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What a lame excuse. No vehicle should ship with laminate edge detailing from a DIY store to be used as a brace to hold a component in place. That's just poor de

What a lame excuse. No vehicle should ship with laminate edge detailing from a DIY store to be used as a brace to hold a component in place. That's just poor design and a lazy fix to hit your numbers, plain and simple.

teruakohatu 6y ago
Probably poor supply chain rather than poor design. I doubt the designer mandated Home Depot™ #xxxxxxx detailing.
- Cerium 6y ago
  Yeah, but why molding? They are using steel strapping, why not standard strap corners? Eg: https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-3474/Strapping-Protection/Strap-Guards-2-1-2-x-1-3-4-Black https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-3474/Strapping-Protec...
  - brianwawok 6y ago
    Bet they were out and sent someone with a truck to Home Depot.
- Meph504 6y ago
  The idea that they made a home depot run seems silly, if I had to guess, if you look at the breakroom in the telsa factor, you'll probably find some missing molding.
- bri3d 6y ago
  That strap overall is a really manual labor intensive installation step, fairly risky in terms of failure, and mandates several additional (read: $$$) edge protection parts even without the bodged ones. I don't think it was intentional. I feel that while the wooden edging is a sign that production technicians were rushed and couldn't wait for a new batch of the specified part, the overall strap-supported condenser design is a sign that the engineering organization overall was also time crunched and couldn't respin the assembly.