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A Cybertruck Buyer Says Tesla is Trying to Sell Him a Cybertruck That Has Been Sitting on the Lot for 4 Months – Adds “The Truck Was Built on January 8th”

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What even is the complaint? Does he want it to still be warm from the factory? He's getting a piece of shit either way, I don't see why he cares if it's 4 months or 4 days.
- Apparently, January was before they identified some of the production issues that led to recalls and so on. And also that Tesla has done a bad job with the recalls so even the "fixed" ones have misaligned panels and so forth.
  Why anyone still has any interest at all in buying this piece of shit eludes me.
- A piece of shit that's been sitting out in the sun for 4 months is likely to be more solid than a fresh one. But it's also likely to be more brittle.
  
  The windshield is likely to crack while parked in the heat of the sun, the panel glue will also fail in the heat of the sun, and don't get it wet, the doors don't have any drain holes for water...
- Batteries degrade in storage and theres an ongoing recall on older models.
  Elon/Tesla/Cybertruck shit aside, if someone buying a car doesnt want old dealer stock thats up to them and making an issue of it is just poor business.
  
  There's plenty of people out there still driving and maintaining vehicles over 20 years old. Yes they require maintenance, but there's no good reason for new vehicles to have potentially major maintenance/recalls within mere months.
  
  Batteries don't really degrade unless they are kept at a high state of charge.
- Gotta admit, without the context of some of the replies here I didn't get it it either. I bought a brand-new 2019 in late 2020 that had been on the lot for close to a year because they didn't try to sell the manual version of my car. I walked in and asked if they had a manual. No complaints, been a reliable thing ever since.
- he wants a brand new one.
No sympathy for a willing supporter of fascism.
"Right wing moron who buys expensive trash to own the libruls gets scammed by grifter". An eternal story.
Cybertruck bullshit aside, if you want me to take a car thats 5 months old it had better be discounted, especially if theres an ongoing recall on older models.
- Its less about the age of the car and more about getting one thats an old version that's "fixed" vs getting a new one when you paid for a new one.
  So they took old stock and "fixed" some of the recalls and sell as brand new. Customer wanted the newest version built with the fixes in place and no active recalls on it.
  Tesla dealership being shady with the few sales they got.
- All cars will be “old” like that unless you custom order one, which can take up to a year to be delivered.
  
  Yeah, which any franchise dealership is usually HAPPY to do for you.
  Without too long of an explanation basically to get allocations of the high end, special editions, or real profit magnet cars to actually put on the lot dealerships are expected to move a certain volume of cars that have already been made and shipped. To get a fully optioned SUV or sports car to just park on the lot that some guy will just have to have to flex on his neighbours and impulse buy you have to move 10 economy hatches and 5 softroaders a month (examples but you get the idea) the manufacturer ships you their oldest stock first so nothing in the storage lots gets too old, which is why you see fixed price driveaway specials on certain models from time to time... they need to fuck off a bunch of corollas. Its also why sometimes you hear someone got one for stupid cheap because "volume bonuses" are a thing (dealership sells 20 corollas, dealership gets a $20k kickback, 19 cars you get nothing) The thing is that "production orders" dont count towards your allocation, so while you get credit for selling a car on your record and it counts towards any volume bonuses they dont send you any less dealer stock which gives you a larger variety of cars on the lot to increase the chances of same day sales. If dealer stock is thin on the ground, they can do discounts on production orders to keep the "and how soon can I have it?" crowd supplied (remember the covid gouging?) Or if dealer stock is abundant they say "Production cost is $50,000, but I DO have this one thats been on the lot for a few months thats only a little bit off your specs I can do for $42,000"
This has to be a joke. 🫢

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