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truthisfreedom

(23,385 posts)
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 12:38 AM Saturday

Tesla accused of messing with odometers to get out of repair bills

Source: Engadget

Tesla is facing a proposed class action suit over allegations that it has been speeding up odometers so its vehicles will fall out of warranty faster, according to a report by Reuters. This would make it easier for the company to get out of paying for repairs.

Nyree Hinton, the plaintiff in the case, alleges that Tesla odometer readers are designed to change with energy consumption, driver behavior and mysterious predictive algorithms, and not actual mileage driven. He said that the odometer on the 2020 Model Y he bought in December 2022 had 36,772 miles on the clock at the time of purchase.

Hinton alleges that the odometer went up by 72 miles each day, when he only drove around 20. He made comparisons to his other vehicles and concluded that the odometer ran, at the minimum, 15 percent fast. This caused his 50,000-mile basic warranty to expire ahead of schedule, which forced him to pay a $10,000 suspension repair bill out of pocket.

Read more: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-accused-of-messing-with-odometers-to-get-out-of-repair-bills-165625372.html



Odometers tabulate miles. Voting machines tabulate votes. E-lol-n games systems. He famously games online games.

He’s also got hair plugs and fake chin implants and is artificially testosterone boosted and lives in a dissociative world via ketamine horse tranquilizer. He even has to game his own life to make it bearable.
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RockRaven

(17,161 posts)
2. Competent, non-corrupt regulators would do something about that...
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 12:57 AM
Saturday

which is the umpteen-thousandth example of why he needed to support a turd like TCF who would reciprocate for that support.

cstanleytech

(27,547 posts)
4. It's going to depend on what's in the paperwork people sign when they buy one.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 02:46 AM
Saturday

If there is such a clause in that then anyone that bought one might be SOL.

Mr. Mustard 2023

(316 posts)
5. This is another reason to stop digitizing
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 08:58 AM
Saturday

everything, and trusting the tech co's to manage your devices correctly. Digital is overrated, over done and dangerous and gives control of your property to someone else.

Fla Dem

(26,539 posts)
6. Surprise, surprise, surprise! A slimy con man who will do anything to enrich himself.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 10:16 AM
Saturday

Hmmm sounds like someone else.

IronLionZion

(48,552 posts)
8. Musk will fire the federal regulators
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 11:01 AM
Saturday

to save costs and achieve super genius levels of efficiency. Lean and mean.

Canada Kid

(97 posts)
9. Sketchy Odometers
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 12:10 PM
Saturday

Deception knows no bounds! A puke like Musk would deem this to be how you conduct normal business. Cheating is okay until you get caught. All worldwide sales of these junkers should be frozen until all these vehicles are checked for accurate speedometers. Speedometer tampering is a FEDERAL OFFENCE...punishable by incarceration. Ten years times 1 million vehicles is a long sentence...Musk will be very old when he gets out!

SupportSanity

(1,387 posts)
10. And soon, the truth about the election voting machines will come out - that they were rigged also.
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 04:41 PM
Saturday

The Tesla odometers rigging story might get interesting.

Looking forward to updates on it.

pecosbob

(7,909 posts)
12. I have to drive a cyber-truck overnight occasionally for my job...it's a death trap.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 05:08 PM
Sunday

Worst visibility I've seen in a vehicle. It has a massive blind spot in the area of the A and B pillars that prevents a driver from seeing crossing pedestrians.

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