Tesla Paint

[DDrawer]

Wow so they actually repainted your entire car? I'm glad to hear that even in such extreme circumstances they made it right for you. Did you have to battle with them at all to get them to re-paint?

 

[BreatheEasier]

Well, at least in VA they wouldn't be allowed to do that without full disclosure, as the state law of a $3K limit for damage repairs on a new vehicle would be far eclipsed for a high-quality paint job.

Still hoping (but prepared for disappointment) that my 90xx VIN that is being delivered on Saturday doesn't have this issue. Build date is June 6th.

 

[gundarx]

@DDrawer yes.. I did not think they would go with my suggestion to repaint the car, they kind of had a hard line and talked about Tesla cutting back on excessive repair spending, and did spot repairs on first week, was about to finish the job, then fortunately someone caught it in good light and pointed out the uneven paint, then they got most of service crew to look at it, and discovered some more, and ultimately delayed giving me back the car by a week while they sent it to a body shop (Sound Collision, which was 2 blocks away from Seattle-Renton did it- I was able to track the car on the app and even saw Sentry recordings- was funny watching the body shop guy trying to figure out how to open the door with the keycard.. ahem they also scuffed my front door panels but service center ordered new ones to install) for repaint that touched essentially every body panel to ensure good blend, maybe just the bumpers were spared from much repaint..

They spent a lot of time and effort on my car, at the end of it, the Tesla technician felt like it was his baby and swore he has not seen worse quality control with Fremont than with current batch of Model Ys post-shutdown; he'd invested substantially more time into my car more than any other Tesla, he told me.

Outstanding service with Seattle-Renton- I came in there feeling disappointed, and after an episode of discovering my uberturbine wheel caps were transplanted to another Model Y and ratting them out to another service center to escalate, they did give me a good explanation (honest human error, thought my car was part of their inventory, not a customer car) and made it right and told me what the service crew found with the paint and what was going on; and at the end had developed a good relationship with service manager and tech.

here's the after: Production dates/VINs for missing blue paint?

 

[Ba2yev]

i found this image on this site and showed it to my neighbor that paints for a ford dealer ... without pointing anything out to him... i asked him what is wrong with this paint... he said that the drivers door doesnt have enough paint on it and thus the gray base coat is showing through. He also pointed out that in the middle of the drivers door... there is a horizontal stripe that has more paint

Did you really have to rub it in by reposting the picture I took of the MY, I rejected? It still hurts every time I see it or any other picture of white MYs, posted by unsuspecting owners. There are quite a few out there.

 

[Scooby24]

i found this image on this site and showed it to my neighbor that paints for a ford dealer ... without pointing anything out to him... i asked him what is wrong with this paint... he said that the drivers door doesnt have enough paint on it and thus the gray base coat is showing through. He also pointed out that in the middle of the drivers door... there is a horizontal stripe that has more paint

I was assuming the problem had more to do with the flake lay down but based on the blue vehicles above, including @gundarx photos, that explanation seems to be very plausible.

Totally unacceptable on Tesla's part. The accumulation of concerns with the Model Y has me entirely abandoning my plans for the vehicle.

 

[Medic]

Did you really have to rub it in by reposting the picture I took of the MY, I rejected? It still hurts every time I see it or any other picture of white MYs, posted by unsuspecting owners. There are quite a few out there.

Crap... I think I got your car today! What was your VIN? I rejected delivery obviously....

 

[Ba2yev]

Crap... I think I got your car today! What was your VIN? I rejected delivery obviously....

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I highly doubt they transported it to New York because it was still on the parking lot on Wednesday (sad looking). The VIN was - xx291

EDIT: Just noticed - My had a black interior.

 

[fighter007]

@gundarx These pictures of the e-coat paint issues, yes? Can you please post a set of revised pictures after the repainting?
I've got a blue model YP on order and want to be mindful if I see the same thing.

Thank you!

 

[gundarx]

@gundarx These pictures of the e-coat paint issues, yes? Can you please post a set of revised pictures after the repainting?
I've got a blue model YP on order and want to be mindful if I see the same thing.

Thank you!

Production dates/VINs for missing blue paint?