Kasmopaya this is just State of the Art Technology - just check out other companies - Tesla did not invent this module - suppliers do and they sold this idea millions of times already to any automotive company before Tesla has been founded
Reminds me of many similar situations I had - whenever you try to streamline the process there is too many people happy with the old way, however stupid it might be. The last time it happened to me was just that passed Christmas. I work for Penney’s and they put in in the fitting rooms. We had this tag system for the customers and of course what people do is they loose the tags on a constant basis. The system was older than coal, so there was no way to get new tags anymore. I told them, give me few bob and I’ll 3D print them, as I worked the system out. Very easy coding. No. We won’t. Too costly. Ok, so I made the tags from cardboard. Fully working! Took me few days as I had no tools and customers to serve as well. We had full set for Christmas. No worries, right? Two days before the main manager throws them to the bin. These are not the right ones! Can’t use them! You have no idea how people were pissed seeing that half of the fitting rooms are empty and we can’t let them in because we have no stupid tags. But at least we had the right ones, eh?
Corporations manage middle management by fear; your boss has all the responsibility and none of the power, that's how the incompetent suits keep their jobs. "Mrs. Chakrabarti are you telling me you let an employee forge elements of a proprietary, patented customer management system?!"
Mike Oliver oh, but I know! They can’t decide even the simplest of simple things. Still, if we say ten times per day that customer is the key and we do all to please them... and then we make them wait even though there is no reason to wait. During Christmas shopping madness!
Love the videos. some tidbits about the “monster W module”... it’s efficacy comes from three things: the material which is Ultra high strength steel, its shape (the W), it’s angle and how it ties into the overall side structure. basically how it’s done in all cars but that’s one of the beefier side beams i’ve seen. some companies use tubular steel too but i’m guessing these wider platforms offer more coverage for more engagement with different types of incoming structures in an impact. plus you can put foam on the outside of them to help damp vibration and resonance from the door skin. probably more effective with a wide W vs a steel tube. (a secondary benefit) (speculation on that last one)
“We didn’t do it because it was different” -Sandy Munro If you work for large corporation, you run into this all the time. It’s a good indicator that you should find a new job.
Thank you Sandy Munro for what you are doing. I was unsure about TESLA being a good auto manufacturing company but you are showing that they are a competent auto maker warts and all! you show the good and the not so good and hopefully TESLA will listen to you for you have impeccable credentials in the eyes of MANY car people. I thought TESLA was a great software company with unbelievable futuristic goals and ideas that are good for this planet and now I know they are very good at making automobiles for the future!!! PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING IF YOU CAN!!!
This is my daily dose of automotive engineering nerd-out. Please keep it coming...I'm worried the model Y teardown will finish and I won't get my dose. Do more cars please!
@@MunroLive a BMW i8 would be pretty cool since it's mostly bonded carbon and aluminium square tube welds. But even videos like cheap cars built well, or cars that people didn't buy cause they thought it was crap but it was actually very well engineered, or even of the type how many designs of a door hinge exist...you know, nerdy stuff!
I rarely comment, but it was interesting to see that you have a PMI (Positive Material Identification) gun. In my line of work, that instrument is invaluable. As for the topic, once upon a time, I used to be an auto mechanic, and it was so painful to deal with doors that had the window regulator heavily enclosed. The access holes sometimes had really sharp edges. One benefit I noticed, that module construction takes care of sealing the door trim panel from the elements. Normally, you have a thin plastic as a barrier, sometimes glued-in with putty glue that makes it almost impossible not to tear the said barrier whenever you need to access the window and/or lock mechanism. Kudos to those manufacturers that have implemented the modular approach.
Hey Sandy, you're showing pictures of assembly the doors that day I already worked as a mechanic in an old school car repair service for 13 years! And back that time I always thought wtf why they using 100 of screws and clips on one tool and a assembly guide filling 15 shapes of paper with an incredibly wiring. But now they could make it a lot easier and of cause quieter. But wow, not really quieter as back those times. Just trying to make the fabrication cheaper without benefit the noise reduction. So thanks a hundred times for your work on keeping pointing on the bads!!! Dankeschön für das Video und bleibt alle gesund! 👍👍👍🇺🇸🚐🇺🇸😷😷😷 #stayathome #staysafe
I have always liked subassemblies that can be built at dedicated workstations. Have not seen the car door module before but it makes a lot of sense for both assembly and component repair. Your videos are continuing to get better.
