Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad
I&#x27;ve been critical of Tesla before for various reasons, &quot;Building throwaway cars&quot; being one, and people keep insisting that, no, really, this year, Tesla has fixed their problems and such.<p>If you can deliver a car without a brake pad, that speaks to epic quality control failures (EDIT: A comment in the article points out the green &quot;quality control&quot; mark that is obvious on the caliper, which <i>should</i> indicate that everything was assembled properly - so things are seriously broken if it can be assembled wrong <i>and then have a QC mark applied while still being entirely wrong</i>).  I cannot imagine Honda or Toyota shipping a car without a brake pad.  I can&#x27;t imagine Ford or GM doing it either.  I&#x27;d be down into the &quot;Uh... I think I&#x27;ve heard of you once...&quot; non-western car manufacturers before it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me.<p>Then, the absolutely horrid service center experience of &quot;Oh, no, you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about, that&#x27;s normal, and we can&#x27;t fix it any time soon anyway&quot; is just absurd.<p>I know Tesla likes to rag on the horrors of the dealership model, but, seriously, I can&#x27;t imagine getting this treatment with a legacy automaker.  Not that I worry about them forgetting to put pieces in, either.