[DUMBGRUNT]

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.

[rktman]

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

[BobL]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Photog...”OK, give me your saddest, hangdog, most violated look now. PERFECT! Hold it!”

[dainbramaged]

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

[Seruzawa]

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.

[setter]

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.

[central_va]

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.

[fireman15]

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.

[dznutz]

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.

[jjotto]

Tesla is known for such poor treatment. They could have got a nice Audi E-tron or Jaguar I-pace and at least been able to deal with someone face-to-face.

[BobL]

Where’s Moonbeam? He’s usually quick to defend Tesla on these threads.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The article is not really about Tesla, but about the rapidly increasing use of arbitration which disadvantages the consumer. Tesla (like other companies using arbitration) pays the arbitration costs, so it’s no surprise that arbitrators find for the company 75% of the time. An arbitrator who finds for the consumer too often will soon find himself out of work.

“The Nagers say they were never presented with a contract or arbitration agreement.” — Right. You can buy a car without a contract. There’s a nice bridge in New York City I should be able to sell them.

“The Nagers say they shouldn’t be bound by a contract they never saw nor signed — whether on paper or online. “I never pushed a button because I didn’t have a button to push,” Debbie Nager says.”

Poor ignorant Debbie! I can’t believe she admitted that for all the world to see.

Just Google “Tesla Purchase Agreement” and you get it. I suspect they just clicked on an “Accept” button not knowing they had just executed their purchase agreement. People are so used to clicking “Accept” online that most people think nothing of it and forget they actually did it. Here is how hard it is to get the Tesla agreement: Click Here.

The article says “Often, the language is buried deep inside a contract or online agreement.” Yes, Tesla really buried it deep in the agreement — go to the top of Page 2:

[northislander]

Junk that would not exist without federal grants and California mandates...

[BobL]

So the nagger buying this talking piece is a CARDIOLOGIST. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what ‘rights’ he makes his patients sign away before he’ll work on them.

[northislander]

Electric vehicles haven’t been invented yet...

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Hey, I love my Ford Escape Titanium!

[dznutz]

[AlaskaErik]

I was just at my local Chevy dealer and the salesman showed me a brand new Traverse with the front end pushed in, which occurred in transit. He said it will be fixed and sold as new.

[VeniVidiVici]

Bottom line is that most people put no thought into the pre-delivery inspection. However, for the most part, this is your last chance to bring stuff up to the dealer that is wrong with the car. After you sign the papers and it’s yours, IT’S YOURS!!!

[grey_whiskers]

Teslas are the Crossfit of the automotive world.