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Comment by cutenewt | Hacker News Reader

I was seriously considering a Model 3 for my new car, but I'm so glad I passed.

On the Model 3 subrreddit there are endless post about reliability including ones I never thought would be an issue.

Some recent ones include driver side mirror housing falling off and snowing entering the trunk compartment.

Have you looked at forums for other cars? There’s tons of complaints for every model. I’ve had my model 3 for 5 years with zero issues.

I can't recall mirrors falling off or trunks so poorly sealed as to allow snow inside with other car makers.

Maybe on a Yugo but nothing that purports to be anything better than a cheap as possible econobox.

A quick google reveals similar wing mirror issues with VW [0] and BMW [1].

you can find one-off or rare problems on EVERY single model. For the things that actually matter, Teslas are very reliable on the whole.

> I think Mercedes and other automakers have a good chance to bypass Tesla now since Elno is captivated by his Twitter acquisition.

Do you have any evidence to back up these claims? On what trends are you basing that on?

Do you have evidence that Tesla performs worse now because of Twitter?

Literally do you have any real world bases for this or is that just what you hope will happen?