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2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test
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2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test
Our 2013 Tesla Model S was making an ominous noise under acceleration and deceleration. Here is how it was fixed.
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It would be like a long-term test of the Ford Model A.
What actually happened was never addressed, nor why Chrysler would not warranty the rear door hinges that broke carrying the Mopar larger wheel.
I would still like to know what happened there, and I hope that we also will know what happened with the Tesla.
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Hi Mike. I completely disagree with that statement.
There has been plenty of effort (here in Edmunds and many other placess) put into playing down the role that real techs have to put forth to be service ready for the consumers especially in the face of the ever escallating technology that goes into today's cars.
So at this point we have messages out to contacts at Tesla directly to see if we can learn anything more. We'll keep you posted when (if?) we learn something.
What you have here is exactly what just about everyone has always pushed for. "You" haven't wanted real techs who could diagnose and repair a vehicle bumper to bumper in decades. That person is "too expensive", "you" only want parts changers who can (will) work much cheaper. So now you had a vehicle making a noise and instead of it being diagnosed and repaired, an entire assembly is simply swapped out. That IS what we have always heard that everyone wanted. In part that's why dealers and shops sell so many services. They don't want to fix broken cars, they can't make money doing it.
(The "you" in quotes isn't an individual its inclusive of just about everyone who doesn't make their living as full time tech)
If you were really about seeing things like this fixed like it would have been in the past, then you would never have allowed the problems like warranty flat rate pay to steal the livlihood of the technicians who were working to actually provide the services to the consumer. You had people here who attacked the techs who gave in to the pressures and started doing things the wrong way in trying to overcome some very unfair practices who then turned right around and ignored the causes of those techs bad behavior.
There is a shortage of qualified technicians in the country today and that shortage is going to get worse, much worse in the near future. It takes decades to learn to be that master technician that the consumers need, but at the same time there still is no reason for the people that the trade needs today to even consider coming into it. Media may never have said it, but media's actions have served to reach that end goal and now they got what they wanted. The hood might just as well be welded shut if you don't have qualified people under it when its open.
As some others questioned, what's going to happen when warranty doesn't pick up the tab, especially if no one is concerned a
Dealer technicians do what they're told. Independents keep cars on the road after the warranty expires, and
I saw where one of the posters said that Tesla is monitoring this thread, too bad Honda and others didn't look at and react to what has been happening to the techs who could have solved your Odyssey's problem. The only people who have ever been concerned about flat rate pay are the people who work under it at the dealerships. Once the first visit of your car to the dealership took place, the techs didn't get paid for any subsequent repairs. That's the stick part of the carrot and stick aspect of flat rate. It's supposed to make sure the techs work fast and get it right the first time, when what it really does is it destroys the career path. As a tech who is making reasonable hours doing the easy stuff, most have to ask themselves why subject myself to having to absorb the nightmares. As strange as it should seem the approach by most of the manufacturers and their dealers seems to suggest that they think its cheaper and better to buy cars back than it is to have a viable workforce to fix them.