Jump to content
News
Reviews
Discussons
Activity
Create New...
Close

  • 💬 Join the Conversation

    CnG Logo SQ 2023 RedBlue FavIcon300w.png
    Since 2001, Cheers & Gears has been the go-to hub for automotive enthusiasts. Join today to access our vibrant forums, upload your vehicle to the Garage, and connect with fellow gearheads around the world.

     

  • Drew Dowdell
    Drew Dowdell

    By Drew Dowdell •

    Tesla Model 3 "Recommended" Rating Rescinded by Consumer Reports

      Electronics, paint, and trim at fault.

    Consumer Reports has rescinded the "Recommended" rating after a high number of survey responses came back with reliability complaints.  Survey respondents have indicated that the electronics in the car have issues such the screen freezing or acting as though it was being touched rapidly in multiple locations.  This issue would cause music to play, volume to increase to maximum, or the navigation map panning and resizing. 

    Some owners reported issues with trim and paint, with a few, including CR themselves, experiencing a large crack in the rear glass. 

    When the Model 3 came out in 2017 it received an initial rating of average based on the fact that it shares so much technology with the then average rated Model S.  Some early adopters reported issues with braking that dropped the score to below average.  Telsa issued an over-the-air update to correct the braking issue and the score returned to average. 

    The Model S's rating has been inconsistant as Telsa has made hardware changes over the years.  CR dropped the "Recommended" rating from the Model S in the fall of 2018 due to issues with the suspension. Tesla made AWD and air suspension standard on the Model S for model year 2017.

    The Model X has always had a below average rating and has never earned a "Recommended" largely due to problems with its falcon-wing doors. 

    Tesla is expected to debut a new crossover this year along with the production version of its Semi-truck.

    Edited by Drew Dowdell

    • Thanks 1
    • Agree 2
    Go to articles

    User Feedback

    Recommended Comments

    Drew Dowdell
    11 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

    Waiting to see which established automaker steals Tesla's Mojo. I am convinced it is absolutely going to happen.

    I don't think one will.  People buy Teslas for the same reason they run out and buy the latest iPhone. It's a status and brand snob thing.   I think Rivian could rival Tesla if they can launch without the kwality issues that Tesla has. 

    • Agree 3
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    ykX

    ykX 1,712

    Posted (edited)

    I think you guys put too much fate into a car manufacturer that built only couple prototypes.  Let Rivian built few thousands vehicles first and than will see.

    Musk is crazy but he also the genius and the driving force for innovation in Tesla.  Without him Tesla will become just like Apple without Jobs, boring corporation controlled by accountants and lawyers.

    Edited by ykX
    • Sad 1
    • Agree 2
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    Drew Dowdell
    15 minutes ago, ykX said:

    I think you guys put too much fate into a car manufacturer that built only couple prototypes.  Let Rivian built few thousands vehicles first and than will see.

    Musk is crazy but he also the genius and the driving force for innovation in Tesla.  Without him Tesla will become just like Apple without Jobs, boring corporation controlled by accountants and lawyers.

    Sadly, you're probably right that we've got too much hopeful thinking going on.  Still.. if Amazon and GM are putting hundreds of millions into them, there must be something to it. I think one of the things they have going for them is they are not shunning existing methods of manufacturing like Tesla did.  That put a lot of issues into the Model 3 and Model X that didn't need to be there. 

    • Agree 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    Cmicasa the Great

    Its even worse.. while I thought the Model S at least was as attractive as say a run of the mill Mazda 6.. the Model 3 is awkward and weird looking.. They should have named it the Salamander instead of Model 3.. GIVE IT A NAME.. like U all say Caddy should have

     

    jbareham_180213_2301_0099.0.jpgsalamandra_tigre.png?itok=qzridSsb

    • Agree 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    Suaviloquent

    Jeff Bezos also helped out Blue Origin. 

    SpacEx is astronomical units ahead there.

