Tesla Talk 2

Link please, but yes they do that for badly crashed cars. Once you get the repair recertifid at Tesla Service the access will be restored. If I had to guess they want to ensure the repairs were done safely due to risk of fire if battery pack, cooling system, or cabling faults are suspected after a crash.

Still looking for monsters under the bed

All hail the magnificent i3 REX.

Doesn't sound too bad in fairness. The seller would get back multiples if it was made superchargeable again and the buyer would get peace of mind that he's actually getting a properly repaired former wreck. I mean if you really wanted to buy a cat S car knowingly.

Looking for an efficient ev for daily commute , currently have a ev9 for the daily run around and ev6 GT for commute, tempted to go back to Tesla for a model 3 long range AWD, what is real world range for these on 18 inch wheels mixed driving 100km/h avg, would you lose your shirt if you traded in to Tesla directly, don't think there is any Kia to match Tesla efficiency. Thnks

Very true regarding depreciation, Since 2017, my approach has been to change cars 12 to 18 months old with 40 to 50k kms, in the good times, cost to change was 5k to 10k for the same model, of course 20% plus depreciation applies now, always thought that if it costs you practically nothing to run for 10 months of year, it was a small price to pay for keeping car within warranty and trouble free motoring along with new car. Equally, you could go down second hand route and have a cheap car to run but at a greater risk. No experience with Tesla Sandyford trade in for Tesla against a new Tesla, my Kia's could be near 25kw/100km versus Tesla 15kw/100km, so 5000kwh difference yearly, if I'm honest, it's more about ICCU failures if I kept the ev6 out of warranty.

the trade-in question is easy to answer - Tesla aren’t the ones giving you the trade-in offer, they simply offer your car to the country’s trade garages and whatever the highest offer back is, that’s what you get.

In other words, if you trade-in your current car to Tesla, expect a below-market price.

Outside of the main dealers, where they’re more incentivised to get you into a new model, it’s the same process in every garage in the country, it’s just that Tesla is more public about it.

I might be late to this, but Tesla have removed the autosteer function from all new cars in the US, forcing a buyer decision to either pay for an FSD subscription, or have a ‘dumb’ car, with no self drive feature beyond basic radar cruise control.

I suppose it’s one way for Elon to hit that 10m subscriptions target for his shares bonus.

Yeah we discussed it here last month sometime. TACC and probably basic lane keep

On other Tesla news, naturally none of the naysayers in here nor any regular media reported it: Tesla again had superchargers charge cars for free in the USA in areas affected by power cuts because of the recent winter storm. The superchargers were NOT affected by the power cuts

Now why would money mad Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, do that? And not at least make sure that it was all over the media to make him look good?

Or maybe it’s worth accepting that many Tesla owners simply enjoy their cars and aren’t concerned with what the CEO does, because it doesn’t impact their day2day lives or how the car performs. The constant fixation on minor, non-issues with Tesla is getting tedious.

"I guess unpredictable depreciation is all part and parcel of the Tesla owner experience".

Bad actor credentials to the fore, well done.

Tesla residuals holding up extremely well if you bothered to enquire.