Tesla

Driver's side window actuator went out and Tesla initially refused to honor warranty, stating that the motor failure was due to the tint that was installed on the windows, charing nearly $600 to repair. Mind you, this is the same tint (XPEL) that was purchased via the tesla app in the add ons menu, and installed by a certified installer per their recommendations.

I called BS as of the many cars that I've owned, I've never once had a window actuator fail due to tint installation.
This was eventually refunded to me after many calls to the service manager, however they stated that if the window actuator failed again, it would not be honored. If Tesla themselves are offering this as a service, they need to clearly indicate that installation of this product could void warranty or remove the service from their app all together.

I am sharing my experience so others understand the real risks that come with owning a Tesla. On November 10, 2025, my 16-year-old daughter was driving our Tesla Model Y with my 14-year-old son as a passenger when the vehicle malfunctioned and caused a collision.

The car displayed multiple alerts before, during, and after the accident indicating system failures. The braking system was not functioning properly, the traction control and automatic hold failed, and even the seatbelts stopped working correctly. The vehicle made it clear through its own alerts that something was seriously wrong.

When I contacted Tesla, I expected them to treat this as a safety and warranty issue. Instead, they did not care to take in an unsafe vehicle, even after I clearly explained that the alerts showed system failures.

Tesla told me I had to pay for the tow myself, despite the fact that the brakes were unreliable and the seatbelts were failing. A vehicle that unsafe should have been taken in immediately by the manufacturer, without putting the burden on the customer.

After paying out-of-pocket, I had the car towed to the service center. Even with all the alerts and the clear safety hazards, Tesla refuses to provide a loaner while they inspect the vehicle. They told me the inspection alone will take about a month, leaving me without transportation even though I did nothing wrong and the car failed while my children were inside it.

The least Tesla could do, after selling me a hazardous vehicle, is put me in a temporary car. They wont even do that.

To make matters worse, Tesla has still not acknowledged receiving my vehicle, even though it arrived at the service center five days ago. This is the type of customer service they provideslow, dismissive, and unwilling to take responsibility when their product fails in a dangerous way.

Now that Ive experienced this firsthand, I began looking into Teslas history, and I discovered accident after accident involving their vehiclesbrake failures, system malfunctions, Autopilot issues, injuries, and deaths. Tesla is constantly being sued, but because they make billions of dollars, they clearly consider it an acceptable cost.

If people were truly aware of the risks and how Tesla behaves after you bring safety issues to their attention, no one would choose to put themselves or their minor children in that position.

Tesla sold me an unsafe, hazardous vehicle. They refuse to take accountability, they refuse to treat safety seriously, and they refuse to provide basic support like a loaner while they investigate a defect that put two teenagers at risk.

Tesla does not want responsibility for the lives they are putting in harms way or the lives already lost due to failures in their vehicles.

People need to wake up and understand what they are actually driving. My experience has been unacceptable, and I would never recommend Tesla to anyone.

My solar hasn't been producing energy since the first week of being turned on. They've come out twice to fix it and have failed twice.

They said they fixed it and it worked for approximately a week, then stopped producing energy again. I have been paying $275-$500 plus a month for my electric bill on top of the $240 a month for the solar. I can't get a hold of anyone that can help me via email or phone. The first time they came out to service it, which was approximately three months after being installed, they told me it was old software or hardware that was installed, which didn't make sense to me due to it being brand new.

Then it stopped working after approximately a week. Then I had to wait four months for them to come out to service it again. They said they moved some wires around and it worked properly for the rest of that day. The next day the production dropped again.

So I messaged them back and the person told me, 'I'll contact the service guys that came the day before,' which she did, and they updated something in the system and it worked.

It has been working properly for approximately a week now.

Case # CI01A1ED3D

I have owned three Teslas and am contemplating another one for my wife, which would make four for a car company who posts that they are so far ahead of their time in technology. Can you put the *** yellow and red triangle in the mirrors so when you go to change your lane you immediately can see it with your eye instead of looking in three different places that now you have set up?

You have the screen, which you should never take your eyes off the road; you put a little pin-drop red thing that in the daytime is blinded by the sun, and then you have a red line on the screen. Again, your eyes should be on the road, not looking at the screen.

It takes one or two minutes to change a lane and one or two minutes to get killed. Your owner is a trillionaire; put the money in the product.

I want to protect Tesla and Elon. I got a message and did screenshots of all.

