WHAT FLAVOR DO YOU WANT?
SORRY, YOU ORDERED THE ONE
HE IS HOLDING IN HIS LEFT HAND!
Posted on 09/14/2022 11:51:02 AM PDT by DFG
The owner of a $155,000 Tesla Model S Plaid told the Elon Musk-focused outlet Teslarati that he received a call that any car owner would dread just days after dropping off his vehicle for service in Plano, Texas.
The man, identified only as Jeff, said he left his car at the Tesla Service Center in Plano on Aug. 24 and was contacted by the service center on Aug. 30.
According to the report, the Tesla employee said four words every car owner dreads: “We have some bad news.” Then he added, “Your car was totaled.”
Jeff, understandably, couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “I thought it was a joke,” he told Teslarati.
“I found out very soon it was not a joke.”
Jeff said that when he arrived at the service center the next day, he was greeted by his black Model S Plaid. The passenger rear door had been crushed inward, and its airbags were deployed.
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It was a Telsa dealership, when you charge that much for a car you better have GREAT OUTSTANDING customer service!!
I thought it was
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Why couldn’t the car be repaired, $155,000 dollar car with a caved in door is deemed totaled?? Can someone enlighten me???
EV batteries are easy to ruin in collisions to the side of the car. You can’t add bracing protection because they are already very heavy. The need for a new battery plus other damage totaled the car. They go through tires faster than ICE cars too, due to their weight. They damage vehicles they hit worse also due to their weight.
EXACTLY what I was thinking ... battery dead.
A friend of mine bought a hybrid some years ago (at least 10). Her brother bought it originally so he could use the HOV lanes on his work commute and didn’t like the car, sold it to her. Her main worry was needing a new battery ... for that particular hybrid car, it would be $4,500. I think she sold it while the battery was still ok - replaced with a ‘regular’ car.
I only learned the G-rated version :)
THANK YOU!!
Sir, your Tesla Model S Plaid is on the roof...
Forgot to mention that the car may have cost $155k but it wasn’t worth that at the time of the wreck, it was a used car by then. Don’t know how old it was or how many miles it had but it wasn’t worth $155k.
I have another question if there is really NOTHING to the car except the battery WHY would you need it serviced??
TLDR: Service Center employee took the Tesla out for a test drive to ensure repair was completed properly, ran through a 4 way stop, was T-boned by an Audi. Audi driver in hospital, Tesla shipping a new Tesla to the owner.
Audi driver’s really the one who got screwed here. He did nothing wrong and he’s in the hospital.
Back in the 80s I hung around a bunch of guys that had 4x4s all ford or chevy......heaven help the guy that broke or got stuck in the mud ‘cause the dudes driving the other make weren’t gonna let ‘em forget it.
The verbal abuse was epic.....good thing we were all friends. Lol!
The Audi Driver should own the service center when he heals up.
Omitted from excerpt:
“The vehicle had been t-boned by another car traveling just two blocks from the Service Center, located at 5800 Democracy Drive in Plano,” Teslarati reported.
This has NOTHING to do with Tesla.
Clickbait title.
Service staff completed a repair and were test driving it.
They gave him an identical vehicle.
Non-story but for irrelevant “Tesla” in title.
Anybody get fired?
I wouldnt have fired him/her. They’d work it off. Then they’d get fired.
So something happened I guess.
A new car of the same make/model sounds like a very reasonable settlement
Its why everyone up and down the chain must buy insurance.
For sure! I used to count on JC Whitney’s to get stuff from way back. Not so much now.
You’d be exactly right, because neither Ford, nor GM, nor Chrysler own or operate the dealerships that service their vehicle. So anyone whose car got damaged by a Ford, GM, or Chrysler dealership is going to have to make a claim against the dealership’s insurance company, much the same way another driver would have to make a claim against YOUR insurance company if you damaged their vehicle by crashing into it.
Those cars are rockets!
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