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GreyGhost said:
Damn. Reliability is surprising. There should be less to go wrong with an EV.
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Not in a Tesla where everything is intentionally overly complicated.

When even something so simple and normally time proven like door handles rely on a multitude of sensors and actuators / motors to function and even get you into the car, much less do anything else, problems are going to become apparent eventually.
 
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Speaking of unnecessarily complicated, look what happened a few hours after I posted that. 😆

www.cnet.com

Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars

The issue appeared to span the globe.
www.cnet.com www.cnet.com

“Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars”

Anyone else have their car bricked today because a server went down somewhere?
 
PrivatePilot said:
Speaking of unnecessarily complicated, look what happened a few hours after I posted that. 😆

www.cnet.com

Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars

The issue appeared to span the globe.
www.cnet.com www.cnet.com

“Tesla server outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars”

Anyone else have their car bricked today because a server went down somewhere?
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"We'd typically reach out to a car company for comment on a story like this, but because Tesla doesn't have a PR department, we can't." :p
 
Went for a drive for coffee this morning in my Volt.

- Car started, I was successfully able to complete my trip!
- Bumpers did not fall off.
- Roof did not fly off.
- Steering wheel did not fall off
- Brakes did not fall apart
- Suspension did not fall apart
- Door handles did not freeze to the point of not being able to get in the car
- Door handles also did not freeze open so I couldn't close my door.
- Horrible quality GM battery still working great at 10.5 years of age even though it needed replacing 5 years ago. /s

Did not see any Teslas on my drive. Maybe all bricked in owners driveways.

Anyhow, in all seriousness, I did have to replace my drivers side front wheel bearing as, at 179,000km, it was growling. Had been for a few months now but I was having trouble identifying which wheel it was coming from until the last week or so. $100 on Amazon shipped to my door next day for a genuine GM part, took me about 2 hours in the driveway, with about 30 minutes of that silently cursing and swearing under my breath when I couldn't get the hub bolt off - pretty sure it was the original bearing on there and my impact just didn't have the oomph because of the limits of my air source and the fact it was rusty as well. Ended up having to reassemble the brakes just enough to get my son to sit in the car mashing the brakes to hold the hub and then standing on my breaker bar to finally get it loose.

Good news is that 95% of the bearing noise is now gone. Bad news is that the right front is now audible and will need to be done as well at some point lol.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Went for a drive for coffee this morning in my Volt.

- Car started, I was successfully able to complete my trip!
- Bumpers did not fall off.
- Roof did not fly off.
- Steering wheel did not fall off
- Brakes did not fall apart
- Suspension did not fall apart
- Door handles did not freeze to the point of not being able to get in the car
- Door handles also did not freeze open so I couldn't close my door.
- Horrible quality GM battery still working great at 10.5 years of age even though it needed replacing 5 years ago. /s

Did not see any Teslas on my drive. Maybe all bricked in owners driveways.

Anyhow, in all seriousness, I did have to replace my drivers side front wheel bearing as, at 179,000km, it was growling. Had been for a few months now but I was having trouble identifying which wheel it was coming from until the last week or so. $100 on Amazon shipped to my door next day for a genuine GM part, took me about 2 hours in the driveway, with about 30 minutes of that silently cursing and swearing under my breath when I couldn't get the hub bolt off - pretty sure it was the original bearing on there and my impact just didn't have the oomph because of the limits of my air source and the fact it was rusty as well. Ended up having to reassemble the brakes just enough to get my son to sit in the car mashing the brakes to hold the hub and then standing on my breaker bar to finally get it loose.

Good news is that 95% of the bearing noise is now gone. Bad news is that the right front is now audible and will need to be done as well at some point lol.
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Bigger air hose makes a big difference in gun power. Also Type V fittings make the gun hit noticeably harder.
 
Talked to my buddy with a Tesla and he said his was fine. Apparently it just affected people that don’t carry their keys but only use the app.

I wouldn’t call that catastrophic. What idiot doesn’t carry a key with them and only relies on a cell phone that may die at any time?

Unless there was a larger issue?
 
mimico_polak said:
Quote from my buddy:

“Like going out without your credit card and expecting your smartphone tap to work 100% of the time”

Mind you he is a bit of a Tesla fanboy. But not blind to their issues.
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Been using Apple Pay to pay for things since feb. never had a problem yet!
 
PrivatePilot said:
Went for a drive for coffee this morning in my Volt.
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If only Bolt owners could share your glee. They lifted the "do not park in garage" restriction but 80 percent max charge rule remains.

Billions of dollars and months later they still can't fix it. The gm bolt plant sits idle. Multiple lawsuits filed.

I've said it many times before and will say it again they need to kill this thing pronto, cut their losses before it causes serious harm to their reputation

jalopnik.com

Study: Most EV Buyers Don't Know The Chevy Bolt Exists

A recent study shows that potential EV buyers aren't even aware Chevy makes the Bolt.
jalopnik.com jalopnik.com
 
If only Tesla owners could share your glee. They're still using their customers are guinea pigs with "full self driving" and causing major wrecks.

Billions of dollars and years later they still can't fix it. But they keep insisting it's safe. Multiple lawsuits filed.
 
PrivatePilot said:
If only Tesla owners could share your glee. They're still using their customers are guinea pigs with "full self driving" and causing major wrecks.

Billions of dollars and years later they still can't fix it. But they keep insisting it's safe. Multiple lawsuits filed.
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When even the guy that released it into the wild says you should be paranoid.............

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GreyGhost said:
Bigger air hose makes a big difference in gun power. Also Type V fittings make the gun hit noticeably harder.
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Yeah, my setup gets the job done 99% of the time - the 1% of the time it doesn't the breaker bar comes out.

It probably doesn't help that my impact is probably about as old as I am, one of my fathers tools. It's a Snap On (and an old-school snap on at that) so it'll probably still be going in another 40 years, but it doesn't mean it's not getting lazy in it's old age.

mimico_polak said:
Like going out without your credit card and expecting your smartphone tap to work 100% of the time
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Yeah, like Evoex says, my Apple Pay works 100% of the time. And it's on my watch and my phone. It even works if there's no internet connection. It's only a handful of times a year I actually even use my physical cards anymore, basically only when a transaction is north of the $250 tap limit.

If I was a Tesla who expected things a phone based key to work 100% of the time and was away from home (perhaps *far* away from home) when all of sudden it didn't, well, yeah, I'd be ******. It shouldn't *need* an internet connection or a server to verify against - Apple and BMW have been doing the phone based key thing for a while now and it works on NFC and specifically states it does *not* need an internet connection to work.
 
FullMotoJacket said:
It should. A MC is a MC. My Pc one works. Even have my vax cert. on it. Comes up as a QR code on my watch.
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I thought so too...but each time I try it says that 'that card is not supported' or something along those lines.
 
FullMotoJacket said:
It should. A MC is a MC
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Not really, the underlying bank needs to support Apple Pay. Not all do regardless of Mastercard/Visa/whatever. Seeing as how Costco seems to always deal with weird banks and such for their financing products, currently Capital One, it's Capital One that doesn't support ApplePay.

Just checked, sure enough they're not listed as supported by Apple.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Not really, the underlying bank needs to support Apple Pay. Not all do regardless of Mastercard/Visa/whatever. Seeing as how Costco seems to always deal with weird banks and such for their financing products, currently Capital One, it's Capital One that doesn't support ApplePay.

Just checked, sure enough they're not listed as supported by Apple.
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I think their relationship is ending at the end of 2021. Can't recall who's taking over...but it's changing.

don't feel like getting another credit card for simply ApplePay so I'll pass on that feature.
 
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