The Op is a high-mileage driver and is out of warranty.
To clarify, had the OP purchased the ESA for $4,000 for miles 50,001-100,000, the almost-$1,000 in suspension work would have been covered, and he would then be out of ESA in a few weeks and on his own anyway, yes?
Sounds like he's $3,000 to the good, then. Which is to say self-insured for the duration now. Rather scary prospect with these cars, between the decidedly average reliability and the decidedly inconsistent SvC experiences.
As one of the ones with an as-yet unresolved service issue, i am really starting to regret Jerome's departure from his clearly vital and needed role. But hey, if anyone's earned an extended LOA, it's him, and more power to him.
And yeah, those lug nuts are just fine. Until they aren't - and they aren't aren't yet, clearly.
In a vacuum, maybe $70 has merit. But in the face of $1,000 in customer-paid work for which the wheels would indeed have to go back on the car *shakes head*, that's just... someone not thinking. Glad it was reversed but the poor communication continues - how does the OP *know* that fluids were flushed? Taking the word of that same SvC (that made multiple errors) into an out of warranty condition is just short of unacceptable. Fortunately, this experience sounds like the exception and not the rule, so there's some peace of mind there at least.
Now it's just a matter of budgeting for future annual services, tires, and suspension parts and labor as time passes. I'd like to believe that aside from those concerns, the car will last hundreds of thousands of miles more yet. In fact, it appears that the OP may have the first or one of the first quarter-million mile Model S worldwide soon. Well, "soon".