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Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners by saturn8601 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:44PM (#43404076)
Build quality is so bad, those old cars will destroy themselves. Wonder how many of the original 2018 model 3 are still on the road. The other day I saw a comment chastising a person complaining about their 120k Model 3 battery failing and how its already at end of life. I was gobsmacked.

I also see reports of some Tesla making it to 500k miles. Honestly there is so much nonsense on both sides and you can't even trust any numbers coming out of Tesla because they have distorted the truth so many times.

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Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners by dzhiurgis on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:38PM (#43406564)
You probably wanna read up on recent Toyota fiasco (100k engines recalled because they are self destroying).
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Re:Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners by saturn8601 on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:33PM (#43440500)
Listen every company will make mistakes at some point in their life. Toyota has earned so much of a reputation of quality over many decades that it has become a meme and is reflected in resale values and insurance rates. Tesla continues to produce sub standard quality and thanks to their actions they have burned their reputation with everyone other than their shareholders so they don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. How many times are they going to promise this or that and say that they have fixed their quality only to find out they have lied yet again?
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