I hereby dub thee "the coathanger"
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I hereby dub thee "the coathanger"
BluestarE3
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The photographer has posted additional photos on Reddit and in some of them you can see the jacket was covering both the display and the steering wheel (hmm... what could be so secret about the steering wheel?). Also, some nice shots of the open charge port. The Model 3 was at Harris Ranch.
Look what I spotted! • r/teslamotors
That black line is a temporary wire, not a permanent feature. Note the reddit photos show a small disc taped to the bottom center of the windshield with wires running away from it.
@AssortedBread haha that's me! I'm WattLOL on Reddit. I posted all the photos on Reddit and Imgur already.
Feast your eyes!
Feast your eyes!
Not sure those are fitment gap issues - depending on how the hinge works.
They might be bent (or deflected) sheet metal/plastic (whatever the trunk lid is made out of) issues.
Looking at the left edge of the trunk lid as it approaches the rear glass, there is not enough section stiffness in the part that covers the strut.
There are two solutions:
- Add a tab. That means do some sort of tab in slot arrangement that forces alignment at that tip of the trunk lid - a likely source of squeaks unless some sort of bushing is used. This counts as 'make the hinge better at aligning.'
- Add a piece of carbon shaped like a C channel to provide stiffness while still clearing the strut when closed.
At this point, a replaceable tooling post added to the car (like a strike plate, maybe integrated into the attachment point of the strut) and something on the deck lid that aligned off that, and maybe provides stiffness. There is lots of depth for section stiffness near the base of the rear glass.
I don't know, but maybe by pretending to know, territorial behavior will cause action.
It is worth adding $13 to the cost of the car to line up those front deck lid seams. Normal ways won't work because the deck lid is not normal.
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AssortedBread
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Great shots!
These two were particularly interesting.
The close up of the charging port.
And the wheel caps on the original unveil wheels.(black vs carbon) Plus the 20 (inch?) temporary written marks on the wheels indicating size.
Read the tire, it says 19"... 235/40R19
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Waiting4M3
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One of those detonator cords so the whole car self-destructs just before anyone gets a snap of the screen
3Victoria
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On the charge port it looks like there is a cover placed around the port?
To maybe hide something?
What does everyone see?
To me it looks like a temporary cover
AssortedBread
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Well considering the whole car is wired up with testing apparatuses, one more taped wire isn't exactly suspicious. My best guess is that its monitoring how accurate the wheel rotations are. So some sort of calibration.
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