If Tesla wants to recognize Musk for all his achievements, are they also going to recognize him for cratering their sales and stock price valuations?

If the stock market’s valuation was truly tied to company performance, Tesla wouldn’t be close to “worth” half a trillion. But as Musk recognizes, the current market is largely detached from company fundamentals, and now cult of personality drives prices. As a showman and cult leader, he indeed is the reason for the…

Dang, this reminds me of a VERY happy pony at a petting zoo I went to when my kids were smaller.

I’m having Half-Life flashbacks

I’ve seen shirtless, barefoot tweakers scale razor wire fences and broken glass covered ledges to steal copper from a rooftop in broad daylight.

In a high trust society these are fine, in most US cities these will be vandalized into oblivion:(

this fixes so many issues; sidewalk real estate, cords left on the ground, vandalism, etc.

There is almost no chance one employee missed removing chips on 100,000 engines. There is a great chance that all engines, using 0 weight oil are experiencing what happens when 0 weight oil isn’t enough.

Everytime I look at a teardown of a modern ICE it becomes remarkably clear why automakers are so willing to move to simplistic electrics.

I mean, perhaps so, but if they don’t figure out the cause and make changes on the production line, it’s just kicking the can down the road.

No, it isn’t. GM had a particularly bad run of engines assembled in 2020, for the early 2021 model year, and most of those failed within 25K miles from the original in-service reading.

When you have a pretty stellar history and make a whoopsie you do get a bit of a pass. Especially if you make it right (Toyota frame rust?), but if you continually fuck up and don’t ever make it right, that is a bigger issue.

I mean, that’s kind of normal, no? If you have a brand known for stellar reliability, and you start to get a few initial reports of problems, you’re not going to assume that the brand with a fantastic reputation reliability screwed something up. The chances are small, so you look for other factors. 

Gets a pass? What are you talking about? They’re getting raked through the coals on forums, blogs and vlogs, etc. I’ve never heard so much chatter of one manufacturer losing the plot. And that’s probably precisely because they’ve had such a stellar reliability reputation. Similar shit happened to Kia/Hyundai, and…

The initial pushback from Toyota stans (weird to say - but they were all Tundra owners) on this was weird. Early on, a surprising number of folks couldn’t get themselves to believe Toyota made a fundamental error and looked for every way to blame the owner. Saw everything from bad gas to not break in period to over…

GM be like “oopsie, here is a TSB instead, tee-hee!”

enginebearings are stationary (should be). A spun bearing is a bad thing in engines. This sounds like the process for removing the debris is the root cause. Whether it’s a vacuum or a blower, something is not right

The other V35 variations apparently have crankshafts that aren’t able to rotate. The whole engine has to spin.

You gotta wonder, was this because one employee tasked with an air compressor just didn’t do their job?

The carmaker says the recall applies to models “with a specific V35A engine that contains crankshaft main bearings which allow the crankshaft to rotate within the engine assembly while running.”