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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by danans on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:48PM (#15145295)
> Oh, and forget doing your own maintenance or buying parts to do so. No such luck - Unlike a real car manufacturer, Tesla won't sell them to you.

That might be a legitimate criticism of an economy priced car targeted at a very cost sensitive market, but a Tesla Model S is not that car.

I doubt a significant fraction of owners of recent model year $100k+ luxury cars are doing their own maintenance, or there are enough who want this to justify the business case for owner self maintainability.

I believe that a market for a cheap owner repairable EV exists or eventually will, though. Perhaps Tesla will offer something in that segment but if they don't other manufacturers will.

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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by krrrh on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:52PM (#15145312)
If the alternative is waiting over a month for a service appointment I think a lot of people would be willing do do a home repair.
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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by Frondo on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:55PM (#15145769)
I know a few Tesla owners (I'm not one myself). The Tesla's a fun car for them, and a daily driver for one of them, but in no case their only car.

None of them has any interest in doing their own repairs, and never will.

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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:55PM (#15145551)
More than that, if you could buy Tesla parts and service Teslas yourself, people who didn't want to do a home repair could still go to a local repairman who wasn't booked solid for a month.
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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by phd514 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:01PM (#15145570)
The price of a car is not inversely related to the likelihood that its owner does maintenance and repairs himself or herself. Sports car enthusiasts do more of their own maintenance than the average car owner. As an example, check out rennlist.com for Porsche owners, many of whom have cars that are well over $100k in price. If anything, shelling out that much cash for a car should entitle you to priority access to parts for the vehicle.
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