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Tesla Reveals What Cars Tesla Buyers Trade In
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XLR82XS
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And I just traded Model 3 for a Taycan. Not looking back.....
Great news. More vehicles without a fossil link coming on the road. Tesla is the only dependable proven brand I own and will continue to purchase. We love the beta FSD and saw it develop over the last 6 years. All our Teslas have this and what it does is simply unbelievable. No other company comes close.
This might make for a good article but a lot of Tesla's consumers are well educated and a big chunk of them understand that Tesla doesn't want a non-Tesla trade. Tesla typically low-balls trade-in offers which sends educated consumers elsewhere to dump their current ride.
CigarMoose
Member
I was offered $700 (lol) for a clean 2013 civic with about 150000km. Sold online in less than a day for $6000.
tesla offered me $500 for a 2013 ridgeline in great shape 100,000k. embarassing
Hmm, Tesla gave me $7400 for a 2013 Kia Optima with 95k miles...I took the offer immediately.
CigarMoose
Member
Offered $1300 for a 2008 Corolla CE 5 speed manual, amd manual windows with 275k/Kms I’d pay them to take it if I’m being honest.
I got a great offer from Tesla for my 2014 Acura TSX 6-speed. $14,485. It was higher than Vroom, Carvana, and much higher than Carmax. Immediately accepted it towards a 2018 S75D.
PFDRick
“If you can’t be good, be good at it!”
They clearly do not want trades.
I think they offered me about 24K for my 2017 X5. I easily sold it outright for $31,500.
XLR82XS
D M C
When I purchased my 2020 Model 3 they gave me slightly over KBB value for my 2016 Camry SE.
Right, some people have done ok or done well, but for the most part Tesla low-balls trade-in's. Why? Because they just dump them at auction. When you go to a traditional dealership, you have a "new" area and a "used" area. While Tesla does take in and resell used Tesla's, you don't see other, non-Tesla, used vehicles for sale at their dealerships/stores/locations. Taking in your non-Tesla is more of a headache for them than anything, paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. For this reason they typically, but not in all cases, low-ball trade-ins. Those that are not low-balled I speculate are just a glitch in Tesla's algorithm for determining the vehicles value. As a shareholder, I hope that after such cars are sold at auction for much less than they paid for them, something gets flagged so they fix the algorithm.
I don’t know if it’s specific to Tesla in Canada. But I was told they aren’t buying the car at all. It’s a direct offer from the auction house to buy your car that comes through Tesla’s site. I had some questions when entering the info for my trade in, and this is what the SA attendant told me.
Could be complete BS, but that’s what I was told. And it makes some sense they do it this way. They avoid the liability and the hassle of getting rid of them, and staying with the core business they want to be in.
JPhill60
Member
Traded my 2013 GMC 4X4 2500 Duramax with Allison trans for 33000. Traded for Model 3 LR with a beautiful red paint job. Took delivery in late August. Like everything about the car except phantom braking and the cost of heating battery and the cabin. With truck, heat was a by-product of combustion engines; now, heat costs much more than anticipated. Lesson learned a bit late but still like handling and performance, and the red paint is awesome.
You most certainly will look back if you get one of the Porsche Taycans with the failing battery packs (apparently 60% of Taycans have battery issues of one kind or another). Has Porsche still Limited their battery warranty to 60000 km?
RobStark
Well-Known Member
What Tesla buyers trade-in isn't the competition.
What Tesla buyers cross shopped and what came up as a second choice is the competition.
What Tesla buyers cross shopped and what came up as a second choice is the competition.
Kind of makes you wonder what someone that is "not looking back" is still doing on a Tesla forum.
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