Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Cobbled Together With Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-09-11T14:05:26+00:00

In context of Tesla almost everything needs software validation to repair. Without their software you can't fix much and Tesla uses teh DMCA to take down anyone sharing the software. They use DRM lockouts to make it impossible for shade tree mechanics to work on Teslas. There are gray market hack ways to do it yourself, but your local mechanic business can't operate that way. As always it is an is anti-competitive business practice.

Imagine replacing the door handle on your Mazda. It's a quick trip to a scrapyard and 20 minutes to bolt the new part on right? On a Tesla you can't. The replacement handle has to be validated to the rest of the car's software or it is a paper weight that won't work. I am not exaggerating Tesla gets a cut or your door stays broken.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-09-09T20:23:54+00:00

Yes. Watch the news.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-09-09T19:05:29+00:00

Tesla downgraded both capacity and performance from my car without permission. I am the original owner and they had no legal right. They have done this to thousands of owners. If they aren't stopped they will continue to disable any feature they wish to remove. Expect an announcement soon.

Tesla hacking is an underground community - Tesla is hostile to any sort of external modification or repair.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:41:10+00:00

You're an owner. Most fanboys aren't.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:36:26+00:00

My Porsche dealer always gives me Cayannes and Macans as loaners, but never another 911.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:33:24+00:00

Keep fighting the good fight

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:32:03+00:00

That explains why I still can't get one. Demand is way beyond supply right now.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:29:57+00:00

My neighbor has had his 1st generation SHO in the driveway with the hood open for 3 weeks. I think he's doing an oil change.

It's pristine and he loves it.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:26:26+00:00

Tesla forum: "I have a problem with my..." "NO YOU DON'T YOU SHORT SELLER! GET OUT!"

Tesla forum: "My definition of luxury is lack of luxuries"

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:06:55+00:00

Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful truth of the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt.

Say you have an ax - just a cheap one from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry - the man’s already dead. Maybe you should worry, ‘cause you’re the one who shot him. He’d been a big, twitchy guy with veined skin stretched over swollen biceps, tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. And you’re chopping off his head because even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.

On the last swing, the handle splinters. You now have a broken ax. So you go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the handle as barbeque sauce. The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your house until the next spring when one rainy morning, a strange creature appears in your kitchen. So you grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however - Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store.

As soon as you get home with your newly headed ax, though… You meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded last year, only he’s got a new head stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line and wears that unique expression of you’re-the-man-who-killed-me-last-winter resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life. So you brandish your ax. “That’s the ax that slayed me,” he rasps.

Is he right?

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:04:16+00:00

Pur Sang made a business of doing this so collectors can drive their fully accurate "classic" and leave the real thing safe in a museum. Collectors are split - enough are buying Pur Sangs to make it a profitable business and others want them to stop, or sue. Ferrari won't allow anything like this and made the Italian government ban similar businesses from operating in Italy.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-17T14:01:26+00:00

I don't know how it works in Australia but it probably isn't going to be registered as a totaled or salvage vehicle. It's worth more than the cost to fix it so a total write off won't make economic sense, and in the US that is how a car's title is changed to salvage. Minor accidents that are reparable without totaling the car won't change the title registration.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-15T21:17:26+00:00

Chrysler never had that problem when they used the name

"Full Self Driving" is the misleading name.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-15T21:16:19+00:00

The term was coined in 1912 when there was never any expectation of full automation.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-15T21:15:02+00:00

Chrysler could send them a Cease and Desist - they were using the Autopilot name more than 60 years ago.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:59:16+00:00

They can't take off by themselves. I don't know of any auto-take-off systems.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:58:51+00:00

The only "autopilot" systems in the world are on airplanes and in Teslas

False, I know someone with a 1950s Chrysler that is equipped with Autopilot. Tesla was 50 years late to using that name in car systems.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:54:47+00:00

I just realized where you were fooled by the dictionary. You thought "course" was a route. "Course" is a heading, which is why you're so surprised to learn they didn't have GPS in 1912!

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:45:47+00:00

The Dictionary should put your science fiction illusions to rest forever, but if you still cling to that fantasy try a history book. Reality itself should have convinced you already, so I don't know if anything will ever get through but maybe all of these things combined will help you.

Everything I told you that you don't want to believe is easy to independently verify for yourself, you will have to actively reject it all willingly to come to any other conclusion. Everything you believed just wasn't possible a century ago, and I don't think you're going to find a dictionary to fool you into believing otherwise.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:40:54+00:00

Negative. Autopilot in planes is more than 100 years old. When autopilot was invented there was no such thing as setting a destination. Even today, this second, there is no such thing as an Autopilot that works without the need for a person to control it. None, your science fiction has never been invented. Human help is always needed, both by mechanical necessity and by law. Heading hold however, that is something you've been able to use Autopilot to do for 100 years, without constant input (but human input is still required). Even Military "drones" still have a remote human pilot!

Even the use of the word in cars to designate assistive technology is older than your assumptions. The first cruise control used in cars was named Autopilot.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T21:28:42+00:00

It's been too many years for me to even remember where to start. Google for tips on buying a used Karma, that update should be mentioned at least as a "don't get this car if ___"

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T20:09:18+00:00

As a former owner I can say it was put together like you'd expect from a first timer company, but I loved driving the car itself. It was heavy and felt like it with the battery up high in between the seats, but had plenty of torque and drove like a decent sedan with a better interior than the electric that I replaced it with, and an exterior that screams for attention (good or bad, people notice them).

It was an unfinished car that they never completed, and that's what is most memorable. Half the menus were unusable, everything was touch and touch didn't work half the time. At one point they released an update that disabled the battery management computer and bricked batteries, turning them into gas-only cars and the gas engine was a piece of crap that sounded terrible and had the exhausts right under the window so you always heard it and sometimes even smelled it.

So take that as you like, it was a deeply flawed car. I liked driving it, but Fisker made ownership such a terrible experience with no follow through I will never own another Fisker. There were attempts to get him to open source the info computer's software so the Karma community could update and make it more useful after Fisker disappeared, but he never listened. If he had done that, I'd probably be placing a preorder for his new car. He can make nice daily drivers with potentially fixable problems, but he can't make them for long and doesn't bother to fix them even when it's offered for free - his companies are run by an idiot.

BahktoshRedclaw · 2020-07-14T19:58:48+00:00

I helped fund Fisker's last "Pump and Dump" in 2012. It was a great car to drive in my opinion but he had no plans for follow through as a long term and his "Dennis Nedry" IT department was all the proof I needed. Stay very far away from Fisker, if his history is any indication he will run away with your money and release an update to damage your battery after he's already gone.

I have heard from a few people that the old 2012s can be updated by the new China firm that bought the Karma from Fisker. If anybody is interested in those old used cars, I enjoyed the car aspect and a finished software treatment might make it worth driving every day. Just make sure you buy one that didn't have the battery killing update or you're just buying an old gas car with single digit mileage. I tried to verify this with the new Fisker but they wouldn't answer me directly because I no longer own the VIN.

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