Musk scams Tesla owners out of warranty repairs with fake odometer readings

Plus it would take quite the internal conspiracy to program, etc.

 

Ah yes, guy who commits fraud is the same individual who “allegedly” is finding all kinds of fraud yet still hasn’t provided any proof. Wake up, MAGA, Musk and Trump ARE the fraud and waste.

 

Another case of P.T Barnum being correct: sucker born every minute

 

I think ALL EVs should have an analog, non-digital, odometer.

However, you should be able to find a way to gage your distance with some sort of total (driving) tracking system that traces everywhere you've driven your EV.

 

Funny story about an odometer reading.....After my dad passed away his Jeep Grand Cherokee sat in mom's garage for 3 or 4 years. One day I was visiting and said "Mom you need to sell Dad's jeep, it's doing nobody any good sitting here". Mom asked if I wanted it, I looked at the registration and realized it was almost 10 years old. I told mom I didn't want a 10 year old Jeep. She told me to take it up and donate it to the church. I hooked up the battery charger and started it. I was fixing to back it out and give it a good wash job when I looked at the odometer. It had just over 7,000 miles on it. I went in and told her "Mom I'll go ahead and take that old Jeep". It seems anytime they went anywhere they took Mom's Cadillac and the Jeep was seldom driven and garage kept.

 

Looks like Musk bought SAP software.

HUGE mistake!

 

If this is true, and it was intentional, Musk can offer a heavily subsidized battery replacement and it will make the prosecutors and their customers very happy.

I had an Acura many years ago where the horsepower seemed to be overstated. The car ran great and that 3.5 relay moved. Extended bumper to bumper warranty worked great for me.

 

Not really sure about that. Could just be one guy tweaking a few lines of code to get the desired result (less warranty costs, as alleged). Might’ve even be something inconspicuously pushed through a software update.

Pretty much all modern odometers are digital now. But you’d think whatever regulations that applied to older ones to keep them tamper resistant would still be at play. If it’s just pure part of a vehicles operating system and not isolated/secure from being overwritten, then who knows. Maybe that’s what’s going on here?

 

I don't think that's the case. Musk has the odometer tied to battery usage and adds miles to the odometer when the car was actually sitting in traffic using components like the radio, AC, heating, etc.

 

That’s what I meant, that the odometer could be just a matter of hacking the software and then getting it to read anything you want. In this case “battery usage” or things other than miles driven.

There is some rationale there. The EV still needs an accurate mileage. But *also* of nearly equal importance things like total lifetime energy charged/consumed by the battery pack, battery cycles, how it’s holding charge vs original spec, etc. But these are all separate things from miles driven. Sounds like if what is alleged is true they were trying to blur the numbers. Not good if it’s to avoid a warranty clearly based on MILES, using some fuzzy math instead. That would basically be FRAUD. If it was a glitch, it can be remedied just by extending the warranties by a certain amount.

 

Gee, I hope the Tesla Trump bought doesn’t have this problem…

 

Some sort of metric needs to be created to accommodate that but this ain't it.

 

Not a “virtual mile”, as Prez Musk sees fit?

 

Unless the term is defined as something other than 5280 '

 

Yeah, no way a car company would ever try to intentionally scam the public.....

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