You should pull apart the rest of the car to make sure, maybe they spent your entire $1000 painting the floor instead of the inside of the frunk
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Hey Tesla, where's my $1000 worth of white paint?
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Every car I have ever owned was painted everywhere there is metal with the exterior color. Under carpet, under door panels, underneath the car, under the hood and under trunk liners. This includes Honda/Mercedes/Jeep/Ford/Dodge/Toyota. And I would know because I modified a lot of my cars and it required disassembly to run new wires and make modifications.
Even if so, that just seems needlessly wasteful. Why would you want pearl white multi-coat paint under the carpet and underneath the frunk? You realize that you as the customer pay for that extra paint right?
Shygar
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I noticed this on my blue Model 3 when I got it. As long as it doesn't rust I don't really care if it's painted or not where it's covered.
Truth must be told. I'm not a service person, and I saw it, so it is unacceptable! You're saying it is ok to cheap out on my paint job because "I won't see it"? And this is what it looks like under the hood, without a big piece of plastic to hide it.
Tesla shouldn't be ripping me off on the paint job. I paid ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for pearl white paint, and I expect ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS of paint on the car! Everyone who paid $1500, $2000, or $2500 for their paint should be even more upset than me about it.
I once had the complete interior out of my 1971 Plymouth Valiant, and guess what? It was all painted inside the car. And all up in the trunk. And all under the hood. And behind the door panels. And even most of the underside of the car. Is Tesla saying they can't paint a new car better than a 48 year old Plymouth? They are that greedy? I wonder what I will see if I take the door panels off, or pull up the carpet?
I paid $1000 for pearl white and could give a sh!t that the parts under the frunk only have primer. Why waste the money when it serves no purpose? If you care about paint on these invisible parts, go by a dinosaur BMW.
Hmm, didn't know the Valiant had a frunk ;-). Take a look under a Porsche frunk and tell me what you see
electricar
Member
There are places you can see on BMWs that are not painted the body color - I spent many years working in BMW land and have seen this before - as an example look under the trunk lid of a Z4. People whine about it just like here.
NathanielHrnblwr
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good thing you haven't seen the inside of the battery.
OP, you *did* get $1,000 worth of white paint. That's what your extra $1,000 got you. If you wanted to get the hidden-white-paint-extras you needed to go off menu with your dealer and pay an extra $4,599.95. Sorry you didn't know about this!!
What a zero.
What a zero.
StealthP3D
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You have a point there man. That's why when I used to make bike frames I painted the insides of the frame tubes before I brazed them together. I'm just a quality guy.
Oh, yeah, I used to paint house interiors also. I made it a special point to get in there for a day or two before the sheetrockers arrived so I could paint the studs and the backsides of the sheetrock. You never know when someone might do a remodel.
When I built cabinets and furniture, I always shellacked the backside because I knew someday someone would slide it away from the wall to clean back there. I learned this tip from a piano builder who always painted the insides of his pianos black so the piano tuner wouldn't see bare wood when he was tuning it up.
I ran into some stupid tree-hugger environmentalists who suggested I could reduce toxic waste and improve air quality by not painting the insides of everything where it didn't need to be painted but I don't care about those things, I'm all about the highest possible quality. Cause I don't want to be lying on my deathbed lamenting the fact that I never shellacked the backsides of those cabinets. That would keep me up at night worrying so I just put paint everywhere now. I even paint the handles of my paint brushes before I use them - it's a real scam that they call it a "paint" brush but the handle comes without any paint, just bare wood! I've found it cleans up a lot better if I paint it first.
Now where was I going with this, I don't know, my memory is not so good no more. I think I'll have a beer. I'm done painting for the day.
StealthP3D
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You know what else Tesla cheaped out on? The transmission. That '71 Valiant had a real three speed transmission with a reverse gear. Tesla only gives you one speed and the reverse is fake, not a real gear, they do it with electrical trickery.
Ummm. the inside of the door or the floorpan? That would be my guess.
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