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Tesla slashes its used car warranty to one year or 10k miles
- greenyoda 6y agoDiscussion of the linked article about Tesla canceling their 7-day return policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24811187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24811187
- klyrs 6y agoYikes. Sounds like they fired their PR department to save everybody the hassle of quitting.
- nickik 6y agoAdopting the same policy most car makers have, how horrible.
- klyrs 6y agoConcurrent with an upswell in stories about significant quality issues. Not a good look.
- bob29 6y agoHeh, my used chevrolet EV came with the remainder of 100,000 mile 5 year warranty.
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- toast0 6y agoIf Tesla is now having the same policies as most other car makers, they're losing their 'we're different than big car makers street cred' But they haven't yet shown themselves to be a big car maker in other important ways, like making a consistent product, or not attacking their customers (some deceased) on twitter.
- fred_is_fred 6y agoLongs on twitter are their PR department and they work for free.
- lucasnortj 6y agoThey rank joint bottom for reliability, no surprise.
- FanaHOVA 6y agoArticle / headlines don't seem to match up. This is AFTER the previous warranty of 4 years / 50k miles expires it sounds like. > “Tesla used vehicles are covered by the remainder of 4 years or 50,000 miles left on the Basic Vehicle Limited Warranty. After expiration, the Used Vehicle Limited Warranty provides additional coverage of 1 year or 10,000 miles. If the Basic Vehicle Limited Warranty has already expired, the Used Vehicle Limited Warranty will provide coverage of 1 year or 10,000 miles, starting from your delivery date.”
- reitzensteinm 6y agoThere used to be a larger such supplemental warranty, so the headline does match the content. What's not clear from the article is what used to happen if you bought a Tesla on the cusp of the main warranty expiring. It seems to imply you were just out of luck. I doubt that's true. Poorly written article.
- mlindner 6y agoBe careful with using electrek.co as a source when Fred Lambert writes. The site owner (Fred Lambert) has a personal vendetta with Tesla.
- moralsupply 6y agoIn other words: Tesla slashes the resell prices of all its cars by 50%