Albuquerque Service Heart
I headed off to the Tesla Service Heart north of Albuquerque at 8am. It was simply 5 minutes from the Resort we stayed in. After I arrived I noticed simply six Tesla’s plugged in charging and never a lot else. It didn’t look very open. I approached somebody on the Service Heart they usually requested how they may assist. I requested in the event that they had been open to which he stated no, not but. I defined what was flawed with our automotive. They’d no techs on the service heart so he couldn’t supply any service in any respect. He stated any storage can take away the damaged Aero Defend till I can get to a Service Heart. I requested if there was any downside driving with out the Aero defend and he stated that if street particles hit the drive unit, which might now be uncovered the restore value may very well be excessive. He directed me to a Service Heart at Santa Fe which he assured me was open.
Albuquerque to Santa Fe
We checked out of the Resort and headed for Santa Fe. This began to really feel like a wild goose chase. We supercharged at Sante Fe and found the Service Heart is twenty miles north of town. Identical to at Albuquerque. Are Tesla favoring low hire districts?
Santa Fe to Cuyamungue
We set off for the Santa Fe Service Heart. We headed into Santa Fe and out the opposite facet. I joked we had been headed for the mountain vary forward of us. Seems it was no joke. we climbed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and crested the move. This felt very very flawed, what on earth was a Tesla Service Heart doing out right here? We descended the mountain and right into a valley arriving at a city referred to as Cuyamungue. We discovered the Service Heart and had been greeted by Brian. I defined our dilemma and he stated he would match us in given we had been on the street. After checking the car in he requested us if we had been up for lunch. “Sure” I stated considerably stunned. Brian defined that he would drop us off on the On line casino subsequent door for lunch and we may name once we had been able to return. What nice service!!!
I remarked how far-off from Sante Fe we had been and Brian defined that attributable to dealership legal guidelines in New Mexico prohibiting Tesla from having a Service Heart within the state, Tesla may solely construct a service heart on Tribal Lands which had been exempt from the rules. This defined why the Albuquerque Service Heart can be out of city, on tribal lands additionally. Now it made sense.
That is the primary time Karen and I’ve ever visited a on line casino! It definitely was very glitzy. We discovered a restaurant upstairs. We had one of the best Mexican meals we’ve ever had. Significantly better than the well-known restaurant at Sedona. That is what genuine Mexican tastes like. Yum! It was solely $30 for the 2 of us.
We referred to as the service heart. A Mannequin Y pulled as much as choose us up. The Tesla worker provided us a demo drive. We respectfully declined; he was clearly crestfallen. Tesla are pushing individuals to take demo drives. Our automotive was prepared in below two hours after arriving and we thanked everybody for an excellent job and headed again on the street. The automotive was so significantly better, the automotive drove so quietly now. It felt like we had discovered an oasis within the Arizona desert. The day began off very shaky, however now we had simply had one of the best Mexican meals ever and one of the best Auto Service ever. Thanks Tesla Santa Fe and the Nambe Pueblo Tribes at Cuyamungue.
Cuyamungue to Santa Rosa
It was such a aid to have the ability to journey at regular freeway speeds with out the prospect of getting to tug over and duct tape the automotive once more. It was only a brief hop again to Santa Rosa, we didn’t should again observe by Albuquerque, there was a extra direct route. Lastly we had been again on I-40 on course.
Santa Rosa to Tucumcari
After a brief 14 minute cost at Santa Rosa we headed to Tucumcari the following fairly sized metropolis alongside I-40. As soon as we arrived we discovered ourselves charging within the Vacation Inn car parking zone and determined we had had sufficient enjoyable for right now and reserved a room whereas supercharging. Tucumcari is a metropolis which serves truckers and the fuel stations had giant parking heaps for the truckers to park up. The Vacation Inn appeared a bit worn out from the surface, however that they had renovated the rooms properly and the room was top-of-the-line we had had. It wasn’t low cost nonetheless at $181.