£1,300 to fix my Tesla after a stone destroyed the headlight. Eek!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A painful lesson in random chance. I thought that my Tesla Model Y was turning into a lemon. First the lefthand headlight fails, then the car won't drive at all.
Tesla mobile service come quickly and take the front of the car apart. We quickly find out that it wasn't a faulty headlight or a faulty battery. And the car wasn't broken, it was protecting itself from further damage.
Tesla service was brilliant. But why are LED headlights so massively expensive?
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Lol, overpriced throaway car. You are being fleeced 😂
09/11 23, Was a time when Headlamp Covers were available preventing this sort of damage - was the old unit yours to keep ? Any parts salvageable? £2k vehicle lifetime battery must have T+Cs forcing an early replacement - was the old one yours to keep ? What's your average range ? Best Regards !
Parts are extortionate for any "modern" car these days. Headlights for my 2017 Ford Focus are £700 new, of course I searched the bay and found a used replacement for a little less.
If a headlight totally fails from a small stone chip it's "not fit for purpose". I would sue Tesla for the full repair costs.
If you want LED lights and adaptive lights YOU must pay for it. I'll stick with my halogen lights because I'm poor...😢
He doesn't even care. A true evangelist.
basically the stone strike was equivalent to hitting a vent on the Death Star...
Ha ha. Nice one Mark!
Your problems with your tesla headlamp reminded me a a similar problem I had two months ago with a headlamp on my own vehicle, which cost me a small fortune.
One evening I was travelling along country lanes when shortly after hitting a pothole my O/S headlamp dip beam failed. I called into a small garage and bought a new bulb. £6.95 later I was on my way and completely shell shocked at the astronomical price, so I know how you feel.
Well played!
You speak as if most modern cars do not have LED headlights.. a single unit with ballast from BMW costs £2700. Ask me how I know..
@@gfusion Most do not own a BMW, thankfully
@@gfusion Soon you'll have to pay £1 per hour of use. And I love BMW, but I'm utterly disgusted with where they (and others) are headed to make a buck.
According to costhack, the average price for a headlamp assembly is $674, and it's likely older cars that drive that price down for being less complex and/or not be LED. $1300 may seem expensive for a Tesla, but it's actually still far from the most expensive ones up at $4000. BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and Volvo (wtf?) are notorious for extremely expensive headlamp assemblies. And here I was considering a Volvo for the next one. Never again Hyundai with broken (stuck on) dash brake warning light that they can't fix, 240+ days and counting.
Maybe I should shop by parts price and customer experience instead? Tesla is doing horrific here on the latter. I was never a Tesla fan, only thing to me they did right was provide a decent - good even - looking EV while there was nothing but abominations to be found by others. Now everyone else has caught up or even surpassed Tesla, and Tesla have no previous reputation as a car manufacturer. Besides, I absolutely despise Musk regardless, for everything he stands for, so that's an influence as well.
The fact that a small stone chip in a headlight brings the car to a standstill, and a new light costs a grand reinforces my view that vehicles are far too complex and my decision a few years back to retain my year 2000 LR Discovery was the right one !
And that it took them 7 days to fix it.
There is a very good point there - as manufacturers have had to both increase power outputs and decrease emissions, drivetrains have become more complex and fragile. Add in that everyone wants gadgets in their car and you have lots of computers. So you have to go back to the main dealer for a fix - which is what the manufacturers want!
Would have recovered it the next day had I not parked where a truck couldn't get to. Then would have had them on site on the Friday (after 2 days) had Storm Babet not shut the north east down. 5 days is still quicker than my experiences with Hyundai, Volvo, Nissan etc
@justgetatesla In fairness I did once have a headlamp go on my Disco 2. Replaced the bulb with one from the supplied spares kit in the next lay-by. My Disco is probably worth about the same as it cost you to get yours fixed, but I can reply on it, I can fill it with diesel in minutes at a multitude of places without an 'app' AND tow a 3.5 ton trailer full of pigs to take to the abattoir :) Electric may suit your lifestyle but it wouldn't suite mine. My son had a Tesla, but the leasing company refused to extend the lease as they were too expensive to maintain. And they call it progress.
Sure! Go look at a Disco 5. You can't replace the bulbs and its full of computers. Like all modern cars. Oh - the good news is that your Disco 2 won't burn itself out like modern JLR ones seem to keep doing.
So you get a stone chip on a headlamp, lets in some water, and the entire car is disabled? Go Tesla!
For a mere 1300 it's back to working!
LEDs hate water
I had the same on a BMW 3 series G20. ONE LED healight is £2700.
