We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

31 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

1. It’s a performance feature designed to ensure greater employment… for repair shops.

   1. It’s missing the soot and black burnt crispy bits from where the battery caught on fire?? .. Oh sorry we can wait!!

2. Hmmm…..if I had to guess, I’d say it’s broke. And broke bad. A lot badder than a $130,000 car ought to be.

   1. When the battery runs down, it disconnects the steering to save power.

3. Someone left the pavement .
   Given the individual drives a Tesla and posts on twatspeak, I would suggest the car is being blamed for the driver’s stupidity.

4. Says it’s a Porsche design..?

5. “…what’s wrong with my Tesla Model S…”

   It is a Tesla.
   It is driven by an idiot, the kind of idiot that buys Tesla.
   Also it is broken (good, one less Tesla on the road).

6. ball joint failure like that is usually due to manufacturer using junk (cheap) crap, and that may be because Musk is in financial difficulties

   1. Or hitting a pothole, or some other road hazard…seen many chevys, dodges and fords have this same problem….

      1. shere, ewe don’t know squat about cars I see. I’v seen a lot of different cars with the same problem, after the damn thing has warn out because of “use”. I remember Chrysler having the same problem in the 70T’s, with almost new cars. Chryler was using poor quality ball joints. These Teslas should not be at that stage in their life cycle yet, that is the point.

7. 1960’s Citroen DS suspension system would fix that :
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdFXnJUScs

   1. A set of these”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolastic

8. The problem is obvious! Just look at all that dirt! Look at all that dust, and even oil clinging to the shock boot! Getting your pristine, high tech, eco-saving car … dirty … voids the Warranty. Sorry Tesla will be no help to this owner who abused their perfect, flawless, miracle car. They must have driven their Tesla out into some (ewwww) … middle class neighborhood.

   1. The tires look rather worn. No fan of sparkmobiles, but how many miles are on that thing?

9. Back in the 60’s, I saw ball joints come apart. Usually the result of poor materials and designs. . Now you know why Ford pickups, for years, used the ”Twin I Beam” system. Very reliable.

   https://youtu.be/DvyKpJZ4CRU

   1. Dad bought a 66 Mercury 1/2 ton with that feature. It cost 2250.00 and was a good truck but it was hard to find a shop that could do a wheel alignment on the truck. You have to bend the beams to realign the wheels.

10. It needs a nut and bolt . . . possibly a lock washer. What are you doing this weekend?

    1. In a shop where I did odd jobs after school I watched the alignment guy bend the beams with a hydraulic jack.
       What a dumb-ass he was when ‘a nut and bolt . . . possibly a lock washer’ was all he required.

       1. Agreed, and there’s always duct tape dammit!

11. I’v got a 07 Dodge that treated me the same way a couple weeks ago…. a widow maker!

12. That is terrifying.

    Imagine losing a ball joint on a front wheel at 70mph. Now imagine you are changing lanes, because that’s when it would let go, during maximum stress.

    I knew they were crappy, but that’s a whole new level of crappy.

    1. Because never in the history of gasoline powered vehicles has a ball joint or tie-rod end ever failed….see Ernest’s comment above….

       1. You must admit one generally does not see that in a NEW, $100,000+ vehicle. Which is the point.

          But you knew that.

          1. Yeah, it shouldn’t happen, but it does, even luxury gasoline powered vehicles are not exempt. Multi-million dollar passenger aircraft on a proven air-frames shouldn’t spontaneously smash themselves into the ground either, but they do (granted this is software related, not hardware as is the Tesla case.)

             I guess I just find it humorous that the hatred for this man and this car runs so deep that detractors will illuminate any failure of its systems as an “I toadaso” moment in order to vilify its production….

       2. on a 10k chevy, not an 80k tesla

13. You mean to tell me that electric cars can … break?

14. awww. poor virtue signalling puppy.
    If a Tesla dies on the Road – does anyone give a rats (_i_)…??
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    I’m thinkin not likely
    (sparkmobile..?) I love it.!!

15. My guess. Being driven on a typical California freeway.

    1. The streets, err potholes … of Oakland. Best not to venture out of Atherton, Los Altos Hills, Woodside, Orinda, Ross, Piedmont … with your perfect eco-saloon. All those poor cities, with poor people, are hard on the 1% of autos.

16. on the topic of automotive industry expectations, anyone remember the raft of post-market rust proofers?
    apparently the warrantee is void if perhaps you get a ding from a pc of gravel.
    and then the customer gets bounced back and forth between the rust proofer who claims the paint job did not cover what it was supposed to, and the mfg claiming the rust proofing somehow affected the integrity of the paint.
    back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

    but, whut’s gud fer GM iz gud for da hecomony!!!

17. Lowering carbon emissions, the old-fashioned way.