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It seems they do pretty badly in Germany too. TÜV data showed 14.2% Model 3 cars had "significant defects" at inspections after 2-3 years. This was the highest defect rate of any car model.

https://fussmattenprofi.com/en/these-cars-fail-the-tuev-repo...

Edit: Previously stated "at 12-13 years it was a little over 40%.", but this is incompatible with how long the Model 3 has been on the market, so assume this was a caption mistake by the site posting the stats.



How is it possible to measure for 12 years when the first Model 3 ever produced is just 7.5 years old?


Seems like fussmattenprofi just copied the values but did't change the car models. These are the correct numbers:

2 – 3 years

Tesla Model 3 14.2%

Ford Mondeo 13.2%

Skoda Scala 11.8%

4 – 5 years

Tesla Model 3 19.7%

VW Sharan 17.7%

BMW 5er/6er 17.7%

6 – 7 years

Dacia Dokker 26.5%

Dacia Duster 24.3%

BMW 5er/6er 23.6%

8 – 9 years

Dacia Dokker 30,9%

Dacia Duster 29.7%

Dacia Sandero 28.6%

10 – 11 years

Dacia Logan 39.6%

Dacia Duster 34.1%

Renault Twingo 33.0%

12 – 13 years

Renault Twingo 41.5%

Dacia Logan 41.0%

Renault Clio 39.8%


> Skoda Scala 11.8%

Clearly the German car testing people simply do not know how to use sbt :)


They didn’t so was propably misread. Reading the article it doesn’t mention Tesla in the 12 year graph. But it is mentioned in the 5 year category.


I checked the report and it indeed quotes a 12-13 year old class for the Model 3, despite the car not existing that long ago. I don't know how. It's this figure: https://cdn-kbpln.nitrocdn.com/vfTHZFrdylLFvVWvxVDzeEsXgobSW...


apologies, this gave me pause for a split second but I didn't double check — see sibling comment, I think the captions weren't properly updated by the site reporting the stats.




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