welcome to today's video today's video
we're going to be finding out has the
build quality on the model 3 improved
in 2020
now the first thing anyone ever
mentions when you talk about Tesla Model 3 is they ask you all they've got really
bad panel gaps now I had a quick look at
all the panel gaps on the car I've not measured them at
some extreme that some people notice
because let's be honest you don't need
to measure you need to look by the eye
and if they're noticeable by the eye
that's what's important now panel gaps
pretty much consistent gap all the way
throughout the car the only issue I've
noticed is more panel alignment which is
the front door and the rear doors
because of this silver trim it's really
noticeable when the door slightly off
and there is there is that but these can
be sorted at a service station
afterwards but the point is
it shouldn't come out the factory like
this so these should have been picked up
pre factory and they shouldn't be
picked up once the cars been delivered
but yes there is a couple you have got a
right rejecting the car when you go and
look at it and you also have got seven
days to reject the car
but it's nothing too bad and the
customer wanted the car immediately and
I told them that you know it's it's
basically within Tesla's typical build
quality specs yes it's not great but the
actual gaps themselves looking too bad
now the other thing I picked up at the
service centre was this rear bumper isn't
fitted particularly well now this was
another manufacturer again it wouldn't of
left the factory told the service said
that before I left with the car and they
said it was in was were in with
acceptable tolerances rang the owner
who's buying this car and again they're
happy to accept it now there was a
scratch on the other side which which I
picked out and that's been painted
refilled it's been sorted before I left
I had to wait a while why they why they
sorted it but they fixed that before I
left so and that's gone I can't see it
but the point is I had to pick it out
they didn't have someone quality
assessing the car before I picked it up
now the worst thing they found out about
Tesla's build quality when I picked this
Car up was not actually any of the
panel gaps or any of the other little
bits it was actually the paintwork was
awful I mean really bad not nowhere near
what I'd expect from a sixty thousand
pound car if you were buying the base
model 3 i...
you'd might be unacceptable levels but
I mean even then I wouldn't
accept it this is not the type of paint
work I'd accept from from Renault it's
like a pebble dash it's awful I mean the
front bumper is by far the worst I mean
if this came in there's a second-hand
car and I didn't know what Tesla's paint
quality was like I'd assumed it's been
resprayed by a body shop that doesn't
know what they're doing that the wing
mirrors are exactly the same the actual
overall paint work on the the bonnet and
the rest of the car isn't as bad it's
that's actually okay and compared to
some of the model 3 that were
parked there for being collected and this
was probably one of the best by a mile
and but it's just that paint is awful I
mean now I'm gonna try and sort this
and out before it goes to my cusomter I'm
going to try and buff it flatten it down
a bit make it look a little bit better
but I shouldn't have to it's a brand new
car you know Tesla is building a new
paint shop at Fremont so hopefully
these issues will be sorted and soon
with the Giga Berlin coming online and
expect the German quality of the factory
to be seriously improved over this and
that is that is really what I'm looking
forward to Tesla's build quality
starting to come up that they can no
longer play the card of we're the small
tech company that make cars they are a
car company that have tech now we're in
the interior interior is the exact build
quality
I'd expect for a 60 thousand pound car
it's immaculate there was nothing wrong
with it the only fault with the interior
is when I came to pick it up from the
tesla service station
it was dirty there was a black mark on
the rear seats that hadn't been valeted
off properly just a small little thing
that pointed out and before they went to
clean it when they shorted out the
paintwork at the back now it's a small
amount of point and it should have been
sorted and I shouldn't have to check a
brand new car over before I take it away
I could have clean it myself but it was
a matter of principle and also I didn't
want to rub it and damage the level in
any way and then then blame me so left
that to them let them sort that but the
actual overall quality of the interior
is immaculate it's perfect there's no
stitching Faults there's no misalignment
and the panels inside nothing hanging
off everything fits perfectly so yes
there is overall still fairly poor build
quality on the outside of the car it
still drives absolutely as you'd expect
from tesla perfect software on
the car is the best in the class there's
nothing that makes software as good as
Tesla and there's nothing that is
as fun to drive at the moment for
this price range you can get a porsche Taycan
you'll get brilliant build quality
throughout and a fast car but it's over
a hundred thousand pound and it's a lot
of money would I still buy a model 3
knowing about these build quality issues
yes at the moment why there is very few
cars that compete on the model 3
price range for what you get performance
looks style and software that's that's
the main reason why people have
Tesla's is because of autopilot and
Tesla need to be careful because if they
don't fix out these smaller
builders issues other companies are now
coming out with other cars like Volvo have got the polestar2 coming out
which is going to be again they're
trying to copy tesla software image
Volkswagen are coming out with the
ID they're trying to copy Tesla's tech
image with all this augmented reality
sat-nav system so tesla don't start
picking up the car building games Elon
hasn't recently announced the model Y
needs to be built better then tesla are
gonna start losing sales and I do think
that Tesla will improve them I'm just
disappointed that they still haven't
proved them since they drove the
original of these on my honeymoon a
couple of years ago I hope you've
enjoyed this video if you're a tesla fan
please do not be upset by what I
said I'm just trying to point out faults
that are there people are spending sixty
thousand pound the majority people
buying this car will have no Tesla
background knowledge would reject this
car on site and that is going to cost
tesla money please check out my
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