Wrecked #699 auction

[TEG]

Oof:

2010 Tesla Roadster - 335420 - QCSA Auto Auctions

[Iz]

There is damage to the left door, glass, interior door panel, quarter panel and roll bar. The front bumper is cracked and scraped.

Anyone have an estimate as to what the repair costs will be?

[meloccom]

Anyone have an estimate as to what the repair costs will be?

It appears to be a non-sport with executive leather so I guess would have been about US$120,000 when delivered. My previous experience in the Insurance industry indicates that they will generally only total something when the cost is at least 50% of the insured value.
It appears that it was hit in the LHS and a lot of the repair cost will be parts (new door, new roll-over panel and new front bumper). Hard to see that costing US$60,000.
I think you need someone to check for structural or frame damage but generally damaged auction rules make this difficult.
Unless you own a collision repair shop that specialises in composite vehicles I would leave it to the professionals.

[Tdave]

More is damaged than in my repair. For mine they had to replace the front bumper, front and rear air dam, and the same side panel that is damaged there. But that was it for my repair. Those pieces were just scraped, not from impact that damaged parts underneath like in this vehicle.

My repair was nearly $28,000. This one may be close to double that maybe? Hard to tell of course without inspection. Replacing that roll bar may be a huge job.

[Iz]

Thanks for the estimates. I too agree that replacing the roll bar will be a lot of work.

[mt2]

We'll I'll be danged! My new son-in-law is a manager at QCSA and my daughter commented the other day that they had taken in a Roadster at the Hammond location. But she didn't have any details and the next time I saw my son-in-law we were helping them move into their first house - had other things to talk about.

So there it is. Son of a gun. I'll send them a link to this thread.

[dpeilow]

Make sure you tell your son in law to ensure the car gets charged. They don't want to compound the damage with a wrecked battery pack, as has been suspected in similar cases.

[doug]

Make sure you tell your son in law to ensure the car gets charged. They don't want to compound the damage with a wrecked battery pack, as has been suspected in similar cases.

A very important piece of advice. Plug that thing in! We know it at least started when that video was taken.

[vfx]

A very important piece of advice. Plug that thing in! We know it at least started when that video was taken.

Right. Battery gauge in the cluster read 1/2 charge.

[Tdave]

Too bad the battery has a shelf life. Makes it so you can't buy a slightly used battery and store it as a replacement in 5 years.