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The obvious reason is that there were too many returns. I hope Tesla gets its quality issues under control.
by Tepix 6y ago
The obvious reason is that there were too many returns.
I hope Tesla gets its quality issues under control.
- bdcravens 6y agoWhile I think we all know about Tesla's quality issues, I think there's also an issue of people not realizing exactly what they are buying, so they treated that first seven days like a long test drive.
- dlp211 6y agoWhy shouldn't they?
- srtjstjsj 6y agoBecause if that's what you want, you should rent a rental vehicle for $300, not a brand new one.
- toast0 6y agoIf Tesla (or some other car company) says try our car for seven days and if you don't like it, bring it back, why would I pay $300 for a rental if I thought I was going to like it? Especially with a Tesla where there's a lot of fiddly details and mid year changes, a rental may be a lot different than one you can buy. Some rental sales agencies do it the other way --- rent this car for a week, and if you like it, the rental cost goes towards the purchase price.
- bdcravens 6y ago$300 would rent you a Corolla for a week, not a Tesla. A quick check shows that would be closer $1500 for a week.
- gargarplex 6y agoOr they realize they have a business model where people are willing to fork over serious money to test drive a Tesla for a week.
- themantra514 6y agoPR dept dissolved just ahead of the "no questions" return policy. No questions, no problem.
- babesh 6y agoThey have a de facto PR department. Go ask Elon on Twitter. You may or may not get an answer.
- themantra514 6y agoElon only tweets to pump stonks with fomo insinuations or rage so I'll pass on that option. Ttyl heading out to the cottage in my tank, aka 1991 Toyota Camry :D
- babesh 6y agoI encourage everyone to make their own mind up with data instead of listening to someone else’s opinions. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk
- clouddrover 6y agoMusk uses Twitter to express himself. He says Twitter is a war zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzGdoPu9vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzGdoPu9vs
- babesh 6y agoLike I said, just look at the data. Does he or does he not answer questions people have? Expressing himself does not preclude him from answering questions. It’s logic. A being true does not preclude B being true unless B = not(A). https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk
- clouddrover 6y ago
- IkmoIkmo 6y agoObviously, but the reason is unclear. Quality issues? Or people abusing it by taking a 5 day citytrip and bringing it back? etc
- myself248 6y agoI think you can only do it once, so using it as a "rental" seems unlikely. Given how excited I was for the Model 3, and how disillusioned I got after handling one for a few days when a client brought one in to have some equipment installed in it, I'd suspect it's some combination of quality issues and simply varying expectations. Tesla makes a LOT of decisions differently than other automakers, and there are plenty of people who love that, but also some who realize they're not comfortable with the car trying to outsmart them so often. And that's the sort of thing that might not sink in on a 20-minute test drive, but which you'd definitely feel after a few days.
- perl4ever 6y agoI got a new 2021 vehicle, not a Tesla, but with the latest assistive tech that they are putting on even low-end cars now, and while it is pretty neat, even from a "traditional" manufacturer it doesn't seem fully baked. My first drive on a rainy, foggy night, everything went haywire, although given the limited ambitions of the systems, it wasn't serious. The recognition of speed limits somehow failed so that it thought it was 70 mph everywhere. It couldn't recognize the lane markings, so it's jiggling the wheel and flashing warnings when I'm in the fast lane on the interstate, and for an instant I think I'm hydroplaning. Not helpful. I think it has radar cruise control, which I haven't tried out yet, but I'm not sure if I trust it. And I sure hope the auto-braking doesn't do anything weird. It did warn me a couple days ago that someone stopped in front of me to turn left, but if I couldn't see that, I would still have had an accident.
- myself248 6y agoYeah, I work in advanced safety systems, and I'm pretty comfortable with most of those things. They have their limitations, and there are times when they should be turned off, but on the whole I appreciate them. Blind-spot warning in particular, but that's pretty old now. (Incidentally, the auto braking likely would've kicked in if you hadn't reacted on your own, but it's set to not touch anything until it's at the panic-stop point. This is partly to keep drivers from getting lazy and relying on it.) What bugged me about the Tesla was the controls more than anything. There's no "off". There's no manual anything, and the overrides are buried so deep in the touchscreen, heaven help you if you forget where one is located. The car knows when it should be on, and when it should lock and unlock, and if you have different ideas about those things (heaven forbid you want to leave it unlocked while it's parked in a garage), you're going to have a bad time. I gotta call those folks up and ask for my deposit back, I'm never gonna use it.
- vl 6y agoNot really obvious. This policy applied only if you didn’t do a test-drive, and anyone I know who bought a Tesla did a test-drive.