An investigation into Tesla's vehicles over seat belt issues has been closed
An investigation into Tesla's vehicles over seat belt issues has been closed
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An investigation into Tesla's vehicles over seat belt issues has been closed
Tesla claim to be the safest car, yet they let this slip.
Made a comment in jest/maybe bad taste like a week ago in the tesla community to the effect of "would be very on-brand for Tesla to have issues with the seatbelts. Got downvoted to hell and explained to me how tesla issues are only regarding fit and finish and they are THE safest car brand on the road today. Today I see this article...
I work for Volvo, a company basing a lot of their brand value on safety (rightly so in my humble opinion).
Here is a recall for some seat belt issue 2 seconds of searching found me. https://www.volvocars.com/en-bh/v/own/recall#:~:text=Seatbelt%20recall%20FAQ&text=The%20front%20seat%20belt%20fastening%20cable%20may%20over%20time%20suffer,produced%20between%202007%20and%202020.
Seatbelt completely detaching reported by, so far, 12 Tesla customers while using their car
Volvo: "The front seat belt fastening cable may over time suffer from reduced strength under certain circumstances." (Not failing completely i assume)
Very interesting how different companies handle recalls of similar issues. One seems to take responsibility and ownership of the situation.
Response is important (probably most important really) but in your post you said your earlier comment was "would be very on-brand for Tesla to have issues with the seatbelts."
My point was, that everyone has these kinds of issues. Honda recalled 450k vehicles for seatbelt issues. Volvo had another one with mistorqued bolts that might result in the middle seatbelt in the back to come off completely. (Not known if it actually happened)
Not sure how many other brands I have heard of where the steering wheel falls off though 😁