    Rivian has a concept. Remember when Faraway Future was making noise? Then some Chinese LeEco guy invested like a billion dollars.

    What about Lucid? There were rumours Ford was taking a look?

    And then there was some controversy with that?

    Rivian is basically a boxy styling Faraway at this point.

    • Agree 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    G. David Felt

    Rivian is building brand awareness based on normal people lifestyle something Tesla has NOT achieved.

     

    Plus you also have the fact that Tesla has REMOVED their $35,000 car option from the web site and configuration system. This has raised many concerns among the $1,000 reservation holders.

    Lots of stories from various sites on this:

    https://electrek.co/2019/02/18/tesla-standard-model-3-battery-website-fans-panic/

    https://motorlinks-wp.azurewebsites.net/2019/02/18/tesla-removes-any-mention-of-standard-model-3-battery-from-website-fans-panic/

    https://www.eqmagpro.com/tesla-removes-any-mention-of-standard-model-3-battery-from-website-fans-panic/

    Even YouTube has a story on it:

     

    • Haha 1
    • Agree 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    • Popular Comment
    FAPTurbo
    • Popular Comment

    c&g 2005: CONSUMER REPORTS IS TEH BIASED AGAINST GEE EMM, THEY SHOULD STICK TO REVIEWING DISHWASHERS

    c&g 2019: MY PENIS IS TINY AND THAT MAKES ME HATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TESLA'S, GO CONSUMER REPORTS LOLOL

    Edited by FAPTurbo
    • Thanks 3
    • Haha 2
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    • Popular Comment
    Blake Noble
    • Popular Comment
    3 hours ago, ocnblu said:

    Hmmmmmmmmm... TESLA QUALITY ISSUES.... WHERE have I heard THAT before?  Where are Booyah and Jacket now?

    Hello everyone. Don’t mind me. Just felt like I should step in here and point out that the owner of an FCA product (that has had, according to NHTSA, six recalls including one that could cause the vehicle to stall out) is making fun of another automaker for quality issues.

     

    • Haha 1
    • Confused 1
    • Agree 5
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    • Popular Comment
    balthazar
    • Popular Comment

    Somewhere out on the interwebs there's a discussion board focusing pointedly on genitalia, where a poster shows up bi-monthly to make a random, manic comment on the auto industry.

    • Haha 6
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    ocnblu
    5 hours ago, balthazar said:

    focusing pointedly on genitalia

    lol Balthy... just lol  :roflmao:

    Actually I've had one recall on my particular Jeepiat.  It was for an incomplete owner's manual, which FCA remedied by... sending me a new owner's manual.  How exciting.

    6 hours ago, balthazar said:

    a poster shows up bi

     

    6 hours ago, FAPTurbo said:

    c&g 2005: CONSUMER REPORTS IS TEH BIASED AGAINST GEE EMM, THEY SHOULD STICK TO REVIEWING DISHWASHERS

    c&g 2019: MY PENIS IS TINY AND THAT MAKES ME HATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TESLA'S, GO CONSUMER REPORTS LOLOL

    ?  I'm so glad you remembered, and took to heart, what I said in 2005.  You sir, are pointedly focused.

    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    oldshurst442
    17 minutes ago, ocnblu said:

    lol Balthy... just lol  :roflmao:

    Actually I've had one recall on my particular Jeepiat.  It was for an incomplete owner's manual, which FCA remedied by... sending me a new owner's manual.  How exciting.

     

    ?  I'm so glad you remembered, and took to heart, what I said in 2005.  You sir, are pointedly focused.

    Well...

    You either swear by Consumer's Report or you dont...

    If, in 2005 you found that Consumer's Report was crap because it crapped on your favorite brand, then in 2019, you cant just magically start respecting Consumer's Report's reports just because THIS time around you like what you hear from them...

    And then start calling out people on it on how you are a wizard for hatin' on the brand Consumer's Report dissed on...

    I...LOATHE Consumer's Report even for dishwashers...

    Tesla cars arent even close to being built without faults. Like far far from...

