This Tesla Model S Owner Repairs His Own Car
Greg Furstenwerth was an early adopter of the Tesla Model S, but once the car was out of warranty he had a hard time getting the parts and service he needed. So he took on the repairs himself, and found it surprisingly easy. “If you can put together Legos you can put together a Tesla.”
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This Tesla Model S Owner Repairs His Own Car | CNBC
I don't know other companies doing work for free after the warranty
it looks like a story more like a bullshit story to say bad things about Tesla.
Guy puts almost 150,000 miles on the car and he wants it fixed for free. FIDIOT
Every German automaker will beat Tesla in 5 years time. Cars are way more reliable and development and testing is going on for 30 and more years. I remember having an Audi A4 Avant in 1997 and how many problems it had, and the new A4 2017, sure problems exsist, but on other fields that are new like electronics… but that too will improve.
Not that great of a Assembled Vehicle..Tesla Tonka Toy!!
This Guy is TESLAS nightmare… He could start his own Shop..
1:40 "For Greg, that means killing a day driving to the nearest shop. He lives on an island."
I google mapped it and it's only a 30 mile drive. BFD.
He should have filed a NHTSA complaint about the key issue……
Sorry your warranty expired but did you really expect them to maintain your car forever? Did you think Elon Musk designed a car magic car that never need service or repair? Moving parts, all moving parts eventually fail. Maybe next time don’t buy American. Seriously, did the Pontiac Aztec teach you nothing?
Why in the hell does he have to take so much apart for repair on a 5 year old, high end car? I got 20-30 year old American cars I don't Have to take apart and repair all the stuff it shows he is doing in this video.
Waste me time watching
What's with all the major news organizations constantly bashing Tesla?
This dude gonna be working for Tesla soon just wait.
duh, welcome to owning a used car.
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You need a fireproof suit to drive that POS. Makes you want to jump in one of Musks rockets and fly off to Mars.
wow this is a good guy
Big deal
Taking all the screws out should help right of the bat.
Hunk of junk. 1970s Audi level.
Teslas as are overated. piece of giant crap
Doug demuro's tweaker brother
Good thing you are handy. Sounds like a piece of junk.
She said luxury. Luxury ha ha.
Very brave man…
Don't buy a car you can't afford to fix up and tune up and fix when something breaks.lol. bro do you really expect a car maker to baby you years after buying. Fix it yourself everything and make it better if it's just so simple like a Legos lolololo. Those parts aren't really made for it soooooooo. Goodluck. Just sell it
I just wasted my 1 minute on watching a stupid tiktok ad
his car was out of warranty.. so this would be the case with any manufacturer
Why is she saying the things which he is going to say. That’s just poor journalism
Dude sounds like Michael Shannon if you close your eyes. Hats off to his bravado, though.
this guy has got something going on for real
he makes so much sense with every single word he says
Oh man, as a technician ide love to go through the car and see the hacks. And yes after warranty is up YOU HAVE TO PAY. You don’t get shut for free. You fixed it yourself I’ll give you that! Good on you buddy! And all cars that I’ve worked on with push starts can drive with the key out of the car. But when you turn it off you can’t turn it back on
Where’s Rich Rebuilds…?
I see business opportunities….2nd party repairmen
My god ,how can we not allow individual's the freedom to learn about and repair their own Tesla automobiles .This is the beginning of a new era in the history of automobiles The DIY,HotRodding market wants to embrace a production electric car. That is a very good thing .Think of SEMA and it multibillion dollar aftermarket ,Yet Elon and,Tesla won't allow it.Tesla could benefit from making parts,service manuals,bullentins, available to DIY owners. It would open up the market to making Tesla the car to buy, introducing electrics to a whole other segment of car buyers..
Shows once more how ridiculous stupid tesla boys are…
Best man !
How is this different from rich rebuildings??
I would drive any other car in the world before this
A luxury car with costly repairs, who would've guessed?
The more I see about Tesla cars the less I want to own one. From 12 months ago looking to see if used Teslas were in my range, now they look like junk.
I have a 2005 Toyota Camry and it's running fine with no problems at all. Yet this insanely overpriced, "luxury" electric car is falling apart like a crappy Made-in-China Walmart toy. What a POS.
The lack of kitchen knives is disturbing
The guy buys a car an expect it to never break down welcome to the car world snowflake
Tesla should give the car to Hyundai to have it built properly.
This is about to be me. Self repair time on my 2013.
That many issues before 130k miles (200k km.)
I am surprised.
and he still doesn't want any other car!! just weird
Voiceover says that Greg is not a mechanic but has a knack for fixing things. Most 'mechanics' at dealer ships are not mechanics either, they are parts changers. Once my vehicle is out of warranty, I never go back to the dealer; too expensive to pay a noob to learn on my car so I have repaired my own since 1972.
Messing with 2 wires he can get it to drive without a key? Do not mess with said wires. This guy is just an angry penny pincher, his fixes are in par or lower than similarly priced cars. Spent 10 minutes complaining, then said it's super easy to work on, mentioned prices of parts he doesn't realize are actually cheap for such a car. Sell it please, to someone that can handle a little incoveinience ….we have enough electric car haters without the drivers themselves turning into a group of whining babies