Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Tesla Model S Problems: My Experience!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m Kim PhD here, and I have made plenty of videos with Tesla in it or about Tesla like before. I got one before you know back when it’s my dream car, it’s something! I’Ve wanted a lot. I’Ve done a factory tour. I got to test drive them.
I talked about all the tech in them and then I really wanted it now that I have one I’ve continued to make a bunch of videos about so Tesla’s great and they’ve been really great to me, but Tesla’s are obviously not perfect. One of the biggest complaints, especially like among owners and people who drive the cars, especially because it’s a car company and the car industry is very very old – is maintenance. Tesla has had noted maintenance and quality control issues because there’s such a young company, they don’t have quite the manufacturing prowess that these super old companies do, but the tolerances get tighter with time and they just don’t have that amount of time. Yet so, whether it’s like alignment issues on the crazy-complicated Falcon wing doors and the Model X, or just little things like chrome, misalignment or loose cables or string, which is little things that rattle small problems happen like a lot in Tesla’s. It seems because their manufacturing tolerances aren’t as tight and they’re just not as good with quality control, but recently I’ve been having much more serious problems with my car Apollo that I’ve been making videos about and since I’m making videos about the experience of owning it figured. I might as well include this experience and all that so Apollo, as you guys probably remember, it was one of the first P 100 DS off the assembly line in around September this year, very very early in production and I’ve used it and driven it a lot. I put about 5800 miles on it in the last three months or so so I’m more than most people drive and mostly because I love it like I find excuses to drive, it other give people rides places or if I have like Thanksgiving in Virginia this year. Instead of New Jersey, I’ll just do a road trip or have I play Ultimate Frisbee, so I have I’m playing for the pro team based out of Philadelphia now. So that’s a long drive a couple times a week, so I’m driving it a lot. So on day. Five of owning the car, with less than a couple hundred miles on, it’s basically still brand new, I’m going to a nearby destination near my home and one of the turns near the destination. I go to make a left-hand turn and halfway into the turn, as I’m going across traffic, the power steering essentially stops working, so the wheel is straight and I have to like really pull out the wheel to complete the left-hand turn. So I get out of the turn and then everything’s fine, again and power steering’s back on and I’m like.
Ok, I was kind of weird and I’m still obviously new to Tesla. So I kind of thought it was like one of the sensors malfunctioning. I’Ve had it like tweaked a little bit to get me out of the way of the potential collision. When I’m on the highway someone drifts into my lane, it does the shimmy for me, so I thought it was like a weird malfunction of that.
So I’m like okay, I keep driving I get to the destination and turning into the parking lot of that destination, it happens again, I’m turning left across traffic halfway into the turn it locks up. I really have to pull the steering wheel to get in again. So at that point I’m like okay, that’s weird! I pull to the back of the parking lot and I have it towed to the service center because I don’t want to drive it again and it takes some 12 days to determine they need to replace the steering rack. So they do that.
I get the car back and we’re good to go so five thousand eight hundred glorious miles later it reappears. It rears its ugly head. I’M driving this time on I’m getting into a little bit of a bigger intersection. Turning onto a highway across traffic making a left and it freezes again, this time there was a car next to me, and if that car had also been making a left, I would have gone straight into its path.
Luckily, they continued straight. I pulled to the side lane it fixed itself and I continued along, but now I’m like. Okay, that’s happened before I know. That’S a problem, that’s dangerous! I go home, I it happens two more times before I get home and when I get home I pull into a nearby parking lot again. I just have it towed again because I don’t want to drive to the service center again, so that was like two days ago and now the car has been sitting at the service center. That’S the last time I drove it, and now I’m currently waiting to hear back from them to see what is wrong again. Whoo, there’s a different solution to the problem now because they replace the steering rack and that didn’t help. So now they need to fix it again.
So that’s that’s a lot to happen to a new car, a new expensive car at that in the first couple thousand miles of owning it. As you can tell this, I guess you now know this isn’t my car. This is a loaner Tesla gives me, and that’s not because it’s me they do this, that’s pretty standard treatment. The high-end car manufacturer will give you a loaner of your car or a better one that they have. While you wait for your car to finish service, but apparently when you have a recurring issue, something happens like the same issue more than once Tesla sort of escalates the priority of reissues. So there is an engineer flying from California to New Jersey to look at Apollo. Specifically, to fix this issue now, obviously different people will have different reactions to this to a lot of people. It’S like, okay, you know, you’ll, be fine they’re taking care of you. They are aware of the issue. They escalated, it that’s what they should do. You have a loner you’re, fine, but other people. It’S like it sounds like you’re beta testing this car, and I get that like a lot of people were set. Like I tweeted about the second issue, the second time it happened and a lot of people are like man, that’s a lot of problems to have with a car so early in it when it’s so high-end, you should return it and just get a different one. So I’m going to give them another chance to repair this car, and I guess that’s where we’re at right now is I’m just gon na keep letting them try to fix it, but again if they try to fix it now and everything goes great and they find The problem they diagnose it, they replace a part and we’re good and it never comes back.
Then we’re clean, Apollo’s good as new, but if it comes back again then that’s like strike three and we got to do something bad. So I guess my question to you is this: if a car is, in your opinion, the best car on the road in between issues, but it has big issues like every couple months, is it really worth it anymore, like not even an electric, not even if it’s A Tesla think of your dream car. If you’re a dream car, the one you have in mind right now, had problems every couple months. You finally got it and it’s just having these issues.
Do you just scrap it? You just move on it’s my question. Let me know what you guys think, thanks for watching Toxie guys, the next one. Maybe follow me on Twitter, if you guys, are interested in seeing the updates and seeing what happens with Apollo if she gets fixed or not. Thanks for watching talk to you guys, the next one peace .