If your forum post is to be taken at face value, all your issues have been posted ad nauseam over the past few years.
The main reason Tesla is so popular in Norway is that it has tremendous tax advantages there. People buy it because it is so much less expensive than the heavily taxed European offerings.
As you mentioned, it is a fantastic car. The all electric drive works fantastic on snow covered roads, with appropriate tires of course.
Perhaps some of the items are on you. You purchased a used vehicle, perhaps without getting it checked out by a knowledgeable mechanic familiar with Tesla. Maybe the idea was that you understood from the original owner that it had some issues, and that since it is under warranty, Tesla service would be happy to fix all the issues, at no cost of course. Then when you needed to take it in, you began to complain that it was so far away and that you would need to take time off work to get it done. Sorry, but that is on you. You understood all these things when you decided to purchase this particular car.
You might have run into this issue no matter which used car you chose to purchase, if their service centers were a distance away from you.
Think your post might be helpful to other buyers who decide to purchase any car with deferred maintenance. It is not specific to Tesla.
Fit and finish was an issue first addressed by the Asians. Both American and European vehicles in the 70's had poor fitting body panels. The Germans were the first to address this by engineering a solid sounding thunk into their door closing mechanisms. They were no stronger or better than others, but certaintly gave a good feeling with that solid thunk. Later, soft closing electric doors became the hallmark of a luxury car. Still no stronger, but feeling good was the goal.
Early Tesla production was all about the electric driveline, and the environmental benefits of no emissions in crowded Urban areas. Light weight, but strong and safe body panels and underlying structure provided the safest structures ever in a sedan. Governmental testing showed that the advanced crumple zones made possible by not having a heavy cast iron engine, nor a on board tank of explosive gasoline offered a safer car. For many, this was more important that milimeter precise body panels.
The interiors are not up to the finest European standards. Insteady of shiney chrome and phony carbon fiber the interiors were more of a Swedish minimalist design. It takes a high tech approach with most all the myriad of dash board buttons taken over by a spectacular touch screen display.
The vehicles offer state of the art driver assist technology to take much of the druggery out of long distance driving. All those micro adjustments of steering, braking, and throttle are taken over by the computer on the highway. This system is still being developed, and the cars get better every month or so via OTA updates (free).
With the batteries mounted low in the chassis, the center of gravity is much lower than those German offerings. This offered significantly safer vehicles, along with good handling characteristics.
When Norway offered tremendous tax advantages to buyers, the Tesla became the most popular vehicle in Norway. This was unexpected by anybody, especially Tesla. They needed to ramp up expensive service centers, the very popular Supercharger free high speed charging network, providing free fuel for live to owners. This is a huge perk for Tesla owners as fuel is super expensive.
Issues such as lower range in the cold Norwegen Winters is an issue that need to be delt with. On the other hand having the ability to pre-heat your car while plugged in makes for a pretty nice perk. Normally an ICE vehicle needs to be started up and run for several minutes to get the motor up to operating temperatures and the interior comfortable. The Tesla's heat is instant on. No need to warm up. Starting out with warm batteries and a warm interior goes a long way in increasing the driving range on bitter mornings.
Now there is another dilemma. The Government has again changed their stand of tax benefits for Tesla owners. The sales have dropped and Tesla is stuck with all the expensive service stations and free charging. Difficult for Tesla to forcast their offerings when the costs for their customers is constantly changing.
Europeans used to depend on the hard working and economical Diesel engines to provide personal transportation, but when it was discovered that manufacturers rigged the emissions systems to pretend they were clean, but were really polluting much more than anyone suspected, that ship has sailed.
The world is come to the realization that burning fossil fuels to drive around is not conducive to a clean atmosphere. Many in crowed cities are dying early and suffering from ill health due to what is coming out of exhaust pipes. Electric transportation is the way of the future. Gas/Diesel is the way of the past.
