Hey Tesla, where's my $1000 worth of white paint?

[timk225]

I know automakers like to skimp and cut corners wherever they can to enhance their corporate profit, but this is going too far. I had a mobile service tech out to replace my frunk actuators yesterday, and while he had things apart, I was looking around in there and got a few photos. Look how much of the car isn't painted! These areas barely even got any overspray! I've seen videos of the Tesla cars going through the paint process, and I don't know how they managed to not even accidentally get more paint on the car!

Tesla, I paid ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for white paint, and silly me presumed you'd do a good job. Now you're charging people TWO thousand bucks for more of this craptastic work. What kind of happy horsesh!t is this? The paint does not cost anywhere near what you charge for it, quit ripping us off on your overpriced options!!!

Come get my car, give me a P3D loaner, take mine back to Fremont, take it apart, and paint it right! That means put the white paint everywhere, I do not want to see any primer at all! And give me free EAP for my inconvenience!

How can I email Tesla corporate with photos of this?

 

[derekmw]

Yep, that's how all of them are I believe. Open your driver door and look towards the hinge to see inside the front fender, it's primer there too.

 

[Xevex]

And give me free EAP for my inconvenience!

Don't forget to ask for free AP 3.0 hardware too

 

[voip-ninja]

I know automakers like to skimp and cut corners wherever they can to enhance their corporate profit, but this is going too far. I had a mobile service tech out to replace my frunk actuators yesterday, and while he had things apart, I was looking around in there and got a few photos. Look how much of the car isn't painted! These areas barely even got any overspray! I've seen videos of the Tesla cars going through the paint process, and I don't know how they managed to not even accidentally get more paint on the car!

Tesla, I paid ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for white paint, and silly me presumed you'd do a good job. Now you're charging people TWO thousand bucks for more of this craptastic work. What kind of happy horsesh!t is this? The paint does not cost anywhere near what you charge for it, quit ripping us off on your overpriced options!!!

Come get my car, give me a P3D loaner, take mine back to Fremont, take it apart, and paint it right! That means put the white paint everywhere, I do not want to see any primer at all! And give me free EAP for my inconvenience!

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I have parts of the car not painted that you can actually see in normal use and that's kind of shoddy IMO. Complaining that parts you are never going to see aren't painted is absurd. Many (all?) automakers aren't going to paint parts of the car that you are never going to see because paint costs $$ and margins on new cars are small. They will primer it and use corrosion resistance on it.

I have a horrible thought for you to process which is that most of the rest of the unibody you can't see is probably similarly unpainted.

 

[Twiglett]

No different to most of the cars I've owned.
Why paint expensive body color on bits you can't see.

 

[kengchang]

It's actually going to be 3K if you want everything to be painted

 

[mtndrew1]

Don't forget to ask for free AP 3.0 hardware too

And a puppy.

 

[McFlurri]

hahaha.. man. You are out to lunch!

I found you on the interwebz..

 

[SigNC]

@timk225 with another dramatic whine thread It's primered so it won't rust and you never see it........aka who cares.

 

[Magnets!]

Stop feeding the FUDs. Someone that doesn't own the car is going to see your pics and think that's what it looks like when you open the hood. This area is only ever typically seen by service people after disassembly of the frunk area.

 

[CarterStC]

Haha! went through the exact same experience as the OP st week, but I never thought to complain about it it just seemed normal to me.

 

[Nocturnal]

You don't even want to know what the inside of your tires look like.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

You don't even want to know what the inside of your tires look like.

Or that toy horse that your kids play with.

 

[Magnets!]

haha, Daddy, my horse ate a baby's head! ROFL

 

[Nocturnal]

Or that toy horse that your kids play with.

 

[Webeevdrivers]

Same as our leaf. No clear coat under the hood.

 

[compu85]

In the 1980s Mercedes would actually mask off, and paint the underside of the trunk and hood dark gray, then glue a sound pad under the hood!

No topcoat in un-seen areas doesn't bother me, as long as the dip primer prevents corrosion.

-J

 

[glide]

Stop feeding the FUDs. Someone that doesn't own the car is going to see your pics and think that's what it looks like when you open the hood. This area is only ever typically seen by service people after disassembly of the frunk area.

How is it FUD if the OP is right?

You think BMW’s come half painted?

 

[McFlurri]

How is it FUD if the OP is right?

You think BMW’s come half painted?

The problem is, that most people don't even understand what FUD means. lol

 

[Casmium]

Paint adds weight, if they added paint to the parts you can't see the rated range would decrease by 0.01 miles