Did Tesla finally wisen up and start paying you not to expose all their shady tactics?
That'd be too easy... and Tesla never goes the easy route.
What did you ever sell that yellow beast for?
Still have it.
Also explain how Tesla can still if not even more so keep you from doing services to your own car? This *sugar* drives me crazy and now they are pushing their updates into your car and have changed their warranties to include “not updating the latest updates will void your warranty .” Tesla is coming to an end and than we can actually make them better ourselves lol. Swap out batteries, motors etc. We need people like you on our side not theirs and you know how that is since you were once in our shoes battling Tesla and their antics.
The short answer is simple: It's not in Tesla's best interest to make the cars easily repaired, serviceable, upgradable (hardware wise), etc.
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The longer answer: Let's cut through the crap and realize that Tesla is a for-profit entity. Their public facing mission, "to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport," while maybe the goal originally, is definitely not the same as the real mission today: To make as much money as possible. To do that, they have to sell new cars. If someone totals a Tesla vehicle, that's awesome for Tesla. It means that someone is pretty likely to buy another Tesla. If someone takes that salvage car, fixes it, and sells it... that's one less car Tesla will sell. You can try to spin that every which way ("the people buying salvages wouldn't buy new," or, "the people working on salvage cars aren't the same people that would buy a new car," etc etc etc), but understand its complete BS, especially when we're talking about cars in the Model 3 price range. Sure, someone who wants to fix up a Model S for under $40k isn't likely to spend $150k on a new loaded Model S... but they're pretty likely to buy a Model 3.
It pisses me off to no end to find a perfectly working vehicle be salvage titled and blacklisted because of a literal dent in a quarter panel. Tesla cuts off supercharging, connectivity, etc. Doesn't matter what the actual damage is, mileage, warranty remaining, etc... if an insurance company decides it's a total loss, then you're totally screwed. Seriously, from Tesla's perspective a dent in a quarter panel can void your entire warranty, cause you to lose features, etc.
It's always easier to buy a new car from an immediate financial impact perspective. You can't really take out a loan to fix up a salvage Tesla. You're going out of pocket on that. But, you can pick up a new Model 3 for ~$500/mo. The people with the coin to spend on fixing up a wrecked Tesla generally have the means to buy a new Tesla... and, in my experience, many of them do go that route at some point.
The harder Tesla makes it to do anything with these cars without them, the more that shifts the spectrum in their favor towards new purchases. While there is a small community of folks with the knowledge needed to actually make some progress on third party repairs, most of the people claiming to be able to do so don't know anything about how to deal with these vehicles outside of the stuff common to all vehicles (I won't mention any names, but there's several high profile folks who make it look like they know everything about theses vehicles and in reality know jack s***, just scamming people out of time and money all around).
Outside of Tesla, I'd say there's probably less than 15 people with the knowledge needed to actually work on the bulk of the systems on these vehicles without insider help... and of those people, 5 or fewer with the knowledge to actually continue to do so by developing tools needed for the tasks. Figuring out how to work on these cars without Tesla tools requires the skill set of software and hardware developers that are in a small niche capable of such reverse engineering that is what seems to be a dying breed. The kids coming out of college with all sorts of tech degrees know nothing about this sort of work. The vast majority of people who are both inclined to and capable of such work tend to have little to no formal training, myself included.
Overall, Tesla's not going to make things any easier unless eventually they're ordered to by a court with some authority over them. They don't care much about right to repair type laws, since no one tries to hold them accountable. They skirt the law in other places (software copyright, for example) without consequence. They know what they're doing, and they have no intention of doing anything owner/customer friendly outside of the sale and delivery process. Everything else is secondary to the actual mission: making money (ie: selling new cars). Yes, things like service, superchargers, etc all are needed to market for those sales... but they don't need to be perfect.
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