Dear Mr Munro, that must have been so frustrating when a perfectly good idea was not implemented just because it was different. That reminds me of the “wise words” from the person that took my exit interview from a steel wire giant : “Our company has been in business so long, that each and every time you come up with some idea, you have to realize someone before had the very same idea, but it wasn’t implemented because it wasn’t really a good idea. And that’s why things are the way they are right now.” I’m thankful to that person because he made me realize I needed to start my own business.
great video love how Sandy breaks everything down and explains how it works and better solutions crazy to see not all car company's use a simpler approach, I always want to work smarter not harder for sure.
I love your vidoes. I’m not an engineer, but watching your vidoes is neat. I own a model 3. And it amazes me how it’s built. Vehicles in general, and how they mass produce them is just mind boggling to me. Oh, and in 1987 I was just 3 years old. lol
I have been watching all your videos , great work, You are inspiring so many new generations, Really thanks for doing that, I believe that we need videos like yours, from people with your background, experience and nice way to produce them. An extra note: I have been working with new technology developments my whole life, submitted several patents and created many prototypes. I move to USA 20 years ago, and all my cars except my motorcycles, had been from Ford , maybe accidentally. About one year ago I saw an interesting "innovative position open" in Florida with Ford. I was curious and sent my resume, and surprisingly got an interview in record time. I answered the questions in the interview and made emphasis in how my skills and background could be a positive contribution to the new Ford division (job was related with EVs in some way, and I was working exactly on a EV charging platform on my own that ended in the hands of a company in Europe. The Ford interview was like a joke, with the incorrect people handling the questions (I have been in a few interviews in my life in companies of similar or large size). I was sad because I was sure that they will hire the incorrect people for the project. Ford, my iconic American brand will not innovate any more if this is the attitude of the new generations handling the hiring process. I saw the financial Ford results yesterday. Not sure what will happen with them, I still have some hearth for them, but I'm waiting for cyber-truck to replace my Ford expedition.
Love videos on these kind of details (especially innovative/intelligent design) and how things are/can be improved. Finally getting the attention your deserve Sandy! Watching the years go by and the lack of innovation must have been frustrating. At least the industry now has a boot up it's ass (thanks to Tesla and the new movement of EV companies). Maybe we'll finally see things move forward how they should have been the whole time.
The one thing I really enjoy about these videos is hearing great lakes speech patterns again. Straight to the point, less passive with the shade, and unabashed. On the door side of things. When I had a first gen Jeep Liberty I ended up replacing the rear regulators due to failure. While in the door I kept thinking to myself, this could all be on a single snap in injection molding peace. I'm glad someone suggested it when I was a toddler. Just wish they would have adapted it because it was a huge pita to replace those regulators.
So sassy today, love it. I bet this is a pretty satisfying car to deconstruct, this isn't the first time we've heard Sandy talk about things he's seeing that were recommended to other automakers but didn't really get traction. Whether Tesla arrived on those same designs independently or got those recommendations from Sandy himself, I imagine it's a good feeling to see some of them implemented.
I don't work in the auto industry, but I've worked on many care, and I also had the idea of an insert for all of the door internals, but my idea also had the exterior components and glass mounted to it and all assembled off line and just installed on the line. I can't say I thought it it back in 87, but it was more than 20 years ago.
My 3 decades of experience in corporate American has proven that the very best idea in the entire world will never see the light of day unless your boss (or boss's boss) can take credit for it. If you put together formal documentation that establishes the idea as you own, it will be killed and buried. But then you will usually see something almost identical proposed by your management a few months later.
Remember listening to an older automotive mechanic giving his idea to bolt down the inner door frame from the outer, so you could just take it to a workbench. They patent it then sat on it.
