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    11 hours ago

    This has exposed the sales numbers, and impressively, it’s sold even worse than the Fire Phone.

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        To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.

        Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.

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          the vast majority of them i see around my area have branding decals plastered all over them. no doubt they are being used as a business expense or some other dumb shit.

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          If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.

          Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.

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          9 hours ago

          . . . and have 100k to spend.

          You can get an 84 month auto loan these days if you’re dumb enough to do it.

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          Holy fuck they still work? Can you run any modern apps on them? Does the 3D give you a headache?

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                I don’t have any spare SIM cards lying around, but I do recall doing a brief test a couple years ago, and apart from some problems with SMS message formats, things seemed to work fine.

                Unless you’re referring to WiFi, to which the answer is of course, as that’s how the time and date got set correctly. On boot it somehow thought it was an hour earlier and eight days ahead, but still on a Friday; I forgot to check which year, though.

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            Updates stopped at a special KitKat-based FireOS version, so most modern apps are likely broken. Dynamic Perspective never gave me a headache - it’s actually pretty well implemented - but it does get boring after ten to fifteen minutes.

            I think I’ll charge one up and see how it’s doing!

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    I wonder if those protesters vandalizing Teslas know this is their big opportunity? Insurance companies insuring auto shops are fewer in number and more selective than those serving the general population. If these trucks were damaged while waiting for repairs, we might witness insurance companies altogether dropping coverage for shops. Without insurance these places will find it difficult to continue existing.

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      I have questions about what auto shops you think are doing recalls because it’s only Tesla’s service centers are going to be legally allowed to perform the recall (that’s how it works for every automaker). So it’s the same place they’re already going to protest (in most cases) and the same insurance. Regardless, the recall isn’t an “insurance thing per se” because Tesla the company is the insurance in this case. They will be footing to bill for any and all repairs done under recall. And more than likely the recalled vehicles won’t be sitting around the shop or lot waiting for parts because it’s up to consumers who will absolutely take their vehicle and leave if parts aren’t in stock.

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    9 hours ago

    The difference with the old trim is that the new one will have a better adhesive assembly and “a stud welded to the stainless panel with a nut clamping the steel panel to the vehicle structure.”

    It’s a good thing Elon doesn’t think “exposed screw heads are cool.”. This could have been fixed with a carbide drill bit and some self-tapping screws.

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    So what i gather is there’s probably a readily available solvent to dissolve the glue and make any Swasticar Wankpanzer fall the fuck apart?

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    And nobody who is familiar with how technology companies operate was shocked to hear that the 100k incel camino is literally held together with cheap glue.

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    11 hours ago

    Of course. Yet another Tesla recall. In a few months, we will all be here again

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      This one is different, though. Most of them are just OTA software updates, the physical ones aren’t as common. Although I think there was an issue with how they secured the top of the gas pedals on the Cybertruck earlier.

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        They sprayed lube on the pedal and glue on the cover, the lube caused the glue to fail.

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    9 hours ago

    Panels on that shit are glued together, so I guess they got ahold of stronger glue.

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    8 hours ago

    Just send them all to the scrap yard, fucking heaps of junk.