• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    The issue is the statement by the Tesla rep that bad weather was the cause. Now we don’t have any confirmation they said that, but it would take nothing for Tesla to categorically deny that that is an acceptable reason to deny warranty, and state that any rep saying that was at fault. There. Done. Non-story.

    If they can’t categorically deny that then that implies they actually are employing this excuse for their shoddy workmanship. It certainly wouldn’t be the scummiest thing the company has done.

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      1 year ago

      What statement? What you read was not a statement but hearsay in the form of a vaguely retold exchange.

      Fuck Elon and Tesla but this isn’t much to go on.

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        1 year ago

        They got a statement from Tesla who said they were “investigating”. You don’t need to investigate to know that this is a bullshit reason to give, and their silence on that issue speaks volumes. Now, if the statements by the customers were not given to the Tesla rep to respond to, they would have ample opportunity to put out a statement explaining the problems with the article. Have they done that, or is it just silence? Any media rep worth their salt is absolutely going to be aware of this article.

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        1 year ago

        Unless a tree fell on the car it shouldn’t stop running because of some wind & rain. This is basic stuff, I don’t know why people don’t get this.

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          1 year ago

          “Some wind and rain”. The Edinburgh and Cannonmill area, where this story is from, has had at least two floods this month severe enough to submerge parked vehicles.

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          1 year ago

          Have you not heard of flooding?

          This is basic stuff, I don’t know why people don’t get this.

          Perhaps it’s the other way around?

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          1 year ago

          Rain kills cars literally all the time when idiots drive them through flooded roads.