My brother bought a Tesla ( slightly used but still in warranty )
The battery needed replaced $4,000.00
Tire replacement? About $1400 for 4
If you get some other kind of tires, you will need to replace the rims to accommodate... $3,500.00
Thanks for that little tidbit of info!.....................
Why are the tires any different?
Several issues not addressed. Can you replace the battery with a non-Tesla made battery? If so, will Tesla brick your car by remote control? I replaced my laptop battery with a generic. It works fine, but the computer complains and sends me all kinds of warnings when it boots up because I didn’t buy the battery from HP. The difference in price was HUGE.
For a while I was following a guy who was rebuilding Teslas. The dealer detected he’d made some kind of modification and they bricked (rendered nonfunctional via software) his car. Nothing he could do about it, apparently. That would be it for me, if Toyota turned off my truck because I’d put a non-Toyota thingy on it.
What’s so special about the tires?
The previous owner of my 2005 Jag-u-ar put super-duper Michelin’s on it to the tune of about $1,000, and I thought that was a lot.