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I am seriously debating buying a used Tesla, possibly after joining the retards drawing swastikas on them to lower the price.
Anyone have any experience with them? It's not my type of car, I just want something cheap and electric for local use that I can use excess noon solar on.
The Euros keep failing them in large numbers in their road-worthiness inspections at around 4 years. Depending on the exact country, it seems 20%-30% have "substantial deficits" which require major repair work. Worst EV in class, every single time.
The biggest problem is certainly brake rust from under-use (which you can mediate yourself, and Tesla could probably fix that by software update), but the reports I've seen also all mention suspension problems and faults with the headlight systems.
I wanted a used Model 3, but major repairs at 4 years is kinda scary. I've driven my Toyotas all well past 15 years of age, and I'm not confident the early generations of the Model 3 will get anywhere close to that.
I'm glad you said something! I was just looking at a used Tesla since these posts made me aware of how cheap you could get them on the used market. I wonder if this could be mitigated by buying a used 5 year old one from Tesla which comes with a 1 year/10k mi warranty? These appear to be typically "repaired," so they likely ran into the 4-5 year issues you mentioned.
At around $15,000 for a 5+ year old 50k-75k mi model 3, I'm struggling to not go for it and find out. It won't be my only car so worst case scenario I'll just return to my land cruiser.
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They're awesome. But I now can't stand driving ICE vehicles after owning an EV.
Could you explain why? I'm driving an ancient car into the ground, but I'm going to need a new car (or two, depending where my oldest goes to college) in the next couple years, and I'm still struggling with both "new vs used" (one of our current cars was new, one was used, and the tradeoffs seem to change with warranty policies and market fluctuations) and with "EV vs ICE".
We're in the exact same situation. My '92 Ford really wants to die, but I haven't given it permission yet
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The acceleration and handling feels much more responsive in an EV. I never realized how jerky ICE cars are until I had an EV to compare them to.
Much less maintenance involved since the cars are so much simpler. I've had one for 3 years and don't miss oil changes or other annual service bullshit. Your actual brakes last longer as well because of regenerative braking.
Regenerative braking is nice because it enables "one pedal driving" most of the time: if you're not pressing pressing the accelerator the car slows down -- nice in stop and go traffic.
A lot of people will say they hate this, especially if they're too cool, but I find the app integration really convenient. EVs don't need the motor running to have power, so it's actually a computer that's always available to take commands over their cell data connection, like warm the car up, or tell me your location, close the trunk now that I'm inside the house with all of the groceries, etc
As a software engineer I find all of the software in cars borderline retarded. In Teslas it's actually relatively good (though still sometimes retarded).
In the summer time you can tell the car to never let it get above 100 degrees while parked, so you don't have to burn your balls off when you get in. Uses power but not that much. And power is cheap.
Never have to visit a gas station again. Ended up buying a portable tire inflator that connects to the cigarette lighter port since I'm not going to gas stations anymore but still need to inflate tires once in awhile.
Thanks!
How long have you had yours? I do like to drive cars into the ground, and I worry that everything but the Model S still has less than a decade of track record. On the other hand, my current 20yo car is a Hyundai, and IIRC when I bought it their track record was so bad that they had started offering extra-long warranties to try to prove to customers that their latest models weren't more of the same, and I didn't regret it.
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