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I had a few tesla vehicles come through the shop. They were all used units. The fit and finish, the build quality are quite poor on all of them. They didn't age well. Even on units that are supposedly accident free, there were paint drips, crooked bumpers, missing screws, under spray, loose trims. The interiors wore out quickly as well as lots of rattles. One was filled with sand. Apparently some plug or seal was missing or not sealing, dirt gets sucked into the car some how. On ones that needed repairs, parts took forever to arrive. There was one with a glitchy screen. Nothing I could do. The thing was a paperweight half the time. Teslas are not built like normal cars. It kind of resembles Lotus in its manufacturing and that's generally not a good thing. Makes you scratch your head on some of their engineering choices. As someone who likes build quality, redundancies, and fail safes, I wouldn't recommend a tesla. If you want an reliable, durable electric car, you really should wait for Honda or Toyota to build one. And the tesla cult is a real thing. Its scary how far they are willing to go to defend the brand and their messiah musk. Mirrors those belonging to the apple cult and or the RR Porsche cult.
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