Thanks for the backstory. Adding what others in industry are doing is very meaningful as it gives us 'non-engineers' context on who is doing what. Which company is most advanced in processes.
This is amazing stuff, the in depth videos are making a huge difference for Tesla. To see the innovation and changes they have made is second to none, and an incredible opportunity to see how ahead and innovative they are. Loving all of it!!!!
Stories like the one Sandy tells at the beginning are exactly why I left the military. Constantly getting told "Great idea!" followed by "That's never going to happen." is incredibly demoralizing.
Interesting to see where Sandy is coming from. Manufacturing from a cost and ease perspective. From that perspective things make a lot of sense. OTOH, I know all the backyard mechanics are shaking with rage right now as massive integrated components often need to be replaced as a unit, necessitating a whole bunch of cost and time to replace if even the smallest thing goes wrong.
Fascinating. Thank you very much. Auto engineerings moved on from our 1980 XJ6, which was the last car we maintained ourselves. Wish I’d kept. My bf bought a model 3 P late 2019. I’ve driven a few a few times. The loud pedal is intoxicating and a bit dangerous.
Love this channel, ironically know better a Tesla from the inside before owning one, if ever. Never seen the inside of my car. Fascinating how things are explained.
My old 1998 VW golf mk4 had door modules like that, but they were made from a sheet of metal instead of injection moulded plastic. Unfortunately they made the stirrups that hold the glass out of plastic and they broke on pretty much every single mk4 golf until they changed them to metal.
great video. As a person who normally, either has old cars, or keeps cars for a looooong time, I'm very interested in future maintenance. The screw holes on the door, look at bit, iffy, not a lot of metal to hold the screw in place? Love the idea that Tesla is going where FMC could have gone a long time ago. Also it's great that Mr Munro is still finding area's that Tesla can improve in.
Yes, this is highly unusual. Looks like they are tapping into extruded aluminum holes? Very risky. Standard is bolt into weld-nut/clinch-nut, plastic 1/4 clips or some combination of these.
This still happens today especially in large cooperations, they hit me 3 years ago. I had developed a smart camera (for scanning luggage badges on airports) they use currently 3 cameras & PC each worth 50k€, my solution would had been cost only a fraction of it. I had a prototype ready only, the comment from management was "We are looking for something more ready" , even today they are still looking.
When you said “hey there boys and girls” yesterday I was hoping you would have said “hey ther all you cats and kittens” and now my dreams have come true!
Great video Sandy. Just for the record Volkswagen group have been using modular door construction for decades in Audi,Volkswagen passenger cars, SEAT,Porsche and Skoda vehicles here in Europe.Tear down an ID.4 or Golf and have a look? Cheers fellas
Great videos Mr. Munro! I like the thing you are doing as me being an engineer in the automotive industry, I found this very helpful to understand better the vehicle as a whole, even though I work on one particular part of it that regards passive safety. Will you please, if possible of course, analyse the door handles of Model Y and give your opinion on it? Thanks in advance and greetings from Italy!
Sandy - for the window guide rails you actually need quite a lot of stiffness for frameless doors. That's why they're not integrated in the polypropylene. Remember some kids will hang out on the window sometimes :-)
A rail designed in plastic will hardly be stiff enough in flexion. The mounting points can be made stiffer and stronger even if in plastic as there's more freedom on design to increase the section and ribbing to make the stiff.
...back the audio system, that speaker looks bigger than 6.5", has a real surround and dust cap. I bet it has a good magnet too. Nothing avant garde, but simple proven things I haven't seen consistently in other cars. I had a VW with 8" in the door, it sounded great. The model Y has a dedicated enclosed subwoofer and larger than "typical" drivers in the door.
If the motor and battery(and aluminum body parts even longer) is heading toward the 1,000,000 mile lifespan, how long can we expect all of the plastic on these cars to last? Having owned and restored many olders vehicles over the years, plastic parts are often fail parts, especially if under tension like in the case of plastic clips and fasteners. I guess the bigger picture question becomes, if some major parts of these cars are going to live 1,000,000 miles, which other parts and systems won't? Plastic? Electronics? Etc? Love your feed here!
