A Tesla owner forced to pay $14,000 in repairs after his car ground to a halt one day after buying it.

When you buy a new vehicle, you expect that you’ll get at least a few thousands miles on it before you start to encounter any problems.

But unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for one unlucky Tesla owner.

Jain, who is from Cambridge, England, bought his Tesla Model Y back in 2023.

The Tesla owner had to fork out on repairs (Daniel Pier/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

But he only managed to drive 115 miles in it before the electric car started to exhibit some notable problems.

It was just one day after Jain was ‘over the moon’ to get his hands on the Tesla that it came to a ‘grinding halt’.

Even more worryingly, the dangerous issue occured while his wife and young daughter were in the vehicle with him.

Jain recalled how, without warning, he lost control of steering the car.

Speaking to Reuters, he said: “They were absolutely petrified. If we were on a 70 mile per hour highway, and this would have happened, that would have been catastrophic.”

Jain went on to learn that his Model Y’s front right suspension had collapsed, and so much so that parts of the car were loudly scraping along the road.

The car needed 40 hours worth of labor to fix the issue, as the suspension had to be completely rebuilt and the steering column needed replacing, amongst other things.

Jain ended up having to fork out an eye-watering $14,000 to pay for this – which Tesla reportedly refused to pay for.

The Elon Musk-owned car manufacturer blamed the accident on ‘prior’ suspension damage.

The Elon Musk-owned car manufacturer reportedly refused to pay for the repairs (Kevin Lamarque – Pool/Getty Images)

LADbible Group has approached Tesla for comment on the matter.

It’s typically Tesla’s infamous Cybertruck that people have had the most issues with; the quality of its build being one of the biggest.

People have also been having problems with the futuristic-looking truck over the winter months.

One person discovered that their headlights were covered with snow because they are placed behind a ledge on the truck.

The Cybertruck owner had to remove the snow from the ledge in question so that the lights would be obvious.

The owner said: “I can’t believe Tesla just didn’t think about this when they put this giant shelf in front of the lights, but if they did, it’s honestly an awful design.”

Not exactly ideal if you were in a rush to get to work one snowy morning…

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Elon Musk once sent savage emails to Tesla staff demanding their compliance with office-based working rules.

X owner Musk, 53, seemingly isn’t the biggest fan of remote working.

Last year, the businessman declared his disdain for bosses who choose to operate outside of offices, telling CNBC: “It’s messed up to assume that, yes, [employees] they have to go to work but [bosses] don’t. It’s not just a productivity thing, I think it’s morally wrong.”

He also claimed the ‘laptop class’ was living in ‘la-la land’ and that he believed those working from home were less ‘productive’ than those grinding out their days in the workplace.

Interestingly, this isn’t a new stance for Musk to take.

In 2022, he allegedly told Tesla staff that he expected them in the building for a ‘minimum’ of 40 hours per week.

In leaked emails, shared by the popular Internal Tech Emails X account, Musk further stated that if his employees were punching less on their timesheets then he’d assume they were resigning.

Elon Musk isn’t the biggest fan of remote working. (Marc Piasecki / Contributor/Getty)

“Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla,” Musk wrote to an email chain called ‘ExecStaff’ on May 31 2022.

“This is less than we ask of factory workers. If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will review and approve those exceptions directly.”

He added that the office must be a main Tesla office and not a remote branch for ‘unrelated to job duties’.

Doubling down on his stance, Musk continued to send what appears to be a company-wide email with the subject like ‘To be super clear’.

The second email read: “Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week. Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo-office.

“If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.”

Elon Musk demanded that Tesla workers punch in for a ‘minimum’ of 40 hours per week. (Anna Moneymaker/Staff/Getty)

Musk went on to insist that senior team members must become more ‘visible’ in the office before explaining he used to visit the Tesla factories on a routine basis.

He claimed this was so that his employees could physically see him working alongside them.

“If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt,” he continued.

“There are companies that don’t require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It’s been a while.

“Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by phoning it in,” he concluded.

When asked about the leaked emails by another X account, Musk defended himself and wrote: “They should pretend to work somewhere else.”

Well, that’s the Tesla staff told, huh?

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Ever come to the end of the year, looked at your annual payslip and felt a bit like you deserve more?

Well, spare a thought for Elon Musk, consistently one of the three richest men in the world, who needs to get approval for a $56 million pay packet. The pay comes in the form of a stock package that was meant to start coming his was in 2018 and continue for 10 years.

