MsElectric
Active Member
CPOs come with their own warranty, so they have that advantage over private sales. If private sale values fall because of the lack of transferability of the ESA, it won't affect CPO values.
Except one can always drag down the other...
In the premium car market every upper end premium car (7 series, A8, S Class) has a well deserved reputation for being super expensive to maintain. This is why 3 years later they are barely worth 50% and this with freely available extended warranty options. The Model S has yet to reach this level of low residuals partly because the cost of repairs is not as known.
My point with the Extended Warranty situation is Tesla could have figured out a reasonable price point to freely make extended warranties available so they can pool revenue from the warranties to handle extended warranty repairs so you don't have a situation with some people ending up with repairs that cost into the thousands and all the publicity that will come with that. With competent actuaries they can actually make a profit on the warranty or break even if that's what they want but most of all offer peace of mind to customers driving a Tesla out of warranty.
On the other hand with lack of available extended warranty options when people start having issues with door handles that cost $1,300 to fix out of warranty and word of this gets out, it will indeed affect resale values.