TheDrive article about Tesla Screens

[ChuckieDude]

Anyone see this article yet: Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters

It basically says that Tesla used lower grade screens on the Model S and now they are having issues. Interesting and I wonder what grade of screen on my the Model 3?

 

[woodisgood]

Thank goodness the short sellers are writing articles to keep us all safe from Tesla’s penny-pinching! Consumer protection lives!

 

[ngogas]

lol

 

[Electroman]

Anyone see this article yet: Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters

It basically says that Tesla used lower grade screens on the Model S and now they are having issues. Interesting and I wonder what grade of screen on my the Model 3?

That troll wrote that article, exactly so that you will panic and come here to ask that question.

 

[BluestarE3]

As soon as I saw the author's name on the byline, I closed the page.

 

[Shateam]

There is absolutely some validity to his arguments and the fact that virtually all Model S & X from 2016 and 2017 (2018 too?) have developed this defect backs his claim. And to make matters worse, Tesla is refusing to cover screen replacements under warranty is particularly egregious!

 

[TallyGator]

According to Musk's biography, at SpaceX engineers used consumer grade electronics (CPU's) in the rockets as opposed to space grade electronics for significant cost savings.

I think you would have to go automotive grade for your touchscreen that bakes in the sun, though.

 

[Rex Kramer]

As soon as I saw the author's name on the byline, I closed the page.

I can't bring myself to even click the link, mind sharing the author's name for reference?

 

[DWdrum]

I can't bring myself to even click the link, mind sharing the author's name for reference?

DITTO that Rex.

 

[BluestarE3]

I can't bring myself to even click the link, mind sharing the author's name for reference?

Edward Niedermeyer

 

[EinSV]

Re Ed Niedermeyer, just saw this posted on another thread -- Tesla's response after another one of his many smear campaigns against Tesla, dating back more than a decade.

An oldie but a goodie.

A Grain of Salt

 

[acoste]

Re Ed Niedermeyer, just saw this posted on another thread -- Tesla's response after another one of his many smear campaigns against Tesla.

An oldie but a goodie.

A Grain of Salt

Niedermeyer is mostly negative about Tesla for sure. But there is some truth to his stories.

I suggest you add this link Tesla Suspension Breakage: It’s Not The Crime, It’s The Coverup next to the Grain of Salt as well for a more balanced view on the case.

In the Grain of Salt for example Tesla says they never sign an NDA with the customers, but this is certainly not true. Here is an example of it: Tesla says someone fired a bullet into battery pack of a Model S that caught on fire

 

[EinSV]

Niedermeyer is mostly negative about Tesla for sure. But there is some truth to his stories.

Niedermeyer has literally made a career out of being a Tesla troll.

Given how many Tesla trolls there are and how few have had that sort of staying power, I guess that is an accomplishment of sorts.

 

[acoste]

Niedermeyer has literally made a career out of being a Tesla troll.

Given how many Tesla trolls there are and how few have had that sort of staying power, I guess that is an accomplishment of sorts.

I don't know much about him, just read some of his articles in the last couple of months. Some of them were just speculation, some had links to real issues.

 

[Rottenapplr]

Anyone else concerned about long term health of the screen. It gets heated from the windshield. I think I’ll go for a front tint first actually.

 

[boriszima]

I got sunshade to protect the screen right when i bought a car. It just common sense that sun makes car hot and anything in direct sunlight will have problems especially if electronics. There is a reason why datacenters are kept cool. when i used sunshade on my previous car, my dashboard did not "melt" like many other members on the forums, and it gets fairly hot here on SoCal.

 

[brur]

Wouldnt a foil faced pillowcase be a way out?

 

[Rottenapplr]

I got sunshade to protect the screen right when i bought a car. It just common sense that sun makes car hot and anything in direct sunlight will have problems especially if electronics. There is a reason why datacenters are kept cool. when i used sunshade on my previous car, my dashboard did not "melt" like many other members on the forums, and it gets fairly hot here on SoCal.

Even when driving with the ac the dash is hot! That’s with any car though. Just that the tesla’s Whole system depends on the screen.

Gosh this car is turning into a money pit lol. Tinting on the windshield, roof glass. Protection film. Yikes!

 

[ucmndd]

Wow, MY innocent question asking if “RMN” means “remanufactured” is cited as fact in that article despite numerous later posters confirming it doesn’t.

 

[brkaus]

And to make matters worse, Tesla is refusing to cover screen replacements under warranty is particularly egregious!

To the best of my knowledge, Tesla is replacing screens under warranty.

They did hold due to redesign, but who wants their dash opened up multiple times anyway for a cosmetic issue?