I was thinking to get a model x a month ago, and did a test drive and also rented from turo for a whole day. I really liked it.
However it was too expensive so I looked elsewhere.
Last week with price cut, i realized i can get it for 72500, I immediately placed the order that night. And now I got a delivery day arranged for tomorrow afternoon. (didn't expect custom order to come in this quickly)
With so much excitement, I started reading many forum posts to prepare myself for it.
And I came across a lot of rather alarming things.
It's not that I didn't do any research upfront. I did read a lot of general review/thoughts on tesla, and model X, youtube and reddit etc.
And I'm prepared for general QC issue, like panel gaps, minor software glitches etc. I like the auto present door on the demo/turo I tried, learning that new MX can only open a inch slowly because of no USS pissed me off but I guess i can live with it.
However, some of the other issues reported really starting to scare me and makes me lose confident in taking the delivery. Major ones so far are:
1. Phantom breaking. I knew there are some, but thought it would have been sorted out by now. After doing extensive research, that doesn't seem to be the case and actually seems to be getting worse with recent SW updates. I can't imagine myself using ACC that breaks randomly every now and then, really defeats the purpose of a relaxing drive experience. With tesla's track record of overpromising and under deliver, like vision based park assist still not working properly after nearly half year, I'm really not having much faith in it ever gonna get fixed in the next year or so.
2. shaft and tire premature wear. seems to be a common issue tracing back 7 years from the start that never got addressed. Looks can be addressed by getting aftermarket suspension/chamber kits, but having to spend the money and arrange to installation (i never worked on cars before) already gave me a headache..
3. loss of power steering. Really scares me, multiple report of this plus NHDSA opening investigation suggests this is more widespread than some random one off issue. Most I read are people expericing it at low speed, but I can't imagine if that happens when I'm on highway, and my family are in the car with me.
Plus all the horror story of going to service center just to get things not fixed and ignored, or causing more damage.
I understand that most people would come to forum to complain about things, while those without the issue just live with their car happily and not making any comments most of the time.
But these 3 issues look to be foundamental issues that would affect all tesla/model x.
My wife already is not a huge fan of model x, I had to make trade offs to make her accept me ordering one. Plus with recent price cut, future depreciation of the car is not all over the place that I can hardly make a proper estimate, especially if the car turns out to be a lemon and tesla fight really hard to not take it back, I'd have a hard time selling it used without losing a big chuck.
Even though my heart still wants a model x, but the more I read about it, the more my mind tells me this is a stupid purchasing decision that I'm highly likely to regret after the honey moon phase.
Any thoughts?
However it was too expensive so I looked elsewhere.
Last week with price cut, i realized i can get it for 72500, I immediately placed the order that night. And now I got a delivery day arranged for tomorrow afternoon. (didn't expect custom order to come in this quickly)
With so much excitement, I started reading many forum posts to prepare myself for it.
And I came across a lot of rather alarming things.
It's not that I didn't do any research upfront. I did read a lot of general review/thoughts on tesla, and model X, youtube and reddit etc.
And I'm prepared for general QC issue, like panel gaps, minor software glitches etc. I like the auto present door on the demo/turo I tried, learning that new MX can only open a inch slowly because of no USS pissed me off but I guess i can live with it.
However, some of the other issues reported really starting to scare me and makes me lose confident in taking the delivery. Major ones so far are:
1. Phantom breaking. I knew there are some, but thought it would have been sorted out by now. After doing extensive research, that doesn't seem to be the case and actually seems to be getting worse with recent SW updates. I can't imagine myself using ACC that breaks randomly every now and then, really defeats the purpose of a relaxing drive experience. With tesla's track record of overpromising and under deliver, like vision based park assist still not working properly after nearly half year, I'm really not having much faith in it ever gonna get fixed in the next year or so.
2. shaft and tire premature wear. seems to be a common issue tracing back 7 years from the start that never got addressed. Looks can be addressed by getting aftermarket suspension/chamber kits, but having to spend the money and arrange to installation (i never worked on cars before) already gave me a headache..
3. loss of power steering. Really scares me, multiple report of this plus NHDSA opening investigation suggests this is more widespread than some random one off issue. Most I read are people expericing it at low speed, but I can't imagine if that happens when I'm on highway, and my family are in the car with me.
Plus all the horror story of going to service center just to get things not fixed and ignored, or causing more damage.
I understand that most people would come to forum to complain about things, while those without the issue just live with their car happily and not making any comments most of the time.
But these 3 issues look to be foundamental issues that would affect all tesla/model x.
My wife already is not a huge fan of model x, I had to make trade offs to make her accept me ordering one. Plus with recent price cut, future depreciation of the car is not all over the place that I can hardly make a proper estimate, especially if the car turns out to be a lemon and tesla fight really hard to not take it back, I'd have a hard time selling it used without losing a big chuck.
Even though my heart still wants a model x, but the more I read about it, the more my mind tells me this is a stupid purchasing decision that I'm highly likely to regret after the honey moon phase.
Any thoughts?