The problem with looking at alarmist, or even outright full-on anti-Tesla articles (sometimes hit pieces pretending to be articles) is that they almost always cite extreme outlier examples and cherry-picked data deliberately chosen to tear down Tesla's good name.
Ditto for forum members like "R P" who have an extreme anti-Tesla bias. It's safe to ignore his link; we can be entirely sure it goes to one of those hardcore anti-Tesla hit pieces. That's not informative at all.
I also find it amusing that hardcore Tesla bashers love to cite the "pay to play" JD Powers fake "awards", as if they had any credibility. Nobody ever heard of JD Powers before auto makers started bragging about their JD Power ranking in their ads. This is like one of those celebrities who's only famous because she's famous! You can read about why no informed person should believe anything JD Powers says
here, or
here, or
here. Indeed, in my opinion. Tesla deserves credit for refusing to go along with the fake "JD Power award" pay-to-play scam!
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Does Tesla make the occasional "lemon"? Well of course they do, just as every auto maker does. Let's not forget that "lemon laws" existed long before Tesla, and there were good reasons to create those laws.
But it's not rational to judge the quality of a model of car based on a few outlier examples, either very good or very bad. The rational person will look at the
average quality before making a buying decision. So what's an "average quality" for a newly made Model 3? I suggest the answer can be found in a "deep dive" analysis of a Bloomberg survey of 5000 Model 3's. The analysis concluded that Tesla's fit-and-finish, altho certainly problematic in the past, is now above industry standard:
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Let's Take A Deep Dive Into Bloomberg's Tesla Model 3 Owner Survey"
But the real problem is that it's a fallacy to apply a general rule to a specific case. Sure, Tesla's build quality for the Model 3 is now, apparently, above industry standard, but what about the particular unit that Tesla delivers to a buyer?
What would really be a forum service to would-be Tesla buyers would be to point to a detailed checklist which a buyer should go thru before accepting delivery and finalizing payment to Tesla. Something like this:
"Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist 2020 (PDF Download)"
However,
caveat lector ("let the reader beware"): I'm not a Model 3 owner, so I can't speak from personal experience on the subject of whether or not that checklist is the best. Perhaps someone like Bob Wilson can point to one that's better?