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I'm overjoyed by this. There are a boatload of Teslas in New Mexico (including mine) and all of us had to buy them in Phoenix, Denver, or El Paso and that's where we have to go for service. Or had to until now.

This is an ingenious solution to bypass a stupid law. The car dealers in NM who want to keep Tesla out can pound sand.

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The law isn't to blame for your inability to get local service.

What is then?

They are probably talking about the other side of the coin, which is that Teslas are made like iphones. Nobody other than Tesla can repair them.

Are you sure? I watch Bjørn Nyland's channel and he goes to an independent repair shop in Norway to fix out-of-warranty Teslas. And there's quite a few of those cars in Norway by now.

The independent repair shop probably gets spare parts from other broken Teslas not directly from Tesla

Tesla can open service centers in all 50 states or allow other vendors to service them. Tesla doesn't want you to have the freedoms that Magnusson-Moss guarantees you.

Nice planet you're on. Not Earth, though.

The law is exactly why we were not able to get local service here in NM.

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