    But they are built to a world wide standard that is more than satisfactory...

    Fiat...there is NO surprise that Fiat cars were always built lower than the industry average. Its common knowledge. 

    Nobody needs Consumer's Reports findings to acknowledge that fact.

    Ford...on the Fusion has had plenty of quality recalls...

    I dont see you, Blu, waving the Conser Report report on the Fusion and laughing...

    You dont see me dissing on Ford nor do you see me complimenting Consumer's Report just because it suits my dumb ass biased agenda...

    I never got flaky and sentimental when GM was and probably still gets dissed by Consumer's Report, nor do I cheer for Consumer's Report when they sometimes downgrade a Toyota product...

    THIS is why, once again, your genitalia and your ownership of a Chrysler/Fiat product gets shat on by some...

    Tesla cars have got something that GM/FoMoCo/Chrysler cars has lost a long time ago.  But...truth be told, GM/FoMoCo/and Mopar trucks have never lost, and Corvette, Mustang and Challenger will NEVER lose...

    Image result for deal with it gif

     

    But it is fun to seeing the pissing matches between you and the others regarding this Jeepiat/Tesla feud...

    Thanx for the long lasting memories! 

    • Haha 2
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    ocnblu

    It's called cherry picking.  Try it, you might like it.  Go ahead, just pop one here, pop one there... pretty soon, you'll be a "man about town" with all those popped cherries under your belt.

    Consumer Reports is not the only authoritative entity displeased with Tesla's quality.  Ocnblu's C&G Rating System, for example, has awarded the most downvotes in history to the Tesla brand, and the entire atmosphere around it.  And I am sure there will be moar coming.  STAY TUNED, MY CANADIAN COMPADRE!

    • Haha 4
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    ykX

    Jeep and Chrysler is consistently rated at the bottom of pretty much ALL the reliability ratings. 

    Does it make excuse for Tesla? No

    But I would not laugh too hard over Tesla if I owned an FCA product.  And I don't think excuse as such my X or Y car never gave any problems work.  I am sure plenty of Tesla owners who have no issues either.  These are statistical analysis that look at overall product lines.

    • Haha 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    balthazar

    There is ONE slight difference. Fiats are known quality problem child- going back... forever. It's expected.

    Tesla is a brand new, luxury-priced entity; pointing out widespread quality issues isn't a bash as much as it's a public service announcement. Think of the 100s of thousands of depositers who might be making a very regretable mistake, that can be saved from a potential headache and save $50K-60K. Thats' just being neighborly, IMO. ;)

    • Haha 1
    • Agree 2
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites
    ocnblu
    20 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    Genesis way up there... I'm surprised. I wish they would update their out of date infotainment system. I would consider on then.

    So, you're saying Genesis is in the beginning stages of something great?

    We call them "Jennays" (in a Forrest Gump Accent GLS) at work

    • Haha 1
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites


    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
    Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

    Guest
    Add a comment...

    ×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

      Only 75 emoji are allowed.

    ×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

    ×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

    ×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

    ×



  • Support Real Automotive Journalism

    Cheers and Gears Logo

    Since 2001, Cheers & Gears has delivered real content and honest opinions — not emotionless AI output or manufacturer-filtered fluff.

    If you value independent voices and authentic reviews, consider subscribing. Plans start at just $2.25/month, and paid members enjoy an ad-light experience.*

    You can view subscription options here.

