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Actually speaking with actual owners I hear that Model Y build quality is great. With Tesla more so than with other companies, you have to take negative things
by natch 6y ago
Actually speaking with actual owners I hear that Model Y build quality is great.
With Tesla more so than with other companies, you have to take negative things you hear online with a large grain of salt, because there is an extraordinarily active group of short sellers of the stock who are highly motivated to spread negative rumors online in desperate attempts to lower the stock price. Model Y build quality issues are one such rumor.
Model 3 did have some issues early in the production cycle but they have learned a lot and tightened it up, and Model Y benefits from those learnings, though the rumor is still easy to spread due to its resonance with the earlier, but also exaggerated, Model 3 issues.
- samfisher83 6y agoI think a lot short sellers have been wiped out at this point.
- natch 6y agoIf not one day ago, then today...
- new_realist 6y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302804/tesla-ranks-last-on-influential-jd-power-quality-survey https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302804/tesla-ranks-last...
- new_realist 6y agoThere is just as much short interest in Apple as Tesla; where is the fake news regarding their product quality? You being played like a violin.
- aeternum 6y agoMight want to re-check your stats. TSLA has 9.47% of float shorted vs. AAPL's 0.78%. Even if you go by total shares rather than float, TSLA has over 2x the short interest. http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=tsla http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=tsla http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=aapl http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=aapl
- blinkingled 6y agoUmm I live in an neighborhood where few apartment complexes have car charging stations and one of my pastimes is observing build quality of Teslas (and sometimes Leaf or some other ones) - I have not yet found a Model 3 without uneven panel gaps - some are acceptable if you don't compare them to another mainstream car but still it's not what one would expect from a $35K car.
- GaryNumanVevo 6y agoSame, coworker had to take his brand new model X back to Tesla, three times to get the panel gaps fixed. They just took a rubber mallet to his car
- natch 6y agoDifferent priorities. I have a coworker who thinks that they need to charge their Model X to full on each leg of a long journey! Very wrong. Quite odd what people think and do including coworkers. I know another guy who could not abide having concrete in his patio, and had to have it replaced with tiles! Point is there are always people who get obsessed with strange things. Including panel gaps. Like your coworker. Someone showed me an imperfection on my Model 3 panel gaps once and I hadn’t even noticed it. And now I couldn’t even tell you where on the car it was. It was so minor as to be unnoticeable unless you are actively looking for it. Meanwhile the factory is only getting better.
- GaryNumanVevo 6y agoPanel gaps are a result of poor quality control and poor precision manufacturing. Something I would expect in a car that costs 3-4 times less than a Tesla. He's a car guy, but we've never owned vehicles with panel gaps, and I've driven all sorts of tin cans.
- natch 6y agoLike I said these were problems early on in the production cycle of Model 3. But I will take a Model 3 with panel gaps over a Skoda or a Corolla without them 10 times out of 10. BTW the long term costs are equivalent because of gas and maintenance savings and the lifetime of a Model 3 being 3x longer, and it also keeps your family alive unlike the Skoda or other cars which are not as safe.
- xvf22 6y agoCoworker refused delivery of his twice for seat attachment problems and pretty obvious dings.