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I don’t see how the Austin ramp is anything but a failure at this stage. They were supposed to have gone into production in Q1 and if they had followed the Shanghai ramp they would already be cranking out over 1000 cars a month at this point.

The problem with any other automaker including VW is their battery tech and battery management system is not as sophisticated as Teslas. I have zero expectation that other brands will be able to maintain 80% original range a decade and hundreds of thousands of miles into the life of the pack.

No. Enjoy your garbage Hyundai or whatever.

I had an Audi A4 that was dolphin gray and had the same issue. This is called paint flop Which affects how the paint looks at different viewing angles. The paint color itself is probably the same but it might not have been applied properly or had the correct base coat applied.

What's the point of berating the OP when he already has his car?

They are delivering it to you in CO?

There’s value in having a car continue looking good years after the delivery… especially considering what these cost. Would I wrap it for $6K? Hell no I wouldn’t. I did do about $850 of PPF on my 2018 and have ceramic coated it twice. It looks fairly good but still some rock chips, etc.

The only other thing I can think to do is look at the recordings and see if you can determine what is tripping the sentry. If you can't see anything in the recordings report it to service.

How do you know there is no movement in the garage? Do you have a security cam in the garage you can line up with the time stamps for when the sentry is alerting? Does sentry alert when parked in other places? If it’s your own personal garage why do you feel you even need sentry enabled?

You can do this but it's not a very good idea. If for any reason the car ends up in freezing conditions you will be potentially replacing multiple parts. Also, when you sell the car eventually will you drain/purge the system in the event the car ends up in one of the 2/3 part of the country...

While my time is valuable I can wash my car with a foam lance, dry it with the finest of microfiber towels and do the wheels, all in about 40 minutes. 40 minutes of effort is definitely worth it to not pay some schmuck $60 (and I assume a tip on top of that) to do the same thing.

Who the heck pays $60 to have someone wash their car? Yeesh.

You know you can use any wash fluid you want, right? BMW factory fluid has an extremely strong smell and is completely clear.

There is another explanation which is that the quality of roads where you are is not representative of the quality of roads in other parts of the country where people might have a higher degree of dissatisfaction with Tesla's approach. In places where people get winter weather there is...

This take is absurd. Reviewers who have been critical of the Model Y suspension have made very specific critiques and compared it directly to the German competition. Tesla could offer a magnetic or air ride suspension that would resolve a lot of the critiques of the suspension, and even make a...

I wonder if this is a general revision change or if they just swapped the parts with the same ones. There have been two versions of springs for quite some time, the A rev and the B rev which I believe is the lower/harder spring for the MYP. C revision description says nothing about being...

Anyone who asks me about my Tesla and starts getting into hypothetical range issues I almost always tell them it's not the car for them. It's not the car for you if you do a lot of range driving especially off the beaten path. If like most people you usually do moderate length drives and do the...

If you drive in a spirited fashion then a gas burning car won't get the EPA rated range either, it's just a bit quicker to fill it up. My 340i had something like 20 city 29 highway but that also assumes you don't run the air conditioner and for highway you drive something like 55-60 mph. My...

AC/heat usage has absolutely nothing to do with estimated range. Estimated range is based solely on how much energy the car thinks the battery has available and the EPA estimated range per Kw/h.

No.

It looks like rear windows were aftermarket tinted? Window tint can in rare cases cause failures like this. The sentry cam is not going to capture something like this because it does not do continuous looped recording the way a dash cam does. Forking over $300 to fix it in the grand scheme of...

There's a precisely zero chance of them accommodating you on this if you show up for delivery and make the request. You would want to find out ahead of time who the manager is at the delivery center and try to get them to agree to this ahead of time, as this involves substantially more...

MYLR w/tow-package, 20” wheels 7-seater ordered in March is now pushed back to Nov 22’ - Feb 23’ for delivery. Ouch.

If he drives with his head against the headrest then it's possible that the deformation is being caused by his head rubbing against the headrest hard enough that it is eventually causing the material to deform. Theoretically this would be worse with skin to seat contact than hair to seat contact.

My possibly wrong understanding is that if a cell fails in a 2170 car that individual battery module can be swapped out, whereas the expectation with the 4680 cars is that if there is a failure the entire battery will have to be swapped. Since the battery is part of the car's structure this will...

