It’s not irregular for it to rain in Scotland. It’s irregular, nevertheless, for it to rain so closely your electrical automotive battery offers up the ghost.

A pair from Edinburgh was shocked after receiving a £17,374 (A$33,370) invoice to interchange the battery on their Tesla Mannequin Y, after the car wouldn’t activate after driving via heavy rain.

The house owners informed Edinburgh Reside they left residence to take pleasure in dinner in Edinburgh on October 7 and arrived on the restaurant with no challenge, however say their electrical automotive wouldn’t begin as soon as they returned to the car round 10pm.

The couple allege it took almost 5 hours for Tesla’s roadside help to tow the automotive to an Edinburgh dealership.

After the automotive was inspected, the couple was informed the battery was broken “as a result of water ingress”, and a alternative would price £17,374 (~A$33,000) – greater than a 3rd the value of the SUV. That’s regardless of the couple denying having pushed it via “any enormous puddles or something like that”, not to mention submerging it underwater.

“After lastly getting to talk to a supervisor, he informed me [the battery] had water in it because of the truth the climate in Scotland has been so dangerous. That was the problem. They mentioned it’s not essentially my fault however it’s not Tesla’s to pay underneath guarantee. He jogged my memory there was a yellow climate warning in some components of Scotland,” one of many house owners informed Edinburgh Reside.

The information outlet stories as of October 15 the couple nonetheless hadn’t had their automotive returned.

“If I had recognized the customer support can be so dangerous I’m undecided I might have bothered shopping for the automotive. Do they know that we’re in Scotland? That climate was not irregular for dwelling right here.

“I can solely see the variety of claims on issues like this going up. The factor is, Elon Musk may purchase everybody on the planet a Tesla if he needed to.”

The information outlet stories it has reached out to Tesla UK and Europe for a remark, however hasn’t heard again on the time of publishing this text.

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