WYP
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This is the largest recall in Tesla's history.
Read more about Tesla's voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles.
Read more about Tesla's voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles.
Tesla issues voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles
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WYP
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Not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, at worst people will lose power steering. Not exactly a "these electric cars are setting themselves on fire" kinda issues, though it is nonetheless an annoying issue.
Recalls like this are common within the industry, most people forget how complex these machines are.
AlienALX
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Every car I ever owned had a recall. Some of them were mental tbh. My ex wife's father bought her a Ford Taurus. IIRC it was a 1993? or 92?. Any way, they were known to blow head gaskets. Even though it was 13 years old when she bought it used they still covered a skim and new head gasket.
My Tiburon needed new seat belts (but I didn't bother because I had 4 point harnesses) and the Chevy Malibu we had (Vauxhall something) had an issue where the wires running through the firewall were getting pinched so the whole dashboard needed to be rewired..
So yeah, compared to head gasket cost (having the engine skimmed and so on) and the Chevy fail (it took them nearly a week to fix that, but they had to 'cause it would have been a lemon otherwise) I would imagine this really isn't that bad.
Very few cars ever have no recalls at all, and in the USA it is very easy to look them up and to find out if they have been done. My tibby had an issue with the recoil spring in the seat belts but yeah, didn't apply to me 'cause I had already ripped them out and chucked them in the nearest bin
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