• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    14 hours ago

    I don’t understand this hate just because musk came out as a Nazi.

    The cars were awful even before all of this, you should have already not been buying them. To get them repaired you have to take them to an authorised dealer which is basically just them, and they will charge you on obscene amount of money to replace the door handles or something, add onto that poor quality control and a prevalence to put everything behind a paywall and you’ve got a terrible value product on your hands.

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      4 hours ago

      Consumers are sheep whether they’re on the left or right.

      People on the left hate Tesla and Musk because of Musk’s politics instead of him being a conman colluding to keep EV prices high.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah those silly left people hating musk because he’s in Nazi rather than because of sensible reasons like him being a con man, which seems like a less egregious, but also bad thing to be.

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      8 hours ago

      To get them repaired you have to take them to an authorised dealer which is basically just them

      Meh, not entirely true though. Anything related to “regular” car parts like brakes, suspension etc. can be fixed by any regular mechanic. As for things like handles, you can actually also just order the part from them and have any mechanic change itif you can’t/won’t do it yourself.

      Yes there are things you unfortunately would need them for, but most of the things that tend to break or wear out are regular car parts anyone can fix.

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        6 hours ago

        According to my neighbour who owns a Tesla he had to take it to a Tesla dealership in order to replace one of the headlights because there are non-standard design. So even if he could get the part from Tesla the mechanic wouldn’t have been able to change it because they wouldn’t have the tools.

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          6 hours ago

          The few things I needed repaired on my model 3 was just fixed by my local mechanic, who also did the yearly brake-maintenance. Once I bought original parts from Tesla and had my own mechanic change it, but they’ve also used 3rd party unoriginal parts they sourced themselves without issues.

          I don’t know which model your neighbor has, but for model 3 at least there are lights from 3rd party manufacturers available.