I did not know this existed until recently, but you and the article poster probably have a very good claim for diminished value and loss of use. Basically non use of your high-end car for many months.

I recently created a short online quiz for a law firm in Florida that checks to see if you have a claim. It was a completely new area of law that I did not even know about. It does email your contact info at the end - in case you want to be contacted.

Anyways if anyone is interested it is at http://www.diminishedvalue.law/quiz/ and is based on Florida law.

I am not trying to hype the firm. There are other firms that do the same thing. I just happen to know about this one.

I was made aware of that by the body shop who is doing the repairs. I plan on filing just as soon as I get the car back, which looks to be soon.

I think you might have wanted to do some input validation: http://imgur.com/a/510dc

I prefer sites not to validate fields they have no need for programmatic use of.

Every validation has a few users who don't pass. Names longer than expected, people with no surname, phone numbers with an "extension" code, addresses with no house number, email addresses [email protected], etc.

Validate only what you need to to make your service work, and when you do, use an official validation library rather than baking your own.

It would be interesting to know how spare parts work for a company like Tesla. Their sales, in terms of car counts, are huge for a company of their age but tiny relative to the greater auto industry, and many of their parts are niche things that may require special manufacturers.

What I would guess happened with these cases is that there's only one shop that manufactures some vital fob, and it has a lead time of N months when Tesla orders a batch of X bars- where N is potentially very large, because meanwhile the same shop might be in the middle of creating X*100 different fobs for GM and would need to re-tool their assembly line afterwards. Maintaining a reservoir of spare parts in that kind of environment would a guessing game, trading off the chance of this kind of fiasco versus the extra cars that could be made out of otherwise reserved parts.

Did they provide you a car during this time?

No, because it's not Tesla doing the repair. However, I bought a replacement Tesla instead. I will be Turo-ing and selling the original vehicle after I get it back.

That is... dedicated.

What's that definition of insanity again?