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As of 11/13/2024, Consumer Reports rates Tesla as the lowest maintenance and repair costs over the first 10 years of ownership, not factoring in insurance or collision repair.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-maintenance/the-cos...

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aprilthird2021 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

But that's not factoring in the exact things I'm talking about: insurance and collision repair, which are both higher on this make

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thejazzman 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They didn't ask me about my $15k battery replacement that occurred the day after my warranty expired

Doesn't much matter how good the cells are when the wires in the pack just magically corrode

	▲	bdangubic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		outliers always exist, you were dealt bad hands. I think also if you pushed hard you could have gotten this covered, just needs a whole lot of yelling and if that doesn’t work going social and trying to get some publicity behind it, especially if it was 1 DAY after warranty expired. I personally thinks it makes financial sense to get extended warranty for things like this, $15k used to be a price of a new car, getting a warranty to cover that past Tesla’s warranty I think makes financial sense. My wife recently bought pre-owned eTron and I made her get extended warranty after doing research online about maintenance costs on them