Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Arizona
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 06-22-2017, 11:31 PM
 
Location: Rural Michigan
6,341 posts, read 14,687,030 times
Reputation: 10550

Advertisements

Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Cadillac_Lawyer View Post
Good for them. I for one, can't wait till the legacy dealership purchase model dies. Dealerships, real estate agents even attorneys have profited from pure tradition for far too long.
Attorneys are going to have a field-day making tesla buy their cars back under the lemon laws once tesla starts selling to the mass-market. Tesla doesn't have enough service centers / dealerships to repair their cars cost-effectively across the country. It's one thing to drag a $70,000 car across a couple of state lines to repair it, another thing entirely to do that for a $30,000 car. The way the lemon-laws are written it's not unusual at all to have to pay a customer back nearly the entire purchase price on a 100,000 mile car. I personally dropped off a check to buy-back a 200,000 mile car in California once. And "lemon laws" are rarely applied to cars that are actually undrivable or unsafe. A check-engine light or a nebulous un-reproducible sound triggers more buy-backs than real mechanical/safety issues.

I'm predicting an unprecedented buyer-meltdown as "free" in-warranty repairs go out-of-warranty & customers have to start footing those bills.


// fwiw, my opinion is based on experience as a zone-service-manager for a small manufacturer that had *five times* as many service facilities as tesla does currently & that was woefully inadequate Actual manufacturer *costs* for a 100,000 mile power-train warranty + a five-year bumper-to-bumper warranty are often under a grand for gasoline engined vehicles. One in-warranty tow-bill from Blythe to Phoenix will exceed that cost without any repair cost at all factored in. From a service/warranty perspective, tesla better make cars that are waaaay better than everyone else or they're going to get owned //.

Last edited by Zippyman; 06-22-2017 at 11:41 PM..
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 06-26-2017, 05:35 PM
 
1,069 posts, read 1,261,800 times
Reputation: 1521
Can't wait for Trump to put this shyster fraud Musk out of business. The Charles Ponzi of the 21st century. Even with enormous taxpayer subsidy, his ventures fail or are in the best case, prone to serious technical issues. https://www.google.com/search?q=tesl...utf-8&oe=utf-8

You guys want fancy cars? Then buy something the taxpayers aren't being gouged for.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:


Settings
X
Data:
Loading data...
Based on 2000-2020 data
Loading data...

123
Hide US histogram


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Arizona

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:31 AM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top