Quick question, out of curiosity: I get how the door module gets installed into the door itself, but how does the glass pane get installed? Does it come with the door module, with the window in the lowered position, or does it get inserted after the door module is in place?
Glass is installed after the module. If you pause the video at @1:45 you will notice two large holes at the top of the door, those holes allow you access to the screws on the regulator to hold the window down. You insert the glass from the top and then tighten the screws which sandwich the glass.
Love that attitude! Great opener! It's been fun to see how quickly Munro's grown in front of the camera over the course of these videos.
Agree. if he's not careful. he will replace Jason as the geek cult hero!
hahahahah, that was hilarious when Sandy was showing his idea being rejected back in the day
All those bleep bleep bleep
@@russbg1827 Almost like Elon on an earnings call... ;-)
killed me at "these [bleeps] here"
Management really doesn't like good ideas
“Hey all you cool cats and kittens” ~ Sandy Munro
Munrrro
Wow, that meme has purrrculated all the way to this channel.
Sandy is clearly starting to enjoy this whole youtube thing :-D
Boys and girls, cats and kittens, what's next? Hahaha!!!
Omg, was eating my lunch and choked with laughter when he started talking about those ****s at Ford. Worked with a few of those myself!
Ford, the real F word Lol
"but a lot of other guys, like these *bleeping* *blep* *blep* *bleeeps*!" Haha so good!
ATTENTION Unauthorized employee initiative detected in Ford assembly area sector three. Initiate immediate corporate countermeasures.
I suspect the unions had as much to do with nixing the door module as Ford Corporate.
Ford: We need to stay as inefficient as possible, because of reasons!
Tesla: OK
Kasmopaya this is just State of the Art Technology - just check out other companies - Tesla did not invent this module - suppliers do and they sold this idea millions of times already to any automotive company before Tesla has been founded
One of the best episodes yet. Love the added backstory and how it relates.
Sandy throwing shade! Love it.
Also I want to play with that spectrometer gizmo!
X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)
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Reminds me of many similar situations I had - whenever you try to streamline the process there is too many people happy with the old way, however stupid it might be. The last time it happened to me was just that passed Christmas. I work for Penney’s and they put in in the fitting rooms. We had this tag system for the customers and of course what people do is they loose the tags on a constant basis. The system was older than coal, so there was no way to get new tags anymore. I told them, give me few bob and I’ll 3D print them, as I worked the system out. Very easy coding. No. We won’t. Too costly.
Ok, so I made the tags from cardboard. Fully working! Took me few days as I had no tools and customers to serve as well. We had full set for Christmas. No worries, right? Two days before the main manager throws them to the bin. These are not the right ones! Can’t use them!
You have no idea how people were pissed seeing that half of the fitting rooms are empty and we can’t let them in because we have no stupid tags. But at least we had the right ones, eh?
Sometimes, it helps being able to get into the mindset of a Japanese kamikaze pilot when dealing with people like that.
InfoSopher you mean shout BONSAI and charge anyway?
@@InfoSopher Are you really a kamikaze pilot if you survive?
Corporations manage middle management by fear; your boss has all the responsibility and none of the power, that's how the incompetent suits keep their jobs. "Mrs. Chakrabarti are you telling me you let an employee forge elements of a proprietary, patented customer management system?!"
Mike Oliver oh, but I know! They can’t decide even the simplest of simple things. Still, if we say ten times per day that customer is the key and we do all to please them... and then we make them wait even though there is no reason to wait. During Christmas shopping madness!
Love the videos. some tidbits about the “monster W module”... it’s efficacy comes from three things: the material which is Ultra high strength steel, its shape (the W), it’s angle and how it ties into the overall side structure. basically how it’s done in all cars but that’s one of the beefier side beams i’ve seen. some companies use tubular steel too but i’m guessing these wider platforms offer more coverage for more engagement with different types of incoming structures in an impact. plus you can put foam on the outside of them to help damp vibration and resonance from the door skin. probably more effective with a wide W vs a steel tube. (a secondary benefit) (speculation on that last one)
Love the bleeps. Salt of the earth is Sandy. True engineer and craftsman
“We didn’t do it because it was different” -Sandy Munro
If you work for large corporation, you run into this all the time. It’s a good indicator that you should find a new job.
