Really? Hundreds, thousands of stories of new Teslas going repeatedly to service centers for things like panel alignment, missing brake pads, unglued windshields, leaks, unexplained rattles and so on... things that could have been detected on the line...
that's "nonsense that that results in higher service costs" to Tesla?
Tesla is in a media hype where everything is vastly overblown and published and gets shared like crazy.
We don't have actual comparative data on issue. You can't just look at social media and distill facts from that. Have we really not learned this yet?
Other car makers have dealers that take the cars first. We don't know how often people go back to those dealers or how many issues get fixed at the dealer. So we don't know if manufacturing mistakes are more common with Tesla.
Service cost has not been holding back Tesla and its already turning profitable despite the majority of cars being under warranty. If it was as bad as you have made it up in your imagination this would not be happening.
In fact having complete control over service and having to cover the cost of that makes sure Tesla has financial intensive to not build broken cars, arguably more so then OEMs with a dealership model. And in fact, in the major categories like motors, batteries, electronics and software have done very, very well in terms of quality, fare better then other EV.
Tesla Mobile service can fix many issues without the owner ever having to interact with Tesla Service. This is an experience that is actually better then the majority of cars and it massively reduces the cost of fixing small and medium issues.
But I am sure Diess will take 10 extra hours in production to check the panel gaps.
that's "nonsense that that results in higher service costs" to Tesla?