I found it weird there are about 20,000 vehicles of concern for models that sold millions. I wonder what happened, how are those relative few different?
That being said, they are really bright but now that we finally have the adaptive beams enabled, it seems to make a huge difference
Sometimes it’s just bad parts from a supplier that only affects a tiny amount of vehicles sold.
I had a motorcycle with a front tire recall. I actually had to take it to the dealer for them to check the tire itself. They had two different manufacturing batches of the tires in the motorcycle manufacturing facility at the same time. One batch was bad. They knew the VIN’s of the bikes that could be affected but had no way of knowing which batch of tire went on what VINs. They had to send recall notices to the whole range and check it out individually knowing only about half of the VINs notified actually had the problem. Plenty of bikes made before and after the bad tire batch that weren’t in scope of the recall.
I will already tell you that’s happening. Own a Ford and the amount of QR codes that are on all parts of that vehicle is truly astonishing. I know Ford published a huge pdf of things to check for to cut down on warranty fraud. It’s absolutely checking certain parts against the build data to see if they’ve been swapped since the vehicle was built.
It’s not all nefarious. Keeping tabs on all the parts in each vehicle can help them scope recalls to certain batches as above or redesign parts that keep failing before their lifetime expectancy(usually because it’s inside warranty and costs them money).
And I imagine that’s it. At some point Tesla installed the hardware for adaptive headlights. So maybe a transition around that? Where the lights were brighter but adaptive could not be supported
I found it weird there are about 20,000 vehicles of concern for models that sold millions. I wonder what happened, how are those relative few different?
That being said, they are really bright but now that we finally have the adaptive beams enabled, it seems to make a huge difference
Sometimes it’s just bad parts from a supplier that only affects a tiny amount of vehicles sold.
I had a motorcycle with a front tire recall. I actually had to take it to the dealer for them to check the tire itself. They had two different manufacturing batches of the tires in the motorcycle manufacturing facility at the same time. One batch was bad. They knew the VIN’s of the bikes that could be affected but had no way of knowing which batch of tire went on what VINs. They had to send recall notices to the whole range and check it out individually knowing only about half of the VINs notified actually had the problem. Plenty of bikes made before and after the bad tire batch that weren’t in scope of the recall.
That’s a lot of work/cost to just find out whether something needs to be done.
Almost makes you want each part to report an id ……. Until you think about vendor locks and surveillance
I will already tell you that’s happening. Own a Ford and the amount of QR codes that are on all parts of that vehicle is truly astonishing. I know Ford published a huge pdf of things to check for to cut down on warranty fraud. It’s absolutely checking certain parts against the build data to see if they’ve been swapped since the vehicle was built.
It’s not all nefarious. Keeping tabs on all the parts in each vehicle can help them scope recalls to certain batches as above or redesign parts that keep failing before their lifetime expectancy(usually because it’s inside warranty and costs them money).
Manufacturers supercede parts in the middle of a model’s lifecycle all the time, sometimes doesn’t even coincide with a facelift
Could be that they replaced the parts with a newer design already
And I imagine that’s it. At some point Tesla installed the hardware for adaptive headlights. So maybe a transition around that? Where the lights were brighter but adaptive could not be supported