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Rumour of free premium for leases cars ending
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Hi, I've just finished a call with Lex and they've told me that they have been officially notified by Tesla this afternoon that a bulk App update will be made to all their Tesla customers in the next couple of days.
Front their we can choose to subscribe or cancel our premium connectivity. The person I spoke to was very nice and said she completely understood that I'd taken the car expecting there to be at least 12 months free connectivity. But she said unfortunately this is Tesla and they made the decision and they have no control or ability to change their minds.
Front their we can choose to subscribe or cancel our premium connectivity. The person I spoke to was very nice and said she completely understood that I'd taken the car expecting there to be at least 12 months free connectivity. But she said unfortunately this is Tesla and they made the decision and they have no control or ability to change their minds.
Sorry - if your lease is with Lex why would she say Tesla made the decision. Tesla wasn’t giving the premium connectivity free prior to this. The lease companies were paying (either included in the deal or terms saying any upgrades will not be part of package etc.,) throughout the lease period for connectivity. Now, Tesla has just given an option within the app to subscribe to premium connectivity, they did not ask the lease companies to stop paying for the subscription. But the lease companies just used this opportunity to unsubscribe from their deal with Tesla.
But on the whole I am going to lose around £240 - less than a month’s due but next time I’ll negotiate this as part of deal or move to another lease company who offers this with the car or reduce that amount in the final deal whichever they agree to do.
I'm also with Lex so Ill be keeping an eye out over the next couple of days for an update and check to see if its added to my Tesla app.
ALD advised that Premium connectivity was on an extended trial until now i.e the lease companies were not paying for this nor would I say the cost is included in the monthly lease cost. I’m just as disappointed as the next person but this is clearly Tesla maximising profits
Check your contract, as all zenith ones say customer is responsible for connected services
I think there is a bit of confusion regarding what Tesla initially offered - a 12 month free premium connectivity as a trial and then it was a month free premium connectivity. This was on all vehicles but then all the lease vehicles had free premium connectivity throughout their lease period but Tesla did not offer that free. This is what I mentioned and lease companies paid for this. For example my vehicle is now around 18 months - premium connectivity is free or as a package with lease. Now it is ending suddenly and the lease company wants me to pay on a subscription basis just because the option is available in the app. Tesla has nothing to do with this. It is just lease companies are saving around £300 in each vehicle. That’s a good amount of saving given that there may be around 15000 lease model 3 in UK and that’s a cool 4 million in savings.
That’s not true, Tesla had no way to bill lease customers until now, so anyone from an approved Tesla lease company just got it for free. Now they have sorted it, you have to pay
They didn’t bill the customers but the lease companies paid for the whole package at the time of purchase of the cars.
True but if you count the total gains they are making another 4 million in profit. One of the reason I went for lease Vs other option was free premium connectivity and the low monthly payment. However this was before the recent run of used cars gaining so much otherwise I would have gone for PCP or loan.
I don’t understand why some are saying Tesla needs to activate this, when its clearly not the case.
I doubt that, my total amount for a SR+ 2021Q1 was billed around 44000 from the lease company. Was definitely 2000 more than what people paid.
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