I’m hiking across Ontario. It will never stop baffling me seeing the most rural houses imaginable, middle of nowhere. What’s in the driveway? Tesla.
What you gonna do if it breaks down!? Walk!?
Edit: I’m learning a lot about cars in this thread :D Thanks for the feedback all!
I mean what do you do if your Jeep or Toyota breaks down!? Walk!?
Have you ever fixed an older combustion engine vehicle? You watch a youtube video and a few hours later, you can, in most cases, at least get the car to a state so you can drive it to a mechanic. On modern combustion engine vehicles this is still possible, although a bit more difficult.
Uhhh, EVs? No way you’re fixing anything in there.
Most EV components you’d need to replace are the same as in an ICE. There’s way less that needs to be done on an EV. The expensive bit has an 8 year warranty on most EVs including Tesla.
Tesla cars can only be serviced by Tesla mechanics with Tesla parts, and they have software locks.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/tesla-hit-with-right-repair-antitrust-class-actions-2023-03-15/
You can change brakes, suspension, lights, pretty much everything without software locks. Only drive train is locked, which rarely fails and it does so progressively.
You can change brakes, suspension, lights, pretty much everything without software locks. Only drive train is locked, which rarely fails and it does so progressively.
Also you can enter service mode now and tell it to reflash the whole car. Need a new steering rack or camera for example? Swap the part, hit reflash and the car flashes the correct vin, coding and software into the part and offers calibration afterwards.
Also built in scantool to read fault codes and do basic diag. More advanced diag needs Tesla Toolbox. Costs $165 for a day of access/$500 per month, but is possible with an ethernet cable and doesn’t need a $1800 SAE J2534 box.
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Lol Dutch lease drivers be like
They’ll fix it sometime
Not just that. I mean a 50k+ car that needs ducttape to hold the hood down! Wtf!? 🤣
I mean I like bashing on Tesla as much as the next guy, but any car can end up like this regardless of price. They probably bumped into something that broke the locking mechanism and this is probably just a temporary solution until they get it replaced.
Breaking the locking mechanism while doing no damage to the plastic fender is an amazing feat.
Also, there’s usually a 2nd safety mechanism that prevents it from popping up.
*Dutchtape