Tesla Paint Price Increases Discussion

Tesla is going through certain changes and has to adjust. It's obvious things didn't go as planned and they have to do something. Do you want the prices to remain the same, Tesla getting in trouble and you saying goodbye to your investments while they plummet? The market can bear the extra 500-1k.

Things like this really aggravate me. OK, for Henry Ford BLACK can be "the only color" but this is now 100 model years later, and with Tesla even WHITE costs money. That irritated me when I started to spec out a Model 3 online. And with some exception for metallics and difficult colors (orange or yellow) I think paint upcharges are just customer ripoffs. OK, fine if they want to charge for two-tone (think of Mini or Ford Flex models, and some DS and Volvo V40) but for the rest - no way - unless

Of resin prices over the last 18 months. I'm familiar with the rates and they have increased substantially even in the last 6 months. But based on volume used of resin and the sqm it's a bit disproportionate. Cheers S

I hope the market will bear it, I have far more to lose in my investment than the $500-$1000 in my own car. The whole reason why I put the fact that I'm a stockholder in the company is to say that I benefit from Tesla making more money. And I support Tesla making more money. But despite this raising the cost of the paint probably makes more money, I would caution against this short term gain as it may rub some consumers the wrong way. It's not a very fair thing to give consumers a constantly cha

Kind of hard to believe that they'd need to change the price twice, only six weeks apart from one another. Other car companies haven't raised their paint prices. The price of cobalt hasn't even gone up that much. And that car uses a lot of expensive, mined in conflict zone, and very rare cobalt. Tell me more about resin prices increasing. I need to paint my home too, come to think of it; I wonder if exterior house paint has increased much in the past several months.

I hate it when they do that. I also hate it when contractors do that. I feel that I need to audit every contractor these days to make sure that they're not skimping in materials and that they're not going to do some last minute price inflation after we already have an agreement. In your case, I'm glad that you didn't buy another car. From what I hear about your car collection, it seems the LAST THING YOU NEED is another machine in your driveway! You don't seem to be an especially high mileage dr