Agreed, I’ve been driving my ICE vehicles my entire life with dead headlamps and taillights, and water in hell-knows where, and I never noticed because it kept turning on and I kept on being able to drive it. What a ‘package’, hands-down…my love for ICE cars has gone through the roof today, thank you for the video as it has guaranteed my loyalty and obsession with ICE vehicles! 🥰🤩😘😍🤑
@@fanfeck2844 Properly waterproofed ones don't. You can get Led's suitable for use under water, and for the price they charge they damn well should be.
I would just have a look at that 'stone chip' again. As there is no damage to the paintwork around it it look sballistically impossible that it could have been a stone at that angle. My friends (non electric ) car had an identical chip and water penetrated the headlight, though not rendering his petrol car inoperative. Fortunately he had taken a lot of detailed pics of the whole exteriior when it was delivered and looking back saw that the chip was on the delivered car. As it had only done a few miles from delivery it is unlikely it was a stone. He took it up with the delaership and they agreed that it had been made with the chip. How? because it looks clearly like the light was dropped and chipped prior to, or during, assembly, that is why it is on the extreme edge -ie the bit that hits the deck first. Check if you have any pics prior to the light going off and see if the chip is visible. I think you just got swindled out of £1300 by Tesla for a manufacturing defect.
I don’t think that was the case. There was a clear impact hole and cracks coming off it.
Forensics has shown that no stone was found in the headlight asembly making it very unlikely stone chiping ocured.
Your Honor, it was droped during manufacturing.
Case closed
🤣 Unlucky yes. Perfect aim of a random stone to penetrate the headlamp seal. And LED headlights are expensive on any car fitted with them. But a buggered headlight stopping the whole car from working? Yes of course, this high tech is progress…
Great inbuilt protection would be if the headlight unit was isolated from the other systems. How would you feel if you had been in the middle of nowhere and a broken headlight incapacitated the car.
Same as if any other fault had failed the car - annoyed. Have had the family stuck inside the car (a diesel) on the hard shoulder when the car decided to incapacitate itself with a DPF sensor issue...
@@justgetatesla I think all new cars are becoming overly complex and end up as uneconomical to keep on the road. Given the resources that go into making them I would question how “green” this is.
Yep. The Citroen even told me it was stranding me and my kids in a dangerous place to protect the environment. Wasn't even actually clogged, only the *sensor* was faulty.
Never buy a vehicle newer than 2015.
Juice not worth the squeeze
@@PC-xv5uz I drive a 2000 Volvo V70 which cost less than his headlight 😂 Just completed a 2200 road trip and it’s utterly reliable
So glad I kept my £100 diesel car (citroen) 8 years and still going strong
I’m glad I kept my horse, 16 years still going!
@@derekwhite5090 Could you buy an old clapped out Tesla and pull it with the horse?
im sticking to my 95 Vauxhall Astra, would never even contemplate purchasing an EV of any king the only EV I own are to 1.16th scale RC cars...
Had the same issue before. Filled up like a bucket but didn’t shut the car down. But then it was a petrol car….
"The car, to protect itself, shut itself down." Skynet, we are here. 😂
Same as a fuse. Modern tech is the same in any car.
Errr, no!
A stone hits the headlight of my car, fills it with water (seen it happen!) but it doesn't stop my car from driving for nearly a week, storms or no storms🥴🥴
You see, my car doesn't have a £2000 back up battery or a £20,000 (plus or minus a few grand dependant!) battery to 'protect'.
It may blow a fuse (pennies) until the headlight is replaced, but I am still happily driving my car in spite of the bad luck I suffered by a dastardly little stone!!
Just buy a Tesla?
No thank you😂😂
This Low voltage battery is Lithium and should not be replaced in the lifetime of the car. Tesla gives 8 year warranty on the Battery and the drive train. Almost every new car these days have those headlights, it is not specific for Tesla.
I would say the service was shocking if they have charged you to fix a car that was under warranty!
The headlight broke due to user error not manufacturing fault. So not covered by warranty
Mega expensive EV toy..
Mega exoensive to fix too.
Good luck Sir, 😉
My Tesla model 3 needed zero service in 5 years. How much to you spend for Oil change for Engine, gearbox etc? Yearly service cost also quite a lot. I saved a lot on drive consumption due to the cheaper electricity and efficiency of the drive train. Also less pollution. Make the total cost of ownership please, before concluding it is more expensive.
They're money pits....parts and insurance costs are ludicrous.
Never heard of the robbed thanking the robber and so effusively! 😂😂😮😅
Elon is a hypnotist. I continue to buy shares spurred on by people adding to the cash pile when they buy headlights at that price.
