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Sounds like a bad design?
by 9991 3y ago
Sounds like a bad design?
- Turskarama 3y agoSubarus have had frameless windows for decades and don't have this problem.
- expertentipp 3y agoI don't think Tesla invented frameless car windows. I'm certain there are at least 50 years old car models with purely mechanical frameless car windows, but I'm too lazy to open wikipedia.
- Turskarama 3y agoNobody claimed they invented frameless windows, but I am going to claim (without doing due diligence) that they invented the frameless window that must be automatically wound down before the door can be opened.
- expertentipp 3y agoI will furtherly speculate that they own at least dozen of patents for this technology.
- ilyt 3y agodecades implies any patent they had expired
- ryder666 3y agoNope, at least Audi A5 from 2007 has frameless windows that lower automatically when you start opening the door.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoThat’s Teslas in a nutshell though. Myriad usability oapercuts in service of whatever flashy brain fart feature set Elon demanded of his dream cars. I refuse to believe that any competent professional would build half the shit I hear about in Teslas were they not held at employment gunpoint by a “visionary”.
- ianhawes 3y agoI love my Model Y but yes, there are some features that are just bad design. More specifically, poorly thought out design. Example: last December, we experienced a deep freeze. Temperatures of 6 F for several days. I had only taken ownership of my Model Y for a week or so. The doors became frozen shut. YouTube videos recommended applying a silicon spray to the crease, which of course would probably solve it later on, but wasn’t helping me in my current situation. Later on during that deep freeze, a bizarre incident happened where the doors weren’t frozen shut but they actually froze OPEN and my poor kids were in the car with the door open waiting for the lock to thaw. It would seem to me that a car designed in Northern California did not adequately take into account the weather in other regions.
- theshrike79 3y agoMeh. I've had the exact same issue with a VW Passat. It was also a known issue in car circles. There was a bit in the door mechanism that collected condensed water and it either froze the door shut or it wouldn't close. I had to drive a good 50km with the driver's door belted to my thigh so it wouldn't flap open in corners... Finally the interior temp got high enough so the tiny bit of ice melted and the door stayed shut. The only sorta-solution to this would've been to completely dismantle the door and heavily lubricate the mechanism with a petroleum-based substance that kept the water out.
- ilyt 3y agoFrameless windows in general bring plenty of problems, that's why they are rare. And those problems worsen with time as it's far harder to make 2 unconnected (glass from windows to car frame's seal) surfaces mate precisely.