Thread by @jpr007

SOME ADVICE FOR VICE

Standard advice to an Irishman when he has dug himself into a hole :

"STOP DIGGING"

The "invoice" shown in the Rich Repair video purporting to relate to a 2021 battery replacement was forged from a 2019 Receipt for Supercharger Fees vice.com/en/article/3aq…

Here is the original document before Rich Rebuilds doctored it :

And here is the doctored version from Rich Rebuilds, purporting to be a "quote" for a Model S Battery Replacement

Apart from the admitted forgery, the problem is that there is no $22,500 Battery Replacement for a 2013 Model S

This copy of the Tesla EPC price list was provided by Rich Rebuilds :

- New 75 kWh Battery is shown for $17,500

- Remanufactured 70 kWh Battery is shown for $9,300

And an unrelated third party was recently quoted $10,500 by a real Tesla Service Center for a Remanufactured Battery on a similar 2013 Model S

- with diagnosis and replacement costs of $428.75

Rich Rebuilds charged his customer $5,000 for replacing 2 out of 16 modules in the other 2013 Model S Battery Pack

- plus $2,000 for diagnosis and replacement costs

A different unrelated third party paid $13,500 for a 75 kWh Model 3 Battery Pack to replace one that had been physically damaged

As VICE noted in their article, the only way to know the real cost of a Tesla Replacement Battery is to get the Service Center to quote you for your specific vehicle

- as packs changed over the years

But there is no evidence that this was actually done in the Rich Rebuilds case