My lenses were going a bit yellow on my 2000yr Porsche……I thought I’d get new ones…..£4500 plus fitting. I got a cleaning kit and polished them up.
The people that sell these to car owners should wear Dick Turpin outfits and carry emergency equipment to revive you once the price has been given.
Hi Ian, really good video about the protections built into the car that ordinarily we would not know about, Tesla service and relative costs of components. When I saw your last video I was wondering about the reliability of my similar aged Y and wondering if 20k miles might be a turning point. Now I have no worries at all going into a 700 mile round trip to visit the grand kids. Good work. Cheers
On older cars they had some awesome little self protection devices too. They called them fuses, and you can get a pack of them as spares for under $10.00. They've been 100% effective at protecting circuits - such as headlight circuits - since the invention of the motor car.
ray mitchel are you a tesla dealer ..going bankrupt 😅😅😅😅
£930 for a new wing mirror on my bmw 3 series estate, and bmw wanted £250 to fit it and they couldn't fit me in for 6 weeks. I did the job myself in 45 minutes and I had no idea how to do it. It would of taken a decent mechanic less than 30 minutes.
Makes me glad that none of my vehicles have computer bus driven lighting on them turning a $20 or less bulb issue into a $1,000 + repair. Had similar a few years ago on an ancient Nissan Leaf and the fix was to put a vacuum pump on the housing to dry it out, seal the crack with UV resistant epoxy as is used to repair windshield cracks and replace the $20 bulb. Total cost was $40.
When a smart device adds substantial cost to the vehicle to eliminate a simple 50 cent fuse and turns what use to be a $20 to $50 repair into a $1,000 to $2,000 repair one does have to question how smart it is to really have them.
Tesla aside the average new car can now have 100 or more different computer devices inside them to simplify the wiring harness eliminating copper conductors which sounds good on the surface however replacing a few pounds of copper with several pounds or so of frightfully expensive proprietary computer devices to do something as simple as turn a light on or off seems like a giant leap backwards.
Best!
It’s a problem - almost every modern vehicle is full of expensive parts. But what is the solution? Can’t just drive older cars as there won’t be simpler older cars to replace them
@@justgetatesla If we just stopped buying the models that have headlamps with non-replacable bulbs and with computers built into them then manufacturers would have to react and stop making them that way.
Even in an EV what do LED headlamps give you? An extra quarter of a mile in range?
On the Tesla for something that's not covered under warranty I would have taken the option of buying the lamp assembly myself which costs less at about $500 including shipping or would have seriously considered getting the lens kit for around $100 and seen if cleaning up the water and replacing the lens would have cleared the error.
Tesla is being hit with a Right to Repair lawsuit at the moment due to some of these things so it may get better shortly as they will likely be forced to allow for and better support owners being able to get aftermarket parts like headlamps and tail lights that they can replace themselves at much lower cost without voiding the warranty. This will also force the release of information on how to accomplish these repairs.
Best!
@@justgetatesla Just looked deeper into the Model-Y headlights and saw that they have a computer in them to allow for some silly animated led flashing sequence along with some play on an automated hi/low beam and somewhere in-between dimmer.
Sad that strip LED animation and dimming which can also be a feature in even a $25 vacuum cleaner appears to be a part of what makes these headlights so expensive and susceptible to water damage.
Sad too that the "Smart" Car can't deal with it and shuts down instead of just blowing the fuse or tripping the breaker on the headlamp circuit.
Best!
Love the casual look.
Brits with no practical skills living beyond their means. Tube of adhesive applied immediately would have sorted it. I mean, who in their right senses would entertain a Tesla? An example of why Britain is heading for recession. Pretty soon the music will stop and a lot of Brits will be without a chair.
If I were to have a headlight malfunction, I'd drop in my local scrap yard, pick up a replacement and fit it myself; total outlay, a fiver tops.
Never have so much equity invested in the car that you can't roll it into the ditch and get your ass up the auction for a replacement.
Jack, the Japan Alps Brit
“Tube of adhesive” applied to what?
I’m glad your car has been fixed. Now let’s address the elephant in the room - Do you want to own one of these without a warranty or when it is a few years old?
Absolutely. No gearbox. No turbo. No flywheel. I’ve had expensive bills for all of those before.
Wow. You got a stone cause very minimal damage to headlight and it caused your car to stop working ? Just another reason to never get an EV car. What an absolute joke.
Very minimal damage? The water had *fried* it. What is it with you lot? Insisting that it must be an EV fire at Luton, now unhappy about an EV electrical system which *prevents* fire. Bet the diesel Range Rover owner wishes his car had done the same
When it's all electronics all points of failure are on the same system. EVs have many points of failure, that makes them unreliable (like every battery unit is a point of failure).
