Tesla Model Y

not sure to be honest I was going by a news report where the person interviewed specifically mentioned Teslas as operating on 3gz more FUD I guess. Thanks for the reply

Has the BYD battery made its way into any cars destined for Ireland from Berlin or is it all the CATL battery we are getting same as when the cars were built in china I see a few German vins with the CATL battery but haven’t seen any with BYD batteries so far.

Looks like you may have gotten a Friday car as these issues are not commonplace.

Fit and finish on the 3 & Y is superb in general.

This. I've read countless complaints about Tesla rattles/build quality across many discussion boards. You can argue that people mostly post about negative experiences and not positives but there's no metric to prove the ratio.

Tesla is well known in the industry to suffer from quality issues. I've experienced this firsthand and so have some of my friends.

Land rover/range rover, Alfa romeo, BMW, Maserati, Chrysler, Jeep and McLaren are also well known to suffer from issues, albeit more reliability orientated problems

Tesla simply cheap out when it comes to fit and finish, lacking adequate foam cushioning/silicone/seals between panels or clips to hold things adequately in place behind the panels.

Tesla make great cars in some aspects. They excel in efficiency and software design/response UI but are letdown by the likes of autopilot, rattles, and dysfunctional wipers.

They sent a ranger out to me the first two times I complained about this, the second one must have been working out his notice period or something because he was unexpectedly candid with me about the car. I am most definitely not the only person complaining about this on the Y based on what he told me.

I wouldn't mind if they're built like shít in China and issues then fixed in Dublin after pickup, but initially they kept sending a ranger out to me with a can of WD40 to fix this. When I complained further and said it needed to be looked at in sandyford I left the car into them and picked it up later that day without so much as speaking to anybody on site. All I get is a report on the Tesla app saying all issues are resolved, I drive the car home and they most certainly are not. That is just not good enough, it takes over a month to get a slot in Sandyford too.

Unlucky then chaps.

Lots of 3 & Y owners with no issues at all.

This is getting silly. The vehicles are known for it. Yes they do the tech side very well. Yes they have very efficient motors and buy the best batteries from suppliers. But they're known for poor fit and finish.

I can guarantee if anyone took your car for a spin they'd find fit issues and noises. You may be oblivious to them as some are. But the lack of normal audio protections that other manufacturers put in at the behest of weight is obvious. Sure they only started putting in noise rated glass. Playing catch up still on the car comfort side of things.

Yeah, some Tesla heads get so worked up at any criticism. For my part, my MY has rattled like feck since day 1.

Anybody pic up a new Y in midnight cherry red ?

if so show a pic

I’m in the same, my 2019 Model 3 with 150k km has absolutely no quality issues whatsoever. Build quality is the same as any Mercedes or BMW I’ve ever sat in. I mean yeah, if you have the windows wide open you can hear the brakes squealing a little bit more than an ICE car and you can hear the suspension squeek a little bit more over the bumps, but that’s completely normal for an EV. It was the same in my PHEV Golf. You hear all the little things more without the noise of an engine.

That being said I didn’t buy the car new, so maybe the quality issues were sorted under warranty by the first owner 🤷🏻‍♂️

To be clear, I absolutely love my MYLR. It's the best car I've owned as an overall package for the price. The overtaking ability is incredible considering the size and weight of it🚀. I drive it like an ICE, not sparing the throttle, or driving below the speed limit, always at speed limit unless overtaking.

Someone posted on another thread that they've never seen a EV hammering past them, well clearly they've never encountered me.

I'll probably buy a M3P Highland some day, but only when they fix the power discrepancy between CATL and Panasonic batteries.

I agree. I know 2 people personally that had zero rattles in their M3 and MY since day 1.

QC consistency needs to improve. I believe it wouldn't take much to improve fit and finish. A bit more foam/silicone padding around the car would fix a lot of complaints from factory and would prevent a lot of unnecessary work for the rangers and service.