Zishan
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Maybe an error with the VIN on the "accident" vehicle ....which was a Tesla with a slightly different VIN. I'm always seeing errors on CarFax's.
I see my old P85D on Tesla's used inventory
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Maybe an error with the VIN on the "accident" vehicle ....which was a Tesla with a slightly different VIN. I'm always seeing errors on CarFax's.
Not sure, other then that the Carfax was clean and didn't have really have much more information.
I certainly understand that, years ago my wife had a Saturn and that car most certainly WAS in a bad wreck and it never showed up on car fax.
I bought a Model 3 and while they are awesome cars, I gave it to my wife cause I just like the Model S better. YMMV
I do really like the model S too, its more my size car, apart from anything else, and with the free supercharging, I really am having a hard job figuring out what I should buy.
Only Tesla will know or run car fax ..afaik..Tesla never sold salvage so this is newer verbiage
I was shopping last year and a used sales advisor has several used, but repaired, not salvage cars to offer me that were not on the web site or EV-CPO.
This is the information reported by AutoCheck... There's a Case number showing:
PWlakewood
Active Member
Tesla would not sell cars with salvaged titles. This car has a clean title and if the damage was under 500 then it could have simply been a scratch that had to be filled, sanded and repainted which would have involved blending adjacent panels depending on the size. If I was in the market this type of damage would not deter me from a purchase.
The problem is: how can you know it was something minor, for sure? You can’t. It’s a gamble. And for people that don’t have luck with cars (such as me), it’s obvious what to do: keep looking.
I'm sure it was something very minor, like under $500 as mentioned in the car fax report. I'll bet the former owner didn't even get it fixed since there was no damage.
PWlakewood
Active Member
Under 500 is very minor but at a body shop with rates from 65 to 85 an hour 500 does not go far. Definitely a very minor blemish which most of us have on our cars or have had and do nothing about.
PWlakewood
Active Member
If it was repaired to Tesla specs then the work is professionally done and guaranteed and 99% of people can't even tell if anything was done. If you steer clear of a very minor issue like this one then you would never buy a used car or many new cars. I'm in the collision parts business and you wouldnt believe how many brand new cars have minor damage from transport or a lot attendant that is not very cautious around other cars.
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Zishan
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Problem is, you can no longer upgrade to Ludicrous now. So I have to find one with it.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I've read the upgrade no long applies, unless you had placed a deposit on the upgrade and never got it done, you were still eligible to receive the upgrade?
HankLloydRight
No Roads
I asked a well known non-Tesla engineer about upgrading my P85D to Ludicrous, assuming I could get the right parts... and even he said it's no longer possible since Tesla stopped signing the firmware versions to support P85DL upgrades. So even "hacking" the car, it's not possible for P85Ds.
So my only hope now would be to get a salvage P100DL and transplant the battery and everything else needed. It might be easier to transplant the P+ suspension out of my car into another P100DL. Either of those two options would cost more than the original $5000 upgrade fee.