    *a very limited number of ads contain special coupon deals for our members and will show

  • Similar Content

  • Posts

    • G. David Felt
      AI Autospotters

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Used this site to have it generate me an exterior and interior version of a KIA EV9 with Genesis look. Deep Image https://deepimg.ai/ai-image-generator/ Have to say I really like this look! @Drew Dowdell I could so enjoy this SUV. Am excited for the GV90 to come out next year if we still get it here in the U.S.
    • oldshurst442
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By oldshurst442 · Posted

      1 minute 30 in and I was swearing at the guy...and I cut it short. Didnt wanna listen to his stupidity any longer than that.  1. Who the phoque does mechanics work on MODERN cars at home in 2025? 2. I get the "right to repair" outrage for Zeke's Auto Shop somewhere in  hickville, alabama or bumpkin pumpkin south carolina... but there is a reason why most people do not attempt to work on modern cars in 2025.    3. its to avoid killing one's self and others as cars today are actually sophisticated.  Do they have to be that sophisticated?  Well that is what this moron youtuber is trying to sell his idea on.   4. But at around the 1 minute mark is where his argument all went south (pun intended as it seems the folk down south in them there united states are really phoquing dumb individuals).  He goes on to say that one could fix the brakes on a car by themselves.  Its not that hard he says. But even if putting the brakes on backwards he says, you would hear a noise that something is wrong and you would just change the brakes up again to put them right.  Like he does not see the problem with what he just said?  ALL KINDS of error in thinking in that... Zeke in his business auto shop down the street should be able to hire auto mechanics students straight from an auto mechanics school to fix modern GM cars, Ford cars, KIAs, Toyotas  and all the other OEMs out there WITHOUT having to buy special proprietary equipment and computers to unlock the proprietary car's computer to be able to read the software language to be able to repair...   I will agree with that.  But Bobby Joe with his two good teeth and his blood cousin/brother-n-law  Waylon who married his sister Country Sunshine shouldnt be able to... 6. There is a reason to why computers are locked though.  Everything phoquing Bluetooth in cars today and outside hackers might and will be able to take control of the cars.  Not that would stop any hacker, but it is more difficult to do so. 7. AND....cars today ARE sophisticated.   You cant just bang on a car part today with a hammer to get it to fit or to hillybilly a solution for it.   Yeah...put a brake part on backwards he says...    Fix it later and better he says when you hear weird noise he says....  Phoque me!!!     If you are serious in doing your own car work...make the phoque sure you aint putting on nothing backwards...  I thought changing brakes are easy.  THAT is what he says too.  But that is the thing, if  putting on brakes is such an easy and trivial thing , why would you put it on backwards, but if you do put it on backwards, what else do you phoque up on the car today in 2025?   And that is with brakes...   Cars today are not just mechanical....   Does this youtuber or Zeke or Bobby Joe,  Waylon and Country Sunshine know electronics and computers?  Are they willing to learn?  They probably all flunked out and dropped out of school, so no...they have no will to learn anything new...  Any other Joe Blow...who some knowledge and its a difficult thing...   Why would you attempt to fix it yourself voiding a warranty or phoquing up another part and being in a worse position than before?   The folk that are able to work on today's cars OUTSIDE of a dealership KNOW what to do. They often HOTROD their cars and TUNE their engines different from the factory settings.  These guys ALREADY  know what to do.  Joe from accounting in your office has not the time, nor the patience to do such things.   Billy Bob in appalachia might be able to do it because Billy Bob is a car guy, but Bobby Joe with his 2 good teeth, most probably not.  Fake phoquing outrage...  
    • G. David Felt
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Should post them in our AI auto thread.
    • Drew Dowdell
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By Drew Dowdell · Posted

      Exterior was Gemini Nano Banana 2, but then it hallucinated on the third picture and used up my free tokens. ChatGPT did the interior.
    • G. David Felt
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Which AI Engine did you use to generate the images?

  • Who's Online (See full list)

  • My Clubs

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

Hey there, we noticed you're using an ad-blocker. We're a small site that is supported by ads or subscriptions. We rely on these to pay for server costs and vehicle reviews.  Please consider whitelisting us in your ad-blocker, or if you really like what you see, you can pick up one of our subscriptions for just $1.75 a month or $15 a year. It may not seem like a lot, but it goes a long way to help support real, honest content, that isn't generated by an AI bot.

See you out there.

Drew
Editor-in-Chief

I've whitelisted
Continue without support

Write what you are looking for and press enter or click the search icon to begin your search