Tesla Will Now Let You Finance Your EV Repairs... With Interest Rates as High as 36% APR - FuelArc News
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Let’s say your Cybertruck pops a tire, or needs a new windshield, or you just looked at it funny and the glued-on stainless steel panels fell off. No worries! Tesla’s got you covered. You can now finance your repairs through Affirm or Klarna, because if there’s one thing America needs, it’s more high-interest debt attached […]

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

This is being reported by the Teslasphere as an “excellent option” to restore affordability to a car market that desperately needs more affordability.

Only, neither of those numbers is even in the same ballpark as affordable.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

    Ok but 2442 is already insane. Yes it’s heated, yes there’s a rain sensor, plenty of cars have that, and their windshields cost half as much.

    • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
      5·
      3 months ago

      My actual pickup truck (a Toyota Tacoma) costs $275 for an installed windshield.

      The Cybertruck windshield costs nearly 10 times as much for… reasons? Honestly don’t even fucking know why. Because Elon knows an easy mark when he sees one, I guess

      • CodeBloodedEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Toyota? Buddy, that’s not a “pickup truck.” That’s a street legal war machine! A technical!!! 😎

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I broke a Ford windscreen once. Insurance paid 1100 euros to replace it. Without insurance you can bet it would have been a non-heated windscreen for a few hundred.