Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least

Yeah there's definitely been some aggregious recall issues, but the problem is the stats include minor things that only required a quick OTA, so it skews the numbers awkwardly and means we can't properly judge the real problems they had

If they separated the numbers, we might see that either Tesla has very few real recalls, Tesla actually does have a lot of real recalls but also happens to have software ones, or it's about normal

And without separating all we can do is guess

steering wheels come off

Plus they have enough room for mother-in-law. Elon has no good car ideas

But the software updates are the majority of the recalls here.

Hasn’t happened as of yet.

What if a legacy manufacturer doesn’t install a corrective part appropriately and exacerbates the issue?

It's an AMAZING benefit. You get in your car in the morning and it says stuff like "we've improved the ability of your auto dimming headlights to detect oncoming traffic", or "we've added a setting to automatically turn on your headlights when your windshield wipers are on", or "we've added an ability to move the blindspot camera window".

A traditional car never "improves". If your windshield wiper rain detector sucks, well too bad. Maybe when you buy another car in 10 years it'll be better. Where in cars with OTA updates, they are constantly improved. Like I said, it's an amazing benefit and I would imagine most other car companies are looking to adopt this model.

No, it’s a Froot

You have to pronounce it the same way as boot though.

No that's 304.8 mm

I have a 2023 Model 3 Performance that I got in February. No build issues, only problem is my wife curbed the rims (lol) which seems to be common as the rims extend past the tires and they are low profile. No comment on her parking abilities.

The speed and power is amazing, the car works well, and the software updates have been good.

Things to remember: -NACS is only available in Teslas at the moment and is becoming the new universal standard in EVs in North America - do you want to choose another vehicle and have to use adapters for supercharging? -Other people work at Tesla, not just Elon. Those people are not Elon and have families to feed. -Tesla mobile service will fix your car in your driveway or at work or wherever (some other companies offer this but not all of them) -If you have a dog, dog mode is the shit

I have zero regrets with my purchase. I’m told the new Ys are much nicer than ones from even just last year. I have 45k miles on my Model 3, the only thing I’ve had issues with is the frunk sensor. Depending on how you drive, you might find yourself needing tires sooner rather than later, but I got 35k miles out of my OEM tires. The only thing I told people to consider was price, but if you can take advantage of the tax credit, it’s a no brained nowadays.

I also have an F150 Lightning for what it’s worth, it’s a great vehicle, but it’s much dumber than my Tesla is.

The only reason I’m wanting to get rid of my Model 3 is because I want a full sized sedan or crossover again.

Then again Tesla has caused new safety issues with the easy updating. Though it isn't really about the update method, but their software culture. Some of the recalls are about bugs that weren't on the original factory software. Rather Tesla created need for safety recall by sending over OTA update, that had bug or misbehaviour on the new update software. Then causing them to have to update, the update with now recall flagged OTA to fix the safety issue they created by uploading flawed software update to the car.

Which I would assume won't happen with others, since they test the software to death before deploying it. Since it's a service visit. So it's far cheaper to spend extra couple million on software testing, than finance yet another round of service visits to update with fix a flawed software update.

What happens when Elon loses more money and decides you're going to pay for the software updates or you're going to get one that makes your car useless? It won't be long before you'll have to pay a monthly "maintenance fee" just to be able to operate it. That's the problem with buying a car that they can do whatever they want to it whenever they want. I'll stick with a dumb car that doesn't tell anyone how I drive or where I go.

I love electric though and when it becomes more feasible, I'll start swapping some old fun stuff to electric. Until then though, I'll stick with dinosaur bones and boost.

Yes... but would Tesla be so open about "yeah this update was about a safety flaw in the cars control software". Since that is what OP was saying on my reading. Yeah the OTA might fix the things, but all you might get from unscrupulous car maker is "we did feature improvements on the drive train algorhitmics". Said improvement being "we removed feature called critical bug from the software". However the last part they wouldn't tell you. Well now they have to.

Since the Recall is not about the database really or the name. It is about the underlying law and regulation, that demands car makers to notify safety authorities upon finding a safety flaw or issue with their vehicle and to not lie about it. Withholding such discovery under recall laws is illegal and to make a point companies have been punished under that statute. So not like it is a solution looking for problem. Oh there was a problem. It is only natural. No maker wants to admit bad stuff about their product, if they can avoid it. However safety recall notice regulations says "own up immediately upon finding an issue or face penalties."

Again this isn't about "Tesla bad". Since most of the "you hid safety flaws" is the big old legacy conglomerates. However for this system to work no one is above the law. Everyone has to own up to their safety issues, including Tesla. Might they also be equally open without the law? Well we would need alternate universe to find out. Since Tesla has operated all it's existence under safety notice laws. So we don't know how they would behave, if they had a choice. Given example of legacy auto... probably not so well. big business gonna big business.

They could instead ship Korea to OwlHamster