I purchased a brand new and sealed in a a box Gen 3 charger from Ebay - this saved me around £100. Some might say, why? Why save £100 and risk failure without warranty?
Well the answer to that is simple. I have spent years buying this way and saved thousands of pounds on new and almost new goods, so my philosophy is - if something does fails then I suck it up and move on. In the long run the savings have been well worth it due to general reliability of 'stuff' these days.
So- the Gen 3 worked faultlessly for 3 months- then failed. Dead. will not charge- permanent blue light- will not communicate with the car. The warning as such, is that when researching this, there seemed to be a lot of early failures of these due to an unspecified component overheating. I do wonder how these wall chargers have made their way to ebay and if they could be old batches that should have been destroyed/fixed? I have no way of knowing, its just guesswork and I may have just been unlucky..
Unbelievably, without going into detail, Tesla have honoured a warranty claim for me and have sent me a brand new one, but if you are going to buy like I did- Do not rely on this process - I consider myself very lucky!
Well the answer to that is simple. I have spent years buying this way and saved thousands of pounds on new and almost new goods, so my philosophy is - if something does fails then I suck it up and move on. In the long run the savings have been well worth it due to general reliability of 'stuff' these days.
So- the Gen 3 worked faultlessly for 3 months- then failed. Dead. will not charge- permanent blue light- will not communicate with the car. The warning as such, is that when researching this, there seemed to be a lot of early failures of these due to an unspecified component overheating. I do wonder how these wall chargers have made their way to ebay and if they could be old batches that should have been destroyed/fixed? I have no way of knowing, its just guesswork and I may have just been unlucky..
Unbelievably, without going into detail, Tesla have honoured a warranty claim for me and have sent me a brand new one, but if you are going to buy like I did- Do not rely on this process - I consider myself very lucky!