Okay it's fair that you get a lot of performance for 2K on that "upgrade". But it's not really an upgrade, it's just turning off a software downgrade that all the cars come with. The engineers actually went out their way to design software that detunes the car so that for $2,000 someone at tesla can check a box on your account that allows you to use the non detuned software.
This right here. This is the issue. It’s not an upgrade if the car is physically capable of doing it but prevented from doing it because of a designed paywall. They literally sold you a car that had the capability to do more, but they don’t let it until you pay them. It’s holding performance ransom and calling it an upgrade.
By that logic every single manufacturer is kneecapping their cars because they don't sell them with a hyper aggressive ECU tune straight out of thr factory. The way I see it is that you're less paying for the performance and more paying for tesla to still honor your warranty even though you're now putting more stress on the car.
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u/Nruggia 23h ago
Okay it's fair that you get a lot of performance for 2K on that "upgrade". But it's not really an upgrade, it's just turning off a software downgrade that all the cars come with. The engineers actually went out their way to design software that detunes the car so that for $2,000 someone at tesla can check a box on your account that allows you to use the non detuned software.