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Thanks for sending that. Interesting

You are right.

Happy to hear your car is performing as expected. And also glad that the 1 door handle they replaced should last a long time.

Well said. And we, unfortunately, fell for it.

I'm pretty useless with my hands so the DIY approach is out of reach for me. But I get what you're saying. Again, the issue is we had no idea the car could have these failures when we bought it. The control arm breaking and the drive unit failing are big and costly repairs.

Interesting...

UPDATE: Car is getting fixed at a Tesla service center. Here's the cost of repairs (all prices in CAD) : Drive unit: $8K AC: $1k Door handle: $500 In total, with taxes =$11.4k

That's awesome! Due to our lifestyle and having young kids, we haven't taken full advantage of the free super charging. Once the car is fixed, we'll be doing a long road trip this summer and then trading it in.

Thats great! I wish we had the same experience.

Thanks for bringing this up. This has been a major point of frustration. There's no one in our community that wants to touch a Tesla. So we have to tow it to a Tesla service center. We've got a CAA membership because it gives us 200 km's of towing per year without additional costs. Nearest...

Gotcha. I am sorry to hear about the Subaru car problems. Our experience with them have been non-eventful. They've just run. Luck??? And I guess, at a certain point, a car is a car with things that can break.

We're in Ontario. Maybe there's something similar. And gotcha about the frequency of repairs.

Happy to hear the 2016 is more reliable than the 2014. But the problems you listed are what we have or had in the 2014 so it doesn't sound like much of an improvement. To your point of no alternative: we've decided to get the car driveable and then we'll trade it in for a Y. Also, what's the...

I appreciate the reminder about what the car originally cost. It is comforting, somehow... The thing that is dawning on us now is how much of a financial risk this car purchase was when we did it. We had no idea.

Before the Model S, we drove Subaru's, and like you said, drove them for 15 years without much issue. This Tesla is not that, we are finding out.

That is where we are at. And it wasn't that cheap either.

Thanks for the additional items. They have been noted

Thanks. We have door handle and AC issues, so you're on the right track.

We're the 3rd owners of a 2014 Model S 85. We got the car in late 2020. The previous owner replaced the battery and fixed the suspensions in 2018. We bought it with 180,000 kms and now it has 200,000 kms. A few months after we bought the car, we had a control arm break. When Tesla fixed the...