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Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

tyrust wrote: post #2

Neat. >During the first 300,000 miles the total combined maintenance and fuel costs of the Tesla Model S were $10,492, with a total of 12 days in the shop. Had this been an Mercedes S class, the scheduled routine maintenance and fuel would have been $86,000 ($52,000 maintenance and $36,000* fuel) with 112 days of servicing, or for a Lincoln Town Car $70k,000 ($28,000 maintenance and $42,000 fuel) with around 100 days…

Including time spent refueling (charging for Tesla) would make the comparison more fair.

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by dmitrygr »

blktiger wrote: post #9
dmitrygr wrote: post #5

Sadly, if you are not a company with a name like Tesloop, but a normal user, the issue is not cost of service but time wasted on waiting for it. Unlike a real car, teslas can only be serviced by tesla...so.... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-firs... https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla... http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/... http://insideevs.c…

Tesla, Nissan Leaf, or Chevy Bolt - any electric car should have similar benefits in reduced maintenance costs.

Yup, and only one of those makes you wait months for maintenance appointments

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by andrei_says_ »

dmitrygr wrote: post #5

Sadly, if you are not a company with a name like Tesloop, but a normal user, the issue is not cost of service but time wasted on waiting for it. Unlike a real car, teslas can only be serviced by tesla...so.... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-firs... https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla... http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/... http://insideevs.c…

Noticed that you framed the debate as a zero sum game between "Tesla" and "reason".

Doing so diminishes the possibility for an open discussion.

Edit: thank you for updating your post. Your understandable frustration is still clear but now the discussion is much easier.

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by dmitrygr »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #13
dmitrygr wrote: post #5

Sadly, if you are not a company with a name like Tesloop, but a normal user, the issue is not cost of service but time wasted on waiting for it. Unlike a real car, teslas can only be serviced by tesla...so.... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-firs... https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla... http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/... http://insideevs.c…

Noticed that you framed the debate as a zero sum game between "Tesla" and "reason". Doing so diminishes the possibility for an open discussion. Edit: thank you for updating your post. Your understandable frustration is still clear but now the discussion is much easier.

correct - making people wait for months to get required service is NOT reasonable (And you can make no excuse for it). Other car companies (including those that provide electric cars), do act reasonably in terms of their service capacity matching demand. The fact that Tesla did not plan for this does not make it excusable.

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

So they saved a bunch of money by putting a ton of miles on before age related problems started showing up. In other news the sky is blue.

It's component deterioration from age that really gets you on a luxury car. Seat motors fail, wiring harnesses deteriorate, etc.

It's also worth mentioning that they didn't crash one. With enough road hours eventually it will happen. The vehicles that can be serviced by a normal shop will be cheaper to repair.

The lack of downtime is very impressive but if it's really that much cheaper than running a fleet of town cars then why do they need to twist the numbers?

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dmitrygr wrote: post #12
blktiger wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tesla, Nissan Leaf, or Chevy Bolt - any electric car should have similar benefits in reduced maintenance costs.

Yup, and only one of those makes you wait months for maintenance appointments

I'd still rather buy a Tesla.

Edit: look up how many people GM killed with their ignition switch recall (124). I'm not putting my wife and daughter in a legacy automaker vehicle just because those cars get fixed faster

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_swit...

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

sapienthomo wrote: post #7

So, did anyone put in their email to get the service records? Please repost. I'm interested in the cost of the tires.

A metric fuckton each, four metric fucktons per vehicle.

They're special and IIRC have a liner to reduce NVH because that's one of their selling points.

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by tomcam »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #13
dmitrygr wrote: post #5

Sadly, if you are not a company with a name like Tesloop, but a normal user, the issue is not cost of service but time wasted on waiting for it. Unlike a real car, teslas can only be serviced by tesla...so.... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-firs... https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla... http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/... http://insideevs.c…

Noticed that you framed the debate as a zero sum game between "Tesla" and "reason". Doing so diminishes the possibility for an open discussion. Edit: thank you for updating your post. Your understandable frustration is still clear but now the discussion is much easier.

Not trying to troll or be rude, but I actually can't find any problem with the original post. Could you elucidate?

Re: Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k maintenance costs

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Post by sapienthomo »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #17
sapienthomo wrote: post #7

So, did anyone put in their email to get the service records? Please repost. I'm interested in the cost of the tires.

A metric fuckton each, four metric fucktons per vehicle. They're special and IIRC have a liner to reduce NVH because that's one of their selling points.

Yeah I know how much the tires cost. I want to know how many times they've replaced them because if they drove like me they would have spent all that money and then some, just on the tires. I'm a little skeptical of their total.
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