Photos of the damage made it look more than minor, and a Tesla technician told him the repair work as shoddy.
"It was bad enough where they flagged it," he said. "
Sounds like buyer was scammed.
> The term "salvage" was a complete shock, but a deeper dive into the CARFAX vehicle history report, which he didn't pull until after the sale, uncovered a "minor accident."
> Photos of the damage made it look more than minor, and a Tesla technician told him the repair work as shoddy.
Also, if the vehicle is flagged by Tesla as being salvaged, it should be made obvious somewhere in the vehicle, in the same vein as a check engine light, or more realistically an error message on the UI screen. It should not be a surprise to the driver that the car won’t charge (let alone an unsuspecting buyer.)
And how does Tesla know repairs have been made after a minor accident? Or do they just yank your access to the network whenever they want and demand money to have it "recertified"?
> how does Tesla know repairs
> have been made after a minor
> accident?
No, that's wrong. Tesla has 2,817 supercharger sites for a total of 34,197 stalls in the US:
(I had no sense of how many there were and googled after reading your comment.)
* Or was misquoted by the writer.
IIRC, Tesla is willing to reconnect, but only after a really expensive evaluation of the car. It's too risky putting a really big lithium batter up to a really big charger otherwise.
"Fred Lambert, the editor-in-chief of Electrek, a news magazine about electric vehicles, said he's heard of at least one other case where a car with a clean title was labeled "salvage" in Tesla's system and blocked from supercharging. "
ahh. Eletrek is trying to spin up this story again.
Take the car to a Supercharger as part of the test drive? You will get an explicit message related to a VIN blacklist when attempting to charge, but if you’re not aware, you won’t know.
As another commenter identified. Brand-name chargers that you can be unilaterally "banned" from are a problem for everyone
Reader Mode by default is how I’ve rolled since it was something you could do, and I swear by it. Any site that doesn’t show right in reader, I simply close the tab.
if you were in Android, I'd also recommend Brave browser and uBlock.
there's also DNS blockers like Rethink app or custom DNS servers
I don't understand how anyone browses the web without ad block. anytime I do so by accident. websites are absolutely unreadable and useless. The Great Enshittening™ comes for us all
Last time I bought a car, I found the one I wanted with the note that it had been in a minor accident. I paid for the carfax, and learned that it had some damage and repairs, and had somehow traveled across the country in the process. Limited details, except, the accident had occurred in Florida. $10 later I had the police report. It was a 4wd car and suffered 2 broken axles & broken drive train. not minor in any way.
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That's not smart infrastructure, that's dumb infrastructure.
mh-•4mo ago
Even if Tesla is the only one doing this right now, I'm sure it'll be a thing in the future with other manufacturers and a proliferation of 3rd party repairs.
arcfour•4mo ago
I wasn't even aware that it was possible for a car to be banned from the supercharger network. Sure, it makes sense in hindsight, but I wouldn't necessarily expect a used car dealer to know anything about this either.