How Tesla rewarded me for telling the truth

Do you like stories because I like stories and today I have a story for all of you? Today I'm going to talk about Tesla, the oft-discussed but clearly the greatest car company to ever exist and my fun relationship with them just to clear things up. You don't know who I am, I'm nobody, okay, I like to fix and build things that people would normally throw away because we live in a throwaway society and that bothers me, but thanks to the Internet you can see me do said things. This for three reasons: one, it's fun, two, I like to learn how things really work, and three, I'm not a millionaire, rich, or related to a hip-hop artist.

I am a Tesla fan and I am also a Tesla shareholder. four cups of

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s, I probably have about 10 or 15, maybe more than that, but yeah, I've had a lot and I also own a repair shop called electrified garage, an independent repair center where people bring us their teslas to fix run by two ex tesla employees and speaking of which we are hiring ok we are based in new hampshire you must be motivated, self-starter, open minded and eager to learn and have solid automotive electrical knowledge. background and you may see me a few times a week where I will require you to buy me lunch so if you are interested send me your resume information electrifiedgarage.com to apply but if you want to know more about the garage and what we do.

There is a video in the description box below about what the electrified garage gets into on a daily basis. Anyway, the funniest thing happened. I've been building Tesla for a while and it's a cool car that one of my good friends bought. a job there brought the car to my house took me for a drive i fell in love with it bought a flooded salvage one a year later i thought they were an amazing company until i hit my first roadblock when i was trying to buy parts from them to fix my car recreational, so I had the right salvage car.

I called Tesla to order parts because at the time I couldn't get them anywhere else and there were almost no used parts online and I called them like: Hi, can I? have some parts please and his response was we won't sell you anything because you don't know anything you're a peasant why would you fix one of these yourself what are you poor just buy a new car no they didn't accuse me of being poor okay they didn't that, but they did tell me to buy a new car, which struck a chord with me, like literally a throwaway society, okay, just throw it away and buy a new one, for example, this California can be. right here on ia.com just 10,000 miles, runs and drives, no airbags deployed, needs a new front bumper, rear hatch, and rear bumper, that's it, and they literally dumped this entire car, right?

Does that make you angry?, this thing works and there are many out there who would kill to have a car like this and some cars drive like this every day anyway, you know, buy this car because it's a model 3 and model threes are great, so go to ia.com and use the code. Save 50 to get half off at registration and when you buy it, I want you to email me and say "wow, yummy, thanks for nothing." Now I'm like everyone else who owns a Model 3. But anyway I thought, "Let's try a new approach to dealing." With Tesla, okay, if it pleases the crown, can I have some parts please?

And they say no because you can't fix this car, only we Tesla trained texts can do it, get out, so I'm jumping up and down this story complaining about this very strange tactic and I get my second hurdle and this is the hardest obstacle to this day it's called tesla sim sorry other nicknames i've given them are fedora's army elon's musketeers translucent cave dwellers fanboys the nerd pack and the idiot patrol and the musk mafia and I've noticed one thing when you call them fanboys they get irrationally upset and report your videos on youtube so I'm going to use the term musketeers so I started talking about this story and the musketeers were like, "Wow, Tesla, you're right, "You don't know what you're doing, it's a responsibility," how would you feel if a car someone built caught fire?

And I say, well, I feel the same as all the other Teslas fresh out of the storm. The flat caught fire while he was driving down the road and the response was like that of vampires when they see sunlight. Repaired Teslas make up a small percentage of the cars on the road. In fact, there's a good chance you've never even seen one before. the chance of exploding is small, just like a normal tesla, so anyway, the musketeer's new enemy, now tesla over the years has done some really strange things and the first big hit I experienced was, I think , that the takata airbag is being recalled now if not I don't remember Takata having a ton of airbag recalls where the airbag wouldn't deploy in a crash or it would just be like a bomb and literally explode in your face for no reason and he would kill you, so my friend called me and told me.

Hello, I have a salvaged car. I went to Tesla and they said they wouldn't replace the airbag, you know, at the recall and they denied the recall on my car because it had been in an accident before and I'm like, okay, let's think about this logically. now maybe when the car was in an accident the airbag went off and was replaced with a good one and that's probably why they're denying you the recall job now he says no it was a minor collision the airbags didn't go off air. Here we go, the car is fine, been driving it and they won't replace the air bag, it was a mandatory recall so the national highway transportation association said hey listen you have to replace them so I scratched my head and I said, imagine a company. being so literal, you have a back room full of new airbags, a guy walks in the front door and says there is a mandatory recall on my airbags and the company says hey, you know what we can't do, and the employee whoever said that is going home. slept very well that night knowing there's a chance the airbag could explode in that guy's face and then that same employee woke up the next morning saying, baby, what's for breakfast, so I ran, made a video and i called the nhtsa and within a few days tesla said oh wait that was bad we were just messing around let's go ahead and replace that airbag we're good right?