EVs may not burn up all the time but they can burn up any time without notice. Scary.
@@justgetatesla A stone chip to a headlight honestly is minimal damage in most cars.
The problem with "Us lot" is that £1,300 for a headlight is more than we'd take home in a month of full time work.
If we had a car which wouldn't even run with a broken headlight we wouldn't be able to get to work.
I had an argument with my mobile tech when I reported moisture in my headlights, running down the lenses. The tech told me the lights are not waterproof, water runs in and out but the internals are water proof. I knew this was total cr@p of course. I now have the same issue again 1 year after replacement. These lights collect water without being damaged. I had loads of people on FB and X etc telling me it is normal and will not do any harm. Thank you Ian for proving it does, as was obvious to me!
I have had exactly the same comments and problems with my petrol car
@@pixie706 yes it is certainly not unique to Tesa, that is one of many reason's I won't buy from legacy auto. I've had enough of their poor reliability and customer service. Tesla are supposed to have a better ethos, we are considering another car but will have to think twice about buying another Tesa.
If I owned a car in which minor stone damage to the headlight put it off the road for the best part of a week, followed by a bill for £1300, I think that the rose-tinted scales over my eyes would drop off rather more quickly.
I think the minor stone damage was just the start. Like getting a small chip in your windscreen which quickly turns into a massive crack
As a manufacturing engineer, thats not a freak accident, that my friend is simply poor design, with a horrendous replacement cost. Why did it not just blow a physical (10p) fuse rather than rendering the whole car useless?
I can’t believe a stone disabled your car! Bad design in my opinion. I destroyed a headlight on my Nissan X- Trail when I hit a deer, but the car just carried on regardless. I won’t be getting a Tesla anytime soon, that is for sure.
What a piece of 💩 electric cars are 😅 anyone who has been in the RC world knows how this isn't going to work long term. It's not the future, ain't going to happen. Not in the U.S, how much has that car lost in value recently?
Unlucky with the stone yes, but that is just a poor construction of the light. And it goes into everything else Tesla does: They have no idea of how humidity and water work. This is just one example of their poor design when it comes to water and humidity tolerability of the car. And then that the car goes totally bonkers by this is another example that they have no real idea of what water does. Still. After all those years.
.....if it helps i had a bmw 120d xdrive with led..common fault is front left light fill with water so you need a new one...new oem one is 1500 and it has to be coded.
I agree..just bad luck
That’s the problem with all these new fancy headlights, my friend had to pay £2100 to replace a matrix unit on an Audi.
Ouch!
Cars are becoming to expensive to run..
End of the motor car is so close now...People can't afford these bills
The service centre made 500 quid by selling you the part bcause a stone chip... glad u enjoy getting bent over with a smile
When it catches fire you won't have to waffle on about the parts, every EV Ceo are now finding that electric cars are going to bankrupt their companies, keep em.
Catch fire? It isn’t a Range Rover Diesel
@@justgetatesla Check how many Tesla's have caught fire, in China so many EVs have caught fire that they can't sell them.
This is the big big problem with EVs.
There's lots of people like myself who live in fairly rural areas with very poor public transport links that are totally reliant upon their cars for getting to their manual jobs. I would say around 80% of the miles I drive every year to/from work. If I don't attend, I don't get paid and it's not a job that can be done from the comfort of my sofa. It's 12 hour shifts including nights.so much of the time I work it's dark and others are in bed. So who compensates me for lost earnings? Or if my boss sacks me for not turning up for work?
This is besides the impracticalities of an EV. Such as around where I live there's virtually no public charge points so if your visiting the area in your EV and your battery is low, your stuffed.
Then there's the fact that wages are only an average of about £25k per year where I live. Nobody can afford to buy an EV.
It's my belief if they force a diesel and petrol engine ban in 2035 then many people in rural areas like where I live will just be left claiming out of work benefits because we won't be able to afford to buy an EV and public transport is in many places, virtually none existent and many of the roads don't have either pavements or streetlights so you can't walk the 9 miles or even cycle it, especially in winter when it's dark by 4pm.
I live rural. You charge your car at home as you sleep. Which means it’s always fully charged when you need it. It’s worse with our petrol car where quite often we need a 20 mile round trip just to put more fuel in it
The question is, who will want to own one of these cars when they are out of warranty and enter the second hand car market.
I can see they are a good option for company drivers and lease contracts, but will be looked upon as a throw away item.
You can dress this up anyway you want but Tesla have just fleeced you £1300 for a plastic light unit, that probably cost less than £20 to make.
