There is no visible body damage or bent aluminum parts that will need replacement/fixing, the radiator broke because of the way the coyote hit the car and went under it, the nose cone is not broken either. I can drive around with the rest of the body damage, as long as the radiator can be replaced quickly.
The battery charge is <100 miles now and when the accident happened it was ~180, so in the 16 days since the accident I've lost about 80 miles of range. I can't connect to the car anymore as the body shop has turned off the remote access.
Basically the car will sit and rot for 2 months until we're waiting on parts and to be fixed. I have a body shop and repair shop that I bring my other cars for the past 10 years and they know what they are doing and can replace that radiator easily. I'm sure even Tesla in Watertown can replace that quickly enough and replacement body parts like the front bumper I can wait (there are few cracks on the left that can't be seen in the photo).
I'm still waiting to hear back from Tesla in Watertown and see what they will say about it. I don't think it's unacceptable to have the car rot there for months until they decide to ship parts and when the body shop decides to work on it.
This really makes owning a Tesla a very painful experience and options are very limited to 1 body shop and 1 part supplier. The good thing I don't care about the battery and what happens to it at this point as it's a Tesla loaner battery I received while I was in Sacramento since mine started to malfunction and it was sent to Fremont for evaluation.
I still hope the body shop will plug the car at low current to maintain the level of charge at least, so no degradation happens.
I tried supercharging the car while waiting for the tow truck, just couldn't accelerate to 88mph: :tongue:
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