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For Science!! - Rich Rebuilds rescue an Air

I posted the reddit thread yesterday, wasn't sure if Rich's content would be appropriate here since his type of humor is hit or miss for a lot of people haha.
 
Is this the guy that put the Air in a giant bin of rice to dry it out?
 
I watched it for the information, and really think he is funny!

But their are very few DIY teardown and repair articles, and I really appreciate the video for educational reasons. (Also, many references to Pork Dumpling 💕. IYKYK.)
 
I spoke w the service center about the salvage titled cars. Beyond no warranty on say a hail damaged car, they won’t do anything for them, including keys, until an authorized service repair facility checks everything out and presumably does all for the needed repair. Then it’s pricing à la carte and find your own transport if your car bricks.
They don’t know what happened to any car and do t want to put any employee in a situation where they could be exposed to the full juice from the battery
So I crossed a hail damaged car off my list 😂.
 
Part 2 is now up and it doesn't look good (havent watched it since I'm at work)

 
Watching this now. He's falling in love with the build quality as he's taking it apart. I wish the whole thing was full of good news. The YT comments are rough. If lucid have their reasons, then it is what it is, but I'm cringing knowing it's going to take a turn...
 
second video just dropped :( Please dont bring down Lucid anymore Really hope they figure out this service stuff.
 
DrJBell said:
second video just dropped :( Please dont bring down Lucid anymore Really hope they figure out this service stuff.
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I saw something similar on EVAuto channel where he sold a car from auction where it wasn’t disclosed that Tesla had marked it as a salvage even though the title was not salvage.

It’s further proof OEMs don’t want you to be able to DIY. I do agree with Rich on having to pay something to clear out the service mode but $50k is insane.
 
Looks like anything over 10 mph crash will total a Lucid. No wonder insurance for these cars is so expensive. Probably totaling cars as much as possible to try to drive up sales of new cars. I agree that the damage on subject car was pretty extensive and might justify totaling but the other car he visited down the road was very minor damage and should have been repairable.

But other than that it was an interesting video to see how these cars are screwed together.
 
Bdr100 said:
Probably totaling cars as much as possible to try to drive up sales of new cars.
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I think the insurance company decides whether to fix or total - Lucid doesn't really have a role in that part of the process.
 
psulightning said:
[…] It’s further proof OEMs don’t want you to be able to DIY. I do agree with Rich on having to pay something to clear out the service mode but $50k is insane.
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I wonder, though, if the overall benefit we get is better than being able to DIY. There is less incentive for stealing cars for parts, which is a significant problem with organized crime rings targeting specific car models.

Personally, I like knowing Lucid is a bad target for the underground parts black market.
 
tmichael said:
I think the insurance company decides whether to fix or total - Lucid doesn't really have a role in that part of the process.
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Insurance company decision to total is based on repair cost. That repair cost is coming from Lucid. Supposedly for the car that was at other shop with minimal damage (probably $8k to $10k on any other luxury car - Mercedes, BMW) Lucid did not even see the car. Which makes me think that after the accident, that car threw an error code, probably based on impact G force load, and based on that error code decided to total the car, even though the visual damages (that they never saw) were minor.

It would be helpful if Lucid was more forthcoming on why they took the decision to total the car, such as “based on error codes from the accident, there is likelihood of internal, non-visual, damage to battery, motor, etc.”
 
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