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Hi, does anyone have experience of pay maintenance service at the Tesla UK for imported model S? I have emailed Tesla UK and they replied saying they will not service imported Tesla. If so, are there any non-official maintence available for Tesla in the UK? Anyone has experience of repairing not through official Uk Tesla? My car is schedule to ship mid June. If Tesla UK doesn’t service imported car even for pay service and non-official maintenance is not available, I may not ship my car. Greatly appreciate if anyone can share their experience or information. Thanks
 
Tesla must services your car. But they have right to charge for it. There are a few good Tesla's Specialists in UK. And there are a lot of crappy one too. More than the good one unfortunately. My advise is that don't ship a Tesla unless the person who is shipping for you knows what he / she is doing. Since there are tons of paper works you need to submit and they are not easy to obtain.
 
Tesla must services your car. But they have right to charge for it. There are a few good Tesla's Specialists in UK. And there are a lot of crappy one too. More than the good one unfortunately. My advise is that don't ship a Tesla unless the person who is shipping for you knows what he / she is doing. Since there are tons of paper works you need to submit and they are not easy to obtain.
the last sentence or two, i cannot agree more. either the papers or some stuff you want to do to your tesla (winkwink) that the person do not know how to do.
 
Hello gents.
We have helped many car owners to relocate Tesla from Hong Kong to UK and Europe. Here is a few things.
1. Your SIm won't work, you will require to buy a local sim and swap it with the UK sim and update the APN. Sometimes it will work without updating.
2. Your Navigation will not work, you will need to either figure some ways to get Tesla to change the car into UK specs (But they won't do it at the moment)
3. SC and everything works just fine. Autopilot may works with internet access.
4. The charge port is exactly the same as HK and we have so far moved around 12 cars MS and MX and without any trouble.
If you have any more questions feel free to PM me. It is actually not so hard to import a Tesla to UK but you have to find someone who know what they are doing.
Hi there, can you help my m3 change map region from usa to europe/russia, please pm
 
i m interested in this too as I m thinking about moving to UK I tweeted musk with the question see what his respond will be
Hi 👋🏼, did you get any reply so far?

I have contacted Tesla UK to ask for a SIM card to swap with my Tesla HK SIM card I have on hand. The answer from them is Tesla UK won’t provide any service in the UK, even though you want to pay. Do you think if there is any chance we could fight with Tesla UK to provide paid service officially at least??
 
I have successfully moved my MS to the UK with the help from electricboat here finally. Here is the overall picture of how they made it happened. It all started out back in Jan this year:

1. My Tesla was inspected by the team, in HK they changed the computer to UK map, units, etc before sending it out
2. They helped me to ship the car from HK to UK, meanwhile you'll prepare all the information needed to import the car: address proof in the UK, VIN document etc
3. It took around 6 months for my car to arrive, you can perform some minimal tracking of the cargo ship in a website
4. Meanwhile I chose to install a a home charger by purchasing a home charger from Tesla website and it took me two months to find the right electrician to install my home charger
5. MOT was passed and they can go ahead to apply for further import
6. You got a chance to take your car from the port or delivered to your uk home I chose to have it delivered for the sake of convenience at an extra cost
6. waited further for the processing of applications i.e. the approval of your car to drive on the road
7. Once you got the documents mailed to you from DVLA, I was so excited and all you have to do is to go outside and grab your license plate, have it printed out with your document proof
8. Right now I am waiting for my UK Tesla service centre appointment and have my sim replaced. I am not sure why they didn't respond to my request of mailing in the new sim to me..

Again thanks so much for their help and work to make it happen! I enjoyed driving my own car and start my new adventure on the roads of UK! :D