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Salvaged M3
- Thread starter BornHype
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That's interesting. I'm salvage M3 and sc was cut few weeks ago. Have a source for your info?
Salvage buying is fine so long as you know what the damage was that turned off the insurance company, who fixed it, how, and have some crashworthiness, materials, and repair knowledge.
FSD and all options should stay with the car... there's a long discussion with us "experts" on that in another thread...
Some threads on rebuilt model 3, when I search the forum for the word " rebuilt"
TL ; DR.. never, ever heard of "only 10-20% get supercharging disabled.
Rebuilt title on a Tesla
Model 3 Rebuilt Title - Supercharging Removal
(branded title) rebuilt Tesla model 3 long range
TL ; DR.. never, ever heard of "only 10-20% get supercharging disabled.
Rebuilt title on a Tesla
Model 3 Rebuilt Title - Supercharging Removal
(branded title) rebuilt Tesla model 3 long range
Really? So this is just another case of... buying a Tesla with a private party that purchased EAP/FSD and eventually removing it... or not if they are not caught?
(moderator note: I moved your other post because it was entitled "anyone know about this car dealer?" where the car dealer was based in Utah, so I moved it to the section for Utah. If you want the post to stay here, you will want to keep the focus on "salvage model 3s" and not "this dealer in Utah who sells model 3s, anyone know what their policies are?")
The reason Tesla disables supercharging on salvaged vehicles is because they have not inspected and certified the repairs so they can not be sure that the car is safe to charge, and therefore they do no want the car using their supercharger network and possibly catching on fire and damaging other Tesla vehicles or supercharger property while charging.
So that the same discussion doesnt spring up in this thread as happens in pretty much every other "salvage tesla" thread...
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Owners of these salvage teslas dispute the road worthiness / danger of this issue, and dont believe in it (if they did, they likely would not be ok with driving around in the vehicles).
They also have a "lot of passion" around teslas right (or their perceived lack of right) to disable both supercharging, and other fast DC charging.
More discussion around this can be found in Model 3 Rebuilt Title - Supercharging Removal
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Hopefully, posting the above, along with a link to the most recent thread that has that "passionate" discussion will prevent same from happening in this thread. If discussion in this thread heads that way, I will likely simply merge this thread into that one.
I don’t believe there is a universal database that lists all salvage cars - state laws are different, etc. So they stumble on the data randomly.
On the EAP/FSD stuff, they just stumble on themselves.
That probably comes from "the dealer" that the OP was looking at purchasing a salvage tesla from... or in other words, from a used car salesperson, with all that entails
.The post I moved to the Utah section is below, where OP says "in one of their videos, it says..."
Anyone ever purchase from this dealer?
And obviously they aren't only looking for branded titles. (As an example: the Model 3 that has a clean title that had Supercharging turned off, and warranty coverage terminated, when Tesla found out that insurance had declared it a total loss.) So I am sure that Tesla probably gets a data feed from the insurance databases as well as the title status from all of the states.
I really doubt they care about paid supercharging. I would bet it’s more about getting the unlimited free supercharging cars off the service.
You'll be able to SC until you can't - 1 to 6 months is my guess. You'll know you have it if under "Navigation" you see "Trip Planner". When "Trip Planner" is gone that's when Tesla snuck into your car and disabled your SC ability. You can get it back by passing 2 safety inspections.
rpiotro
Active Member
My last car was an Infiniti Q50 hybrid. I was and still am active on the forum. We saw many, many stories of people buying salvage cars cheap thinking they can rebuild them and have a cheap car.
They are very complex cars. Those stories almost always end in heartbreak and empty wallets.
They are very complex cars. Those stories almost always end in heartbreak and empty wallets.
