• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car.

    Are Teslas made from tracing paper? How would manually opening the door damage her car?

    • EnderLaw@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Normally, when you want to open the door, you push the door button, the door window drops and opens an inch or so, clearing to door seals. The emergency door releases force the windows through the door seals without the window drop. If you do that too much, you’ll damage the door seals. If you do it rarely, it doesn’t matter.

        • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          That is normal for frameless window door cars with electric opening door latches.

          The emergency handle is only supposed to be used in an emergency, so damage from forcing the past the seal isn’t really a concern.

      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        That sounds like a horrible design for a car door lol. Did they not see how all the other car doors worked before they built theirs?

        • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Other car doors with frameless windows are the same way, what makes their case more special is the electronic latches and other cars with the style of window and electronic latches are the same way as Tesla.

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Yeah you should see the problems with Tesla’s and water in the air vent system. They can’t handle rain or car washes very well cause the dipshits who designed em never bothered to look at how actual car designers dealt with keeping water out of the venting system.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Well that’s just shitty car design. Guess that’s what you get when you have a bunch of software and computer engineers try to make a car.