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In Denmark when a car reaches 6 years, it needs to be safety checked to be used on the roads. After that it's every 2nd years.

Tesla model 3 managed these safety checks extremely poorly, with 3 times the average failure rate.

In total, 1,392 errors were found on the Tesla model, which is three times as many compared to the other electric cars.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Not true...

My good person if I go to a search engine and type in "vectra loose steering" it returns results of people having problems with literally every mechanical bit that I pointed out to you; from tie rod ends (sometimes called track rod ends) to worn bushings in the column mounting hardware. The problem of "loose steering" exists even for your Make and Model.

It happens with nearly every vehicle manufacture. Here's an owner of a 2019 Honda Accord ST complaining about it in 2020 when their car was only a year old! Heck I just did a search for "BYD steering loose" and got results!

For a 4 year old car to have it is ridiculous.

Now THAT I agree with. These problems really shouldn't be showing up in vehicles this new unless they have more than 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometers) on the odometer or they've been subjected to abnormal conditions. I'm not arguing that Tesla's are great, I'm pointing out (with evidence) that "loose steering" is not a solved problem and widely exists across all Makes and Models.