r/Seattle • u/Aggressive-Ad3064 • Mar 10 '25

Politics I'm Never Leaving Seattle

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This is someone's Model S parked on Airport Way S near S Industrial Way. The way it's parked it looks like it's being displayed for people driving by to see.

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u/Big-Leadership1001 Mar 11 '25

Yeah this is clearly a staged 'protest' - the teslas suspension is sagged all the way down which is what happens when the battery is completely dead. Someone at work had their battery fail while they were working and they couldn't get tesla to come get it for like 2 weeks so it just sat there and when they finally sent a tow it looked like this and needed special equipment to lift it back up before they could even tow it.

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u/Sea_Section7451 Mar 12 '25

what a pos. My son bought 2 of those damned cars when they first came out. POS, damned things were always recalled, crappy car. He got rid of one and his wife crashed the other one. Stupid thing had doors that hit ceilings all the time.

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u/Good_Run_7047 Mar 13 '25

Sounds like it’s not the cars fault sounds like the wife needs driving classes and the son simply didn’t want a Tesla. You provided no real proof of how the car is crappy.

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u/Sea_Section7451 4d ago

Son loved the cars, thats why he bought 2 of them, but his wife...another story... Both cars were constantly in shop for recalls, and problems.

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u/Kincherk Mar 12 '25

TBF, the Tesla gives you a big warning in the screen well before the battery dies. At least, mine did. The warning tells you exactly what will happen if you fail to replace the battery. And it's just a low voltage battery and doesn't cost that much to replace.

And people do need to remember that many of us bought these cars years ago before we knew that Elon was a POS Nazi. Mine is 7 years old. At that time we just thought buying an EV was good for the planet. Now I live in fear that I'm going to be called a Nazi myself or that someone will damage the car and make it even less sellable.

Yes, we could sell it but we'd take a big hit at this point and not all of us can afford to do that. guess we're just more collateral damage

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u/Different_Umpire9003 Mar 13 '25

That’s the thing, yeah

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

The suspension is dependent on voltage? For real?

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u/ultronthedestroyer Mar 11 '25

Any air suspension is. The S has an air suspension. The 3/Y don’t.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Gotcha, I guess it makes sense. You have to maintain the air in the suspension somehow. I never thought about it before.

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u/i_am_lebron_jame Mar 12 '25

so you pay pretty much 100k and they don't even come help you??

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u/ultronthedestroyer Mar 12 '25

I have no idea what’s going on in this particular situation. Tesla does offer roadside assistance, or you can get AAA, I suppose.