Natural Wood Trim-- Optional Tesla Extra

"SBA Thanks You For All The Fish" (santabarbarianlsx) 09/09/2020 at 15:33 • Filed to: None

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Well, in fairness, Tesla said that Models 3 and Y would be using “natural woods”. While we all assumed they meant the company would use that material for interior trim and textures , apparently they instead meant they’d be using it to shim together ill-fitting pieces.

The next time some Cultist posts about the astounding wonders of “the Octovalve HVAC system” I guess the retort is to post this picture of how Tesla components are assembled and held in place. Coming on the heels of the “nuts that hold the suspension together” not actually using captive hardware, or even Loctite, I’d guess build quality will be back on the table as fair game to debate.

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ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 15:43

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That's literally a trim piece for an outside drywall corner, or maybe the edge of a stair tread. Someone found it lying around the factory, maybe scrap left over from an office or breakroom remodel, and just used it.

Merkin Muffley > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 15:43

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Crikey

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 15:45

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Honestly, this doesn’t bother me that much. I’d I owned the vehicle, probably a little more so but, ehh.

Future next gen S2000 owner > ranwhenparked 09/09/2020 at 15:53

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That definitely has a bull nose trim look to it.

For Sweden > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:08

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I love a good funny case study that I can use for a few decades

fintail > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:09

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EVs are supposed to be eco friendly, right?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > For Sweden 09/09/2020 at 16:12

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Can you imagine the fun in 30 years when the last few of these first gen cars is still (somehow) being kept on the road by the diehards? Tesla, having been long-since acquired by Jeff Bezos as hobby. Those owners wi ll wax poetic about the “early production variations” in Tesla Mod Ys... which limited VIN runs had “wood kludged condenser mounts” instead of the later VIN “broken off like a chunk of celery PLASTIC condenser mounts”.

It’ll be like the old coots discussing the finer points of trans mission mounts on a 1962 Rambler Ambassador...

benn454 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:12

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 They won't listen. They'll claim it's hallowed timber blessed by St. Elon Himself.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > fintail 09/09/2020 at 16:15

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Well, I guess the good news, when you’re stalled outside of Wamsutter Wyoming in January, when the Supercharger is broken?

You can always keep yourself warm by burning these wood hardware mounts for heat until the Detroit Diesel equipped AAA Tow Truck comes to find you buried in snow.

For Sweden > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:16

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Wait until David Tracy buys one

haveacarortwoorthree2 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:49

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Recycling is part of being environmentally friendly.

Telsa: We use everything!

fintail > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:52

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Or use the wood to fuel a generator to charge your EV! Should only take 18-30 hours for a charge enough to hit up the next supercharger.

ranwhenparked > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 09/09/2020 at 16:53

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If I found out my expensive new car was bodged together with pieces of random scrap wood, like some six figure RV, I'd be pissed.

RutRut > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 16:55

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Had a Model X as an Uber last week: the backseat rocked back and forth. The build quality makes Alfa Romeo look reasonable. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > RutRut 09/09/2020 at 17:07

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Apparently the rears in the Mod 3 are really bad, as well.

I “get” that certain people are attracted to the brand.  I really do.  I do NOT get how the word “luxury” attaches thereto...

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > ranwhenparked 09/09/2020 at 17:17

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My take away is that if the Tesla was built and priced like an RV, this wood trim would be expected....okay, got it, thanks.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 17:20

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Here you have a nice tech worker who has moved to SF

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 17:23

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Looks like the house the Beaudelaire orphans lived in...

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 17:33

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That’s a house that survived the earthquake/fire, anytime you see a garage it means it has been jacked up and added, they didn’t have them when they were first built. It could also have been moved from across town. This house is always used as an example of how people are ruining original victorians with grey and black paint. Audi seen too, always black cars. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 17:37

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Hmm, suppose that was done after Loma Prieta quake.  

