We do not see for the first time that the customer solved his dissatisfaction with the carmaker’s approach to a problem by destroying the car. However, the Finnish owner of the Tesla Model S from 2013, Tuomas Katainen, chose a slightly more spectacular than usual method. He used 30 kg of dynamite and a mannequin with the face of Elon Musk, whom he sat behind the wheel.
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“The first 1,500 kilometers were pleasant. Then error messages started to appear and I had to have the car towed to a workshop, “Katainen begins her story in the video. A month later, the service called and told the owner that the only repair option was to replace the entire battery for at least 20,000 euros, or 505,000 crowns.
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Because the car is older than 8 years – we estimate that Katainen bought it used – it is no longer under warranty, which would otherwise cover the cost of replacing the battery. However, it should be noted that Tesla changes entire batteries for hundreds of thousands due to minor defects that can be removed cheaper.
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According to the available information, battery replacement should not have been the only problem, so the price could have climbed even higher. Katainen decided on a relatively radical solution, so let’s believe the decision was not rushed.
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Even so, there are more environmentally friendly ways to get rid of a car with a problem you don’t want to fix. Maybe you can sell it into parts so that someone else with a greater amount of motivation can repair their car. But we wouldn’t have the spectacular destruction captured in the video.
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