Thursday, April 21, 2016

Hey Tesla, Gull Wing Doors Are Aren't A Functional Feature

Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won't shut, windows won't close 

Tesla Model X owners are suffering from "a series of first-world issues," according to one owner.

But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle – whose many features include falcon-wing doors, a 200-plus-mile battery range and proximity sensors that prevent it from coming into contact with other cars – are being confronted with more immediately irksome issues, including car doors that suddenly won't shut and windows that won't close.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the issue yesterday, spotlighting several Model X owners who've been taken aback by unexpected malfunctions, including one customer whose falcon-wing doors wouldn't open as she prepared to drive her children's carpool to school. "It's a bummer," she told the outlet. "You spent all this money...and the doors won't open."

Consumer Reports also published a lengthy piece yesterday about unhappy customers, including Michael Karpf, a 75-year-old retiree who picked up his Model X from Tesla's Fremont, CA, factory earlier this month, only to be faced with a string of problems with the car. Among them: falcon wing doors that wouldn't close and proximity sensors that failed to sense an overhang, allowing the doors to bang into it. Karpf also said that the huge infotainment screen in his Model X has repeatedly frozen.

(AutoBlog.com)

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