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by BoorishBears 2103 days ago
1) Trunks with even panel gaps that are well aligned are very much a thing.

Your use of perfect seems to be a slight deflection, even "ok" would have been a fine goal.

But that photo is worse than anything I've ever seen on a car, period. I've seen overblown complaints about panel gaps on Teslas, but most manufacturers would not let that out into a dealership.

2) That's great for you, but it's hardly a defense against general complaints about a car. After all the Model 3 is not the best car others have driven. My most driven car these days is my new S4, a car with less interior noise despite an ICE, comparable performance (I'll trade the .7 second difference in the quarter mile for driving a car not put together with scraps)

3) None of my gaps are so horribly misaligned I ever had the inclination to!

There are two common complaints about panel gaps in general: too big, or misaligned.

I can forgive too big, I really don't care. But seriously misaligned like that picture? It looks like a bad body repair job, and it's right out if the realm of what can be ignored. Not for the sake of others, but for the sake of knowing I paid for a precision instrument and am getting a bodge job.

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Thanks for the good explanation. It befuddles me that someone can willingly pay $55k for a car and just do a Tesla Shrug about the fact that it looks like it was built in a high school shop class. I wish I could come up with a business plan who had fans that loyal.