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> Tesla's stance on rebuilding vehicles is that only they should be able to do it I had no idea they had this kind of stance -- is there any more nuance to it?
by hardwaresofton 8y ago
> Tesla's stance on rebuilding vehicles is that only they should be able to do it
I had no idea they had this kind of stance -- is there any more nuance to it?
If there isn't I cannot conscience supporting Tesla in any way again -- there's no way I'm going to help a company that disregards/works against right-to-repair get a monopoly. Just the same reason I avoid buying iDevices.
- delhanty 8y agoProbably it's not nuanced - John Deere like to do this sort of thing too. See my comment from March 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929078
- greglindahl 8y agoTesla doesn't do body work, it's all done by 3rd parties. But if you don't buy iDevices for that reason, you probably don't want a Tesla. Me, the one time I broke a screen, I used a 3rd party repair service, no problems.
- ehsankia 8y agoThere's a quote from Tesla spokesperson at the end of the video: > Tesla continued that its customers are free to do what they want with their cars, including doing their own work to repair salvaged vehicles. They added that there are significant safety concerns when salvaged Teslas are repaired by unqualified mechanics, as these vehicles could pose a danger to both the mechanic and other drivers on the road. Basically, already every single time a Tesla gets a car accident, the news loves to jump all over it. Now if you had people doing a half-ass job and making a defective repair, then the bad press would fall on Tesla.