We're actually looking at recycled timber, which probs costs more!
Obviously there's people talking on the internet about this, but I wonder exactly how many people have had to park their Tesla for 6 weeks for a fault compared to other manufacturers?
My car servicing place has a 6 week wait right now, for my ~$8k value 7 year old car. Luckly the thing I need done (rear shocks) has not rendered it undriveable. The last scheduled service service where they told me about the rear shock leak was a 9 week wait.
This is about the best info I can find rating auto makers for reliability including Tesla:
TROY, Mich.: 18 Feb. 2021 — Vehicle dependability is at an all-time high, with the overall level of problems cited by owners declining 10% from a year ago, according to the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Vehicle Dependability StudySM (VDS), released today.
www.jdpower.com
I wonder if there's any skewing here with a number of faults being fixed by over the air updates instead of going to a service centre? Anyway it's a company that has been running for 15 years as opposed to 85 years in the case of VW, the quite "reliable" car I have now, and VW aren't doing much better on those numbers, so I feel like the sentiment among non Tesla owners that they are so much worse than anything we've ever seen is a bit unwarranted. Of course Tesla owner satisfaction ratings are massively high, some fanboy factor but maybe also a bit of "who cares if my Tesla is having a bug recognisng speed limit signs that will be fixed in a few days with an over the air update"
My car actually has some intermittent faults they can't seem to diagnose or fix so we just work around the key sometimes not working to wind all the windows down or up (one of the best features VW has) or the volume control knob going whacky (the one on the steering wheel still works) so they are unreported unfixed faults, that don't count against the reliability of the car, but could be counted in that survey if they were reported. They would also be fixed by software updates in the case of Tesla, AFAIK most cars except the top models still don't have these features?
I think it is really hard to quantify poor dependability these days when overall dependabilty is at an all time high. The numbers on Tesla don't necessarily say you are more likely to have a debilitating problem than anyone else so I can't make a solid call on whether the reputation on paper would result in more time off the road in real life.