Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin
Tesla slashes its used car warranty to one year or 10k miles (electrek.co)
62 points by xoxoy on Oct 19, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments


Article / headlines don't seem to match up. This is AFTER the previous warranty of 4 years / 50k miles expires it sounds like.

> “Tesla used vehicles are covered by the remainder of 4 years or 50,000 miles left on the Basic Vehicle Limited Warranty. After expiration, the Used Vehicle Limited Warranty provides additional coverage of 1 year or 10,000 miles. If the Basic Vehicle Limited Warranty has already expired, the Used Vehicle Limited Warranty will provide coverage of 1 year or 10,000 miles, starting from your delivery date.”


There used to be a larger such supplemental warranty, so the headline does match the content.

What's not clear from the article is what used to happen if you bought a Tesla on the cusp of the main warranty expiring. It seems to imply you were just out of luck. I doubt that's true.

Poorly written article.


Discussion of the linked article about Tesla canceling their 7-day return policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24811187


Yikes. Sounds like they fired their PR department to save everybody the hassle of quitting.


Longs on twitter are their PR department and they work for free.


Adopting the same policy most car makers have, how horrible.


If Tesla is now having the same policies as most other car makers, they're losing their 'we're different than big car makers street cred'

But they haven't yet shown themselves to be a big car maker in other important ways, like making a consistent product, or not attacking their customers (some deceased) on twitter.


Heh, my used chevrolet EV came with the remainder of 100,000 mile 5 year warranty.


Concurrent with an upswell in stories about significant quality issues. Not a good look.


In other words: Tesla slashes the resell prices of all its cars by 50%


Be careful with using electrek.co as a source when Fred Lambert writes. The site owner (Fred Lambert) has a personal vendetta with Tesla.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: