That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

It boggles my mind that anybody thought gluing exterior panels to the car was a good idea. Not just trim, entire body panels. Any other vehicle has the body as part of the actual structure, but for some reason on this one they're just decorative cladding. Is there any good reason for this?

This looks like a pretty standard recall, no? I see it referenced as a "trim piece", in which case gluing or taping is pretty standard. But I don't know what a "cant rail" is.

What I find funny is that, historically, the Tesla fans would laugh at every other car company's recalls, when Tesla only had a relatively small number of cars on the road. Now they recall just like everyone else.

Probably cost savings. Or being different for the sake of being different. Who know.

I still can't believe people continue to pay a premium to a brand that has (one of?) the highest recall rates in the industry.

It’s funny because the Ford Pinto is thought of as an example of an unreliable death trap but the deaths from Tesla’s poor craftsmanship and design heavily outweigh the Pinto by a wide margin.

Teslas marketing is genius though, preventing them from being known as death traps by regular people.

Welding would show up as heat marks since it’s not painted

Not an entirely new concept really. Many cars over the years have had what are basically adhesive attached panels and components. Saturn had vehicles with composite panels attached similarly iirc. And I believe the weird GM minivan of the early 90’s did as well.

Those are actual functioning vehicles, and not just props from Bladerunner?

A bicycle is by far more attractive that these oddities.

This can't be an OTA update. But honestly, any Tesla news coming from CNN, I take it with a pinch of salt.

I’m surprised they managed to sell that many