Yeah, so… Let’s follow the money, right? This is how I make sense of basically everything in life.
Stellantis gets paid by SiriusXM for every unit they ship with this crap pre-installed. SiriusXM gets paid by either themselves, when they advertise SiriusXM membership to drivers, or they get paid by advertisers. The Mopar Extended Warranty, I bet Mopar is paying for the ad placements.
I’d bet dollars to donuts it’s the free trial for SiriusXM.
When this happened on Jeep vehicles, an apparent Stellantis employee responded on a thread about it. Here’s what they said:
“Thank you for tagging us and we are certainly sorry to hear of the frustration this has caused you. At this time, we advise that customers click the large [X] in the corner to close out and clear stored notifications from the vehicle. It should also be noted that ads are part of your contractual agreement with Sirius XM, but we are working on the frequency. Thank you for your patience.”
Lol, they still haven’t “worked on” the frequency 534 days later.
I think you’re exactly right
The market is already doing that for you - year over year sales for Dodge down 29% in 2024.
If the early fan reaction to the electric Scatpack are any indication, people won’t be lining up to buy it, so expect more of the same.
Get ready to hear that Coca Cola jingle every time you feel thirsty.
If you haven’t tried a second Kia dealership yet, I’d recommend that, too!
Give them your VIN over the phone, ask to schedule the repair under warranty. Might be able to save yourself the headache of going through corporate if the next dealership is less shady than the first.
That’s my assumption, that it’s some legal dodge. Like “we didn’t wire that light, so if you get in trouble for it, technically, you modded your Cybertruck, because we installed an inert lump of plastic and not an off-roading light. YOU installed an off-roading light.” That sort of deal.
The strange thing, all the other manufacturers do ship pre-wired offroad lights. There’s just something about the Cybertruck one that isn’t up to regulatory standard, I’m thinking.
I feel like my Toyota, the towing limit on the spec sheet doesn’t mean “after this number, the hitch snaps off.” For legal reasons, I need to state that that is only a guess, and that I have not tested it on anything but private roads.
For gods sake, the limit should have at least a 25% buffer. 1% buffer is madness. Toyotas, we don’t even know what the buffer is, it’s large enough that I’ve never met anyone who got nerve-wrackingly close to it. I’ve certainly never met a Toyota driver who’s frame or hitch has snapped off. I’ve now seen like 5 Cybertrucks with the whole towing assembly just tumbled across asphalt.
Please tell him he is perfect! He can sponge up all of my attentions
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Blew the whole budget on the Tesla, didn’t have any money left over for sand XD
You’re also starting fights over on another thread of mine so… I guess this scratches some itch for you!
Boss, you do you. Call me if you need a tow.
That’s part of the story (though, why did Tesla ship a luxury truck with such trash tires?). Weight is a actually good thing in light snow. If you have low traction, you can actually add weight to the truck bed to get better traction. Folks in my neck the woods put sandbags and stuff in their beds to do exactly that.
Keep your eyes on what the tires are doing in the video. See how they’re rolling at all the wrong times, and then locking up at all the wrong times? That’s an electronic system failing, that’s probably the Automatic Traction Control, and evidently it doesn’t know what the fuck to do with snow.
We strive for accuracy here at FuelArc News XD If the story is simple enough, we sometimes even achieve it!
Gentrified forest is the most cursed phrase I heard in a minute.
Just announcing a follow-up self-driving system on their first really pretty bad system has them on an escape trajectory with their stock price.
I’m starting to think Tesla set all the wrong examples for the auto industry.
Can’t deny any of that.
Have I mentioned, I’m broadly surprised by how reasonable the conversations are here versus Reddit? Thanks for that, I think I misunderstood your initial comment
They show a still photo in the video, where the engineer comments on that. He highlights the wrinkles in the wall image, imperfections and shadows that a human can see. The way he told it, it was hard to miss to a human
His kid isn’t dead, she just doesn’t go by that name anymore, and it is supremely dickish to treat her like that.