Sure! But every manufacturer now fits LED headlights regardless of powertrain. With people who drive Audi and BMW fuel cars on here telling me how much their replacement headlights cost - a lot more.
You are driving a car most people could not afford to own for the very reasons you are describing. All reason not to buy an electric car. I can repair most things on my conventional car myself. Or find a good mechanic that I can afford. Not so much with an EV. The reality is that your car has an environmental impact just like every other car. The cost alone cancels out any savings you may get.
Of course the point is with an EV that there is very little to actually repair…
@@justgetatesla What little there is has to be repaired often 🤣And you can't even do it your self.
@@justgetatesla and that is why you have repaired so many times???? I still don’t get it.
Headlights these days are stupid expensive! My ID3 was damaged in an accident and had to be replaced the headlight alone has it was the matrix LED was £1536 + Vat😮
Keep up the excellent vids Ian love em👍🏻
I just replaced a headlight bulb in my Hyundai from local motor factors....£1.99
@@paulgreen7906 Goodness. I paid £2.99 for mine!
Unlike the tesla, my car ran without the bulb working.
I cant believe that you find the cost of a headlight is coppers short of £1000 ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. You also find it acceptable that it immobilised the car. YOU NEED HELP
It’s a crazy amount of money! This is the cost of all modern cars with LED headlights. If I wanted to replace my old Hyundai i30 with a brand new one, that also comes with LEDs…
Headlamp unit for my car was £37 and was very easy to replace .......
Just fitted a brand new Lucas sealed beam unit in my 1963 Vauxhall. I brought 2 of them at a auto jumble for £15. Yes £7.50 each I laugh at people who get ripped off with modern cars.
Sealed beams were a rip off. There were plenty of cars with odd shaped sealed beams like Peugeot 504s and Audi 100s that got scrapped back in the day when a sealed beam went. You couldn't find them in scrapyards either.
I paid £2.99for a headlamp bulb recently.
Wow, Tesla has great service department, they charge you over $1,500.00 for a light bulb and you think you got a deal.
Light bulb? No. Headlight assembly? Yes. You seen how much the Germans charge for the same on a petrol car…? 🤔
£1200 for a battery and a headlight prevents you driving it. It's a lemon, a rotten stinking lemon.
$1,200 for replacing a light unit and the broken headlight not allowing the vehicle to be used!!! The $1,200 was because only they can work on the car. Its a load of Sh*t. Then at the end of the video you are saying you need the video ad revenue to pay for the repair!!! Hey Bud enjoy your Tesla..I can repair my ICE car with a busted bulb for about $6 at any car parts outlet. I could replace the whole light unit for $100 or less and do the work myself. Oh, and one more thing....I don't have to wait hours to refill my car and I can go on a trip and not worry if I am going to get stranded or about where I can refill next...Tesla found another paying Sucker!!!
Hours? laughable. Unless you're talking about charging it overnight at home
Very expensive! £1300 is outrageous! Working men will find this car unaffordable, a white elephant, a con.
Same with any new car - they all have LED headlights
Welcome to the world of 'green' motoring. Most EVs are a ticking financial timebomb, most repairs on a older car will write it off.
Clearly a glutton for punishment.
Im a big fan of Tesla but I will not fork that crazy amount on a car and insane costs of repairs… I’m love my 2015 Toyota corra.. runs like a champ and very economical 😅😅😅😅😅
Another shout for the Toyota Corolla - a lot of fans on here 👍
A pair of replacement headlight assemblies for my Versa is $144. They include all the bulbs with the headlight assemblies (headlight bulb, amber turn signal bulb, side light bulb). Replacement halogen bulbs are $5 each. I recently replaced the bulbs at 11 years old, they were still working but had lost some of their original brightness. The old bulbs were made in Germany by Osram , the new bulbs are the same.
You're just lucky the impact didn't write off the battery 😂😂😂
I’m just lucky that you stopped by to bring me revenue to tell me something that’s pitifully wrong. I think the emoji reaction is 😂😂😂
A headlight for my car is around £50, why on earth are people buying these cars? So many manufactures are doing their best to produce an alternative because they know EV's are not practical.
So many manufacturers are fitting LED headlights to petrol cars. Because that’s what consumers want. And for the manufacturer they get your service revenue if it fails. £2,500 plus labour plus coding if your headlight fails on your petrol BMw
So, a stone chip to the headlight caused a small perforation and the headlight accumulated water within it. These things happen to cars and have happened for decades. But for a car to become immobile due to water in the headlight is bonkers. Not fit for purpose. And for a headlight to cost £1k shows how unaffordable these fly-by-wire systems are for normal people.
