what's up guys today i want to take a moment and talk about tesla's quality control why
is it that tesla's quality control actually sucks or why does tesla have so many panel gaps because
the car seems to be built really well but why are there just so many quality control problems
that everyone else complains about especially when they get like a new car for example the new
model y so that's what we're going to be talking about today and if you haven't already like and
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so the model y has a lot of quality problems that you might have actually seen a lot of other
youtubers have actually published their videos about how the model y has so many different
issues as panel gaps as missing paint has pretty much every issue that any car at that price range
really shouldn't have and generally you would think that oh my gosh that's a very badly built
car and maybe you shouldn't buy one but the reality is the car is built really well like
under the skin the car is built like a tank it's not flimsy it's built with very good
materials it's built with very good processes and materials and manufacturing and basically
all the problems that you really see are just on the outside so maybe like missing paint or like
blemishes or swirl marks or maybe some panel gaps that you might actually see which i personally
don't really care about unless they're impacting the performance or usability of the product like
say the hatch that was actually a big problem the rear liftgate that wasn't actually closing
properly on some of those models some of some model y owners actually had that issue now that
is a problem that i would not want on the cart but if you're just talking about simple panel gaps i'm
totally okay with it and most of the panel gaps aren't really misaligned that badly like they're
they if you really take a fine-tooth comb and they look misaligned maybe you'll find some defects
but other than that they look pretty good and the one reason why it seems as though that teslas are
just built terribly is because of survivorship bias now i'm gonna use the example of world war
ii planes basically what happened was planes were returning and they had a lot of bullet
holes in them but a lot of planes weren't returning and basically they wanted to
add shielding to where the planes actually got hit so that they can actually return
so now the obvious thought is wherever the planes that returned got hit you would add shielding but
that is not what you would actually do that is survivorship bias that means whatever you see is
not what you're actually supposed to do whatever may seem logical is not what you're actually
supposed to do basically all the returning planes actually got hit in like their wings and all those
planes actually returned so your logical thing would be okay let's add shielding onto the wings
more planes would return but that's not what they did that's not what you're actually supposed to
do what you're supposed to do is add shielding to other parts of the plane where it did not
get hit the reason for that is all those planes did not return which means that you want to add
shielding where the planes did not return which is usually in the engine area and whatever maybe
the passenger cabin or whatever you would add shielding there so that if a plane does get hit
over there it does not actually impact the engine or doesn't hit the engine and basically the planes
can then return whereas adding the shielding at the wings where all those planes were turning
anyways it doesn't really create any benefit so that is why the survivorship bias comes to play
now why am i actually talking about the survivorship bias well basically you see all these
big youtubers they usually get the car beforehand because they generally have a following already
and they generally are more upfront about it and basically because of that they want to get the car
first and make reviews on it because they know it'll overall help their channel and because of
that they get a lot of views in the beginning and because they get a lot of views in the beginning
of their channel or basically in the beginning of the production or the release of the model y
what happened was everyone started talking about the quality control problems and because those
were the very early builds like the very very early builds basically when they're ironing out
all the defects and whatnot a lot of those people a lot of the people who actually had
big youtube channels like ben sullins for example they had those cars that were built so early and
had quality control issues not manufacturing defects but quality control now obviously
on such an expensive car you're not actually supposed to have any quality control issues but
things happen things slip through and basically when you look at other people talking about
how their car is most people especially most model wise they aren't like that most of the other model
wise even now they're built right now just what four or five months after their initial production
they are actually built really well like they're really well built they're they don't really have
many quality control problems they don't really have many panel gaps obviously they don't really
have much of the same problems now obviously we do see some here and there it's not like they
just don't exist anymore not like tesla's perfect now for example but they're in such a low quantity
tesla has fixed majority of their problems already and that's just three or four months
after the initial build of their model wise and because of that people still to this day believe
that you shouldn't buy a desert because they're just built terribly which isn't actually true
whatever you see in the front or whatever you see on the actual panels or whatever basically
whatever you see at the car in front of you that doesn't actually correlate to how the car is built
underneath the skin like i said underneath the skin they're built like tanks they have the
best manufacturing practices and basically they use the best materials and the most redundant
materials and basically to try to get whatever they can and just make it the best they can have
the only issue they fall apart on is quality control and it doesn't help that as a service
is just not as good so i'm not defending tesla on this and saying that oh it's fine for a 60
000 car to have these defects what i am defending is the perception that the media portrays in front
of you to actually say that all cars are bad which is not true only a few select number of
cars are bad now does that mean you should just go right ahead and not worry about anything no
you should actually look for it and maybe if you do find that the defects are so big
decline the delivery by all means go for it do it it's better for your yourself because then you
won't actually have to go into the tesla service and actually make those appointments if you can
wait a bit longer to get a better model y for example but most other cars like the model s
3 and x which have been in production for multiple years now those cars are pretty much grandfathered
in that they're just built really well now most of those problems don't actually exist they're
just on the newest model which is the model y and tesla's doing an incredible job fixing them really
quickly like just recently the best example i can actually give is the rear seat the very early
models the very early vins they actually had a rear seat alignment like you know the 60 40 split
so basically the single seat on the right side was actually misaligned to the others the two seats on
the other side and basically what tesla did was replace the seats in the service center of course
but they also fix that in the factory themselves so if you get a model y that was actually built
maybe four months later now you would actually have a car that is built better and actually has
a proper seats and doesn't need another service appointment for that issue to be resolved and
obviously tesla's working around the clock to actually fix these issues but they sometimes slip
through and basically what i'm just suggesting is if you can wait but that does not mean that you
should just not buy a tesla and just assume that all teslas are bad which is not actually the case
it's just the fact that the early all models the very early models and by the way tesla's a brand
new company so they are actually fixing these issues as they come and they're learning more
about manufacturing so obviously they'll improve they don't have 80 years of experience behind them
to actually fix all their issues they've really only been mouth producing cars for like the
later half of this decade really late literally the late half of this decade the past five years
or so so they really have a lot of catching up to do and but they're doing an incredible job
at their pace of innovation so if you really want like a perfect tesla i feel like that
is not gonna exist ever but what it is going to exist is it tells you that even if it does have
any minor defect it's going to be so minor that the car is going to be so good that you're not
really going to care about it too much and for that i say the car is already good to this day and
most model y owners today are even happy like you see them out on the road today if you can find one
out on the road do a visual inspection just look around see if you see any panel gaps and
i'll probably guarantee that most panel gaps aren't going to be visible just by looking at it
for the first time you have to actually take like those tools and probably measure it out
or something so tesla is improving a lot with whatever it's doing so what i would suggest do not
wait if you need a car but if you don't need one and you can actually hold off and wait just a bit
maybe do that but again there's no really wrong time to buy a tesla unless it's just when the
car came out and you're buying it like literally a month later so maybe that's like the only worst
time to buy a car but other than that it's an amazing car to buy i highly suggest you buy one
and i have my referral link down below you'll get about 1500 kilometers of free supercharging
1 000 miles of free supercharging something like that so yeah if you want that my referral
link is down below if you want to use someone else's go ahead i don't really care about it so
go ahead use someone else's hope you got something out of it and let me know if you bought a model y
or anything how has your experience been with the quality control that tesla has
maybe i'm completely wrong and maybe your car is just absolutely perfect or you have tons of
problems let me know in the comments down below i'd love to hear your thoughts all right thank
you for watching hope you enjoyed this one and i will talk to you in the next one alright peace
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