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Looking at the maintenance schedule of the Model S is both confusing and extremely simple:
Every 5000 miles
Rotate tires
12 months / 12,500 miles
Take to Tesla (vague!)
24 months / 24,000 miles
Replace brake fluid
48 months / 48,000 miles
Replace battery coolant
Other than the manual saying to "take Model S to Tesla at the regularly scheduled maintenance intervals of every 12 months, or every 12,500 miles (20,000 km), whichever comes first," it seems like you could elect to bring the car in at 24 and 48 months and have the fluids replaced and be within their required maintenance schedule.
Note that the extended warranty is invalid if you don't follow the maintenance schedule. The verbiage in the Extended Warranty is "To maintain the validity of this Vehicle ESA, You must follow correct operations procedures and have Your Vehicle serviced as recommended by Tesla."
So - if you want a warranty, you basically MUST bring the car to Tesla every 12 months/12,500 miles. Or they can refuse to do any warranty work, even if you purchase the extended warranty. Given that, shouldn't the service be coupled to and included in the price of the extended warranty? You can't have the extended warranty without the service plan.
I'm a bit confused. And the extra 4 years works out to $5900+$200 per item repaired. Am I reading any of this wrong?
That's the factory warranty, I'm only talking about the ESA extended warranty. It's seemingly void unless you also pay for Tesla service at another $2k.I thought they went on record saying that service was optional and would not void your warranty in any way.
AR - I think that's great but it is seemingly a very different issue than what I'm raising here. I'm talking about the ESA Extended Warranty - it contains this verbiage: "To maintain the validity of this Vehicle ESA, You must follow correct operations procedures and have Your Vehicle serviced as recommended by Tesla." The ESA is seemingly null and void if you don't bring it to Tesla every year for service. Am I reading this incorrectly? Or does your email contain a loophole for the ESA as well?
My point is that if the ESA requires Tesla Service, it should include it.
I'll gladly do everything it calls for in the manual just as I've done with every ICE vehicle. Read my first post again. It lists a few things, and then the incredibly vague and expensive BRING IT TO TESLA EVERY YEAR OR ELSE.Simply Question. Why would you not maintain your car at the recommended service intervals? Would you do the same with your ICE vehicle? No, you wouldn't.
No, I don't. How many hardware upgrades have there been and how often? This is a genuine question. I'm only familiar with the titanium plate.But you realize with how often firmware is changed and how often hardware is updated that it is important to come in to get those applied to your vehicle?
I didn't know that either - how many firmware updates have required bringing the car in?Not every firmware update is over the air
I appreciate your input and unique insight. I was saying that with every vehicle I've ever owned, you can have the vehicle maintained at a dealer or elsewhere. Tesla is basically saying that nobody but Tesla can work on the car at all, for anything, ever. That seems to violate the Magnuson-Moss act.You are saying you don't want to bring the car in for a service every year but you also say you will gladly do everything it calls for in the service manual? Keep your story straight man. Being a Tesla Service Technician, I know what I am talking about. I highly recommend you come in every year.
That's the factory warranty, I'm only talking about the ESA extended warranty. It's seemingly void unless you also pay for Tesla service at another $2k.
You trust an email from a former Tesla employee over specific unambiguous verbiage in your ESA contract?
Not necessary. I have an email from George Blankenship just prior to purchasing my ESA which states that no service at all is required to maintain either the 4yr/50k factory warranty OR the 8yr/100k ESA.
The very specific maintenance, as I detailed in the original post, is rotate tires, bring to Tesla, replace brake fluid, and replace battery coolant. What exactly are you planning on doing yourself? You simply can't.I plan on following the service recommendations to the letter but doing them myself.
You trust an email from a former Tesla employee over specific unambiguous verbiage in your ESA contract?
The very specific maintenance, as I detailed in the original post, is rotate tires, bring to Tesla, replace brake fluid, and replace battery coolant. What exactly are you planning on doing yourself? You simply can't.