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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.

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Maybe location tracking from Google maps giving a date when the car was driven and where, with a simple excel of distances calculated and tallied up for a given month or two.

If the owner had a photo of the dash with the distance reported a few months earlier start there to see if the report distance matches what the excel table totals up.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

So instead of lasers for self driving, we got cameras because they’re like eyes and they can do the same thing. Now odometers, they spin and the number gets bigger. That’s like a slot machine. They need lots of numbers, so we’ll make them like penny slots and just go one little bit at a time, and it’ll make you feel like a winner when the parts fall off!

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow that's a scummy thing to do. Just like apple I will never buy a Tesla product.

[–] pelley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apple’s odometers are fine.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow Teslas are even shittier than I ever imagined.

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love how the article is so corpo that they have to clarify it's not the whole warranty that expired

as if any of that shit is real and not a scam

ars technica 🙄

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

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".

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