this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
228 points (93.5% liked)
Technology
58108 readers
3888 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Survivor bias is a thing. One car not having issues doesn't mean all or majority of them don't. Besides I think people have their expectations messed up. For a 60k$ car it has to be perfect, not just "not having issues" because in ICE world that amount of money buys you some seriously good car.
Yes, but normally also the fact that only who has problems is vocal about them.
True, but also does not means that the majority of them had problems.
Good luck with this.
No luck needed. You literally get far better car in same price range.
My ICE car (same price range of the Tesla 3 and Y) had so many issues that make me consider to change it more than a couple of times, so maybe you at least need to not be unlucky.
What I agree with you is that, normally, a 60k $ car from an well-established brand is way less prone to have quality issues than a car in the same prince range from a brand that 20 years ago did not even exist but I am sure enough that if we look at the same number of 60k $ cars from other brand with the same thoroughness we use to find defects in a Tesla, we probably will end up with roughly the same number of defects.
And I wouldn't have forgiven those cars either. 60k$ is a lot of money and you need to get a lot of car for it. Just getting a vehicle that's reliable and will serve you well for years requires no more than 15k$ maybe 20k$. So everything above that is luxury, be it in number of seating or quality or something else.
For 60k$, you can get:
You know when I'd go for Tesla over any of these? Never. More to the point you can get EVs from most of these manufacturers at about same price range. And rest assured panels are not misaligned there or car scrapes tires off after 6 months or that steering wheel falls apart after three months of use. But if nothing else matters, distribution network and service centers these manufacturers have is huge so servicing your car and finding parts is easy, or at least significantly easier. With Tesla you can only go to Tesla. There's no authorized dealers or service centers.