Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain::undefined

  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I maybe could understand if they had tried fording a stream or something, but the car was just sitting in the parking lot?

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      1 year ago

      no excuse imo. its a car. Its even stupider that it failed from rain (even bad rain) in a car park. Cars can deal with 1m water easily (most batteries are that high, the air intake for the engine is easily that high (I will ignore Lambos and similar, built for different purposes).

      In the worst case for a ‘normal’ car (what is the TLA for them now?) a replacement battery would cost you a couple hundred bucks at most.

      Even if water got into the intake, the whole overhaul would not cost $20k or whatever it was.

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        1 year ago

        Its even stupider that it failed from rain (even bad rain) in a car park.

        Yeah, that is what I was trying to communicate.

        Cars can deal with 1m water easily

        Maybe some of them can, but that much water can wash a car off the road very easily.

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        1 year ago

        If water gets into the intake the engine is a rightoff and often the car. You need to watch more bengreggors at the Ford matey.

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          1 year ago

          well aware of how it works. just a little dramatization for shits and giggles. But I disagree that it is an instant right-off. it can be salvageable 90% of the time.