YouTube Apparently Tesla bumpers fall off when it rains?

[Mook]

Watch This Tesla Model 3 Rear Bumper Fly Off After Driving Through Puddle

Logan Derouanna was driving in Boca Raton, South Florida, when the rear bumper of his low-mileage Tesla Model 3 decided to take off.

insideevs.com

(Tesla claimed Act of God but has since agreed to fix THIS particular car)

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[Dan00Hawk]

Sounds like it's more of an issue of driving through deep puddles at high speeds and the bumper acts like a parachute that just got opened on a funny car.

 

[Mook]

Sounds like it's more of an issue of driving through deep puddles at high speeds and the bumper acts like a parachute that just got opened on a funny car.

Has your bumper fallen off driving through puddles at 20mph? Mine hasnt.

 

[Stink Star]

This was happening to people that drove down a lot of gravel roads as the underbody tray would collect rocks and dirt and when you added water to it, it’s get too heavy and come off.
The bumpers are attached just like any other car so it must be something inherent to the design on this car because of the full body undertray

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Looks exactly as mentioned. Drive through a deep enough puddle and your bumper [cover] acts as a scoop.

Sounds like idiots also asking to hydroplane. Should Tesla cover that as well when they fly into a guard rail/tree?

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Reminds me of this!

 

[Yaj Yak]

Chuckle

 

[Mook]

Guess I can toss this here since its also about water.

Water-Holding Tesla Model Y Owner Tells Us How Bad Ownership Has Been

Héctor Rojas Olivo got in touch with InsideEVs to tell us how his water-holding Tesla Model Y experience has been so far. And it is not good.

insideevs.com

 

[Gone_2022]

Honestly this dude is the only one I’ve heard of this water issue and I follow the forums and news quite a bit. Pretty sure he has a very early build. No excuse though. From everything I’ve seen new deliveries are nearly flawless.

Basically anyone who got a car April-June got the shaft because that’s when everything was starting back up again. Tons of quality issues.

 

[Gone_2022]

Still hopefully they are taking care of this guy. Normally they do. When I took delivery of my S anything I mentioned no matter how tiny was documented and corrected if possible

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Tesla long term quality has always been questionable.... (Not talking about drive train, just everything else)

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I also don't fault them for this. Probably pretty rare and easily overlooked during design.

 

[Gone_2022]

I mean every car manufacturer has issues, you simply don’t hear about them as much because they arnt Tesla.

Go on a bmw forum... an Audi forum... a Jeep or dodge forum. They are littered with people who have random issues with their car or warranty complaints.

Other car companies have fitment issues as well. Our jeep Cherokees rear hatch was off. The left gap was smaller than the right. Again all of this is common, people just don’t check their cars like Tesla buyers and report it

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I mean every car manufacturer has issues, you simply don’t hear about them as much because they arnt Tesla.

Go on a bmw forum... an Audi forum... a Jeep or dodge forum. They are littered with people who have random issues with their car or warranty complaints.

Other car companies have fitment issues as well. Our jeep Cherokees rear hatch was off. The left gap was smaller than the right. Again all of this is common, people just don’t check their cars like Tesla buyers and report it

But for the Tesla price tag, it should be better imo

 

[VenomousDSG]

Not to mention they catch fire when involved in minor accidents...

 

[Mook]

Stonks

 

[Gone_2022]

But for the Tesla price tag, it should be better imo

? Audi and bmw are less? Higher dodge models are less? The 3 and y are mid 40s to low 50s unless you go performance models.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

? Audi and bmw are less? Higher dodge models are less? The 3 and y are mid 40s to low 50s unless you go performance models.

Yeah and none of those are losing body panels to puddles

 

[Gone_2022]

I was referencing the water in door that Mook posted.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

And I was just referencing the long term quality of Tesla vs established brands, in general.

If you trade in cars regularly, it's really a non-issue but as a car marketed to be able to get "upgrades over the years, over the air", for the people looking for long term ownership, it's something to consider.

 

[blakbearddelite]

Please fix title.

 

[Stink Star]

Not to mention they catch fire when involved in minor accidents...

gasoline powered cars are about 11 times more likely to catch fire than a Tesla. ... That works out to five fires for every billion miles traveled, compared to a rate of 55 fires per billion miles traveled in gasoline cars.

 

[Gone_2022]

Rofl rofl I was about to say. Everyone on here drives around with 10-40 gallons of flammable liquid behind them in the tank lol. Christ. Not to mention the oil and other fluids in the engine bay that can ignite.

 

[Mook]

Man, Tesla snobs really are the worst [emoji1787]

 

[Gone_2022]

Honestly we really are not. Those of us on the forum are probably some of the nicest most honest ones. There are some really bad owners out there. I’m on some Facebook groups and man it’s a cringe sometime.

If that’s how you honestly feel though feel free to delete my account anytime. I don’t need to bring the Y out to events then.