This is entirely separate of course from the much more basic issue that a car that breaks because of some fucking precipitation is not fit for purpose and this damage report would be indefensible just about anywhere in the world.
Two things here...
The source of this is ...The Mirror. Not exactly top shelf journalism. They thrive of outage, just like the Daily Fail. Keep that in mind when reading these trash sources.
I suspect the owner of the vehicle did a lot more than "drive it in a bit of rain" and is simply lying about it in order to try and get bailed out. Funnily enough I've not seen a queue of Tesla's broken down every time I drive in the rain.
It's certainly possible that the owner is telling the truth. But I doubt it. I doubt it a lot.
I'll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube's content and don't even work.
Even as a native English speaker that doesn't make any sense.
Trash news sources have trash grammar. Go figure.