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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by gambiting on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:23AM (#15146556)
When I bought mine the problem was that there is no reliability data for that specific model(not surprising,considering that in 3 years it's been available only about 1000 have been sold in this country) so I had to go with the general reliability rating of the brand, but that's telling me very little. Sometimes you just have to take the plunge and hope for the best, very happy with the purchase so far.
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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by bane on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:17AM (#15147704)
Sure, reliability is not the only reason people buy cars. If you're after something specific, you're probably going to buy it even if you have to tape the fenders on to get it off the dealer's lot.
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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by Gravityloss on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:45AM (#15147885)
Why would you not use reliability data from other countries?
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Re:Tesla Model S Hits 300k Miles with less than $11k mainten... by gambiting on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:13AM (#15148061)
Mostly because I wasn't able to find any. The best I could do was sign up to the forum for enthusiasts and ask, but I only got a few replies saying "yeah I had it for 2-3 years and it's fine, no problems so far" - that's not exactly statistically significant in any way. They all might develop a catastrophic failure after 3 years, but there's no way to know that.
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