Knightshade
Well-Known Member
I believe this has been confirmed:
If you trade your Tesla into Tesla and then Tesla resells it directly as part of their used program or auctions it to another dealer, the features will be removed.
Except we know that's not true.
Because Tesla has current used cars listed with FSD.
If they uniformly removed it that would not be possible.
They DO as a policy uniformly remove transferable FUSC (and will remove free lifetime data) from cars that had it if they take ownership of the car again though.
If you trade your Tesla into Toyota for a new Prius (maybe because you got hit in the head or something) and Toyota sells the car to another buyer, the features (FUSC definitely and possibly FSD) will be removed. This car would not pass through Tesla's hands at all in this scenario.
We know that's not true either.
FUSC for older Teslas (2016 and older I think in most cases) goes with the car in such sales.
FUSC for newer ones are tied to the original owner so those aren't "removed" so much as they simply don't apply to any future owner regardless. But that's never "on the car" anyway. Supercharger billing is tied to the VIN on the Tesla server side.
I think there was some confusion from buyers of used 2017 and newer cars because the dealer would tell them it had free supercharging (since they got it that way) but once the new owner got it they of course didn't have it since it never went to the new owner regardless of channel of sale for cars 2017 and newer.... that was just ignorance on the part of the dealer (and buyer who didn't do enough research on the cutoff date)
And I'm unaware of Tesla ever removing FSD from a car traded into a non-Tesla dealer where the original owner had actually purchased it (ie not having passed into Tesla ownership since originally sold).
Can you cite/source any documented cases of this?