Photo: xaMBD on Reddit
If you browse through Tesla groups and forums, you'll see the proud owners of the electric sedan post all sorts of ridiculous pictures of their vehicles.
"Oh, no, a bird pooped on my Tesla" accompanied by a picture of the flying creature's dejection on a piece of painted metal is not an uncommon sight, and neither is the tiniest scratch that a normal human being would never be able to spot without a magnifying glass. We wouldn't be surprised if macro lenses suffered a dramatic boost in sales since Teslas became so popular.
Just because it's a sedan and not some exotic sports car, it's easy to forget that some of these vehicles are in the six-figure range, so you could understand the owners being a little upset about every tiny damage to their pride and joy. At the same time, you might find the content of this picture a little more difficult to digest.
We don't have any backstory here, but we'll just assume the rear of this Tesla Model S suffered some sort of a collision that left very little of it in one piece. The damages seem to include the rear bumper, the right-hand-side panel, the taillights and the entire hatch.
Instead of calling a Tesla shop to schedule an appointment, this owner thought "I got this," took a look around the back of the yard, planned a trip to their local hardware store and came up with a cunning plan that involved OSB, perspex, and, in good DIY fashion, lots of black duct tape.
He built a frame using the wooden sheets, cut the transparent plastic into a shape loosely resembling the original hatch and used the tape to hold everything in place, including the smashed taillight. We might have missed mentioning his trip to the scrapyard where he picked up a silver bumper together with the lower air diffuser.
We're not saying we could have done a better job (even though we could have - anyone could have), we're just saying this is absolutely terrible. Well, at least he didn't try to sell it saying it only had "minor dents and dings" as this guy did.
Just because it's a sedan and not some exotic sports car, it's easy to forget that some of these vehicles are in the six-figure range, so you could understand the owners being a little upset about every tiny damage to their pride and joy. At the same time, you might find the content of this picture a little more difficult to digest.
We don't have any backstory here, but we'll just assume the rear of this Tesla Model S suffered some sort of a collision that left very little of it in one piece. The damages seem to include the rear bumper, the right-hand-side panel, the taillights and the entire hatch.
Instead of calling a Tesla shop to schedule an appointment, this owner thought "I got this," took a look around the back of the yard, planned a trip to their local hardware store and came up with a cunning plan that involved OSB, perspex, and, in good DIY fashion, lots of black duct tape.
He built a frame using the wooden sheets, cut the transparent plastic into a shape loosely resembling the original hatch and used the tape to hold everything in place, including the smashed taillight. We might have missed mentioning his trip to the scrapyard where he picked up a silver bumper together with the lower air diffuser.
We're not saying we could have done a better job (even though we could have - anyone could have), we're just saying this is absolutely terrible. Well, at least he didn't try to sell it saying it only had "minor dents and dings" as this guy did.
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