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Clay Davis
05/29/09

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I really hate Tesla, they're the brat in school that blames everyone else for their mistakes. Elon Musk needs to grow up
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
05/29/09

@Clay Davis: Musk is soooo Jovanile.

/no, i never get tired of cheap cologne jokes
//obsession with the cult of drakkars
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Jakuub
05/29/09

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"The company plans to send technicians to owners' homes to tighten the bolts and provide a full inspection and software upgrade free of charge."

Is it me, or does this imply that they would normally charge for a software upgrade? I'm not an electric car whiz or anything, but every device I own that came with a firmware has received it's firmware updates for free.
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Graverobber
05/29/09

@Jakuub: I think they mean the house call is free of charge, which would be out of the ordinary for car repairs.

Regarding firmware upgrades, I can't imagine why manufacturers couldn't post them to their websites, and let owners download the update to a thumb drive for driveway re-flashes.
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Elhigh
05/29/09

@Graverobber: Can't pitch a bunch of add-on worthless service to the owner in his own driveway, now, can you? It's one thing to tell the tech-savvy receptionist to punch through a series of commands and bang, her car's done - whole 'nother paradigm when your service writer can throw out a bunch of weasel words and paint scary scenarios that only the full-up spark plug refill, brake rotation, and California CARB-mandated ECM therapy can prevent.

If there were a good place to hook it on, I could start my truck with a crank. I love not having electronics in charge.
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Elhigh
05/29/09

@Jakuub: Wait..."plans to?" So, the delay on that will be how long, exactly?
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
05/29/09

@Graverobber: That's a cool thought, until you start thinking into the future where people's cars will be completely controlled by their GPSs. Can you imagine the havoc a hacker could wreak by installing a virus that causes everybody to crash at the same time?

I'm gonna go hide in my analog cardboard box, now.
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philibuster
05/29/09

@Leeeeena, a Jalopchick: I thought cardboard boxes had gone all digital now.
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Leeeeena the Jalopchick
05/29/09

@philibuster: Not mine! I have an impenetrable cereal box fort!
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Elhigh
05/29/09

In reply to Tesla Roadster Recalled For Faulty Steering Mounts
Tesla, buying the chassis from an upstream manufacturer, is passing the buck. If Lotus can crank out a boatload more Exiges and Elises and only recall a double-handful, what is Tesla doing to the chassis on their end that they have to recall half their entire output, more than ten times as many vehicles as Lotus is recalling?

Now, big props for going all-out on the post-sale customer service. That's good. But a quick look at the numbers really points the fingers back at Tesla.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
05/29/09

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345 Roadsters
Lotus was recalling 27 Elise and Exige vehicles

I'm no mathematologist, but it sounds like Lotus disproportionately sent the crappy chassis over to Tesla. Or that Tesla themselves did something and won't fess up.
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FTGDWolverineEdition'09
05/29/09

@Ash78: Probably all the chassis which flunked their quality inspections.
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acarr260
05/29/09

@Formerlythegreatestdriver: but they got a sweet dicount on them and all they had to do was remove the big X-Tags placed on the chassis by QA.
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