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Old 05-22-2018, 05:36 PM   #336
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Originally Posted by robg View Post
yep- sounds like a bit of a nightmare:
https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-...pril-2018.html
Frankly, this troubles me more than anything else:

The passenger vanity mirror fell off completely. Installed and held on only by double-sided tape. Reinstalled by pressing really hard on the mirror.


That's not a bug. That's not even poor build quality. That is crappy/cheap design. I don't pretend to know what kind of testing Tesla did, but I can tell you that you almost never trust adhesives long-term unless they are epoxies. No double sided tape exists that I would trust in the nightmarish application that is a vehicle. It has to work at -50F. It has to work at 150F. And it has to do so with endless thermal cycles and variations in humidity. Ugh.

I would have expected people in the middle east or Scandinavia to bitch after two or more years. Not within a month and in reasonable weather.

Maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion, but this detail is a bad sign to me.

Last edited by FC; 05-23-2018 at 08:08 AM. Reason: shitty grammar
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