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You are not allowed to fix your Tesla at home. Tesla refuses to release repair information. If they do that, I can't imagine they'll sell you parts or allow oth
by more_corn 10y ago
You are not allowed to fix your Tesla at home. Tesla refuses to release repair information. If they do that, I can't imagine they'll sell you parts or allow others to make them either. Perhaps the new DMCA exception for car repair will change that, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
- linsomniac 10y agoI don't know how true this is, but my Tesla salesguy says the motor expected life is half a million miles.
- Grishnakh 10y agoThat's not true in Massachusetts. There, Tesla does provide access to repair information, at an exorbitant price, because Massachusetts has a "right to repair" law on the books that requires automakers to make repair information available to independent mechanics. We need that same law at the Federal level, except with some more teeth so that the repair info isn't locked behind a ridiculous price tag. If I were dictator, I'd make a law requiring all repair info for major products to be freely available. Companies used to do this several decades ago, and it was much better for the consumer, and didn't have any adverse affect on the companies (except that they couldn't make extra profit by monopolizing repair, but that's not "adverse" any more than it's "adverse" that I'm not legally allowed to own slaves).