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Trouble with Tesla: Couple sold damaged car but told they can’t sue
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 27 Sept 2019 | Stephanie Zimmermann

Posted on 09/29/2019 8:59:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

When their new $110,000 car arrived from Chicago, it had undisclosed damage. The case highlights the difficulty in dealing with the company’s secretive arbitration system.

The detailer found paint overspray and sand marks on the rear bumper and flaws on a rear quarter panel.

The Nagers demanded a new, undamaged car, which Tesla refused.

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A friend stopped by with his pride and joy BMW, to do a valve adjustment. Seeing overspray I ask when he pranged it?

"Oh no! There is not a mark on my baby!"

There is no overspray allowed in the factory???

/// The rest of the story///

He takes his now five-year-old baby to MR BMW for complete tech inspection. At first sight, Mr BMW, says I remember this car! Hans the Kanuz service master, just had to take the hot new car for a ride and hit a curb!!!

The car had other minor issues, my friend is a physician, not a gear head. It had a slight wheel imbalance at speed and slight pull to the left. He always took it to Knauz, they told him the must have hit a curb or pothole!! New tire for the new car$$$ he paid!!! When that did not repair it , they told him it needed a new wheel $$$$ CRAZY MONEY, he paid! They adjusted the alignment, then it pulled to the right!$$$ He paid, that was the last time at the dealer.

There should have been NO RUNOUT! Blued, screwed and tattooed.

1 posted on 09/29/2019 8:59:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They should have bought a Challenger. Butt they probably went with tesla to help save the planet.


2 posted on 09/29/2019 9:06:02 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I guess I’m missing something. The purpose of a Tesla is to be able to hold one’s nose up and TALK ABOUT IT, and how great it is for the country and the future.

As long as the car looks new and clean what’s the difference if it rides like crap, since it’s not intended for that purpose? I certainly wouldn’t agree to give them a dime if they abused that car by trying to actually drive it.


3 posted on 09/29/2019 9:06:25 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Photog...”OK, give me your saddest, hangdog, most violated look now. PERFECT! Hold it!”


4 posted on 09/29/2019 9:10:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If I had 110K to spend on a car, it wouldn’t be a Tesla.


5 posted on 09/29/2019 9:10:36 AM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

BMW, Audi... Overpriced poorly and overly engineered German money pits and some of the crookedest dealers and mechanics in the universe.

And the quality problems of Tesla are legion. However nothing can get through the virtue signaling and snobbiness of the owners.


6 posted on 09/29/2019 9:12:29 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ha ha. Perfect. “Pretend someone stole your puppy” look.


7 posted on 09/29/2019 9:12:30 AM PDT by Troublemaker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LoL - where’s my tiny violin?!


8 posted on 09/29/2019 9:12:55 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Car companies have done this for ages.

Small damage (not wrecked) and before it is sold they repair it and then send to dealer.

MY wifes Camaro SS was this way. One day washing the car noticed a weird haze on rear quarter.

Turns out is must have been scratched or small scrape before sent to dealer or maybe even at the dealer and the blended in the paint sun caught it just right so it was noticeable.

Took it to a local paint shop..yes it was repaired at one time..but not by us.


9 posted on 09/29/2019 9:13:16 AM PDT by setter
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I can buy a 400 hp 2004 Corvette Z04 with only 5K miles on the odo for $25,000. It gets 30 mpg hwy too.

What a steal. If I do that I will drive hell out of it. Every day.


10 posted on 09/29/2019 9:13:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I don’t trust any new or used car sales person or car dealer basically at all. I also don’t feel sorry for some rich doctor who figured out that his new $110,000 Tesla had a minor imperfection. Half or more of new cars have some kind of defect, and it used to be worse than that. New cars are not perfect, that is an unrealistic expectation, the good doctor probably just didn’t notice the issues with his other new cars. That is just one of the reasons you are typically better off buying a three year old car for about half the price. You expect something to go wrong, but typically the problems were ironed out by the previous owner.


11 posted on 09/29/2019 9:13:43 AM PDT by fireman15
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I don’t care much if one bunch of liberals screws a liberal couple.


12 posted on 09/29/2019 9:14:47 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s Nagers. Not Naggers.


13 posted on 09/29/2019 9:15:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ha ha...a couple of libs got jobbed.


15 posted on 09/29/2019 9:16:02 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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If I had $110,000 to spend on a car, it wouldn’d be a car.


16 posted on 09/29/2019 9:16:12 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BobL
As long as the car looks new and clean what’s the difference if it rides like crap, since it’s not intended for that purpose? I certainly wouldn’t agree to give them a dime if they abused that car by trying to actually drive it.

Ha ha ha. Sadly, that's not terribly far from the truth.

My first thought when it said Chicago & I saw the picture of the couple was.....dear lord, $100 to a dime these people voted for Slick Willie twice, Obama twice, and Hillary (possibly twice). They look like a caricature of uber virtue signaling leftists.

My second thought was, TFB. Being a virtue signaling progressive is a poor substitute for brains and common sense.

My third thought? It's gotten very difficult for me to give a damn about most things that happen to progressives. I'm sure in someone's book that is wrong, but that's what they have done to me.

17 posted on 09/29/2019 9:17:54 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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I’d bet she’s a nagger.


18 posted on 09/29/2019 9:18:42 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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The Nagers demanded a new, undamaged car, which Tesla refused.

Tesla salesman should have known these two would be trouble after learning their last name.

19 posted on 09/29/2019 9:18:49 AM PDT by dznutz
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If I had 110K to spend on a car, it wouldn’t be a Tesla.

If I had that to spend on a vehicle I'd have a garage with a basic Hyundai and a half dozen nice motorcycles.

20 posted on 09/29/2019 9:20:11 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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