Under categories 1( never outshine the master) categories 2 ( if your boss hasn't thought of it ,it is a bad idea)
Its also so in small companies, I had to experience this myself and was ultimately my reason for quitting - "traditional business"
Or start your own business like Mr. Munro.
@@dancehotelzumba3177 in... 1988, so right around the same time.
@@lylestavast7652 At the urging of his mentor, Edwards Deming.
Can't wait for your Cybertruck teardown!!
cant wait for a mercedes f1 teardown....
That may take a while, Sandy still has to go into the forest with it to pull a deer on the rear bed. ;)
Le Chat Botté is the f1 electric? Sounds cool
@@taylor92493 the f1 cars are technologically one of the most advanced in the world, from powertrain to dynamics to brakes, wheels, tires.....
@@taylor92493 also vw has an electric f1 car type
Thank you Sandy Munro for what you are doing. I was unsure about TESLA being a good auto manufacturing company but you are showing that they are a competent auto maker warts and all! you show the good and the not so good and hopefully TESLA will listen to you for you have impeccable credentials in the eyes of MANY car people. I thought TESLA was a great software company with unbelievable futuristic goals and ideas that are good for this planet and now I know they are very good at making automobiles for the future!!! PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING IF YOU CAN!!!
That's some legendary level shade thrown at Ford!
The intro was GOLD😂😂😂😂 I already see Sandy getting better at being a youtuber LOL.
This is my daily dose of automotive engineering nerd-out. Please keep it coming...I'm worried the model Y teardown will finish and I won't get my dose. Do more cars please!
What vehicle would you like to see next? We are taking suggestions.
@@MunroLive a BMW i8 would be pretty cool since it's mostly bonded carbon and aluminium square tube welds. But even videos like cheap cars built well, or cars that people didn't buy cause they thought it was crap but it was actually very well engineered, or even of the type how many designs of a door hinge exist...you know, nerdy stuff!
Love the history lesson.
Favorite episode so far😂
I rarely comment, but it was interesting to see that you have a PMI (Positive Material Identification) gun. In my line of work, that instrument is invaluable.
As for the topic, once upon a time, I used to be an auto mechanic, and it was so painful to deal with doors that had the window regulator heavily enclosed. The access holes sometimes had really sharp edges. One benefit I noticed, that module construction takes care of sealing the door trim panel from the elements. Normally, you have a thin plastic as a barrier, sometimes glued-in with putty glue that makes it almost impossible not to tear the said barrier whenever you need to access the window and/or lock mechanism. Kudos to those manufacturers that have implemented the modular approach.
I can't wait to see how the writers incorporate more of Sandy's origin story into this series.
Hey Sandy, you're showing pictures of assembly the doors that day I already worked as a mechanic in an old school car repair service for 13 years! And back that time I always thought wtf why they using 100 of screws and clips on one tool and a assembly guide filling 15 shapes of paper with an incredibly wiring.
But now they could make it a lot easier and of cause quieter. But wow, not really quieter as back those times. Just trying to make the fabrication cheaper without benefit the noise reduction.
So thanks a hundred times for your work on keeping pointing on the bads!!!
Dankeschön für das Video und bleibt alle gesund!
👍👍👍🇺🇸🚐🇺🇸😷😷😷
#stayathome #staysafe
I hate working on door internals but this makes so much sense.
Also glad to see Sandy revisit the magnet concept... ;)
If Sandy Munro would be a young and fresh engineer with his head full of ideas, he would definitivly had tried to work at TESLA!
I think (if he had enough capital or backing) he should have had his own company back in the day. He certainly has the brains for it!
Dance Hotel Zumba I think working for Musk is no fun at all
@@EVPaddy - Tesla doesn't seem to have any trouble getting first class designers and engineers, because very few directly work for Elon.
