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Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ... by maxerickson on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:24PM (#26051782)
There's no justification for memory that will hit a wear limit in a few years to be integrated into a couple of layers of components (it's on the controller chip inside the screen control module).

If it was a relatively accessible memory card, it'd be fine for it to have a service lifetime.

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Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ... by 1123581321 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:58PM (#26051933)
I understand that. How much labor does this require relative to a similarly entrenched and costly mechanical part?
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Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ... by maxerickson on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:06PM (#26052279)
It's not just the labor, the repair is to replace the module (rather than just the memory).

They didn't initially design it to fail so quickly, a software update accelerated the wear of the card.

So there's lots of things going on.

People would similarly get pissed off if a $10 mechanical part that was embedded in a $300 mechanical part consistently failed in 3 years. Especially if the failure was due to a change in a fluid spec or something.

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Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ... by 1123581321 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:53PM (#26052494)
Yes, sorry, I meant to ask if you knew the labor to replace the entire module so I could compare it to a mechanical part of equivalent cost.

I realize there's anger but I'm trying to understand how much of a leap this is beyond a mechanical failure that people don't like, and view as an engineering failure, but nevertheless expect and endure when owning cars of a certain age and mileage.

If you don't have the information, that's okay. I'm looking for it (unsuccessfully so far.)

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Re:Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 ... by maxerickson on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:16PM (#26052593)
Apparently it's $500:

https://forums.tesla.com/discussion/177785/2016-model-x-touc...

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