Glamisduner
Active Member
Other people have gone round-and-round with Tesla on this. What it comes down to is Tesla normally buys back cars without going through a formal lemon law process and to go through that "easy"/quick process you either have to show that you don't qualify for the tax credit or accept the $7,500 less. If you want a total refund you would need to hire a lawyer and go through the full formal lemon law process which would likely take a long time. (You could possibly come out ahead as you could get a full refund, and the $7,500 tax credit, and still get a $3,750 tax credit on your new car.)
What can be a problem is if you only have enough tax liability to qualify for one tax credit. (Or maybe a little more.)
Gotcha.
I'm not trying to scam tesla, if I can get a partial second credit to make up for lawyer fees cool. Already have a lemon law layer I used earlier this year for my ford focus buyback. It might be worth paying them the $1000-$1500 then for the retainer, the process was pretty cut and dry for the ford focus. Just needed to find a bunch of records since I had the car for almost 5 years! The tesla I only had for about 2 weeks so I won't have to do much digging