I have owned Model S since 2018, now driving my second one (Raven).
The first one was just poor manufacturing Tesla has been known for forever.
Second one is however the disaster. So many sounds while turning the steering wheel, driving on tiny slopes, braking etc. forced me to convince the service center to replace the suspension, arms & half-shafts (all under warranty). None of these steps helped, service center proposed to try another service center "where there may have more experience" and called the squeaking the feature of the vehicle.
I visited 3rd party garage, got more information about possible sources and concluded it is probably impossible to fix it.
So here I am, driving the $80k car that squeaks like 30 years old rusty Ford, attracting attention at the parking lots.
Won't be buying a next one for sure.
The error was to buy a second one after "the first one was just poor manufacturing".
I never saw manufacturing quality improve over time from car companies.
After my Nissan car started to have transmission problems that would cost thousands of dollars to fix (among various other small issues), I sold it as quickly as possibly and swore I'll touch the make again.
Subaru burned me on this. I bought my wife an outback. It started to have transmission issues with a full transmission failure at about 145k miles. This is after a life of small problems here and there that didn't really impact performance.
It was a known issue between 125 and 150k miles. Subaru's solution was to extend the warranty to 100k, as if that did anything at all.
We got rid of the broken one, and the one that I drove as well. I'll never go back. I loved those cars, but that's so shady.
I am too tall/long legs to feel comfortable in the Model 3, range of 75D was a bit limiting when traveling with family and I couldn't and still cannot imagine driving ICE car again. The manufacturing did not bother me too much in the interior as all cars I ever owned or rented had loose, squeaky plastics, and body panel gaps were tolerable for me.
