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Ended the test luxury electric car Tesla. Rave reviews have died down and it became clear that the new automaker without many years of experience is incredibly difficult to make the car from scratch so that it is immediately consistent with market expectations.

Tellingly, when both editions are only bought in their fleets of Model S, all tests of the car line by line is full of compliments and enthusiasm. And even minor flaws, which arises at the very beginning of operation, marred the journalists. But after prolonged use the two media are not so generous with epithets, but abound with lists of breakdowns of drafting cars.





Tesla Model S can drive itself not always.

Start with the report of Consumer Reports: it's not as sad, like Edmunds, and at the same time is not comforting. "Tesla Model S faced with many small problems," "Chronic glitches in the luxury electric car" — these are the headlines about the result more than 1.5 years of operation of the vehicle.





In the first review of the Tesla Model S received 99/100 score from the editors of Consumer Reports

— so many have not received a single car in the entire history of the publication.

"Electric car Tesla Model S earned the highest number of points in the test, Consumer Reports in its history, and the owners love it. But after 20 months and more than 25 000 km, our test car collided with a larger number of problems than would be considered normal. Read this fall we have a new reliability data from hundreds of owners."





One plus — the broken car you will be picked up and drive service worker.

Lower the enthusiasm about a car that rumbles on in the report his posts, and we cut to the chase. No, this is definitely worth a look "One cool feature of this car that every time he is examined by a mechanic, it comes to you the representative of the company with a trailer and takes it, returning when the work is done — all for free. The machine is usually provided on a replacement, but since they were so full, we bailed on that privilege."





Without a screen, which hangs from many owners,

the car doesn't make almost nothing.

Only a penny from a annual service, where it is 19 000 km, off the Central screen, leaving access to all functions of the car, even opening the flap of charging. In the service center did a hard-reset, and it worked. At the same time fixed cricket in the front passenger, sorting through all the panels in it. There's also corrected and other small stuff: one of the belts of the third row was broken so they took it and just replaced the entire third row to the updated version. In addition, the service replaced the front bumper mount. All work was done under warranty, plus on its own initiative, the service man replaced the 12-volt battery, mount the air filter and pump to cool the main battery.

Simultaneously on the machine was done. Of work, including pouring all fluids, replace cabin filter, batteries in the key and rotation of tires cost $636.60 (including taxes).





What is the use of the front trunk when you cannot use?

Then, somewhere in the 25 000 km of the journalist Consumer Reports has noticed that the cover of the front trunk doesn't open (with center console). Also broke the original adapter for other, non-Tesla chargers. The car went in service for two days. Lock the front trunk was replaced, put a new charging adapter, and was flooded with the latest firmware 5.12. Unlike the previous, this update could only be installed in the service center. Since all the work was covered under warranty, this visit cost free.





Almost all of the components from the non-electrical parts of Tesla Model S produce

the same company that for the rest of the car manufacturers.

In conclusion, Consumer Reports says: "based on estimates from 637 owners of the Model S in 2012 and 2013, the car received a rating of "average" in reliability. I wonder what the results will be this year, with machines 2014. Considering how many substitutions were made on our cars and anticipate that the assessment of reliability will fall. The reality is that, depending on the frequency of breakdowns, the owners can show that the reliability of the Model S below average."

 





It turns out, modern equipment and reliable

providers is not enough to high quality.

Car with the Consumer Reports we have done. Now are the cream! Car Edmunds. In the 2013 edition bought a Model S for $103 770. The machine used for 17 months and managed to run over her 48 000 km the List of failures is so extensive that I had to make a picture, to be able to fit them all on one screen.





Operation of the Model S revealed a set of problems, many of

which was evident from other owners of the electric car.

Some details about this list:

Everything here except the usual maintenance

From Edmunds was an early car, some of these stocks have corrected in later cars

During one visit usually corrected several schools

Only twice needed to leave the car at night





The story of the motor is affected not only cars Edmunds, and Tesla Motors was

forced to increase the warranty to 8 years for the battery.

To sum up all damage by visits to the service, you get stats like:

Planned visits in service: 2

Unscheduled visits to the service: 7

Days in service: 9

Damage that does not allow further movement: 1

And now the question: how come now, after all these breakdowns assess the California electric car in Edmunds?





Not to say that journalists Edmunds drove the Model S particularly neatly,

but they were not spared and other test vehicles.

Pros: exciting dynamics, a spacious and comfortable cabin, unmatched supply of electric speed, simple and convenient interface, huge racks, free network superseacat, there is no cost to regular maintenance, good resale value (the machine at the end of the test was sold for $83 000, losing in price of 20%).

Cons: huge list of repairs, cabin bun not up to other luxury cars in this price range, no modern active safety systems, need to charge at least 6.6 kW for everyday use.

The bottom line: the Model S is fast, comfortable and technologically brilliant luxury sedan, but numerous problems with the touchscreen, tires and powertrain, it is difficult for us to recommend it.





So fast, so quiet, so unreliable.

In fact, the experience of both editions shows how difficult the new automaker without many tens or even hundreds of years of experience to make from scratch your car so that it is immediately consistent with the expectations of the market, especially the most demanding part.

And, of course, Edmunds was just unlucky with the car. But, characteristically, even this car, with a huge list of repairs disclosed by the publication, easily went for $83 thousand, losing over 17 months less than a similar, more reliable Mercedes.

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