@@dancehotelzumba3177 thats called experience which he clearly didnt have back then he was a worker not VP of ford
@@douglasbkerr That may help, but still, I don't think it's a very pleasant place to be.
I have always liked subassemblies that can be built at dedicated workstations. Have not seen the car door module before but it makes a lot of sense for both assembly and component repair.
Your videos are continuing to get better.
Tesla should asking for his consultation services.... This man has got priceless experience and great ideas!
Great segway to an idea that was proposed over 30 years ago, love it!
That's more like segue
That module won't fit on a Segway
Excuse me, segway?
Dear Mr Munro, that must have been so frustrating when a perfectly good idea was not implemented just because it was different. That reminds me of the “wise words” from the person that took my exit interview from a steel wire giant : “Our company has been in business so long, that each and every time you come up with some idea, you have to realize someone before had the very same idea, but it wasn’t implemented because it wasn’t really a good idea. And that’s why things are the way they are right now.” I’m thankful to that person because he made me realize I needed to start my own business.
great video love how Sandy breaks everything down and explains how it works and better solutions crazy to see not all car company's use a simpler approach, I always want to work smarter not harder for sure.
Sandy, I really appreciate your videos and hope you continue them with other vehicles in the future. Thanks
Absolutely! Knowing that people enjoy them makes it that much easier for us to justify doing more! Thanks for tuning in!
This type of construction makes the sound of the midbass of the speaker sound even better. Has a better sealing effect on the door.
The engineering that goes into these components blows me away. Thanks for enlightening us, Sandy.
Just when you think these videos couldn't be topped, Sandy comes in with this. The best!
I love seeing the intricate engineering being done behind the scenes. Glad to see there's improvement occurring.
I love your vidoes. I’m not an engineer, but watching your vidoes is neat. I own a model 3. And it amazes me how it’s built. Vehicles in general, and how they mass produce them is just mind boggling to me. Oh, and in 1987 I was just 3 years old. lol
Door modules seem much better than the traditional way! Wow, thanks for sharing and thanks for the laughs.
Who would've thought Sandy would be this entertaining!
You're a rockstar Sandy. Thanks for sharing.
Oh I like the yellow text with more information, do that more please :D
I have been watching all your videos , great work, You are inspiring so many new generations, Really thanks for doing that, I believe that we need videos like yours, from people with your background, experience and nice way to produce them.
An extra note: I have been working with new technology developments my whole life, submitted several patents and created many prototypes. I move to USA 20 years ago, and all my cars except my motorcycles, had been from Ford , maybe accidentally. About one year ago I saw an interesting "innovative position open" in Florida with Ford. I was curious and sent my resume, and surprisingly got an interview in record time. I answered the questions in the interview and made emphasis in how my skills and background could be a positive contribution to the new Ford division (job was related with EVs in some way, and I was working exactly on a EV charging platform on my own that ended in the hands of a company in Europe. The Ford interview was like a joke, with the incorrect people handling the questions (I have been in a few interviews in my life in companies of similar or large size). I was sad because I was sure that they will hire the incorrect people for the project. Ford, my iconic American brand will not innovate any more if this is the attitude of the new generations handling the hiring process. I saw the financial Ford results yesterday. Not sure what will happen with them, I still have some hearth for them, but I'm waiting for cyber-truck to replace my Ford expedition.
Love videos on these kind of details (especially innovative/intelligent design) and how things are/can be improved. Finally getting the attention your deserve Sandy!
Watching the years go by and the lack of innovation must have been frustrating. At least the industry now has a boot up it's ass (thanks to Tesla and the new movement of EV companies). Maybe we'll finally see things move forward how they should have been the whole time.
The type of content you are thankful it existed
The one thing I really enjoy about these videos is hearing great lakes speech patterns again. Straight to the point, less passive with the shade, and unabashed.
On the door side of things. When I had a first gen Jeep Liberty I ended up replacing the rear regulators due to failure. While in the door I kept thinking to myself, this could all be on a single snap in injection molding peace. I'm glad someone suggested it when I was a toddler. Just wish they would have adapted it because it was a huge pita to replace those regulators.
