Recent content by Jymmybob

Sandpaper and wire brush, rinse everything down with solvents and re-paint. If there's sections with good adhesion then you don't need to go out of your way to remove it but sections that are left will impact the leveling of the new coat(s). Did you use brake fluid or brake cleaner? I assume...

If it looks and drives fine then I would. You're effectively skipping the chance of a 0-mile defect car in exchange for a discount so it's win-win.

This isn't a thing. OEMs value price/performance/reliability differently and some brands like BMW might be willing to skim closer to projected lifespans in return for more bang for the their buck but no one is sitting around building some sort of planned breakage to drive service. BMW's return...

If you see ecoat there is functionally no paint. It's not acceptable and is probably a lot of the reason that there's been complaining about gravel damage. It's an incredibly big deal and Tesla needs to hear it. It's not a competition with anyone else because it's flat out wrong. If they are...

Being worse than every manufacturer selling in the US is nothing to be proud of and normalizing their shortcomings helps no one. It's an embarrassingly bad paint job and should be called out. 20-30 microns is ecoat only and will have real world consequences because it's not remotely enough to...

That's the end of the outer housing of the control arm bushing. It's not as serious as it looks because the important part is the bond to the rubber which naturally is protected by the rubber except on the edges. You will get the rubber peeling back over time but apparently whoever has design...

I noticed that the door sill looked a little different on one with temp tags I just saw in a parking lot but couldn't get a better view and it also may have been aftermarket. Has anyone with an October build date noticed a difference there?