Grok3 Elon verified X account sent me a message regarding a special private dinner and meeting at Ritz Carlton Naples, FL, Saturday, May 10th, first, then changed to May 17. They say to contact Tesla on Telegram, which is a verified account, which I know means nothing. They sent a short video of a jet saying you will be flying Falcon jet to Florida and sent a video of hotel accommodations, which was very strange. They are trying to portray a suite, and you see a glimpse in a mirror of a man, but zero money was asked for.

They say a Tesla will pick us up at our house and take us to an airport. I’ve been trying to get specific info for me, and I never gave any specific information but Pennsylvania. They said regarding Tesla S would drive me to Lehigh Valley Airport, said approximately 2 PM Saturday, dinner 8 PM. They do ask for name, address, DOB, then #3 says contact info - a bit alarming because of kidnapping and human trafficking, then an ID of choice occupation.

I have a screenshot. I’m more alarmed over possible human trafficking or kidnapping. Not sure what to do or who to report to and first trying to verify it’s all fake. I called the hotel; they said it sounds like a scam, which I agree, but this needs to be looked into.

I can call PA state police, and I already have all my info on the dark web. I’m already targeted by scammers on X and have had bank accounts and credit cards hacked, and it was confirmed by people I was in contact with last year prior to getting hacked, and the info on the dark web was by X people. I never got to law enforcement regarding that, but with Tesla and Elon targeted as they are, we must do something regarding this and can’t really report a verified X account. I didn’t get a report when on Grok 3 Elon.

We can’t let this slide since others are also, I’m sure, getting the same messages as me. If you call, call and call right back because my security on the phone may cause your number to go to spam unless there are two calls in a row.

My only complaint is, I am the peoples voice, and we need a vehicle, and Im trying to get in touch with somebody in marketing to weld the world with what tesla is actually capable of because Im sure you have several designs and options that you are soon to be coming out with, but I want to make sure that you know the peoples voice of what we need and I cant even get a actual person on the phone it gives me very limited options when calling I dont need sales because I cant deal with this. I dont need service and I dont need delivery.

I need to get somebody that I can speak with that heres to peoples voice of what we need and Im highly asked, and a huge fan of Elon musk. I have several ideas that he can make exponential amount of profit, but besides that Ill use that for another time I just want somebody from Tesla to hear the peoples voice that can do early note, but I am very unimpressed on the market of what tesla is offering, because what it seems that Tesla has become is cool but not capable and I just think that its a area of marketing or vehicles class that is untouched to the average every day person average every day small business owner, and what we need! Ive been waiting for Tesla to come out with a truck and holding back on rivian because I just believe in Tesla I remember from when he first came up and their dealer in New Orleans where Im from and ever since then I have just been excited constantly about Tesla. I would bleed Tesla given that Ive always bled Chevy and theyve been doing nothing, but letting me down, the excitement of Tesla is there.

I need Tesla to pull that knife out and cut me open so I can bleed tesla. I need to be impressed because what theyre offering with a cyber truck its not your every day average Joes truck I own a small landscaping business and Im looking to get a cool *** truck, which I know Teslas capable of but the cyber truck to nowhere near shape or form touch what the requirements of my job and I am still a fan of the cyber truck. I think its cool but true real life applications. It doesnt even come close to applying to white contractors and Landscapers and such need!

I was truly looking into and now looking into a trailer as well because I saw the cyber truck trailer matching package. Im all about that I just dont care how much it cost I think its just really cool! No other company offers a truck and a matching trailer. The trailer I saw on the website does not have an open top.

Its not a dump version which is something that I would need in my industry but I also need something that I can throw my tools and equipment in the back of the truck and the cyber truck does not accommodate that I am your average every day Joe, I have ideas I have sketches I can offer, but mostly I just feel that Tesla is slacking in that and missing an entire market that they can completely rule over the piece of *** Chevys. I hate saying those words but its true same with the Fords same with every other vehicle that is on the market, they are made for obsolescence, and I believe that Elon musk can fix this problem I dont know why hes not touching the market but cyber truck does not accommodate anything other than cool ! If you were literally think of every single truck, thats on the market, all of the companies put together that market can easily be owned by far more capabilities, and with much more trust because I havent even owned a Tesla, but I stand behind Elon musk and what he has to offer so I believe he can do this and the entire truck industry needs it everything from contractors to successful retired guys that just want the big bad *** truck like the F350 diesels, but I know that I am a believer in bigger better badder while going green at the same time, and I believe in many of the original companies foundation beliefs but the biggest thing here is there are billions to be made and Tesla has not been attempting to really touch the truck market because in realism the cyber truck is cool but its not what a landscaper we need. I need bigger space I need more pulling power which 14,000 pounds is absolutely impressive.

