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Old 01-14-2020, 11:13 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Stomachbuzz View Post
I don't think so.
I think Tesla had much more scrutiny than anyone else. Mostly because of the grandiose ideas that Tesla presented. "It's gonna be great. The bestest ever. The batteries are gonna contain the power of the sun. And we're gonna warranty those suckers for 1 billion years. And it's never gonna break down"
So any time any sort of issue came up - a single car caught on fire, a pedestrian collision after like 500k miles of autonomous driving logged, etc - Tesla got reemed for it.
Additionally, their company image was so fragile that if their reliability rating dipped even slightly, they might seem like a fraud and lose everything. On top of that, all their eggs were in the same basket. If the Prius suddenly went bad, that's fine, that's only like 3% of Toyota's sales. They would just push the Corolla a bit harder until they got the Prius fixed again.
tesla has had a lot of growing pains with product fitment and reliability that the owners are much more ok with than other products. as evidenced with the door handle issues, the rusting glass, or the inconsistent panel gaps, or replacement part extreme wait times.

they still achieve high reliability and satisfaction marks despite some very obvious flaws despite other manufacturers facing great scrutiny over similar issues.
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