As many of you know, Tesla is now offering a transfer of the Free Unlimited Supercharging for grandfathered owners to new vehicles.
I've looked at the eBay value of my car (120K miles), and it's about $15,000 give or take -- there don't seem to be any with the Ludicrous upgrade or MCU2 mentioned, so I guess I'm just losing any value I put into those upgrades - it's a rare upgrade, but I guess most people don't even know about it or care to provide a value to it.
The estimate on Tesla.com for trade-in is $10,000. I'd hope they would give more considering I have the transferrable free supercharging, MCU2, and Ludicrous -- all of which should be useful for them [eg: they can void the supercharging, and resell it to someone else with MCU2 and Ludicrous] ... but I suspect they won't.
The newer cars will have significantly more range both because of better specs, and also zero degradation since it's brand new (mine probably has about 85% of it's original capacity). The newer cars also have significantly better Autopilot (Full Self Drive) with HW3/4... but, it's going to be like $110,000 plus taxes.
As some of you may know, the rear motor has a defect which causes a high risk of the coolant liquid leaking into the electronics. There is a 3rd party maintenance that you can have done for about $700 to avoid that, but I haven't done that yet. I also assume that it's only a matter of time until the battery fails.
Fortunately I do live about 75 miles away from Electrified Garage, so I can just go there for this work.
I guess the question is ... should I just spend the $700 for the motor 'fix' and drive this thing until it stops working, or upgrade? The interior on mine still looks brand new, but the exterior paint has a ton of rock chips, unfortunately.
I've looked at the eBay value of my car (120K miles), and it's about $15,000 give or take -- there don't seem to be any with the Ludicrous upgrade or MCU2 mentioned, so I guess I'm just losing any value I put into those upgrades - it's a rare upgrade, but I guess most people don't even know about it or care to provide a value to it.
The estimate on Tesla.com for trade-in is $10,000. I'd hope they would give more considering I have the transferrable free supercharging, MCU2, and Ludicrous -- all of which should be useful for them [eg: they can void the supercharging, and resell it to someone else with MCU2 and Ludicrous] ... but I suspect they won't.
The newer cars will have significantly more range both because of better specs, and also zero degradation since it's brand new (mine probably has about 85% of it's original capacity). The newer cars also have significantly better Autopilot (Full Self Drive) with HW3/4... but, it's going to be like $110,000 plus taxes.
As some of you may know, the rear motor has a defect which causes a high risk of the coolant liquid leaking into the electronics. There is a 3rd party maintenance that you can have done for about $700 to avoid that, but I haven't done that yet. I also assume that it's only a matter of time until the battery fails.
Fortunately I do live about 75 miles away from Electrified Garage, so I can just go there for this work.
I guess the question is ... should I just spend the $700 for the motor 'fix' and drive this thing until it stops working, or upgrade? The interior on mine still looks brand new, but the exterior paint has a ton of rock chips, unfortunately.