Tesla accused of trading his cars' kilometer meters, a complaint filed in California

A complaint accuses Tesla of fraud over the mileage of his cars, resulting in premature expiry of guarantees and repair costs for customers. The counting system would be based on predictive algorithms and not on the actual distance travelled.

Every year, it is estimated that one in ten used cars sold in France have a fraudulent counter, i.e. voluntarily revised downwards by unscrupulous sellers, with the aim of selling them at a better price. Tesla fingerpointed for fraudulent counter To do this, and with the advent of embedded electronics, the fraudsters connect to the diagnostic (or OBD) socket of the car, normally reserved for mechanics, and artificially modify the mileage by mean…