Tesla ranked 27th out of 28 car companies on Consumer Reports 2021 reliability rankings. They also ranked 30th out of 33 in JD Power's measurement of how many first-year issues new cars had.

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What they were producing 8 years ago and what they produce nowadays is an order of magnitude different. It’s like comparing your PC from 8 years ago to today’s PCs.

I'm not sure that the differences are that huge. AP is more capable, but also has more phantom braking issues.

The cars themselves have more range and charge faster, but its not an order of magnitude. Maybe charge times on a road trip have dropped by ~50%.

Service has generally gotten worse as well, as the company has really struggled to scale. They've added a lot of mobile service and service centers, but they still can't keep up with the pace of growth. Good thing is that most of the newer cars aren't needing service much, but when they do it can be problematic.

True, but a few years ago they had a huge problem with Model3 and ModelY quality- you had to be very careful and inspect the whole car for serious problems before accepting delivery.

lol if you look at any Tesla forums, this is still very much the case with all cars they make. The refreshed Model X seems to be hot garbage from a quality control stand point.

Tesla forum is literally the perfect example of selection bias.

Except it's not. If there were no defects, there would be no defects reported on the forums. The number of cars sold is public.

The parent isn't suggesting looking at the ratio of happy and sad posters, which would definitely be selection bias, they are saying look at the rate and severity of complaints on it's own.

If you have a defect you are about 1000x more likely to go to the forum.

Of course there are defects, at that volume that would be expected.

Parent didn't say anything about rates.