Sandy telling it like it is. Liked the retro look and story of the door
Love the intro! Always entertaining and educational Sandy and team!
So sassy today, love it. I bet this is a pretty satisfying car to deconstruct, this isn't the first time we've heard Sandy talk about things he's seeing that were recommended to other automakers but didn't really get traction. Whether Tesla arrived on those same designs independently or got those recommendations from Sandy himself, I imagine it's a good feeling to see some of them implemented.
I don't work in the auto industry, but I've worked on many care, and I also had the idea of an insert for all of the door internals, but my idea also had the exterior components and glass mounted to it and all assembled off line and just installed on the line. I can't say I thought it it back in 87, but it was more than 20 years ago.
My 3 decades of experience in corporate American has proven that the very best idea in the entire world will never see the light of day unless your boss (or boss's boss) can take credit for it. If you put together formal documentation that establishes the idea as you own, it will be killed and buried. But then you will usually see something almost identical proposed by your management a few months later.
Remember listening to an older automotive mechanic giving his idea to bolt down the inner door frame from the outer, so you could just take it to a workbench. They patent it then sat on it.
I just watched the Plaid door video....I had to re-watch this one!! The module seems so bloody logical...
These videos are a lot of fun. Entertaining and informative. Keep it up
Love this series!
Thanks for the backstory. Adding what others in industry are doing is very meaningful as it gives us 'non-engineers' context on who is doing what. Which company is most advanced in processes.
This is amazing stuff, the in depth videos are making a huge difference for Tesla. To see the innovation and changes they have made is second to none, and an incredible opportunity to see how ahead and innovative they are. Loving all of it!!!!
Excellent start of the video. Hope they continue.
Why do I look forward to these so much???
Hilarious and epic start of the video
Love the vibe of this one. The intro was just superb.
Thumbs up for 1987 Sandy, looks straight out of F is for family!
Great video, I can see you had fun with this one.
Sandy you are amazing!! Love the history!
Who knew Salty Sandy could be so much fun ... we need more Salty Sandy ...
Munro Live with BLEEEEPS!!! Best ever!!
Munro is my new hero
My 1987 Ranger STX was good it hauled my 88CR500 to the desert many times , with the tail gate UP !
Stories like the one Sandy tells at the beginning are exactly why I left the military. Constantly getting told "Great idea!" followed by "That's never going to happen." is incredibly demoralizing.
Interesting to see where Sandy is coming from. Manufacturing from a cost and ease perspective. From that perspective things make a lot of sense. OTOH, I know all the backyard mechanics are shaking with rage right now as massive integrated components often need to be replaced as a unit, necessitating a whole bunch of cost and time to replace if even the smallest thing goes wrong.
Havent laughed out loud like that in forever!
Fascinating. Thank you very much. Auto engineerings moved on from our 1980 XJ6, which was the last car we maintained ourselves. Wish I’d kept. My bf bought a model 3 P late 2019. I’ve driven a few a few times. The loud pedal is intoxicating and a bit dangerous.
Haha! The beginning was great!
Love this channel, ironically know better a Tesla from the inside before owning one, if ever. Never seen the inside of my car. Fascinating how things are explained.
enjoyed the little history lesson ! hehe. no bad blood there ! :)
Great job Sandy!!
This is like taking an unboxing video to level 100!
how?!?!?!
My old 1998 VW golf mk4 had door modules like that, but they were made from a sheet of metal instead of injection moulded plastic. Unfortunately they made the stirrups that hold the glass out of plastic and they broke on pretty much every single mk4 golf until they changed them to metal.
great video. As a person who normally, either has old cars, or keeps cars for a looooong time, I'm very interested in future maintenance. The screw holes on the door, look at bit, iffy, not a lot of metal to hold the screw in place?
Love the idea that Tesla is going where FMC could have gone a long time ago.
Also it's great that Mr Munro is still finding area's that Tesla can improve in.
