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

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

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thejazzman 10 months ago | parent [-]

Arguing got it down to $7.5k and beyond that I needed a lawyer. I paid it, and kinda regret it, because not only is it a refurbished battery, it's basically useless on a trip/supercharger now as they cap the speed to absurdly low levels. Like 10%/h. Car only had 70k miles on it, too.

I appreciate that you didn't call me a liar, which has been my past experience anytime I mention something negative about that company

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bdangubic 10 months ago | parent [-]

I have a colleague at work that had the same experience as you - it was close to 9 months after warranty! For sure this is a thing - can’t believe someone called you a liar! There are other people on various Tesla forums with issues like yours.

Is the supecharger capping a thing? Like for any refurbished battery? I didn’t know about this!!

	▲	thejazzman 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		I'd only seen it mentioned with regards to salvage titled cars before my own experience. They certainly didn't tell/warn me that this would happen. They actually did the opposite (of course), insisting it would be warranted and as-good-as-the-battery-it-replaced. They said I could buy a new one for like $30k....... the car was worth about $20k, assuming it was working, which it wasn't. It stings. Can't even write it off in my head as supporting the EV movement with how soured that's all become.