Its just I guess the body of the cyber truck is nothing more than cool it does not accommodate needing to be able to handle more equipment efficiently and they dont offer an open top dump trailer that matches I need this and so many more need it. Im tired of getting nickel and dime with these fluctuating gas prices and the very unstable market because I have a rare truck and Ive loved and bled Chevy my entire life. I have a 2000 Chevy 4 x 4 K 2500 with a 7.4 L , it is the gas engine for 54 big block and a very rare truck. I bought it for 6000 and put 10 grand in it in the last six months and because I cant get the modulator for the ABS module and there is no conversion for this truck, and since its a rare truck, aftermarket companies do not make it so in six months, I blew 16 grand on something that is scrap metal not to mention it really doesnt do terrible on gas mileage and its much cheaper than a diesel engine because I made us a mechanic shop and service revised winning trips to the Super Bowl and Miller motorsports high-performance driving school but I am not a diesel mechanic gasoline engines.

I can rebuild a 454 or 350 any day but when parts are becoming obsolete and its just to squeeze us into getting a new one, I cant justify spending $70,000 on a piece of *** that I know isnt gonna last the five year term or six or seven year term to pay for it! I do love the cyber trucks damn near indestructibility because Im tossing shovels and stuff in the back of my truck all day, but when I can keep my shovels, edgers, weedeaters and equipment in the back of the truck and load the trailer full of dirt rocks, whatever I need to this is what many many contractors just need and this is your truck industry people that do my job or our contractors are used to trucks they like trucks. They love trucks and even when they retire and dont need a truck we still buy trucks and Im just asking who is guiding that industry because the cyber truck is cool back by far in my opinion thats not a truck it might be able to do what a truck can but its like the avalanche made by Chevy. Its not quite a truck and its not quite a SUV.

Its like the transvestite of both, I dont even know what it is but its not efficient for both. I dont even think its an attractive vehicle as popular as it was and everyone is it valid to have their own opinion, but some people are also stupid! Lol I know every single person that has had a avalanche. Cool as they might like it because it look, they all do say its not enough of a truck to get a sheet of plywood or to do stuff with the truck.

This is for the old guy that just wants to pick up a deep freezer or something and nobody ever bought those things giving a *** about the roll bar because they never take a mirror piece of crap. Why would they ever take them off road in the ones that dead probably regretted it Im asking Tesla because Ive been waiting two years almost 3 years for a truck and then they came out with a cyber truck and my first expression was well. It looks cool but WTF I needed something for work. Something that I can landscape me being my only employee I need to be as efficient as possible and if I cant get a truck that I can depend on which has been my main block this entire time almost 10 years Ive been in landscaping is nothing holds up to the work I put it through because it is tough on a vehicle but also theyre just simply pieces of crap and I need something that will handle the abuse be dependable and just get me to the job I would absolutely buy a matching trailer that dumps capable with a open top for things like planting soil and mulch so please this is to people asking for you to touch this market because knowing what is available and those pieces of *** from Ford Chevy dodge doesnt matter who I only put the face in Tesla and they havent even built it yet.

My name is Brandon Whitmore. My phone number is 225-505-****. I would like this message to reach marketing and Elon himself, but I also have many good ideas but I feel its best to tell Elon my extremely exponential profiting idea that would make Elon Musk as much money as all of the insurance company, all of the dealerships, profits all of the vehicle of car market, as well as revolutionizing the technology, and bringing things to the next level that he is more than capable of doing, and I will trust no one else because its just not their thing Amazon is great and Jeff has the money to buy. Elon is the one that could do this right and I wouldnt even think that it might not be a bad idea that Bezos might be able to help given that he is the person who choreographed delivery on the ground into an art but I dont think hes needed.

I believe Elon musk has more than capable qualified and extremely. extremely technologically advanced team that no other person would need to be involved and again if you take all of the profit from the car companies, all the profit from insurance companies, all the profit from all of these not to mention the amount of information on the entire world that Elon would hold in his hands. This would bring everything that Elon musk has accomplished already tenfold to the next level and now is the time before somebody else does its on everybodys mind but nobodys doing it and Im sure you guys know timing and getting a jump on the market is everything but also the government the people , all around the world that arent stupid at least would completely trust Elon musk, and having this amount of power and when it comes to funding, if you were to accomplish this mars goals would be pocket change to him. He wouldnt need outside investors anymore.

