Tesla service centers are faced with one choice when it comes to maintaining the original Tesla Roadster: kill the weak to save the strong.
39 photosToday, there's no mention of the Roadster inside Tesla stores, and it's not even listed as an option when searching used inventory online. A quick examination revealed these six weren't for sale, either. None had window stickers, some were damaged, and all of them were dirty. Registration stickers indicated many of them had been off the road for at least two or three years.
With an MSRP that started at $98,950 and steadily grew each year, Roadsters have never been cheap. When prices on the collector market began ticking up in 2021,. Now the cars easily fetch more than $100,000 at auction, making it odd that Tesla would just leave them here to collect pine needles. A technician noticed me inspecting the lot and stopped to confirm my suspicions: These were parts cars.
Nobody at the store would speak on the record, but the technician, who refused to give their name, shared that the Owings Mills store has become something of a hub for Roadster service on the East Coast. They have one co-worker who is"the Roadster guy," who loves working on these cars. "The challenge is," they tech explained,"most of the original technicians who were with Tesla, who knew how to work on these, are all millionaires now. They've all left the company." They told me that Tesla used generous stock benefits to lure service technicians from rival dealerships when setting up its own service centers. When the stock price soared in the late 2010s, it created a windfall for employees and a wave of early retirements.
Because the Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise chassis and assembled with components sourced from around the world, finding parts is a challenge. Tesla modified the cars so heavily that most off-the-shelf Lotus components won't work, and Tesla has long since stopped producing new parts, leaving service centers with one choice: kill the weak to save the strong.
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