[quote=spdrun]
earlyretirement — awesome story about the seat latch. This seems like something Rolls Royce would have done in 1905 — glad that some companies still care about personal service to that extent![/quote]
Yeah spdrun! It was really cool. I think eventually this will definitely need to be a recall and they need to fix it. Quite honestly, for them saying “this is the safest place in the entire car” I was shocked when the first day I got it my kids were in the back. I was slowly reversing out of my driveway when I see them fall back.
They made a huge oversight and put the button to fold them flat right in the middle in between the seats. It releases WAY too easily. My kids are young and if you just accidentally move your hand on it the seat falls back.
They should have made this so it can’t engage while the car is moving or the keys are in the car. There isn’t ANY earthly reason why anyone would need to fold these flat once the car is moving. So it was an oversight.
Or at the very worst, they should have put the button to fold them flat hidden at the side or something. So I’m 100% sure this is something they will need to fix for future models.
But it was totally cool that right after I emailed the Senior VP about it, he had his engineers working on a solution and constant email contact with me to let me know that they were willing to put their engineers fix (albeit a prototype) in my car.
But the kids LOVE riding back there in the back. It’s the coolest thing ever to them to ride back in the “cave” as they call it. You should see them at school when I’m dropping them off in the morning or picking them up at the end of the days. They are like rock stars! Amazing that even at such a young age of a few years old, Kindergarten and 1st and 2nd graders already are saying things like, “Mommy cool look at that Tesla”. It blew my mind that young kids that young already knew the brand name.
For a company that doesn’t do any formal marketing except having stores at shopping malls….I thought that was pretty darn good.
But on the other end of the spectrum there are some parents that have NO idea what the car is and saw my kids coming out of the trunk (rear seats) and looked horrified. LOL.
