Tesla fixes gap with black tape

Well,  Tesla picked up our car on Mon Feb16 to fix the gaps in the wheel well liners.  Car came yesterday Feb18.

Left Front was fixed.  Here is a before and after photo.

For the Left Rear, their fix was a piece of black tape to hide the gap.  This is not a fix, this is literally a band-aid.

Elon Musk: You need to be more hands-on with your factory and engineers.  Incredible.  Like I said in the first post, this is 1980's American car quality.

Crack on left side rear drainage channel

This is the crack on the left rear tailgate channel (where the tailgate strut sits).    The next photo is after the repair.

The rear window trims also did not align with the "C pillar" trim and that was fixed.  Before the fix, the trim on the rear door was higher than the piece on the C pillar. Notice the size of the gap on the left door vs the right door.  1980's American car quality? 

How is the quality in your Tesla?

We took delivery of our Tesla S on 12/13/14 at the Los Angeles Service Center.


We discovered gaps between the left side wheel-well liners and the body panels and some cracks in the seams on the left side of the tailgate drainage channel and the tailgate.


Contacted Steven Chung the Delivery Specialist who referred us to Mr. Vache.  Our Tesla was picked up on Jan25.  From the phone app, the car spent most of the time at a bodyshop on Pontius Avenue in LA.  It was returned to us on Feb6.  The cracks were fixed but the gaps between the wheel-well liner and the body panels remain. 


I am trying to post some photos here.  I looked at 3 parked Tesla's and they have similar gaps.  This will allow water and debri to collect behind the liners.

The right side liner is flush and tight against the body panel; but the left side liners leave a 1/8 inch gap which allows water and debri to get under the liner and into the underside of the panels.

Would like to hear from other owners to see if this is a factory manufacturing quality problem.  Thanks.