Tesla Denies Warranty Claim After Roadster Found To Be 140 Million Miles From Nearest Service Center

According to sources, the vehicle triggered a routine service alert earlier this week, prompting Musk to contact Tesla support and ask whether someone could “just swing by and take a look at it.”

“Sir, our mobile service team is not currently authorized to operate in heliocentric orbit,” a Tesla representative reportedly explained. “Also, your warranty does not cover vacuum exposure, micrometeorite impacts, cosmic radiation, or being launched into space on purpose.”

Musk allegedly argued that the issue was minor and only occurred once every 557 days near aphelion. Tesla support responded by asking whether he had tried restarting the vehicle, before realizing the car had been unreachable since 2018 and was moving at approximately 20 kilometers per second.

Company officials later confirmed that the claim was rejected due to “excessive mileage, environmental damage, and owner negligence,” noting that launching a convertible beyond Earth’s gravitational influence may void certain protections.

“We stand by the quality of our vehicles,” said one Tesla service manager. “But even our warranty department has limits, and apparently one of those limits is the asteroid belt.”

At press time, Musk was reportedly considering solving the problem by founding a new company dedicated entirely to towing cars back from space.