jeffro01
Active Member
They aren't competing with "electric cars" they're competing with "cars" The fuelling infrastructure is improving, but there are many places I still can't go.
I'm not referring to service centres at all, they're actually pretty good. I'm referring to the outright hostility towards DIY and 3rd party shops. There is no other car brand that I am aware of that won't sell parts to anyone who asks, and who won't let repair information out, and spends as much effort as Tesla does trying to silence people who post information on how to fix the car without a service centre. There is not another car company on the planet that I am aware of that is so hostile to repairs. This has the expected outcome of keeping repair costs astronomically high, and the speed of repairs quite slow.
You can say you'd do it the same all you want, that doesn't change the fact that Tesla is competing against every other car manufacturer on the planet who all make parts available to whoever wants them, service manuals too. As an end user this is 100% against my best interests. And it's not my job to care what Tesla's best interests are.
We're seeing this from entirely different perspectives. I see, and support, why Tesla has been (and still is being) very walled off with respect to selling parts outright, being hostile to use your word. Now, on the flip side of that, I also realize at some point this will need to change but for now I see it as a necessity...
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one...
Jeff