Yellow 2010 Roadster sport stolen from Converse Texas

[jordanthompson]

I sold my baby a couple of weeks ago to a great guy from San Diego (Nak). It now looks like it was stolen from the trucker (along with three other cars ) as his truck was being serviced.

 

[Bunnak]

Sadly it’s true. #683 was last seen on the transport truck in Converse, Texas which is close to San Antonio. My plan was to officially introduce myself as the proud new owner of #683 to this wonderful group of Roadster owners once I took delivery of her in Southern California. Alas, that will likely never happen. Thanks to everyone for answering my questions early on when I was contemplating whether to buy a roadster. It was because of your help that made me ultimately fly to Florida and make the purchase. Unfortunately I will never see #683 again.

 

[X.l.r.8]

that’s horrible, with so few there is at least better chance it will be recovered, hopefully in one piece. I’m not sure there’s even a market for roadster parts that may be questionable.

 

[X.l.r.8]

Any chance it has OVMS on it that may be tracked?
If you tell the service center will all the centers know, because of anyone tries to buy parts they are going to have to give up a chassis number.

 

[Lasttoy]

Tesla can find the car in a second if battery is still coonected. Call police, they call Tesla, Tesla talks the police to the car.
Not you, they talk to police only.

 

[Roadster]

Oh man, sorry to hear about this @Bunnak

All shipping companies are required to carry insurance. Assuming the Roadster itself is never recovered, I hope you're able to recover the full purchase price of the car. Additionally, you should consider including the cost of the plane ticket in the claim. If that's denied by the shipping company, hopefully your personal vehicle insurance will cover it.

 

[Mark77a]

so sorry ! hope you either find it un-molested or get its full value returned to get another.
As above Tesla / ovms may be able to find it.

 

[jordanthompson]

Unfortunately I never installed ovms.
Tesla told us that they were no longer able to track Roadsters?!? Of course this is from the call center and their knowledge of the Roadster is slim at best. Since this occurred Friday afternoon I've been unable to to contact the SC in Florida for any help.
Another concern is that the battery had a normal charge as it was anticipated to be in California in a few days. The transport has been sitting a couple of weeks to get repaired in San Antonio so the battery will be significantly degraded soon.

 

[dhrivnak]

Without OVMS you may be out of luck as I think the Tesla tracking was on the now mostly shutdown 2G network. But it never hits to ask again.

 

[DeedWest]

So sorry to hear about this...and it hurts that they stole the rarest color in production Roadsters.

Please keep us updated!

 

[dhrivnak]

Wow I really hope it turns up in good shape. I mean how could one possibly hide such a car.

 

[Stewie26]

Sorry to hear that. A lot of the stolen exotic cars hear in California end up in Mexico and then are redistributed world wide. I hope that does not happen to yours.

 

[Bunnak]

Tesla Ranger was at my home yesterday working on my MS. I told him about the Roadster and and he made calls to Tesla—it’s unfortunately not trackable.

 

[markwj]

Tesla can find the car in a second if battery is still coonected. Call police, they call Tesla, Tesla talks the police to the car.
Not you, they talk to police only.

Unfortunately, not any more. The AT&T 2G network they used to use for Roadsters in North America was shutdown some time ago.

 

[X.l.r.8]

Is there anywhere that still has 2g network? I mean if its transported elsewhere

 

[Bunnak]

Don’t know. Possible I guess. San Antonio detectives told me a car like that is likely overseas now and not in Mexico—he said maybe Dubai. Wow. It was supposed to have been delivered to So Cal 2.5 weeks ago.

 

[Bunnak]

Roadster friends please message me ASAP if you see a good deal on a Roadster Sport (2010 or 2011)...I don’t like red though. I’m back to the drawing board now and have been scouring CarGuru and Autotrader. $90K Yellow R80 is listed but out of my price range.

 

[ICON]

You must be gutted, I know I'd be !
Will keep my eyes peeled!

 

[Roadster]

...if you see a good deal on a Roadster Sport (2010 or 2011)...I don’t like red though.

If you don't mind black, @n2mb_racing has been listing his 2.0 Sport for sale...

Today's Roadster Orphan

 

[DeedWest]

If you don't mind black, @n2mb_racing has been listing his 2.0 Sport for sale...

Today's Roadster Orphan

I second this. It’s a spectacular car in even more spectacular condition.