Of the $29k in repairs, over a quarter of it is just periodic new tires yet they don't break that out in the article.
I was saddened to see that key fobs are about $150 (and he needed 6 of them). That's the kind of pricing jackassery that I would not expect from Tesla. The number of fobs is about right, I've worn my Ford's fob button out in about 120k miles, but 3rd party chip keys are $5 and 3rd party fobs are $5. It seems like a 15x markup for a required, consumable item is bit "Detroit".
I was saddened to see that key fobs are about $150 (and he needed 6 of them). That's the kind of pricing jackassery that I would not expect from Tesla. The number of fobs is about right, I've worn my Ford's fob button out in about 120k miles, but 3rd party chip keys are $5 and 3rd party fobs are $5. It seems like a 15x markup for a required, consumable item is bit "Detroit".