Tesla Model Y owner claims they had to pay $14,000 repair bill just one day after buying it
- This Tesla owner had a bad experience when his front suspension collapsed
- Tesla’s warranty wouldn’t cover it
- The repair bill was shocking
Published on Feb 03, 2025 at 2:26 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Feb 03, 2025 at 5:30 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
A Tesla owner in England had a truly terrible experience with his Tesla Model Y.
He bought the car new but ended up having reliability issues just days after taking delivery.
Tesla’s warranty wouldn’t cover the damage, and the repair bill was shockingly high.
Not exactly what you’d call a good start.
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What happened with this guy’s Tesla Model Y
Shreyansh Jain, a Tesla owner from Cambridge, England, bought his Model Y new in 2023.
Just 115 miles later, he ran into serious trouble when his car, in his own words, came to a ‘grinding halt’.
Jain said he lost steering control as he was approaching his home and, speaking to Reuters, he explained how that scared him off from ever buying Tesla again.
“If we were on a 70-mile-per-hour highway, and this would have happened, that would have been catastrophic,” he said.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered the front-right suspension had collapsed.
On their part, Tesla addressed these concerns and told supercarblondie.com that some of the claims made by the owner were misleading.
After checking the vehicle, they concluded that there was no inherent defect with the suspension, and the damage had been caused by the driver.
Either way, he ended up having to pay £11,247 – equivalent to $13,850.
Are EVs more reliable than gas cars?
EVs have fewer moving parts, and apart from components that all vehicles share such as tires and brakes, nothing is as important as the car’s battery capacity.
In this case, the problem was not EV-specific.
Obviously, we know that gas cars are capable of covering incredible distances.
There’s a taxi driver in Greece that racked up three million miles in his cab, whilst a Canadian cabbie hit 1.6 million over 35 years.
But electric vehicles have been around for a while now, and we’re also beginning to see more examples of EV longevity.
There’s a man in Germany who’s driven his Model S for over 1.2 million miles and counting, and another Tesla owner in Slovakia with 300,000 miles on the clock.
