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Tesla Will Replace Your Stupid Yoke With a Steering Wheel for $700
Tesla Will Replace Your Stupid Yoke With a Steering Wheel for $700-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:24

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Tesla’s yoke steering wheel is stupid for a number of reasons. You know it, we know it. And Tesla seems to know it, too: The company backtracked a few months after introducing the yoke, bringing back the normal, round steering wheel as a no-cost option. Now, as , Tesla is offering owners of yoke-equipped cars the chance to swap back to a conventional steering wheel — for $700.

Here’s a brief timeline of the yoke. In , Tesla showed us a slightly refreshed Model S and Model X. In addition to the high-performance Plaid and Plaid Plus variants, and updates like better battery range, the big news was the steering yoke, sort of a flattened rectangle with no top loop.

The introduction of the yoke didn’t go as planned for Tesla. By mid-February, , all because of the dopey yoke. By July, a showing just how inconvenient the yoke was in everyday driving. A month later, to show that not only was the yoke inconvenient while driving, it was also cheaply made, with the finish peeling off on cars with less than 20,000 miles.

Apparently, Tesla heard the call. By January 2023, the automaker had quietly on Model S and Model X. Now, just over two months later, the company will happily retrofit the steering wheel you should have had in the first place, for an easy $700.

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Found in the Shop section of Tesla’s website, the steering wheel retrofit includes the new part and the cost of installation at a Tesla service center. (The yoke-swap first appeared on Tesla’s website in January, , but customers couldn’t place the order until this week.) Ordering the swap sounds like a bit of a hassle — owners have to scan a QR code on Tesla’s website, which opens the Tesla smartphone app, which confirms that you own a yoke-equipped Model S or X before allowing you to place the order. Also, bad news: The wheel swap is already sold out as of this writing.

Considering that Tesla made the switch back to a normal steering wheel in the first place, maybe this will be a lesson for the company to pay closer attention to what people actually want in their cars.

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