Electric Vehicles in Thailand

[impulse]

16 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

I'm a big BYD fan and when I get round to changing my car I'll probably go for a BYD, but I think saying just get an acorn nut is not the right answer. No car should have protruding bolts so close to your feet - BYD need to do better. They should be installing the bolts, not the customer.

 

I think there's a bunch of people looking for something to complain about. 

 

As a former grease monkey, gas pumper, and (literal) 40 year engineer, the thought of some exposed screw ends up under the dash where nobody can see them (and you'd have to be double jointed midget to get impaled), doesn't seem worth spending any money to fix. 

 

There have always been products available for the picky people to dress up stuff they don't like about the way their cars left the factory.  It's a huge market.  Look up JC Whitney for a little taste.  (if they still exist...)  Those customers aficionadas can spend the time and money if it makes them happy.  I used to be one of them.  No longer.  The rest of us are just happy they took a few bucks off the cost by leaving off the acorn nuts.  And the labor to install the acorn nuts.

 

My last car was a Toyota Sienna van.  It had all kinds of protrusions that grabbed me when I crawled up under the dash.  None that bothered me operating the vehicle as intended.

 

[josephbloggs]

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I think there's a bunch of people looking for something to complain about. 

 

As a former grease monkey, gas pumper, and (literal) 40 year engineer, the thought of some exposed screw ends up under the dash where nobody can see them (and you'd have to be double jointed midget to get impaled), doesn't seem worth spending any money to fix. 

 

There have always been products available for the picky people to dress up stuff they don't like about the way their cars left the factory.  It's a huge market.  Look up JC Whitney for a little taste.  (if they still exist...)  Those customers aficionadas can spend the time and money if it makes them happy.  I used to be one of them.  No longer.  The rest of us are just happy they took a few bucks off the cost by leaving off the acorn nuts.  And the labor to install the acorn nuts.

 

My last car was a Toyota Sienna van.  It had all kinds of protrusions that grabbed me when I crawled up under the dash.  None that bothered me operating the vehicle as intended.

 

Fair enough it is beneath the dash but from the picture is looks like right next to the pedals so not somewhere I want an exposed bolt.

Having said that I had never looked down there on any car I have owned, maybe I will check tomorrow beneath the floor mats - maybe it is common.

[mistral53]

So there is this electric car company worth more than all other car companies combined, and yet, on some of their models having produced them for several years, they still cant manage to reliably put suspensions together in a way that they stay together.....?

 

Come-on Musk, pull your head out of his old ass and spend some time building cars in a way that does not embarrass even the most fervent fan-boy, not to mention this has the potential for great harm to the car owner and the public at large.