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I Bought a Tesla and the Previous Owner Has Been Remotely Controlling My Car

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12 pointsGeekette7 comments

apart from dissuading me from ever connecting a car i own to the internet, the article left me curious as to why the previous owner kept being such an asshole

was it a repo or something?

There's a lot of natural born assholes out there. Probably thought it was funny.

Wish this was written by a journalist who could ask themselves "what would the reader want to know?". A repoed car? A beef between buyer and seller? What was going on? The buyer apparently got the number of the seller - how did they not have that before? Did they buy this from a dealer? This article says "So I shot both of them a text message, as you can see below", but there are no texts below?

I need an AI to speed-read articles for me and tell me if they're complete slop or not, jeez.

The text screenshot is in one of the original Reddit posts: https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1l0cz89/update...

How he bought it is in a comment:

>Bought it through a smaller sized dealer who got it off their dealer auction or whatever. Dealer said there's not much they can do, contact Tesla. Tesla said to send paperwork and due to circumstance they can transfer same day. Only have paper saying I bought it from dealer, but no registration or title currently, should have those next week. Guess I should have paid a little more and gone with a "big dealer" but I saved some $

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1kszl4j/how_to...

Edit: I suspect the linked article is indeed ai slop created after someone threw the original reddit posts at a llm and asked for a story about them. That weird aside about depreciation was inspired by some of the comments.

Wtf are these articles lmao, you can just remove the previous owner, but I'm guessing they wanted the free supercharging which isnt transferrable?

The fine article mentions the cost of the supercharger idle fees that the current owner used to get back at the previous owner, so it’s not that.

It also says that in order to remove the owner Tesla wanted registration, which can take a few weeks to get, not simply a bill of sale.

Removing the owner should be done at the time of the transaction - by the owner themself. I bought a used tesla and it was very straightforward. Getting registration should also be done at the time of the transaction to make sure there's no outstanding registration fees? Also the article reads like complete AI slop, wtf is this excerpt lol

> What reads like a rejected Black Mirror episode is actually a hard lesson in how vulnerable the connected car ecosystem can be. Tesla vehicles are technological marvels, crisp, quiet, brilliantly engineered, but the reliance on cloud infrastructure and app control creates a glaring risk for secondhand buyers.

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