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Last month, I bought a used turntable. It's a Telefunken model built in 1979 and it looks like it's been playing vinyl discs for every minute of this past 37 years. Which is probably why I liked it so much in the first place.
It cost about $150, so it didn't take me long before I rang the seller and arranged for him to send it over. However, after a few initial auditions, it quickly became apparent that the small crack in its plastic cover was the least of its problems.
The turntable struggles to maintain a steady speed unless I jiggle the "on" button a little until I find that magical position where it works as intended. It's a used piece of electronic equipment that cost less than some people spend on haircuts in a month. However, it was advertised as "in working condition," so naturally, I got a little pissed about it.
Now imagine you spent in excess of $100,000 on a new electric SUV that also took ages to be delivered. You'd probably be more than a little upset if it had even the most minute flaw, wouldn't you? Well, Barrett Lyon has a list of them for his Tesla Model X, and describing them as "flaws" would be insulting to the man's suffering.
Back in May, he decided that having a $100,000 stationary ornament on his driveway wasn't OK, so he filed a lemon law suit against Tesla, asking for a full refund plus some compensation. Here's what some of his complaints about the car were: "The doors do some weird, wicked things. If you get in and slide sideways and accidentally tap the brake, the driver's side door slams shut on your leg. That's not a very nice thing to have happen to you. Auto Pilot in the rain is extremely dangerous. It causes the car to swerve into different lanes."
Mr. Lyon also claims the car's door smashed his leg and hit other parked cars, as well as his wife. He did try to get everything fixed, but Tesla failed to do so, which is what drove him to go for the lemon law suit in the first place.
It has now become apparent that Tesla decided to settle the matter, even though the exact conditions have not been made public. That's probably because other similar court actions might follow, as there are more disgruntled Model X owners who ironically were unlucky enough to be among the first to receive the SUV.
The turntable struggles to maintain a steady speed unless I jiggle the "on" button a little until I find that magical position where it works as intended. It's a used piece of electronic equipment that cost less than some people spend on haircuts in a month. However, it was advertised as "in working condition," so naturally, I got a little pissed about it.
Now imagine you spent in excess of $100,000 on a new electric SUV that also took ages to be delivered. You'd probably be more than a little upset if it had even the most minute flaw, wouldn't you? Well, Barrett Lyon has a list of them for his Tesla Model X, and describing them as "flaws" would be insulting to the man's suffering.
Back in May, he decided that having a $100,000 stationary ornament on his driveway wasn't OK, so he filed a lemon law suit against Tesla, asking for a full refund plus some compensation. Here's what some of his complaints about the car were: "The doors do some weird, wicked things. If you get in and slide sideways and accidentally tap the brake, the driver's side door slams shut on your leg. That's not a very nice thing to have happen to you. Auto Pilot in the rain is extremely dangerous. It causes the car to swerve into different lanes."
Mr. Lyon also claims the car's door smashed his leg and hit other parked cars, as well as his wife. He did try to get everything fixed, but Tesla failed to do so, which is what drove him to go for the lemon law suit in the first place.
It has now become apparent that Tesla decided to settle the matter, even though the exact conditions have not been made public. That's probably because other similar court actions might follow, as there are more disgruntled Model X owners who ironically were unlucky enough to be among the first to receive the SUV.
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