Musk had that package rejected by a Delaware judge earlier this year and now needs Tesla shareholders to approve it, which is a slightly taller order than it might have been a few years ago.

Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk / ANGELA WEISS / Contributor / Getty

Tesla’s stock price has not been in the rudest health this year, after all, falling 37% already, so it’ll be interesting to see whether Musk’s request is approved.

However, despite that recent turbulence, Musk and his team are arguing that the overall growth metrics agreed in 2018 have been clearly surpassed, with Tesla’s share price up by more than 500% since then.

While the headline-grabbing total that Musk is asking for is massive, it can also be contextualised a little, as explained by the Chairperson of the board of directors at Tesla, Robyn Denholm.

She wrote: “Because the Delaware Court second-guessed your decision, Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years that has helped to generate significant growth and stockholder value. That strikes us – and the many stockholders from whom we already have heard – as fundamentally unfair, and inconsistent with the will of the stockholders who voted for it.”

So, the chair of the board of directors is clearly very much on board with the request (which shouldn’t be too surprising since a good relationship with Musk is surely a must in that position).

However, it’s still over to the shareholders to re-approve the plan – and even then, it might be questioned and rejected once again by Delaware’s judges.

If that happens, a replacement plan will need to be agreed and possibly even back-dated, which could take time and expensive resources up, so it would seem that Tesla has got itself into quite a bind.

The key question being assessed by the judge each time someone looks into this is whether shareholders are being given fair value by the pay package, to stop CEOs from just taking outrageous pay without any checks or balances.

In each case, though, it requires a shareholder to bring the case through the system – the state won’t just look into this of its own accord.

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Thanks to the pandemic, the days of going into the office five days a week are long gone for many.

Many people either work completely remotely or at least have a couple of days at home. For some, that means a few days a week with none of the usual office distractions like gossiping over a cup of tea with Julie from sales, while others might fit in a cheeky game on their Xbox or accidentally take a two-hour nap.

No one thinks they’ll get caught doing the latter. But one Aussie woman was fired from the job after her boss took a closer look at how much work she was actually doing from home by monitoring her keyboard typing strokes. Yep, apparently that’s a thing.

Suzie was so convinced of her innocence she took IAG to court (sidibechir/Unsplash)

Consultant Suzie Cheikho was let go from one of the biggest insurance companies in Aus, the Insurance Australia Group (IAG), after it claimed she’d missed deadlines and meetings, was difficult to contact and even cost the company a fine after failing to complete a task.

Cheikho — who’d worked for IAG for 18 years — had the job of creating insurance documents, hitting regulatory timelines and ironically ‘keeping an eye on work from home compliance’.

Using keystroke technology, IAG monitored Cheikho’s work over 49 days between October and December 2022 and they garnered some awkward results.

The review found Cheikho started late on a whopping 47 out of 49 days, finished early on 29, and was found to have done nothing at all on four days.

Even on the days she was working, the review found that Chekho had only typed on her keyboard an average of 54 times in an hour.

You might be surprised to hear that Cheikho didn’t agree with the report, saying she did ‘not believe for a minute’ that the data was accurate, assuring her managers that she’d ‘never not worked’.

Cheikho was reportedly ‘confused and shocked’ by the data, highlighting personal issues that had affected her mental health and in turn, her work. She says she communicated any medical appointments during work time to her managers, and even made up any lost time after work.

Chiekho was late 47 out of the 49 days monitored (charlesdeluvio/Unsplash)

The report resulted in Cheikho making an unfair dismissal claim against IAG, but the claim was rejected by Australia’s Fair Work Commission (FWC) after it was judged that there was a ‘valid reason of misconduct’.

During the FWC ruling, deputy president Thomas Roberts said he had ‘little doubt that the factors underlying the applicant’s disconnection from work were serious and real’.

Roberts went on to say it was a ‘regrettable’ situation and noted her ‘long period of satisfactory service’ prior to the dismissal, but felt like it was ‘not harsh, unjust or unreasonable’ for her to be let go.

Dealing with the new-found spotlight but on her by this story, Cheikho took to TikTok in August 2023 to address her “haters”.

“If you don’t like what I do but you watch everything I’m doing, you’re still a fan” she said.

Cheikho told Daily Mail Australia she struggled to get a job since the story broke, and was making money from social media – while also raising awareness for mental health.

Cheikho continues to post to TikTok today, but rather than addressing her dismissal, you can expect the usual birthday posts and cat videos.