The 34-year-old engineer who bought the Model 3 is not asking for his money back: he wants Tesla to replace the vehicle. Without the necessary repairs, this EV will only be drivable on public roads until 2024. The conclusion was that the Model 3 would never pass the first of its regular inspections – required for any car to be allowed on public roads. The German court assigned a DEKRA expert to check the EV, which was done in April 2022. The attorney filed a lawsuit at the Munich I District Court in September 2021 and asked for an independent car inspection. The engineer preferred to ask Lindner for help.
That would cost the customer €15,000 ($15,963) if he decided to pay for it, which he didn’t. The EV maker establishes a four-year or a 50,000-mile (80,467-kilometer) limit “to correct any defect in material or workmanship in any part manufactured or supplied by Tesla that is used under normal conditions.” The Model 3 still respects both conditions, and it came with fractured jacking points, as Tesla itself recognized.Īpart from denying him warranty coverage, the Tesla Service Center also said that the only repair possible was replacing the battery pack. When the engineer rightfully argued that it was not enough, the Tesla Service Center in Berlin told him that the problems were not covered under warranty, which is not true. First, the EV maker told him that the issues he found were just cosmetic and tried to fix them by merely painting them. The Model 3 LR owner tried to solve everything amicably by showing Tesla the damages and asking for the repair. The German website named this Tesla customer by a fictitious name because his case is now in court. We learned about this story thanks to EFahrer. If you have an American Model 3 produced and delivered around the same time, you should verify your vehicle’s underbody. The attorney created the website TeslaAnwalt (Tesla Attorney) to assist customers affected by the multiple issues presented by the company's EVs. However, he estimates them to be thousands or even tens of thousands.
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Lindner also told autoevolution that he does not have a precise number of vehicles affected by the cracked jacking points. According to Christoph Lindner, his lawyer, the company even “admitted in writing the production process was amended to avoid such defects.” Tesla fixed its production process on April 26, 2021.
In other words, Tesla could not argue that he was the one to damage his car. You can check the damages in our gallery.Īfter investigating the situation, the engineer discovered that more customers had the same issue and learned that a robot at the Fremont factory caused it. When his new EV needed to replace the winter tires in spring, he noticed that the underbody had dents and that most of the jacking points were fractured. That’s what happened to an engineer who spent €54,000 ($57,467 at the current exchange rate) on a Model 3 Long Range (LR) in February 2021.
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