You're the one soliciting input. This whole post is really odd and contridictory. Its entirely a financial topic because you're weighing pros/cons of depreciation and placing the money elsewhere. You're honestly just taking the topic in circles. Based on the logic for the thread for "anyone," it doesn't matter if my reply is irrelevant to you, anyone else might find it useful. This is by your own logic btw.Oh, ...I'm sorry, the purpose of your comment is completely irrelevant to me.
I don't have car payments, I bought the car cash. And I'm retired, and pretty wealthy, so I definitely don't need financial advice.
The whole point of this post is to determine whether it's worth "saving your miles" on your New Tesla, in order to save depreciation on it. Putting 5000 miles into an old cheapo car doesn't really decrease its value. But putting 5000 miles into a brand new Tesla could be difference between selling it at 50,000 or 45,000.
Sure, overall it doesn't apply to me IF I'm not planning on selling. But if I were, or if anyone here might be, they might benefit from the information of how this conundrum weighs out the decision.
It helps to know that you bought your car cash. This really makes it a no brainer. Drive a single car. It makes no financial sense to purchase a car out of warranty for the sake of attempting to avoid depreciation on a paid for vehicle in warranty. This goes for anyone, not just you. Forget about the depreciation, it honestly doesn't even matter for the given scenario(s) lol. ESPECIALLY if someone is wealthy already. They'd be over thinking it. Making a problem where there isn't one.
The Tesla isn't a collectors item. It shouldn't be treated like one. But that's just my own opininion in a sea of opinions.
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