Overall, your argument is not wrong - however... The cost comes from "Tesla approved body shops" - which have some sort of monopoly on doing body work. That i

Overall, your argument is not wrong - however... The cost comes from "Tesla approved body shops" - which have some sort of monopoly on doing body work. That is, if you don't want to possibly have arguments with Tesla if something is wrong which they may try to attribute to the car being repaired in some back-alley kind of workshop... To add, body shops apparently rather replace whole parts which could have straightened out by a skilled repair guy.. for much less, achieving the same thing and even keeping the original panels, welds etc... Talking about repairability - i really have to give Tesla credit for making the whole of all maintenance manuals (same Tesla themselves have) available for free.