Tesla is the first company to come up with all these 'pay to enable features', and now BMW has customers who want heated seats to buy an annual subscription to enable them, and Mercedes has you pay an annual subscription for rear-wheel steering, and another for a
horsepower boost. In case it's not clear... these cars come with these features, and they are built into the original purchase price. Do you think automakers are
giving them away in hopes of volumes and volumes of lucrative subscriptions? Heh... This 'subscription' model is metastasizing. You don't own your car like you think you do. Like we used to do.
That's dynamite how you still support your company even after Musk has lost his marbles. Since you asked, let me explain to you why I've left Tesla for good. (Many other financially independent ppl have left them for a variety of reasons -- checked S and X sales lately?)
Recently the SC talked me into paying $2k to have the MCU1 and IC changed to an MCU2 and accompanying IC... and the car dropped dead two months later. Also at that same time I had the Service Center do a High Voltage Inspection ($700) in order to try and be recertified for SC repair and the supercharger network, since my car had a salvage title... but they flunked me claiming that the frame rail had non-factory rivets, and that it was not bonded in its socket. (WTF does that have to do with HV) Well I had never removed the frame rail from its socket so that was just a damned lie. This is the official Tesla Service Center I'm talking about.
Nevertheless I wanted to make it right. The car was down so I had it towed to
all six of the area Tesla-certified body shops ($1,000) to have the 'problems' corrected, but as soon as they saw that High-Voltage inspection report they feared for their certification and refused to touch it. So I had it towed to another SC. Once they found that HV inspection report they gave me one day to tow it off their lot or they'll charge me storage fees! Wouldn't touch it at any price. All three area Tesla Service Centers refuse to accept it now. It was a Catch 22. A death sentence for the car. As a bonus they revoked the certificates for both my key fobs so they were not recognized by the car! These were intentional and vicious acts that turned my car ($145,000 new, loaded P85D) into a 5,500 pound brick.
Now tell me with a straight face that Electric Garage can fix that. Hell, I'm the founder and author of the former Unofficial Tesla Tech website and I was first to figure out and publish the flash fix, how to root the car, and how to fix many other problems and explain many theretofore mysteries. But I can not fix this and now I am done.
Lost all trust in those
lying, cheating Tesla service centers. No more Teslas for me, ever. NO sir.
Are you glad you questioned me?