I am afraid I side with Tesla on this. As much as I like to be able to tinker with 'my stuff' here we have a very complex system with many sensors and actuators that are all controlled by the onboard computer systems. The car has been repaired by (apparently) someone with no training on making sure all these system, some of them safety systems, are working. Tesla says let us take a look, if it's all ok we will reactive the car, if not you have the choice of getting them fixed or abandoning the project.
I read the 'at your cost' part to mean at a minimum that Tesla would not pay to transport the car from where ever it was to a suitable testing facility whether they would charge for the inspection or not. As an aside I had a similar talk with Mercedes when the onboard computer in my car got fried (wiring issue - their fault out of warrantee and no recall). I tried to get a replacement from the wreckers and was told sorry, the computer is flashed to the VIN of the car and unless I replace 'all' the various interlinked components including the keys it won't work - only a new computer will work. Talking to my non dealer mechanic he said many of the new cars are like this and there are system he can't easily service. Lawrence Harris On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > disagree. Sounds like to me they are perfectly willing to work with the > guy. But the guy is unwilling to work with them... > bob > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Ben Goren via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > >> On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> >> wrote: >> >>> As it looks now, they are only refusing to enable the car out of concern >>> for their brand image... >> >> Ironically enough, they may well be doing their brand image more harm with >> their current actions than if they were to work with the guy.... >> >> b& >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: signature.asc >> Type: application/pgp-signature >> Size: 801 bytes >> Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail >> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141001/23d2500c/attachment.pgp >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141001/86502b8f/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
