I used to work in insurance. This might actually be the biggest blow to Testla, even more than stock prices. If people keep vandalizing the vehicles, eventually the insurance has to come due. And repair costs are not cheap, its basically only dealers and a limited number of repair places that partner.
And insurance companies always make sure they get their money.
What kinds of vandalism are most costly to repair, without endangering the lives of drivers, passengers and people nearby? I want to see if those are mentioned in future news coverage.
Paint probably.
Also I would never support anything illegal. As the law requires.
Like, painting a Cybertruck?
Its not vandalism, its just courtesy. The poor machine didn’t come with any.
I sure love bologna
some of the stickers you can easily find end up ruining the finish.
the more you know
Well, a 1:1 mixture of chlorine bleach and vinegar should damn near instantly and permanently corrode the steel. Don’t breathe the fumes, but I have toyed with the idea of a squirt gun filled with instarust.
“Don’t breathe the fumes” seems like a bit of an understatement for a reaction that produces chlorine gas.
That, and it doesn’t sound great to put in a squirt gun, which is almost certainly going to leak to some degree
If you are using household concentrations you won’t generate enough chlorine gas to be harmful in a ventilated area, like outside. If you put it in a bag and huff it you are going to have a bad time, but enough to cause damage can be tossed into a mason jar, shaken, and thrown pretty safely.
So dual wielded super soakers, one bleach filled, one vinegar filled!
Sounds like fun
Excellent idea
Hell, just bleach alone will eat through stainless steel!
The acid makes it rust in seconds instead of days though, instantly visible and quite permanent damage.
Days might actually be better. If they go to work and come back to it rusted all over, they will know it was a malicious action. If they start to see rust the next day and see it slowly progress, it might be hard to trace back to someone.
DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND CHLORINE, unless you want die or seriously injure yourself. When bleach is combined with acetic acid it produces chlorine gas, a literal chemical weapon/warcrime. If you want to corrode stainless steel use regular bleach, it does the job just fine.
Overnight, bologna can do some serious damage to paint, not sure what it might do to untreated aluminum.
Like others said, paint is expensive AF, but also the classic “Slash 3 tires” is expensive
Extra expensive because Tesla’s (Well, EVs in general I’m pretty sure) need special and more expensive tires due to the weight
Are tires usually covered by insurance?
Only when all 4 are damaged, for reasons lol
Hence the “slash 3” rule lmao
Ah, but I thought the point of this thread was to keep the insurance pain building, so if we want higher premiums, should it be slash all 4 so they can claim it and wreck their rates?
Oh yea you’re right lmao, def need to slash all 4 for that lolol
For legal reasons, this is a joke
My ex girlfriend had everything insured on her car. Even tires. Kinda crazy if you ask me.
Don’t lose sight that you are committing a crime, you are destroying an innocent persons property, and you really have no excuses if caught by either the owner or the police
Nobody who’s bought a Tesla in the past few years is “innocent.”
Poor innocent demagogue* supporters :(.
*Back then
Surely some are un-soId.
My leaf uses normal tires.
I thought that you need to replace every tire on EV’s when you damage one.
It’s general guidance for any vehicle, but it’s not a requirement
It’s just for proper wear leveling and balance for a smoother ride
Nope, that’s only for all wheel drive cars with combustion engines
I wouldn’t go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn’t always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won’t buy one now, but I would have three years ago.
I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?
I had thought they were all corporate. Does tesla have non Tesla owned dealerships?
They don’t do third party dealerships. All showrooms & service centers are owned by them.
Rip off a sidepanel. Not even the smartest people on space x can fit a new one.
I want to see if those are mentioned in future news coverage.
In Minecraft, right?
Tiny water balloons filled with brake fluid.
IIRC, if one or two tires, or all four tires are damaged, insurance will cover it. But insurance won’t cover three tires being damaged if I understand correctly. So slash three tires per car.
It’s better when insurance covers it
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So it’s actually working!
That makes it more expensive to own a Tesla, and that’s one more thing that will make it less attractive to buy, either new or used.
It’s debatable whether this is fair, but clearly it achieves a political goal.Hahahahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is fucking hilarious.
It turns out, property damage can solve a problem
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Could the Americans be figuring out how to protest properly?
I wouldn’t say this is properly, but at least they’re finally starting to protest. This is teething while they figure it out.
Fire hot
Reminds me of the Kia and Hyundai challenge.
Yup, my rates soared and insurance companies were dropping customers left and right. I had to abruptly trade it in and it definitely put me off buying Hyundai/Kia for the foreseeable future.
What the heck is that?
Basically those two manufacturers made cars that were easier to steal, and then it became a thing on TikTok.
Ohh yeah. I remember the tech news coverage of the cars being so easy to steal, just didn’t realise there was a “challenge” about it. Unbelievable Hyundai and Kia got away without immobilisers for so long. Really cheeky of them to cut that corner, and it backfired.
They cut the corner because a lack of regulation allowed them to, in order to produce a cheaper model.
It’s a mandatory feature in some other countries.
And of course the insurance rates for those cars skyrocketed. Some insurers wouldn’t provide insurance at all for Kia or Hyundai models that were vulnerable.
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Now this kind of thing could actually be the downfall of Tesla. Good job people!
I’m proud of my fellow Americans
Ironically, even without the vandalism these cars were ridiculously expensive to insure. When I bought my EV I checked insurance premiums, and it would’ve cost $100/mo more to insure a model 3 similarly priced EV from another maker.
this is what the fanbois never bragged about when the brand used to carry some level of prestige
Makes sense. They should make cars that don’t spontaneously combust.
can people even insure wank trucks?
Some higher being observing Earth from a far distance must be intrigued by the pattern recognition of us destroying one specific car while completely ignoring the thousands of others.
Like, imagine when we look at single-cell organisms and see them swarm something. We’d never apply any kind of nuanced interpersonal/sociopolitical reasons to be the cause.
If it works out it could be the template for a lot more action
I think it goes Luigi > Tesla Removal > and some time down the road, we’ll be in what would later be historically considered a revolution— what’s crazy is with how interconnected we are today, it could be a global revolution of some kind.
Tesla had to create the own insurance because many companies and states won’t insure the cyber truck.
Bwahhahahahaaahaha!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
