If those spot welds are part of the body safety structure, then it has to be retested. If no retesting is required, then those spot welds play no role in the safety body structure.Martin (deal addict) wrote: ↑ There may be benefits in constantly changing software (e.g. to improve stopping distance) but changing manufacturing of the body shell and omitting 300 welds is surely not something that should be done during manufacture within a model year for which crash tests have been performed, the results of which buyers are taking into account in making their purchase.
That's the thing - no one would report this "news" from other manufacturers.twitchyzero wrote: ↑which other model gets spot welds reduced in the name of increased production output?
For example, BMWs, Mercedes, Audi etc have mid life "face lift" or LCI for its models - do you know if they use more spot welds or less during this change for whatever reasons? Do people care?
In other countries, BMW has ConnectedDrive Store where you can activate extra features like intelligent voice assistance, remote services and remote 3D view, carplay, sharing navigation route and location with friends etc using iDrive Store with payment/subscription. This functionality is not available in Canada (BMW Canada does not yet have the updated system to support ConnectedDrive service). So all the hardware and software is in the car waiting to be activated.Tesla also holds back its hardware's potential...ie: unlocking more usable battery capacity via OTA update to get people out of Hurricane Harvey or whichever disaster that hit Southern US a year or two ago
happens all the time in other industries but still doesn't make it any less absurd