It hardly sounds like a typical situation.