It's very different because remember Honda went to the actual salvage jars and physically removed the old airbags so people could not reuse them, they actually called the yard and said hey, listen, you can't sell cars with these anymore. , but anyway, that's water in the past, no big deal, that was in the past. I called the Tesla authorities and forced them to make the right decision now, talking about our decision, my best friend in the whole world, Sam just wanted to clear something up, he used me in one of his recent videos, he used me, he said he They got kicked out of an event and people were like, yeah, man, it sucks. but if you look closely, actually not even that carefully that's not me, this man with a full head of hair is not me, I have no hair, this man is ten here and then, when I was shaving my face in his bathroom, He informed me that he used that razor for his nether regions, which overall was very embarrassing.

My episode was riddled with things that just weren't true, but you know what was true about that episode. In fact, it is very soft. I use it towards the north and south, so small. I use it everywhere it has a built in LED light that shines in the grooming areas for a closer and more precise trim so you can shave a mohawk down there if you want total darkness it has a 7000 rpm motor with silent stroke technology who doesn't love quiet strokes also comes with ball lotion and deodorant sometimes your balls can get unruly so stop chasing them put some lotion on them you must try them use my code to get 20 off in the description box a Next, thank you manscape for sponsoring this episode, so time passed and I finished the car and interestingly enough, they gave me something called a referral code.

Now a referral code is kind of like a benefits program that Tesla offers, so when someone uses your code to buy a car, they can get magical things like Power Walls and Tesla Power Wheels, etc., etc., and they Funny thing is, I looked in my benefits box and saw that I was entitled to two Tesla cars, so I'm perfect. I ordered two for my kids for Christmas a few years ago. ago and the funny thing is that you know that when I bought them both, one was really flooded. It was funny that one of the batteries must have gotten left in the water somehow and what are the chances that one of the batteries I bought was bad. but this could be ironic, I don't know, I'm not blaming Tesla, I just find it a little funny, so I called Radio Flyer and they sent me another one and then the battery died a year later, but anyway, just like Things progressed, became more difficult with Tesla and one of my favorite clips was when I tried to order parts through them.

I wanted a nut cover and then listen to this conversation real quick, oh, you know what? No, no, no, no, just to be. Sure about something, I don't need uh, I don't need the nuts either, I just need some little plastic covers to go over the look oh oh, okay, uh, oh, what do you need those? Oh I'm sorry. Do you need them? Oh, I'm sorry, wait a second, that's how it was two years ago and then Vice approached me about making a documentary about the whole Tesla thing documenting all the problems I've had over the last few years and it was hell because now I had media attention, now people started listening to me for a change and as a result Tesla made some more changes, that wasn't my intention, but they started selling car parts with salvage titles, which was huge because Actually, I'd never done that before so I felt like it was a win and if you watch the documentary you'll know it's a great car and people just want to keep them on the road, but this is where I came into the second coming of the Tesla Sims. uh the access to supercharging, now supercharging is the ability to use Tesla's fast charging network and Tesla turns them off on the salvaged cars, but you can pay them anywhere from a few thousand to about twelve thousand dollars or so, they recertify the auto and turn on the supercharging again.

Well, unfortunately a couple of years later they decided to turn off supercharging en masse, so everyone who paid to turn it back on was in many cases out of luck, so if you pay them whatever, there's a chance that are activated again. it turned off again and I was like, well that sucks okay, then months later it happened to me too, the car he bought they also turned it off on that car, so imagine paying to have it turn back on and Tesla said, Hey you. know what our policy is no longer and your official document, if you try to go to a third party, it says here in small print, if you try to turn it back on, you may face legal action, so basically, if you turn it back on, you could go to the Jail, does that seem strange to you?

A legal action even if you don't use it, just turn it back on. It could get you in trouble, but they also have an email address to give them away, so if you have any. Hints or hints that someone might be doing this illegally, you can send an email to this address right here and you could rat out your friends with Tesla and this is where the musketeers come in again, now guys are screaming in the comments sections of the Internet websites, many people said it. it was a liability issue, like if you rebuild the tesla and it explodes, the company looks bad, but guess what, all model 3 supercharged, yes, all model 3 salvaged, supercharged, even this supercharger, looks like it fell off a precipice, forgive me, but how is this?

A responsibility again for the more than 30 three rescue models. I have encountered all of them overfed, so no, it is not a responsibility. If they care about liability, they would have replaced that airbag without the nhtsa getting involved, but during this time my reference. The code people were actually using it which was awesome, the more cars people bought through the program the more benefits they would get so I got a lot of pushback about my thoughts towards Tesla and people were saying "I'm pushing Tesla back and i'm ruining the brand but mysteriously people still use the referral code so people watch the videos i made about a car i endorse and make a conscious decision to buy a tesla based on those videos but somehow agree with the sims i'm sending tesla because their sierra captain detectors were broken or something and also with me complaining about the way tesla treats people who aren't their ideal customers but either way people still uses them literally hundreds of messagesthat tell why Tesla should care about you and your RV. tons and tons of hate, so I said: you know what you're right about.