It’s not £1k because of flu by wire, it’s £1k because of all the technology that’s added - they’re not just lights that come on and off. Suspect we’re all going to have to cope with this as most cars seem to have fancy LED units these days
If you own a car like a Tesla you can afford the repairs.
More money than sense.
You try very hard to stick up for Tesla and I'm sure the people in customer service did very well.. But the reality is that, relatively soon, these cars will be irreparable scrap - which you'll probably have to pay a fortune to have it junked.
Nope
A complete headlight for my car costs 25 pounds, just get a Tesla, are you kidding?
£25 from a scrap yard?
Ridiculous. A headlight short in my car would blow a 50cent fuse…
Turns out it tripped an “e-fuse”. Unplug the shorted out unit and reset. All worked again
So crap engineering design of the headlight unit. There is a reason for the lenses being designed to protrude forward leaving the housing joint behind the body work. This is car has the same engineers that designed spaceX launch pads apparently.
And a similar water deluge system going off how much water had gotten inside it 😏
£1,300 that's more than my entire running costs for the year including depreciation for an ICE SUV Toyota.
Sure! If you own a car outright and don't drive very far and don't maintain it other than an oil change, sure. Not exactly a like for like comparison though. I could review the running costs of my 2009 Hyundai to the Tesla and say "Hyundai cheaper". So what?
How many ordinary working people have a spare few grand in the bank for such expensive repairs. I want a car that gets me from A to B with low cost of ownership and is easy to maintain. My 2007 Fiesta ticks all those boxes and when my headlight failed last year it was a few quid for a bulb and it was working again. I have a car guys not a mobile computer. Mine is easy to service and parts are very reasonable. Your teslas and the like are for the very wealthy with deep pockets which I and many others do not have.
Sure - I respect that many people run old cars. The problem for you is that all the future old cars will have complex tech like LED headlights…
By then my friend I won't be driving. I am 57 years old now. I have no interest in modern vehicles and there are plenty of good quality low mileage late 20th and early 21st Century vehicles to be had at the present time.@@justgetatesla
That works for you. But for anyone younger?
Well given the overall objective of Governments is to end car ownership and drive working people off the roads who is going to be driving in 10 or 20 years time?@@justgetatesla
Tin foil hat over here
I do love the latest LED headlights but it is part of the reason that insurance is now getting so expensive. It’s not just Tesla, all cars fitted with these are extremely expensive to replace in the case of an accident.
Tesla owners: More money than sense 🙃
I think as with all car parts/main dealer parts they are well overpriced from cost of production. That headlight probably cost them £200 to manufacture.
i feel so bad for this guy - he cant seem to see hes been taken for a ride and he so so much wants to love his Tesla (all the excuses) so tesla didnt have a headlight in the whole of Scotland because of the storm ? this is only going one way and they came to you because the car was disbled by a stone hit to a headlight
They didn’t have a headlight *in Aberdeen*. Which as all the main roads were blocked was a problem…
Just curious. Did they, Tesla, use an EV as their service vehicle?
I bought a brand new Nissan micra twenty years old with 27 k on it. Kept by an old lady in a central heated carpeted garage. For four grand. 1300cc goes like stink. Quite. No engine sound at all , auto. Over fifty miles per gallon, had it over a year. No problems at all, just new tyres. Showroom condition , I'm an electronics engineer and I would not touch an ev if they paid me to drive it. Lol. There awfull. Good luck with your. Money pit
K12 Micra? Classic! Bit old though.
@@justgetatesla but brand new. Iv always had V8 cars , this is the smallest car iv ever owned and it's great.
I wonder if repair costs have anything to do with the insurance costs being so high.
duh
@@InternetDude I figured if I said anything else I'd get a ton of comments about how EV battery fires were nothing to be concerned about.
Just looked and my mx5 headlights are a grand each, so yours wasn’t too bad
Your MX5 won't leave you stranded if a lamp goes out though...
H4 headlight glass for my Landrover? About 25 quid and about thirty minutes to change it myself. I can buy a lot of diesel with 1300 pounds. And I can drive with one dip beam gone!
True! But if you buy a new Land Rover it will have expensive LEDs
@@justgetatesla they stopped making Landrover’s when they got rid of the seat box
Life time battery that doesn't last a life time...things are going down hill
It is lasting a lifetime. The battery wasn’t at fault
Close to $2000 in Australian dollars is highway robbery for a headlight, even a fancy one.
I agree!!!
