The lead plaintiff in the case, Nyree Hinton, bought a used Model Y with less than 37,000 miles (59,546 km) on the odometer. Within six months, it had pushed past the 50,000-mile (80,467 km) mark, at which point the car’s bumper-to-bumper warranty expired. (Like virtually all EVs, Tesla powertrains have a separate warranty that lasts much longer.)
For this six-month period, Hinton says his Model Y odometer gained 13,228 miles (21,288 km). By comparison, averages of his three previous vehicles showed that with the same commute, he was only driving 6,086 miles (9,794 km) per 6 months.
Edit: I just want to point out that I just learned that changing your tires to ones of a different diameter can also affect how your spedometer clocks. So yeah, this issue is full of nuance and plausible things as to why this could not be true.
Well, true, but tyres wouldn’t make it a double distance, it’s not that simple. The case isn’t clear, if course, but the claim says that the odometer tried to reduce the range after it got out of the warranty period.
Not saying anything about the merit of the case, just the the claim itself sounds interesting and that if true, you can’t wave it away with “you changed tyres”.
Wow that’s a scummy thing to do. Just like apple I will never buy a Tesla product.
Apple’s odometers are fine.
odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);You can’t change the tire size on a Model Y very much because of the weird suspension design.
Plus, to double the mileage registered by using different size tires, you’d have to put a roughly 10" tire on a Model Y.
Well I’m curious to find out what discovery will show.
Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th…oh, nevermind.
Wrong gutted regulator
Or intentionally?
A odometer is a smell sensor, no?
How silly, it’s obvious that would be an odormeter. An odometer is about something else entirely.
Obviously!
They don’t install those in new cars, you need one made in the ol’factory.
That’s a smellometer!
Let’s use the Smelloscope!
No
But odor!
Hodor
In the past, Tesla lawyers even initiated lawsuits against customers who dared to criticize the quality of their cars or services. Such cases are documented and therefore not fake news. Last week, moreover, DOGE dismantled the department responsible for safety control and approval of new cars entering the market. Tesla experienced too many problems with this department in the past and now, through DOGE, took the opportunity to simply dismantle it. Moral of the story… buy a Tesla, a “safe” decision.
Changing your tire sizing only changes the speedo and odo a few percent. You can usually just ignore it unless you’re making drastic changes.
Yeah aeems a pretty useless edit for an obvious fact. Especially as in this case you would need tires half the circumstance of the original to make sense… Gotta be some tiny tires…
Edit, had it the wrong way around
Hey Siri how do I convert from inches to circumstance
Yeah for the odo to do that, you need to put golf cart wheels on a Tesla.
That’s 70 miles a day, for anyone who doesn’t want to do the math. I don’t know where Hinton lives, but that’s almost two laps around all of the highways surrounding the city I live in. That’s 2 hours of driving on surface roads, not including stop lights and stop signs.
I wonder how much money Tesla has saved by breaking the law this way?
112 km a day, not a bad commute by Toronto standards - it’s one way for the Barrie to Toronto drivers
Sure, but it’s an additional 70 miles. Not something that would go unnoticed.
Or about 11 swedish miles per day.
What’s that in Ikea meatballs?
What Swedish mile?
The unity mile, of course. It’s 10,688.54 m.
ha, ha, people getting screwed over by musk makes me laugh.
Should be super easy to prove too… Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.
There’s got to be a git repository out there that has a smoking gun in its history…
If the courts cared for the rights of people they would subpoena code routinely
We can’t be ruled by black boxes that serve people who hate us. It has to end
Add this to the pile of the rest of the illegal things billionaire Musk does simply because he can
Better or worse than rape-via-twitter? Better, I guess.
It is weird that he probably saw Danny DeVito rolling back the odometers in Matilda while in a K hole and misconstrued the whole situation. That scene of Danny with the drill taking thousands of miles off an old beater probably seemed like a jackpot idea in that drug addled mind of his.
Hey man, drugs have nothing to do with his mind. It was that way before drugs were involved
Wow Teslas are even shittier than I ever imagined.