Which on that note why not get rich on other peoples money, but he would by far blow every other billionaire out of the water and be exponentially richer than all of them, and any goal that he wants to Mars or even Pluto would be within his own financial funding capabilities he would literally be very quickly by far the richest man on earth he would hold more knowledge on every single individual and know everything about where theyre going what theyre doing whos there with I mean its endless capabilities, and I dont trust the government with this amount of information, but it would all be in his possession, and Im not gonna relate him to God, but he would certainly know as much as God does, and would have control over everything and bringing the original foundation beliefs of what tesla is trying to accomplish by a green earth, and bringing a better service and product to the entire world that he has accomplished. Elon musk has accomplished more than any man I believe, has ever accomplished, but nobody else is willing to step in to those shoes, nor can I believe anyone could fill them but hes kind of lingering now and I dont know with Twitter and dabbling and other stuff that could just be entertainment and fun for him. I think hes just gotten bored and this might ignite that fire in him to accomplish what hes been doing, but exponentially hes literally bringing us to another world out of this world, but he can bring this world to another level. That is literally the future and everything that is on the market now would be obsolete because Ford Chevy Chrysler Dodge.

I dont care how much money them and the oil companies have. They would all be shut down, and Elon musk would rule the entire transportation market, and would be decades into the future now, and were just shut every other one of those companies that have designed for obsolescence, which is not what this country was made strong from this country was made strong buy back in the 50s when everything had a label that said made in USA why because we made bad *** tough products that will overcome any Chinese or German product and I want to see that again because thats whats wrong with this country. Everybody wants to be a middleman and outsource, but nobody does the work here, which means that were giving labor to the other countries, we need to bring that home excite the people about this new technology and way of life and safer way of life. Saving millions of lives creating technology that we all are ready for but will not see for ages to come and he can do all of this, without needing to sell a single vehicle , she can literally get paid just as much or exponentially more.

Should I say of white car companies charge when selling a piece of crap only he wouldnt have to lose a single vehicle everyone that he makes still belongs to Elon musk, but the people would pay the same amount of money for his service, and for his vehicles that they never own they were just used from point a to point B and go right back to Elon musk but every bit of the cost of what it would cost to buy one he would still get that only he would keep his vehicle so I have a really good idea for him. I have many but one that is worth five minutes of his time and my cell phone number is 225-505-****. I live at 4959 Legend Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70817. Tell the boss man to take a trip!

Excuse the mess my house burned down and I just recently purchased this one but at least I have the best landscaping on the block in the entire neighborhood and its not because I want yard of the month its because just like when I managed a mechanic shop and service advice for 17 years, same as landscaping even being self-taught I just give a *** Im a passionate person in life and I just want to be the best at everything I ever do not for the title but because its a personal personal goal and I teach that to my two daughters every day if you just give a *** in life, and do your best, you will rise above the general public by far because in this day and age Im 40 and the next generation if theres not an app to take care of grandpa, were screwed because innovation and work isnt there necessarily biggest outlook or goal in the future some are on innovation but I absolutely bring a different way of thinking, but everything I do is unorthodox in technique, but absolutely shows proving results and being the best and having a method to my madness that has overall impressed every single person once they got to know me even Murali, who was a customer of mine from the mechanic shop who had countless amount of degrees he was one of the first people to design a robot across the seven states unmanned and had full reign of every single one of the LSUs labs, including did speeches and free reign of the observatory just because he had the love and passion for knowledge, and he moved away to Florida but before he did, I introduced an idea on a generator that runs off itself, and will create more energy than what it uses and he said Brandon as much dumb *** Ive seen you do in your life because as much as I am a genius, I do admit my Idiocracy he told me hes like Brandon you have got to build this and he wants to hear about it and exponentially by far my luck is worse only 10% being my fault but Ive never met anybody with as bad as luck as I have exponentially and I take it with a good chin because of the higher power upstairs if he only wants me to deal with all the unreasonable amount of horrible luck just so other people feel better about their lives thats OK Im not arguing with the big man upstairs . I didnt say it doesnt suck but I feel Ive always been meant to do something a little bit more and if all I accomplish is giving him this idea hopefully for a profit because all I seem to do is help people and do amazing work, which you can see from my landscaping alone and winning trips to the Super Bowl the Miller motorsports high-performance driving school which were all awesome but it shows I give a *** in life and you can pay somebody $1 million a year. You cant pay them to give a *** so I look forward to hopefully having this message reached out to Elon musk and him, giving me a call or showing up at my daughter surprise the *** out of me one day because I know the importance of what he can accomplish in a day and his days are far fuller than mine and I work 20 hours a day running into brick walls. Mostly just because of my bad luck and vehicle troubles, but Ive never not once showed my daughters that Im going to miss a step, and Im gonna keep pushing forward until I break through that brick wall why because if you want to be the man, then be the man also, I do believe Elon musk wouldve kicked the *** out of Putin!

