Tesla owner forced to pay $14,000 repair bill one day after buying it
A Tesla owner wasn't terribly pleased to run into issue with his brand new Tesla after having it for less than a day.
When you get a new vehicle, you hope that you won't find any issues with it unless a good few thousands miles later.
Some people have been lucky to experience this; one example being Tesla owner Lawrence, who was able to drive his car 145,000 miles before servicing it.
It should be noted that it's advised that you service your vehicle around eery 12,000 miles, however.
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But Shreyansh Jain wasn't as lucky as Lawrence with his Tesla.
Jain, from Cambridge, England, purchased a Tesla Model Y in 2023, and just 115 miles later, he started to have issues with the car.
He said he was 'over the moon' to get his hands on one of the electric vehicles, but just a day later it suddenly came to a 'grinding halt'.
While his wife and young daughter were in the car with him, Jain said he lost steering control, but managed to turn into their neighborhood.
"They were absolutely petrified," Jain told Reuters about how his wife and daughter reacted at the time. "If we were on a 70-mile-per-hour highway, and this would have happened, that would have been catastrophic."
Jain went on to learn that his Model Y's front-right suspension had collapsed - so much so that parts of the car were loudly scraping the road.
The car needed 40-hours worth of labor to fix it, as the suspension had to be rebuilt, and the steering column needed replacing (amongst other things).
Jain ended up having to fork out an eye-watering $14,000 to pay for this – which Tesla reportedly refused to pay for.
The Elon Musk-owned car manufacturer blamed the accident on 'prior' suspension damage.
UNILAD has approached Tesla for comment on the matter.
It's typically Tesla's infamous Cybertruck that people have had the most issues with; the quality of its build being one of the biggest.
People have also been having problems with the futuristic-looking truck over the winter months.
One person discovered that their headlights were covered with snow because they're placed behind a ledge on the truck.
The Cybertruck-owner had to remove the snow from the ledge in question so that the lights would be obvious.
"I can't believe Tesla just didn't think about this when they put this giant shelf in front of the lights, but if they did, it's honestly an awful design," the guy said of the issue.
Not exactly ideal if you were in a rush to get to work one snowy morning...
Topics: Tesla, Cars, Electric Cars, Money
Niamh Shackleton