neptune2000
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I spent last night reading the hundreds of messages on two major forum threads related to the CR removal from recommendation:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/55988-Consumer-Reports-reliability-of-Model-S-worse-than-average (this forum)
http://my.teslamotors.com/jp/forum/forums/consumer-reports-tesla-reliability-doesnt-match-its-high-performance-recommendation
This is my take on it:
- The reports from owners in the forums mostly match what found by Consumer Reports
- The reason for the downgrade is the difference in reliability reported this year vs. last year on the earlier models (the 2012 and 2013 Teslas)
- the 30,000 or so 2012-2013 Teslas have a LOT of problems and these problems are getting worse with age
- The major problems of the early Teslas are rattles, the 12V battery, the pano roof, and most of all the drive unit, that requires continuous replacement (under warranty so far)
- It is clear that the early models are what we would call “early adopters” cars. They will likely continue to get worse as the years pass by and will have low resale value when the warranties expire in 2016 and 2017
- Tesla has been incredible at fixing these cars in a heartbeat all under warranty, effectively with no questions asked. That is probably the reason why 97% of these owners would still buy the Tesla again, even with all the problems.
- The later models (2014, 2015) mostly have much less problems (especially on the 3 items of drive unit, 12V battery and rattles) and they are comparable with the ones exhibited by similar cars from BMW and Mercedes
- The people that have BOTH an early adopter model and a later model report dramatic differences in reliability between the two
Comments?
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/55988-Consumer-Reports-reliability-of-Model-S-worse-than-average (this forum)
http://my.teslamotors.com/jp/forum/forums/consumer-reports-tesla-reliability-doesnt-match-its-high-performance-recommendation
This is my take on it:
- The reports from owners in the forums mostly match what found by Consumer Reports
- The reason for the downgrade is the difference in reliability reported this year vs. last year on the earlier models (the 2012 and 2013 Teslas)
- the 30,000 or so 2012-2013 Teslas have a LOT of problems and these problems are getting worse with age
- The major problems of the early Teslas are rattles, the 12V battery, the pano roof, and most of all the drive unit, that requires continuous replacement (under warranty so far)
- It is clear that the early models are what we would call “early adopters” cars. They will likely continue to get worse as the years pass by and will have low resale value when the warranties expire in 2016 and 2017
- Tesla has been incredible at fixing these cars in a heartbeat all under warranty, effectively with no questions asked. That is probably the reason why 97% of these owners would still buy the Tesla again, even with all the problems.
- The later models (2014, 2015) mostly have much less problems (especially on the 3 items of drive unit, 12V battery and rattles) and they are comparable with the ones exhibited by similar cars from BMW and Mercedes
- The people that have BOTH an early adopter model and a later model report dramatic differences in reliability between the two
Comments?