There are a lot of people on this website with no life so I'm sure someone is doing it.

I think this makes sense but still doesn't align with Elon's statement that Austin was ready to build cars with other cell types.

Assuming Tesla has 50K employees in the US that assumes one in five of them will be purchasing a $60,000 car (median Tesla salary is $110,000 and many of those employees are in CA where federal and state taxes eat nearly 1/2 of their income). That's not going to happen. Many already own a...

There can't possibly be enough Tesla employees buying Model Y SR to soak up all of Austin's production so are they just stockpiling them at distro centers?

I hope the quality doesn't suffer but it probably will. The M3 I own that was made during a similarly furious pace has quite a few fit and finish issues as well as squeaks/rattles since the day I bought it.

You don’t even know which Acura I purchased and you insist I’m incorrect. Homelink was a standard feature on the 2008 MDX which was the last Acura I purchased. https://hondanews.com/en-US/releases/release-653a014da7bbdf8ac6f163004c34be08-2008-acura-mdx-features I doubt that S/X owners use...

In the past 15 years I’ve purchased two Audis, two BMWs, a Honda an Acura, an Infiniti and two Minis. None of those cars were expensive as the Tesla and all (with the exception of one of the Minis) had the feature regardless of options packages they included. As I said Tesla used to include it...

People bring it up because it is a standard feature on every car I’m aware of in the $60K+ price range. Tesla also had it as a standard feature up until fairly recently.

no one?

My understanding is that the following improvements over Fremont built MY have been made to LR MY or SR MY between Shanghai, Berlin & Austin; Double pane rear windows Matrix headlights Rear parcel shelf (haven't seen a photo of this yet) Magnetic center console New door insert panels I don't...

Are there any photos of this parcel shelf? Is it a cargo cover or is it something else?

Some of the issues are easy fixes and others are not. Tesla insisted that to fix some of the issues with my car it would have to go to a body shop so I just fixed them myself. Any time a new line is up and running there is a tuning period. Even German manufacturers who are very good like BMW &...

Ah, now we get to the insults, nice. I don't know how they are hanging the doors, do you? It might be done by a human, it might be done by a robot, or it might be done by both. In any event, I haven't seen any indication that tolerances at the Austin plant are better than the ones out of...

I'll post if I want to post. Maybe what was actually under discussion was how doors are hanging wrong on Austin built cars exactly the way they hang wrong on Fremont built cars and he opined on casting vs. stamped cars which should have nothing to do with this issue.

You're saying that the door panels in Fremont are stamped and the ones in Austin are cast? News to me if true. Something like 99% of the parts should be the same.

It comes down to whether it's an issue of a new line getting the hang of things or whether it's that the same people/processes are in place that cause sloppy assembly in Fremont. One of the reasons proposed for Fremont assembly quality lacking is that it is an ancient factory and that the Tesla...

Which indicates that they 100% cloned the line from Fremont and did not take the opportunity to address issues with the way they are doing the assembly since I guess maybe they thought that would slow them down. Love the thumbs downs. Give another explanation for why the exact same fitment...

There are plenty of people that will shift their reservation over if it means they will get their car in 3-6 months instead of the 6-9 or even longer that it currently takes in many configurations. The cost savings won't even necessarily factor into it much. Some people just can't wait half a...

The explanation that makes the most sense is that they are constrained by 4680 cell production. If they can sell 100 SR cars compared to 80 LR cars and they have enough parts and demand to sell the 100 shorter range cars it makes sense. Eventually when 4680 cell production increases they might...

There's about a 0% chance those aren't coming to Fremont production in the next few months.

Ordered MYLR with tow/7-seat in Feb and had an initial 09/2022 EDD. Just logged into my account and now it shows Oct-Jan. A co-worker ordered a MYP in January and his EDD has been pushed out now till May-June.

All Chinese & German built LR MY have the matrix lights so it's coming to the US cars, just a question of when.

Easily could have been offered the standard range version at a reduced price if he signed an NDA not to discuss that his car was an SR variant. Volume at giga Austin is low enough that Tesla could potentially do this for months until they either offer the SR as a standard offer or get enough...

Yes, they've already said they are only doing 4680 with the structural battery at Austin. If the cell production is constrained then a lower range car with far fewer cells let's them fill more orders in the short term. Perhaps as 4680 issues with yield, performance, etc., get resolved they will...