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Can You Repair Tesla Model Y Giga Castings? | A Closer
Can You Repair Tesla Model Y Giga Castings? | A Closer Look
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Are Tesla Model Y gigacastings repairable? In this video, Evolve’s founder and CEO, John Sweigart, walks you through the process of inspecting a gigacasting on a 2024 Tesla Model Y that was involved in a collision, and dispells the myth that giga castings are unrepairable.
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You can repair cracks with a standard TIG welder. Drill a hole at each end to prevent crack propagation. These types of repairs on cast aluminum are pretty straight forward.
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Good luck to ensure that an impacted Diecasted Aluminium part is safe after a crash. I have no idea how you will ensure no micro cracks exist after an impact, that will progress under fatigue. Even Tesla shipped cars with Cracked Castings that should have been inspected 100% X-Ray.
Being a cast part, I expect crack that can occurs and missed by visual inspection.
It would be more logical to also have a load tests applied to observe deflections to see if they are out of specs.
Also, you only pointed out they are repairable in this particular case but never mentioned the price. IMO, thatโs the key factor whether the car is totaled by the insurance or not.
It looks like in this case the giga casting is undamaged so the repair is quite conventional. I assume if the giga casting was damaged beyond a certain point the repair situation would become quite complicated, hence the insurance companies raise the premium to cover themselves for that eventuality. Iโm quite impressed with the strength of the body, looks pretty tough.
Matters not.
How many shops in the entire world know or can fix them?
They are more expensive/harder to repair. Period.
Structural repair of a cast part with rivets an adhesive!?
Just call a Tesla engineer on every Tesla car with structural problems?!
Seriously!?
Structural repair of a cast part with rivets an adhesive!?
Sometimes a total car is worth more as parts.
You can't just have 2 Amazon EV delivery vans and not talk about what you guys are up to! Please share!
We don't let EVs on the ranch. Not worth the fire risk. I definitely wouldn't let my shop guys work on one.
Can you do a video where you show the replacement of an entire giga cast?
Nice vid
So, how long to deliver an example replacement part for that section of the gigacasting? That is the next question.
So, it also means that these parts have to be designed and tested and everything.
Replacement part is robably not from Tesla. They are only interested in NOT having the effort for such parts…. oR they only do it for very few specific parts.
The background voices were really distracting.
Great vid , love the genius way these vehicles are made, reminds me of playing with matchbox cars in the 70s , I honestly thought this was how cars were made back in the day! Seems like weโve been living in the past for too long! Musk is a true genius! Probably make a great president ๐๐๐
Nice to know, thanks.
2:00 replace aluminum casting by cutting, rivets, adhesive. sorry, no way that is the same structure as original.
2:52 as you said "doesn't mean there are no cracks" thus you cannot assure structural integrity post damage.
It is up to the insurance to call it a total loss, they salvaged my M3 in 2019 for two doors a front bumper and front windshield, I bought all the parts on ebay yes ebay because tsla woudn't sell parts to shops or just the wait time was ridiculous and fixt it myself for 5K. Still drive it today in 2024.
FANTASTIC!
Another myth gone!
This reminds me of one time when I had to get a rocket panel in the unibody frame of a Mazda repaired. I thought the car was finished since I had no idea how to repair that. But it turned out they were able to cut the panel at predetermined points and weld in a new one. This looks similar โ cut at designated points and attach new brackets one way or another.
I love your channel! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for another great video!
Great post again ๐ , could you maybe do something to the sound quality of your videoโs ? Sounds a bit like your under water ๐ but ..eyy.. please keep posting this kind of clips ๐๐ป