Recent content by hangup

you got me, English is not one of my strengths :)

How is your personal experience with that ADAS system btw? Mine has been mixed. At one point, someone stopped on the freeway in front of me. There was plenty of space, I was able to stop too. Once the vehicle in front of me started moving and I attempted to move, Lucid started slamming on the...

haha, just had a fridge go out last week due to a storm. had to fix it right away to avoid some nice stakes to go bad.... and showing my better half that I still know where the fridge is can also be beneficial :) I fixed it quickly on the spot first, then properly a couple of days later when the...

Agreed, but it doesn't mean that these guys can't do something good as a side effect. Rich claims that his 'content creation' had a positive impact on repair-ability of Teslas, for example. Perhaps he overstates that. IIRC, Rich met with a prominent 'right-to-repair" activist Lous Rossmann who...

if that was the case, couldn't the owner just got a different certified shop and get the car 'unlocked'?

This sounds great. I wonder why the body shop that the car is at wouldn't just work with one of the certified body shops if this is as simple as that. I doubt it would be more money than what a 'body swap' would cost, which is supposedly what the owner of the car agreed to. There is a disconnect...

Thank you, this is very informative. If the 'service' mode triggers automatically, should a certified body shop be able to order parts and get Lucid to bring the car out of the service mode? If I believe the story that Rich tells in one of his videos (and I don't know if I do, 100%, perhaps he...

The economics depend precisely on the very policies that the manufacturer sets and we have been discussing here. So yes, insurance declares it a total loss because it gets 0 bids from any of its repair facilities. People may not look at the total loss scenario, but they absolutely look at cost...

it depends. some manufacturers do significantly better, some significantly worse. it is for Lucid to decide where it wants to be on that spectrum. I'd like to know that before I buy my next Lucid, that's for sure. Depending on where exactly they land, I might even sell the Lucid Air I own now...

Lucid can very well choose to make every car that had any kind of an accident a total loss because they can just brick them in software. The fact that they do this without ever looking at the actual car is telling, IMO. That is one of the ways to 'handle' the situation. But lets try to think...

Why wouldn't an Audi dealer sell you a quarter panel if you want to buy one? Is it a controlled substance or something? :) Seriously though, they should absolutely sell you one and as far as structural components go... Sales may be restricted to certified collision centers, which makes sense to...

how did you go from what i said to that? this isn't about what i did or did not do. trust me, making a personal attack on me just won't work, many tried it before :)

Here is a hypothetical scenario: you bought a brand new car from Lucid. you parked it properly in a perfectly legit parking space. someone hits it and drives away. no structural damage to the frame. however, you car if bricked permanently and Lucid, without ever seeing the car, first tells you...

So what exactly do you agree with? Lucid hasn't said anything yet, they are still figuring it out. No, this isn't about "junkyard YouTubers". This is about owners like me being able to get parts and tools when I need them. Every car will break down eventually.

I'd like to share that owners like myself are eagerly waiting to see what Lucid will decide to do on the "rights to repair" front for its customers. The status quo isn't great to put it mildly. There is a popular YT channel called 'Rich rebuilds' which has been trying to get some answers from...