Winston

PNW | EV / ICE Enthusiast | YouTube Certified Tesla Mechanic

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

YOU NEED TO READ THIS:

As many of you may know, I purchased a wrecked Tesla for my dad. This is the second one I have rebuilt. I had wanted to get in contact with the owner and hear the story but I was unsuccessful. I had his home address and name, but I couldn't get his phone number.

I was playing around with the car today and loaded the Netflix app on the Model 3. To my surprise he was logged in. I didn't think much about it, but later, I went back to the car and added 3 profiles to Netflix account named:

Call me - (Phone number) - I have your Tesla.

Later that night he called me!!

He told me the full story:

It was his wife's first time driving their Model 3. She was sitting in a parking lot about 10 feet from a power pole.

Not realizing the car was in drive, his wife pressed the accelerator and drove the car into the pole.

He said his wife was going very slowly and that explains the airbags not going off. She walked away fine!

Insurance wrote the car off because it was going to cost a lot to repair and there were no body shops in his area.

He also told me he had just bought brand new all season tires months before the accident.😏

Anyway, Netflix for the win. 😂

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

Taking a break from X for a bit.

Have some stuff I need to focus on and X is a slight distraction. 😂

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

What is "off" about this Model S?

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@elonmusk, looks like you have some unclaimed property in Washington State. 😂

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@briandstone Man, that sucks. Glad he took ownership.

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@brandenflasch @Tesla @ionnaofficial We need more in the PNW!

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@AdamClampitt Man I love Cirrus. And Garmin!

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@itskyleconner Use the drive away feature

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@R0BBIE @RaptorBroz @Matt_E_Baumann How many cars do you own 😂

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@R0BBIE @Tesla Yikes. I think there is a 10mm bolt that holds that in.

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

Witnessed a car accident today. TeslaCam FTW!

(Accident happened right at the end of the clip)

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

Hot take:

I will never purchase a car without a steering wheel.

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@brandenflasch RIVIAN?!

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@brandenflasch Agreed

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@Tutrifour @ZacksJerryRig Yes!

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

I truly do wonder if the election results had any play in the sunsetting of the Cybertruck.

[Coleton Guerin @OutofSpecDetail]

So we stop making cool cars for boring autonomous pods?

Okay then…

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

@LhommeDesole SO COOL

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

Tesla's 2027 lineup is going to be incredibly boring.

[Ramy @TeslaXplored]

Tesla lost its soul! No cool cars anymore 🥺
No Model X with falcon wing doors.
No Model S with 0-60 in 1.99s
No Cybertruck with alien technology that looks like it belongs on Mars!

The future doesn’t look like the future anymore. The future is boring! 😕 $tsla

[Winston @TESLA_winston]

This:

[The Cybertruck Guy @cybrtrkguy]

Cancelling all of your best products in favor of an autonomous platform that remains software and regulatory constrained, going into a governance era that opposes Tesla, seems like a fucking terrible idea.

Tesla has lost the plot

[Tailosive EV @TailosiveEV]

Worst part is S&X had some very reasonable replacements. Model 3 had just become too good and too affordable to justify the S.

Model YL was far better than the Model X.

Cybertruck has no replacement. This is just Tesla straight up ditching the most popular vehicle segment