A lot of them are but not all of them, especially on the truck. It’s a difference of gigantic pain in the ass and slow uptake to it happens to everyone in a few of days while they sleep.
I think it’s relevant that Tesla vehicles seem to have an awful lot of recalls. Like, they seem to need external oversight before they fix stuff.
Perhaps.
OTOH, I wonder how much NHTSA is looking at the cost benefit analysis. When a recall is going to cost $big / vehicle, the safety improvement needs to be big too. When the cost is approximately $0 / vehicle, the economics may have NHTSA deciding to mandate a LOT more fixes to things that they’d ignore on other vehicles.
More and more of other vehicle brands now come equipped w similar OTA update capability. It’ll be interesting to see how much those other brands find they too are pushing mandated software fixes (needs a newer and more apt name than “recall”) out to their fleets.
That’s also relevant but that has nothing to do with my point.
According to this article, which I will summarize. This article is for all of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. Ford has by far the most number of recalls (94). Tesla is 17th with twenty. Other statistics sites show similar data for other recent time frames.
Of course Ford makes more vehicles (about 10% more in 2024) but more importantly many more models so it’s apples to oranges-ish. It’s tough to compare but Tesla is in no way an outlier. They just make headlines and people like to bash them because the CEO is a horrible person.
https://www.autoblog.com/news/5-automakers-with-the-most-recalls-so-far-for-2025-the-last-decade
Whoever runs the 711 store near me parks one of those ridiculous trucks out front. Jaysus what an ugly vehicle it is.
There are a few around my area and they definitely aren’t growing on me.
Just an FYI, not a criticism, but I find it useful to always copy a relevant sentence or two, even if a one-box summary pops. Because sometimes, be it Discourse, the theme of the reader, or the browser of the reader, other people won’t get the onebox and it’s just nicer for all.
Especially if you’re running mobile devices - the odious silk browser on fire tablets seems particularly prone to such burps and glitches.
Huh, i wasn’t aware of that. I find it slightly annoying to see the same text twice, and have generally avoided doing that.
Yeah, that’s why I said it’s a preference, and again, the only reason I know is that I often check the board late at night on my old kindle from bed. And to make it even less clear, it’s not even an always thing, just a sometimes thing. So explaining how and why I do it the way I do and why I think it’s worthwhile.
That was LOL hilarious right down to the air bag. If they did an entire movie with that level of humor it would injure people from laughing.
A friend of mine had a VW where the pressure of the spare tire was used to power the windshield washer fluid. A step up, I suppose, from my Opal which had a foot pump.
This recall can’t be fixed with software:
Now that’s actually bad. I was a manufacturing engineer and millions of my products went into automobiles (no Teslas). I know a few things about adhesives. This is inexcusable especially because it appears to be a manufacturing fuck up, not design. People need to be fired over this.
I know there are some really impressive space-age adhesives out there. But they seriously need to stop reminding people about how many things are glued on to the truck.
Glue can be a perfectly cromulent production tool. If it’s appropriate glue applied to appropriate surfaces in appropriate condition and in appropriate quantity with appropriate clamping and curing.
If not, it fails. Just like too-small too-loose screws quickly fall out.
Hey, that was one of the older generation of beloved VW Beetles! They were unique cars in being high quality and low cost! I had one, but it was of a newer generation that had an actual electric pump for the windshield washer. It also had an actual fuel gauge – older ones only had a dipstick and a “reserve fuel” lever.
I’d take a practical and reliable VW Beetle (of any generation) over an ugly Cybertruck any day! I still say that Cybertrucks are just so mind-bogglingly ugly that you’d have be insane to approve such a design. Which, of course, Elmo is. I’m not averse to futuristic new designs. I love 'em. The Cybertruck ain’t it.
In many cases it’s a much better choice than mechanical fasteners but the chemistry must be done correctly.
Reminds me of a Rush song
Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that “feature” of our old Karmann-Ghia.