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Yeah, the caliper and rotor seems like more stuff they should have on hand though. And at first it sounded like just a missing pad. I don't do my own brakes a
by throwaway81523 5y ago
Yeah, the caliper and rotor seems like more stuff they should have on hand though. And at first it sounded like just a missing pad.
I don't do my own brakes and don't know about the caliper, but rotor replacement is pretty routine, I thought. They usually resurface them whenever they replace pads, and replace them once they get too thin. So having no spares seems a little bit too JIT for a car company.
- sokoloff 5y agoPads and rotor are indeed regular wear parts, and even calipers are readily available for most every car (more from rust or crash damage than wear, but still fairly common and on the shelf in a warehouse serving every town of 50K+ people). It’s puzzling that they can’t manage to fix this car; only thing I can think of is no one has the authority to say “pull a kit from the line and fly it out there if you have to!”
- tekknik 5y agoYou think Musk hasn’t seen this article yet?