Mother’s Back to Black

Nissan is hilariously bad. Their paint quality has to be some of the worst in the industry as well. I’m talking new cars with paint flaking off when techs are trying to wash them for delivery. Probably every other new body style Titan we received had some sort of major cosmetic and mechanical defect.

Um ... I drive a 4 series BMW purchased a year+ ago ... and it is PERFECT. Not a squeak... not a rattle ... NOTHING. Absolutely PERFECT.

Haha. My work processes rental cars for re-sale as one of our lines of business and it’s the same thing. People arbitrating the units for ‘flaws’ (overspray, panel alignment, substandard finish, etc...) when it’s really just how they come from the factory. FCA (especially the Chrysler 300) is terrible for this GM…

They’re “a tech company that just happens to make cars as some of their products.” That’s what the salesman at the Tesla “dealership” said to us. So it makes sense that you’d think at least they’d get the basic tech stuff right.

I am thankful to see a voice of reason here rather than yet another random story or gripe about how someone’s do-worker’s mom is lawyer.

I found the Tesla employee!

I think their point was more: “this is a technology company that makes a semi-autonomous electric car that can do 260 miles on a charge, they should be able to make a fucking iPad work.”

Show me the rattles and mis-aligned panels on a 2016 S Class (that hasn’t been in an accident) please.
This is a $100k car, not a Ford Fusion

“In my mind, Tesla’s core competency is their technology. And that 17-inch touchscreen is the embodiment of Tesla’s technological prowess.“

Co-worker bought a Model X and had so many issues with the interior trim falling to bits and prematurely wearing. Tesla ended up buying it back off him. His wife is a lawyer and sent them a Strongly Worded Letter.

Tesla is still a car company in their infancy that is simply faking it til they make it. Nobody in their right mind with $80,000+ to spend should choose a Model S over something like the upcoming Porsche Mission E. When the Germans fully join the party its going to be game over for Tesla as an automobile manufacturer.

Oh fuck off. You get in someone else’s supercar, you hit the gas, the tires aren’t “performing at the level they should be”? If you decide to double the speed limit on a public street in a vehicle that you are not personally 100% certain of, it’s on you, bro.

Had a similar situation with one and the down pipe from the gutter. The upstairs was an echo chamber, at least it seemed like it. I decided to “fight fire with fire” but never with the intent to cause any harm. I would go out on second floor deck and pelt the side of the house with paintballs, in the area where the…

Years ago we had a woodpecker decide that our metal chimney cap was some sort of challenge to him. So every morning, like a tiny machinegun *BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG*... this went on for a few months until he got bored or brain damaged and left.

As sad as we all are about Paul, this was no fault of Porsche’s, no fault of the driver, and all the fault of the owner for not changing the fucking tires.

Whatever. Woodpeckers are assholes.

Anytime my girlfriend or I have one car parked under the carport, and neither of us is home, some bird will sit on the side mirrors and shit everywhere. There are little bird shit streaks on my truck right now. We definitely have woodpeckers here.

These words make no sense