I imagine the extensive rust was holding down its value, and fixing that is way beyond just knowing how to wrench.

Enabler.

But stop drooling, that’ll contribute to the rust

Enabler.....

I’m listening.

I might possibly know somebody who has a 1980s Cherokee/Wagoneer in a shed. From a distance it looks brown, but I think that’s actually solid rust over the entire body. Maybe you can fix it. You know you want to.

Got ya covered.

I mentioned it during an annual service. I wouldn’t really call it a “complaint” as it was mildly annoying at worst. I think they did a quick test drive to confirm, but as you said, it was a non-event.

I would imagine that since they own a fleet of Tesla’s they probably get better treatment than the average Joe. Plus they are able to provide Tesla with a bunch of data on how well their cars perform over vast amounts of miles, which is invaluable.

Swapping batteries is easy on a Tesla. Another entity wanted to use the same model and basically you could “swap” tops and one day have a sedan and the next have an SUV or a pickup on the same “ski pad”

Despite being mostly battery, what are you swapping? A car or a battery?

There were reports that Model Ss with high mileage batteries are offered a free battery change because Tesla wanted to see how the battery held up at such mileages. Very likely that the Tesloop car fell underneath that provision.

The difference is though, personal vehicle vs. a company that operates a long distance cab. The personal vehicle sits for how many hours a day while the guy works... If he was paid to long distance drive I am sure he would have plenty more miles than the Tesla being 3 years older.

Because they wanted the battery so they could study it.

Tesla does that kind of thing all the time. All those motors you have read about being replaced? Most of the time it was just a weird noise or something, but Tesla just replaces the whole motor anyway so they can study the old motor to see what’s wrong. It’s only the size of a watermelon and is easy to replace. Same…

Definitely worth taking into consideration, sure, because this customer got special treatment, but I can also understand why Tesla would give this car special attention, too.

Technically, it’s still under warranty. This is straight from Tesla’s website:

I’ve had parts replaced free on out-of-warranty cars that I’ve owned. It usually happens when I contact the OEM directly and provide information of the failed part. Probably because of my proximity to these OEMs, they tend to provide the replacement part (reimbursement) in exchange for the old part if they decide they…

Could simply be this. IIRC, that was part of why they’d swap drivelines in the early S’s when they had the odd failure: it’s actual failure in the real-world versus a simulated failure in the lab. There’s a lot to be learned there.

As of today, Erick has 399179.48 miles. So we’ll see 400k in a few days!

Also all the free high mileage test data they receive.