Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad
I've been critical of Tesla before for various reasons, "Building throwaway cars" 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 "quality control" 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't imagine Ford or GM doing it either.  I'd be down into the "Uh... I think I've heard of you once..." non-western car manufacturers before it wouldn't surprise me.<p>Then, the absolutely horrid service center experience of "Oh, no, you don't know what you're talking about, that's normal, and we can't fix it any time soon anyway" is just absurd.<p>I know Tesla likes to rag on the horrors of the dealership model, but, seriously, I can't imagine getting this treatment with a legacy automaker.  Not that I worry about them forgetting to put pieces in, either.