I will support the brand. I am going to buy a model X as a shareholder. I'm going to support them and buy them a car. It was September. 2018. I remember like it was yesterday. I found a used 90d on tesla.com, an inventory used car. I won't share the price, but it was literally double the price of the average used car sold in the United States and they were selling this one. thing with cryptic photos online and you could barely see the real thing, but either way I don't care, I wanted it and my word, what a story.

I have a link to that whole series in the description box below but basically they said the car is located in New York and will be shipped to Massachusetts and I should have it in a few weeks for a used car btw well long story short , I ordered in September and December 24th and still no sign of the car, I said. Hey, is there any chance I'll get the car this year and they said no problem? Now remember I didn't say anything for months. I finally got fed up and in January I posted a video called Elon uses my car and it spread like wildfire.

Tesla saw the video and I still haven't received the car. I posted a video every week. Four videos until the car was in my hands and they said they didn't know where the car was. I mean, I called and found the body shop. the car was in they told me the car was ready I drove up the back of my mom they looked me dead in the eyes and said no the car is not ready not only that but they said they had a loaner car for me I came back again no, a lonely car, it was the most embarrassing and embarrassing car buying experience of my life, but I finally got the car after a few months of back and forth.

Now imagine buying a used car and it takes you three months to get it, a car that already exists and guess who is right behind me the tesla simps tesla was busy with model 3 deliveries you should have known you shouldn't have seriously ordered the sister car give them a break they're trying bro please but listen to me again i'm a tesla shareholder and i have real money in tesla i gave them several thousand dollars for a car it doesn't exist am i supposed to say lol ok bro i know you're busy ok now I don't care that the car was taken during that time I just wish expectations were set so if I bought the car and they told me it would take four months I would say okay expectations weren't a big deal so I'm battling Tesla and the Tesla Sims once again.

I got the car and then I got this email to my subscribers saying "Hey man I love the videos just try to buy a tesla using your code and they told me it doesn't exist so no problem I emailed Tesla and I said hello, I hope you find this email." Well, recently I discovered that my referral code link disappeared and the loot box disappeared too. Here is my code. I know the show will end first, but I'd like to get credit for a roadster if possible. Thank you. So, I received this email from them Hi Richard, Thank you for contacting us regarding the Tesla referral program.

We are having some technical difficulties. This will be resolved shortly. Rest assured, you will continue to receive credit for any referrals made before February 1st. Thank you, friend Don. Don't even worry about it, it's just a glitch, you'll get your credit and finally, literally three days after my model x was delivered, I got this email. Hello, sorry for the delay, but the request to reactivate your referral link was rejected while your account was initially affected by a technical issue. Upon further review of your account, we believe that the actions you have taken on your YouTube channel are in bad faith towards the company and, contrary to the intent of the program, your account has been banned from referral incentives for violating the show's good faith policy, we will withhold any prizes that have not yet been fulfilled and that's it folks, now I'm not mad or upset or anything like that.

I admit it, I really wanted a Tesla Roadster, but no one needs a Tesla. roadster is probably the biggest first world problem out there and boo hoo I don't get free profits for selling a bunch of cars but this is until everyone knows you bought the cars the code is no longer valid and since I made there are so many YouTube videos it's hard to go back and remove the code from the description boxes so I'll leave them there as taxidermy, it's just a bunch of soft tissue of what it used to be so I'm not mad right?

This could have happened. It's been a lot worse, they could have called me a pedophile or something, which would ruin my YouTube career, but either way, what really bothers me is that a few months after canceling the code, this is what really gets to me and Why do I feel used? Tesla came to the grand opening of the electrified garage let's not forget these men and women are my friends my people Tesla employees came to the event gave test rides people who had never driven a Tesla before to help them sell more cars okay? I left them in my bed again they slept with me they slept with me and then they kicked me out of bed the next day they didn't even leave a note okay they came and literally left I'll say it again I understand not mad at either a company and they can do whatever you want remember freedom of speech is not freedom of repercussions there's not much I can really do my main mission is the right to repair to give people the power to repair their own cars I started several groups on Facebook Years ago, people who wanted to sell Tesla parts it was called Tesla parts buying and selling trading which helps thousands of people and I think I did my part.

You know, I drew attention to the cards that people bought them, as a result, others decided not to buy them based on some. Findings I started a small community of Tesla DIYers and rebuilders. I got to what I needed to do and got my ass kicked at every turn. I realized that my calling is probably the DIY community, not the Tesla community. For example, the DIY EV group on facebook, which I'm pretty active in, that's more of my calling because unfortunately the overwhelming majority of Tesla owners are not as skilled as I thought they would be, they're not really willing to push the limits of a car that has a warranty and when they make payments on what I get so I'm going to do more DIY stuff and experiment with different platforms with cars that are a little more mature with the bigger DIY base so That's all I wanted to say, thank you for coming to my ted talk. and I'll see you next week