So I am currently set on purchasing a used Model S with free supercharging (attached to VIN) that is from 2014 and has about 65k miles on it. I reached out to the owner and he said the warranty expired recently and I’m having a hard time finding people who bought similar Tesla’s that didn’t have a warranty so its kind of hard to compare apples to apples when other price points at least had a 1 or 2 years worth of warranty left. I have already accepted that I will most likely have to replace the battery within the next 5 years unless I get really lucky but that is about a 20k charge so I’m weighing my options here as I know many who had the older Model S had to already get the battery replaced.
As far as the car itself the owner has said he has baby’d it, the battery has not degraded much and gets about 240 miles for the range. The car just got new tires/rims(I don’t believe they are OEM), has AP1, has the MCU2 upgrade as well as Ludicrous, basically every upgrade available he says as well as the free premium connectivity and supercharging for life. Says he had everything checked out a few days ago and went on a drive with the tech and everything was great and no mechanical issues. They were asking for somewhere in the mid 50k (I have kept my eye on the listing and now he has updated it to be 10% less and is saying or best offer). It seems like the consensus for this model is between 43-48K but I get that he has upgraded some stuff but at the same time the consensus for these prices also had a warranty attached to the car that it no longer has. As far as my budget I‘m not sure I would be comfortable for more than 47k but ideally would like to get it around 42k or so because I’m kind of just factoring in the 20k cost that I will most likely incur with this car (though I heard possibly repairing battery in socal for less could be an option). I would like a second opinion and feedback as far as what is right, I don’t want to come off as disrespectful and lowball the guy but at the same time the car no longer has a warranty for the battery and seems like it could be a big risk in that regard so I’m factoring that into my personal price for it. I plan to look at the car personally this week.
Also I’m really not trying to get a Model 3 so please don’t try to persuade me, I am a 6’3 200lbs person that really felt uncomfortable in the driver’s seat of a Model 3 in comparison to the Model S and I spend most of my time driving for work so I would probably be saving about 300 dollars a month just from free supercharging and free 2 hours L2 charging that is across the street from my apartment complex. The whole point of also getting this car is also to free up more cash flow per month for me personally and I feel that I would cut almost half the savings if I’m spending almost 300 a month to charge it per month.
As far as the car itself the owner has said he has baby’d it, the battery has not degraded much and gets about 240 miles for the range. The car just got new tires/rims(I don’t believe they are OEM), has AP1, has the MCU2 upgrade as well as Ludicrous, basically every upgrade available he says as well as the free premium connectivity and supercharging for life. Says he had everything checked out a few days ago and went on a drive with the tech and everything was great and no mechanical issues. They were asking for somewhere in the mid 50k (I have kept my eye on the listing and now he has updated it to be 10% less and is saying or best offer). It seems like the consensus for this model is between 43-48K but I get that he has upgraded some stuff but at the same time the consensus for these prices also had a warranty attached to the car that it no longer has. As far as my budget I‘m not sure I would be comfortable for more than 47k but ideally would like to get it around 42k or so because I’m kind of just factoring in the 20k cost that I will most likely incur with this car (though I heard possibly repairing battery in socal for less could be an option). I would like a second opinion and feedback as far as what is right, I don’t want to come off as disrespectful and lowball the guy but at the same time the car no longer has a warranty for the battery and seems like it could be a big risk in that regard so I’m factoring that into my personal price for it. I plan to look at the car personally this week.
Also I’m really not trying to get a Model 3 so please don’t try to persuade me, I am a 6’3 200lbs person that really felt uncomfortable in the driver’s seat of a Model 3 in comparison to the Model S and I spend most of my time driving for work so I would probably be saving about 300 dollars a month just from free supercharging and free 2 hours L2 charging that is across the street from my apartment complex. The whole point of also getting this car is also to free up more cash flow per month for me personally and I feel that I would cut almost half the savings if I’m spending almost 300 a month to charge it per month.