For Sweden > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 17:38

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I just read this story again, and this may be the most ridiculous engineering thing I have seen 

For Sweden > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 17:38

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I don’t hate the black paint

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 17:40

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The house has been like that since a few years after 1906 I’m sure, the paint job was pretty recent. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > For Sweden 09/09/2020 at 17:42

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It’s just weird. Any kind of “real company” with a QA group, a production engineering process and manufacturing engineering functions? NEVER would have signed off on this crap. Really. It just speaks volumes about how absolutely out of control these guys must be internally.

I’d be pissed if I paid “luxury car money” for “1966 Trabant Keep The Party Boss Happy” quality levels.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > For Sweden 09/09/2020 at 17:44

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A lot of grey ones have popped up, I call it the Restoration Hardware craze. There are a lot of them with these newcomers to SF, make a bunch of tech money and then get really unimaginative with the classic houses. There are examples of original colors that a muted. I would rather have this one below, I am not the type to have the really bright ones. 

404 - User No Longer Available > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/09/2020 at 18:23

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To them, “luxury” is the “luxury of being able to buy one and own the brand”. Kind of like how people line up for Apple iPhones.

ranwhenparked > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 09/09/2020 at 18:30

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The typical RV drives 10,000 miles over 5-6 years, then gets parked under a tarp  in the side yard until the owner dies, at which point his kids sell it off non running for 1/30th of its original price.

ranwhenparked > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 20:01

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The truth is the muted colors are probably more historically accurate - the really bright, vibrant colors mostly started in the second half of the 20th century with reviving interest in Victorian architecture sparking restoration and repainting of old houses. 

ranwhenparked > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 20:02

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Was that a spite paint job because the zoning commission denied the request to demolish the house and build a boxy  McModern?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ranwhenparked 09/09/2020 at 20:20

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No I don’t think so, people want these houses, they often have a big garage under the house and a backyard since the property is old. I doubt you are allowed to demolish them. There are some tech hipsters with a lot of cash, I have worked on their shows and talked to them, doesn’t surprise me after hearing their conversations.

I guess I don’t mean the really bright ones, there are more elaborate trims that are original, blues and greens. My family in Hawaii used to have a house in SF many years ago and the women would go there to have babies and then become American, they didn’t originate in the US and Hawaii wasn’t the US.

ranwhenparked > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 20:37

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Oh yeah, they usually used at least 3, or as many as 5 or 6 colors back in the day, but a bit more tonal than the “Painted Ladies” we’re familiar with now - several shades of the same color with one for contrast or something.

But the monochrome black makes it look like it was cut up into illegal  apartments by an unscrupulous 1920s landlord who threw up a cheap coat of whatever surplus color he could get cheap from the hardware store. A lot of houses in the Bay Area literally were painted plain matte grey after WWI with Navy surplus ship paint, those Victorians were just thought of as fussy old clunkers with high upkeep. Either that, or it looks like soot, accumulated from decades and decades of coal fires. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ranwhenparked 09/09/2020 at 20:54

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You could find fixer uppers cheap in the 80's. You wouldn’t believe how big the garages can be. I was by Dolores park and looked at one with the door open, it went way down and you could probably get six cars in there plus it had a laundry area off to the side.   

ranwhenparked > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 09/09/2020 at 20:56

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Whole basement, basically. Not a bad arrangement - makes you wonder why it hasn’t caught on in new construction  - make the whole ground floor a big open space with a garage door. I’d by that, everybody’d buy that. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ranwhenparked 09/09/2020 at 21:09

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I was really surprised, I always pictured a single space garage or a deep single file. It also had never occur red to me that they were all jacked up since they are older than cars. 

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/10/2020 at 09:39

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Luxury priced.

To be fair, the word "luxury" stopped being associated with superior build quality and materials ages ago, the rest of the industry thinks it just means cramming as many over complicated electronic gadgets in as possible.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked 09/10/2020 at 09:45

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That’s fair. Mercedes sorta set the trend with the overly complicated, and highly-unreliable, S-classes that have come since the W126...

The Germans all figured out that the cars didn’t need to be ultra-reliable, they just needed to be good enough to get through a 36 month, 36,000 mile warranty.