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MFillingham
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    Funny how legacy manufacturers are requiring servicing and fleecing customers with the price, whilst Tesla don’t even have a service requirement.

    Theres an old story of a motor manufacturer who built a tractor to last.  They did so well no extra work was required, no servicing and no repairs.  Then there were no replacements as the tractors didn’t fail and need replacing.  Eventually the company put out a recall quoting a manufacturing error and took out key parts and replaced them with ones that would fail.  After a lengthy period of use, sufficient parts would fail that required replacement as the best economical solution.  The company came back from near collapse.

    Whether that’s true or not, it does explain why servicing is required so frequently.  Legacy manufacturers are used to the income these services provide, they’ll continue for as long as they’re allowed.

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    Mark