That's not a scientific measure of anything. Miles and they type of previous car matters. The last 5 cars I owned never were in the shop for anything,
Bloomberg's survey asked Model 3 owners what cars they traded in. The Top 5 include the Toyota Prius and Honda Accord and Civic -- which all have excellent reliability records.
In fact, the Top 10 list (copied below) is heavily tilted toward cars with good or excellent reliability.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
So the 97.5% of owners who believed Model 3 was as reliable or more reliable than their previous cars was tilted toward people who had owned cars with good or excellent reliability.
Also, consider that this survey was conducted last year and includes the earliest owners of the Model 3. It is well known that for any car model the first year model tends to have the most reliability problems.
That owners had such positive things to say about the Model 3 under the circumstances is extremely positive for Tesla, and suggests Model Y owners are also likely to have an excellent ownership experience.
Many people that have issues don't post here or even have a TMC account, no one I mentioned does. Many people that come here are die hard Tesla fans so sampling is by no means accurate. What makes this tread off is that every Tesla fan pounces on anything negative or denies the accuracy.
We all know how unscientific forum date is and it you doubt it go to a Trump forum and disagree and see what happens I have owned about 12 Evs and my Teslas have been the least reliable so far, meaning need repairs of some type. If you are saying can't drive the car then that's another category.
So much for internet accuracy. If you get 200 disagrees that also seems to invalidate actual facts on YMC as well.
Just saying let's not live in a bubble because many forums are just that.
The data I posted was NOT from TMC -- it was from Bloomberg, which conducted the most rigorous third-party survey of Model 3 owners I have seen.
The survey included about 5000 owners. To help prevent gaming, Bloomberg required submission of VIN numbers as well as some personal data. Bloomberg is not TMC and there is no reason to believe people who took the survey were more likely to be "die hard Tesla fans" than critics (side issue but I also dispute your premise -- TMC has more than its fair share of people with an agenda to trash Tesla).
It's important to keep in mind that Tesla has sold over 900,000 cars so there are bound to be some negative experiences. The Bloomberg survey (like others) strongly suggests that the overwhelming majority of owners have an excellent ownership experience.
Anecdotes mean nothing. While it's fine to report on bad experiences, the bottom line is that the most rigorous third party survey available found an astoundingly high percentage of Model 3 owners would recommend Model 3 to family and friends, buy again, and believed it was as reliable or more reliable than their previous vehicles, which tended to be of good or excellent reliability.
In light of this data, pretending individual negative issues represent the typical Tesla ownership experience is ridiculous.