Where I live it's a common model to build service profit into the parts price and pretty much throw in the labor for "free". What do you think Teslas margin is on a 1,200 dollar headlight element? Thev"tactic" of showing a low price for labor is designed to do precisely what it did with you. Let you think you got a good deal and were favorably treated and got a break on the repair effort while charging highway robbery for the part
Oh I didn’t get a good deal on the part - a crazy price. But I’ve been given examples on here of LED headlights costing twice as much for other brands like BMW. They’re all at it. And if it had been BMW they wouldn’t have charged £99 for 3.5 hours labour…
@@justgetatesla I hope you're right. I have a Tesla model 3 dual motor and after 27,000km absolutely zero issues 🤞 But a friend got a stone chip in there panoramic glass and it was not only crazy expensive it took months for the replacement to come. It's those pesky stones that are our worst enemy!
£99 for just over half hour is a rip off, it is in no way a good deal.
You haven’t been to a main dealers recently have you. And where did you get half an hour from? They’re were here for 90 minutes and had another 2 hours travel time on top of that. £100 for 3 and a half hours!
£1300 for a headlight unit hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahah you should have bought anything but a Tesla
Audi, BMW and Mercedes LED headlights are more expensive, so their owners have told me in the comments to this video. Crazy as it is, £1k + VAT is cheap...
Your quite good at making a lot of excuses for Tesla the reality is you didn’t have a car for a whole week, that’s shit no matter what brand it is, and you are just lucky it didn’t also cost you a expensive tow.
I did have a car - the other car. I didn’t drive that either. Storm Babet
@@justgetatesla you do but not everyone has the choice to do nothing for a week or have another vehicle, I would be forced to rent a vehicle which makes having one out of action rather expensive.
The whole car disabled by a broken headlight unit..?...Had it been an ICE car, I doubt very much it would have been left imobile...I agree the damaged light is very unlucky, either that or Tesla's Chinese polycarbonate quality is shit...My moneys on the latter TBH..🤔😳🇬🇧
I see loads of cars broken down on the hard shoulder. At not be this, but it’s some other reason
@@justgetatesla That's as maybe. But the same damage on my Audi A5 wouldn't leave me stranded was my main point...🤔🤔🤔🇬🇧
No, but other damage would do. I don’t need to worry about engine or gearbox issues. So many cars break down - all kinds of reasons
Had the same thing on a BMW but their headlights start at 2 1/2 thousand pounds and have to be coded to the car
Luck you did not hit a brick, it could have damaged the lithium batteries shielding under car. More than likely been a write off.
Hardly
@@justgetatesla lucky then as it happens. The company have had a few written off now. One for a pot hole and another got stuck in a ford.
Sounds like a money pit mate
I’ve had so many comments from people
With other makes of car very jealous that my LED headlight was cheap compared to theirs 😳
@@justgetatesla mines just a replacement bulb , £4.60 at local motor factors ! , but LED is v expensive yes
Don’t put a £4.60 bulb in - will be shit. But even buying something decent from Osram is only £25. But this is the new tech - and so many people have been on advising that a grand for a new unit is cheap and the (non-EV) units for Audi etc cost way more
It doesn't matter that it's a reasonable cost. The issue is that the car doesn't work because of a chipped headlight! That's ridiculous!
isn`t this called a one point failure, something to avoid at any time
Also called a “fuse”. Once we’d figured that out it was literally reset the car and it was fixed
Dead short in the headlamp electrics, water got in somehow, through that stone...
Headlamp bulb for mine is £6....and 2 minutes to fit...
Yes, but most modern cars aren't like that.
Elon needs to fund his Twitter losses somehow.
Pah - there is no way he can find $40bn from us 😁
Lifetime battery that packs up, 🤔
It didn't...
cope
You're very that you have a car that doesn't get fix by a dealer. Had to taken this to a dealer, you would now have a 5 to 10 thousand pound bill. Or more.
It WAS fixed by the dealer. Tesla mobile did the repair. They sell their own cars. What are you talking about?
@@justgetatesla Tesla is the manufacturer. In America, they are not allowed (by anti-free market state laws from bought politicians) to have dealers. They are only allowed to have a few service centers in a few states, and most Republican states don't allow any. For example, in Texas, where Tesla has Giga-Texas, Tesla is prohibited from selling you their vehicles or even discussing price or anything of the sort. You have to go online to do it.
Dealers for legacy auto manufacturers are not owned by the manufacturers and are owned basically by"flippers." Meaning they have 100% control on price and manufacturers are forced to sell only to them and not directly to the consumer. So these flippers buy the vehicle for roughly 25% below MSRP and then turn around and sell them for whatever price they want.
Nor are manufacturers allowed to have their own service centers. They are forced by these bought politicians to only repair their own vehicles through these dealer/flipper owned service centers, and again have ZERO control on price. Dealers can charge as much as they want with complete impunity.
