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Originally Posted by JST
Well…I take those water ingress stories with a huge grain of salt. There was a guy on the X5 forums who was super pissed about water ingress into his transfer case. He claimed to have just driven through 4 or 5 inches of water at some relatively high rate of speed and argued that BMWs ads showed similar and worse conditions.
Was it just 4 or 5 inches? How fast was he really going? Idk for sure but in such cases the operator has every incentive to minimize their behavior.
What happened to this Tesla? Was it really just sitting outside in the rain, or did they drive through some standing water?
And I imagine if you drove something like a 330 through deep enough water you could easily get a similar bill.
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I don't necessarily trust their story. At all, frankly. But that the cost of the battery replacement is $20k is nuts. They mention another instance with a similar cost.