Yes, this is highly unusual. Looks like they are tapping into extruded aluminum holes? Very risky. Standard is bolt into weld-nut/clinch-nut, plastic 1/4 clips or some combination of these.
Revenge is best served in binder form
Yes, very very cold indeed...
I'm so happy I'm not the only one still salty over things that happened in 87'.
This still happens today especially in large cooperations, they hit me 3 years ago. I had developed a smart camera (for scanning luggage badges on airports) they use currently 3 cameras & PC each worth 50k€, my solution would had been cost only a fraction of it. I had a prototype ready only, the comment from management was "We are looking for something more ready" , even today they are still looking.
Wish Tesla would hire Sandy and they could collaborate on effective designs. Love these videos.
A-Like for well deserved calling-off the bullies (with pictures), they know who they are ! !
LOL
1st 90 seconds already savage and worth watching.
This sucks but sadly that's how it often goes with good ideas from talented people
When you said “hey there boys and girls” yesterday I was hoping you would have said “hey ther all you cats and kittens” and now my dreams have come true!
You need a new hobby. :P
Urgelt, you are so right
Great video Sandy. Just for the record Volkswagen group have been using modular door construction for decades in Audi,Volkswagen passenger cars, SEAT,Porsche and Skoda vehicles here in Europe.Tear down an ID.4 or Golf and have a look? Cheers fellas
Great videos Mr. Munro! I like the thing you are doing as me being an engineer in the automotive industry, I found this very helpful to understand better the vehicle as a whole, even though I work on one particular part of it that regards passive safety. Will you please, if possible of course, analyse the door handles of Model Y and give your opinion on it? Thanks in advance and greetings from Italy!
"Hhahaaa! Sandy pulls no punches! Love-it!"
Sandy - for the window guide rails you actually need quite a lot of stiffness for frameless doors. That's why they're not integrated in the polypropylene. Remember some kids will hang out on the window sometimes :-)
aren't those railings anyway hanging onto the polypropylene and thus whatever is the weakest member will break first ?
A rail designed in plastic will hardly be stiff enough in flexion. The mounting points can be made stiffer and stronger even if in plastic as there's more freedom on design to increase the section and ribbing to make the stiff.
Thank you Sandy
Amazing and so very very interesting all movies !!!
Yess!!!!! you made my day “cool cats and kitten”
AWESOME!!!!!! Keep it up!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA . Sandy has found his calling.
Hmm. You not the real guy.
...back the audio system, that speaker looks bigger than 6.5", has a real surround and dust cap. I bet it has a good magnet too. Nothing avant garde, but simple proven things I haven't seen consistently in other cars. I had a VW with 8" in the door, it sounded great. The model Y has a dedicated enclosed subwoofer and larger than "typical" drivers in the door.
Thanks Sandy
4:07 Wow I didn't even know that handheld XRF spectrometers exist
If the motor and battery(and aluminum body parts even longer) is heading toward the 1,000,000 mile lifespan, how long can we expect all of the plastic on these cars to last? Having owned and restored many olders vehicles over the years, plastic parts are often fail parts, especially if under tension like in the case of plastic clips and fasteners. I guess the bigger picture question becomes, if some major parts of these cars are going to live 1,000,000 miles, which other parts and systems won't? Plastic? Electronics? Etc? Love your feed here!
Hahha... favorite episode so far! love the door module story. Keep Going Sandy!!
VW/Audi have also been using door modules for a long time.
Like the work bench
Love the nod to Tiger King. Does the model 3 use a door module? Might have missed that episode during that tear down.
Quick question, out of curiosity: I get how the door module gets installed into the door itself, but how does the glass pane get installed? Does it come with the door module, with the window in the lowered position, or does it get inserted after the door module is in place?
Inserted after, needs to be replaceable for broken windows
Glass is installed after the module. If you pause the video at @1:45 you will notice two large holes at the top of the door, those holes allow you access to the screws on the regulator to hold the window down. You insert the glass from the top and then tighten the screws which sandwich the glass.
@@richardnedbalek1968 and he does it with smashing success !
As somebody who used to work on cars, it's nice to see that even engineers hate other engineers 😂😂