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Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

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If there’s one dynamic of the imminent electric revolution that doesn’t get talked about enough, it’s how the world of mechanics will have to adapt to survive. While conventional petrol and diesel cars have long been too complex for the average person to work on — as everybody did many moons ago — electric cars present the under-the-archway mechanics the need to learn an entirely different trade.

Some may think the simple answer to fixing an electric car when it goes wrong is to send it into the dealership. But anyone who’s ever dealt with their main dealer while out of warranty will know just how expensive the simplest of things can be.

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Meet Greg Furstenwerth. Who, as one of the earliest Tesla Model S customers, was one of the first people to experience Tesla’s alarming servicing and repair bills while no longer covered under their warranty.

From the video found at the end of this article, it’s clear to see that his Tesla Model S hasn’t exactly proven itself to be a reliable car. Many things have gone wrong with it — all fairly small, which should mean they’re easily fixable. Little as all these things may be however, the prices Tesla quoted to get them fixed reached well into the regions of implausibility.

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$1000 for each of the leaking rear lights, $1200 for each of the malfunctioning door handles, and $1500 for each of the leaking headlights. To fix absolutely everything, Greg was staring down the barrel of a $14,000 bill!

Thoroughly fed up, he’d pretty much decided that he was going to scrap it. If however he was going to smash it up, he felt he had nothing to lose in pulling it apart in an attempt to fix it. Quite to his amazement, the Tesla was so easy to work on, he likened it to lego.

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