A none Tesla dealer would have told you that they replaced the main battery at a cost of $50,000 to them, but they are giving you a 50% discount "because you are such a good customer" and are charging you "only" $25,000. That is the very model of a dealer.
And the vast majority of Americans are unaware of this. Check your local laws in your country. You might be shocked at what the local laws are regarding legacy dealers.
Interesting stuff! You do things very differently in your country, thanks for educating me!
I had a crack in the head light of my 2011 Ford Focus and it filled with water all the time, i just drilled a small whole on the bottom of the light so the water could drain out and left it. it never once gave me an issue, let alone stop my car from turning on lol
Different technology. You would only blow the bulb. This blew the computer chip on the back of the headlight. Any car with LEDs / Matrix LEDs is at risk of a mega expensive replacement if they blow
@@justgetatesla yeah i completely understand that. I'm priced out of the EV market but even if i did have the money i still would be extremely mad at spending out £1300 on a headlight unit.
I've not spent £1300 on my car in the 5 years I've owned it! The cam belt cost me £450 and that was bad enough lol
So don't buy an EV. But as and when you replace your car with a newer petrol/diesel one, have a look whether it has sealed LED headlights. If it does they cost a bomb to replace. It isn't the drivetrain thats the issue, its modern car features. Same with big screens and computers which they all have.
@@kingsknightuk I bought a headlamp for my 2010 VW Caddy in a dismantlers for 40 Euros.
And this is progress, well designed? Why is this good design so expensive to replace. £1300 to fix a f*****g headlight. Is it only me that thinks that a lot of stuff is purposely designed so that a part that is only worth buttons retails at hundreds because it is manufacturers only part. Spark plugs have stratospheric ly lept in price as well. It is almost at the washing machine stage,*&^%£#@!. Throw it out and get another one.😡
That's the most bs explanation of that chip ever. All those LED lights are complete junk. It doesn't matter the brand of car. Probably delivered to you pre-chipped.
Congrats!! Elon will buy you a beer one day when you meet...Now normal people who really care about the environment would drive older ICE vehicles and if they needed a replacement headlight would first go to the scrapyard. Also these Teslas and modern cars in general are made of cheaper quality materials so get used replacing parts for extortionate prices.
On reflection would you suggest applying some PPF to your nee headlamp to potentially protect it from future rock strikes ? Be nice to get your thoughts. Thanks so much for the videos. I really like them and appreciate the time you give to making them thanks.
Personally, I am shocked that Tesla has such a simple single point of failure. Water ingress to the headlamp renders the car undriveable? Shocking! Pun intended.
Hopefully some coding and switches can, in future, mitigate this by being able to isolate the headlamp (and other components that might threaten battrery integrity) in order to preserve driveability. A vehicle should not be paralyzed due to a damaged headlamp.
My only complaint would be with it not falling under 'normal road hazards'. Surely you couldn't avoid the impact.
When my headlight bulbs blew on my cars they drove as normal,just a bit less light.I suppose that's not good enough for these new fangled wonder mobiles.I still don't get how something like a blown bulb is such a major electrical hazard to the wellbeing of any car.It's inevitable a bulb is going to fail sometime,it's not something I would accept as a valid reason for the whole car to shut down.
Seems rather imprecise diagnosrics. If some prutection was tripped purposedly, that could have been known and logged like that
If you had a petrol car head lights are cheaper 😂 i think you where ripped off over one thousands pounds is extremely expensive could of bought a petrol car for that
Not a modern petrol car. Beemer LED headlight assembly £1,300 + VAT + coding
Why lock yourself into never ending finance just to be up with the neighbors😢
I've had cars on finance, I've had cars paid off, I've had cars bought for cash. We have 2 cars (for 2 people) - one on finance, one bought for cash.
Sure! I found a BMW headlight for £1,300 on Ebay. Cheaper than the £2,500 I've been told they cost new, but still more expensive than the Tesla one. BTW headlight was to fit a Beemer that is either petrol or diesel
FFS how many times does the guy repeat himself. Love the back pedaling by the fanboy.
Another Fan Boy!
Thanks for helping pay for my efforts!
My headlight stopped working and my car still worked . I popped into Halfords and £2.99 and 5 mins later , voila, all good again . I think your car is a hole in the road to pour money into . IMO .
There really isn’t anything special about the lithium ion battery that runs the ancillary items, certainly not expensive to manufacture and should last the life of the car, it’s just the manufacturers know they can get away with it. I imagine there will be plenty of companies popping up that will repair them if they do end up with an issue which more than likely will be over discharge etc.