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Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD
Yeah, Tesla has mobile service but the real issue with a used one is all the dumb little failures on things that should just work. It’s clear they cut corners on basic car stuff like windows, AC, and trim (friends of mine in engineering there there confirm this).
Example: they literally used Home Depot floorboard trim on early Model Y to mount the heat pump. You feel the bad design when fast charging even in a MY2024, it vibrates through the floorboards. I’ve never had that happen in any other EV.
By contrast, my Lightning hasn’t needed service at all. |
Honestly, I appreciate your insight from an engineering perspective, but sometimes your information is stuck in the past few years.
Take Autopilot as an example, sure I have only been using FSD instead of AP, but FSD is lightyear ahead of anything else. BlueDrive or whatever Ford has is shit in comparison. I have barely driven lately. It's always point on the GPS, activate FSD and just space out.
From what I'm hearing, AP and FSD have merged into a single stack. So, AP is merely a more restricted FSD on things that it's capable of doing. It might not do what FSD can do, but to say that other manufacturers have a lead over Tesla on ADAS is just crap. As a matter of fact, I don't think any of the ADAS available in Canadian market is remotely close to what Tesla can do today and as we continue to progress into V14, the difference will just become bigger and bigger.
As far as service goes, newer Tesla need very little service. So much so that it's no longer a thing among owner clubs. My first Tesla went back for some small issues here and there, but my Plaid and CT have been pretty much perfect. And as someone already mentioned, even when my cars needed any service, most of them are done with mobile. I just leave the car somewhere, they arrive to where the car is, do the work and away they go.
The last few times I have been back to service center were all buying parts like filter and wiper blades, but other than that, visit to Tesla service centers is rare now.
EVs today, it's Tesla vs. others. Some might one up Tesla in some aspect like charging speed, mileage, build quality or whatever, but taking everything as a whole, I don't think there's another EV that offers that same EV owner experience as Tesla. With other options, it's sacrificing the overall experience for whatever that "one up" might be.