Pay to repair this Tesla or blow it up? (video)

Emma Roth, The Verge/MSN, Dec. 26, 2021; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Put the Tesla sex-bot I bought in it, too, Elon

When faced with a repair bill that will cost half of what one paid for a car, do you go through with the expensive repair, take it to the junkyard, or sell it for parts?

Finnish Tesla owner Tuomas Katainen decided to do something a little more extreme — but arguably a lot more satisfying — when faced with such a situation:

He watched his car go kaboom then up in flames, as reported by Gizmodo.

This "self-driving" piece of junk doesn't work!

Katainen handed his 2013 Tesla Model S over to Pommijätkät, a group of explosion experts on YouTube who love to make things go “boom,” after he was quoted $22,600 for a Tesla battery replacement.

“Well, when I bought that Tesla, the first 1,500 km [932 miles] were nice,” Katainen recounted. “Then, error codes hit.”

After Katainen took his Tesla to a mechanic, he found out that the only way to fix the car would be to replace the entire battery pack, which would cost him at least 20,000€, or around $22,600.

The group behind Pommijätkät strapped 66 pounds of dynamite to the car [instead] and... More