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Visible Carbon Fiber hard tops are rare.  When we see them on Roadsters, they always make the car pop. This poor Roadster had the worst case of Carbon Fiber resin decomposition and peeling we have ever seen. Every Roadster gets a bath before we let it enter the Service Center, and during the wash, the…

This story replays a number of times each month. We get a call from a frantic customer unable to charge their Roadster.  Sometimes it is an unwelcome surprise after coming home from a vacation, a long overdue visit to a storage facility, repairs being done at a body shop who forgot to keep the Roadster…

This beautiful Glacier Blue Tesla Roadster sold at the local Scottsdale Arizona Barrett Jackson auction. It was celebrity owned, by Dana Brunetti, an American media executive, film producer, entrepreneur and co-founder and chief content officer of Cavalry Media. Brunetti has been nominated for two Academy Awards for producing The Social Network and Captain Phillips and…

This Glacier Blue 2008 Roadster is one of the first 100 “Signature series” Roadsters released in the USA. It came to us from a Tesla Service Center with a PEM problem.  The PEM had been replaced 3 years ago by Tesla, and a new problem arose in the replacement PEM. Rather than have it swapped…

This beautiful Glacier Blue R80 Tesla Roadster sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Scottsdale Arizona, to a customer on the east coast.  The customer immediately sent it to us for a post-purchase inspection, and numerous enhancements. Although the Roadster was in great condition, it had deferred maintenance issues, especially the 10 year old PEM full…

Buying salvage collision damaged Roadsters is a great way to build a spare parts inventory to keep these cars on the road. We bought this jet black Roadster for this very purpose, as a parts donor.  It had a good battery, and we had plenty of customers waiting for a donor pack, and body panels…

After we decided to create another division in the Gruber companies, and call it “Gruber Motor Company”, (GMC) we reached out to the Roadster community and offered, engineering, maintenance, and service. After 3 decades of providing nationwide critical power equipment service in Data Centers, we realized the technology in the Tesla Roadster is virtually identical…

The seeds of the future Gruber Motor Company Tesla Independent Service Center was set in motion with the purchase of a Lightning Green 2011 Tesla Roadster by Pete Gruber in November of 2012. Both Pete and his wife Nathalie were sustainable energy advocates, early adopters of the hybrid Toyota Prius in the late 90’s. By…

This special Tesla Roadster is the last standard production car off the assembly line.  VIN 1459, marked the end of Roadster production in North America, which is why Elon autographed the PEM. After this final Roadster, came five special paint Roadsters, with carbon fiber plaque, called the a “final five”. What makes this car so…

This Midnight Blue Roadster owner was concerned about the age of his Power Electronics Module (PEM), and decided to pro-actively rebuild it rather than wait for a failure. Some customers, who wait for this major electronics assembly to fail, pay a price by ending up with damage to critical electronic driver boards, which are no…