So this is from someone who gives a *** more than majority of the general public and hopefully this message gets to Elon because Ive tried several times on Twitter and I dont tweet or tweet. I dont know Im not a twit lol Im the most on technologically advanced person dont have a clue how to use near the features on my iPhone, and I would be OK with the beeper, but some of the greatest ideas come from places that are very unexpected just by bringing a different way of thinking to the table and I never add salt to my food before I eat it because I never have a preconceived notion about someone or something unless Im proving myself wrong about believing in Elon musk! I am probably the only Musketeer but thats OK because Im old-school and Im loyal and Im not fake which this world is full of majority of those type of people only looking out for their selves and will do whatever it takes and screw Whoever over they need to order to get what they want and if youre just a bad *** like Elon Musk or me, which Im not comparing myself to him but we are both bad *** then you know what those type of people that have to do shady *** to try and shine will soon be shown fake and if youre just a real mother f then you will shut those people up. I dont care how many degrees or specialties, or whatever else they have accomplished in the end is, Im not fake like some of them and I mean business because the places worst places I came from in New Orleans outside of nineth ward back of Ames Boulevard and under the Huey p long bridge in Bridge city Louisiana the one thing being a little white dude from those neighborhoods better not be as fake because the hood will eat you up and spit you out but if youre a real mother F game peoples respect you rise above, and if you help all those people you can, and dont ask for anything in return then when you do ask then people will bleed for you same as If I am correct and who I do have a preconceived notion on who Elon Musk is, then I will bleed for him.

Im loyal, and I would cause blood as well in a peaceful way not actual DNA being built, but Ive always been pretty good at making people look stupid by their own handbook like my HOA, who wrote the book them self and if you know anything of Sun Tzus military strategy, that is a very useful tool ! Thank you for hearing this entire novel. Whoever read this deserves an actual raise. And I do not type or text.

I use talk text and I clearly dont shut the *** ha ha but this is passion of mine and I mean it with good heart and great mind and believe it because everything I said is pretty much fact other than the assumption that Elon musk gives a *** about people like me a little guy, but Im pretty sure he has found some very good talent, some of the best employees or friends in the most unorthodox and unexpected places and if he has not, maybe he should look a little deeper it might surprise him! He has my number he has my address and I tried and only downloaded Twitter tweeter to try and reach out to him but I dont know how to tweet because Im a twit when it comes to those things and email is not my biggest contact because I never check that text is usually the best way to reach me, but I would stop the world and whatever Im doing even tell my wife to hold her self in labor if Elon Musk showed up at my door and by all means I work 20 hours a day busting my *** and some of the hardest, physical labor.

A person can do being a landscaper and dumb enough to choose to do it by myself because Im tired of the headache of the next generation not wanting to work, they only want a job , but I push on because Im a bad *** thats a picture of me, then a picture of something I did one Christmas out of white dusty Millers, and poinsettias spilling out of a pot, braided with Christmas lights out of a dead tree stump in my front yard, and my greatest accomplishment of a snow man that is bad *** here in Louisiana, which is unheard of really I dont think anybody in Louisiana has ever made one that bad *** but mostly accomplishment thats greatest is my family than a video of me turning the 24 V razor four wheeler into a 40 V which literally flipped me off shot 3 feet into the air and as if you spun and slung it as hard as you could into the side of my wifes car who found completely expression less amount of humor, anger, and surprise that I just did that because of the power it had and the Idiocracy engineering I didnt think through just by throwing this thing together but the second version is the video Im sending you only I hooked a light bar on it the second time which, as soon as the video stopped the horn button switch, which was the gas pedal exploded into like a giant plasma burst, but my wife quit videoing right before that happened! Unfortunately, my daughters eight and 10 both said they arent getting on that thing and well Im pretty sure theyre smarter than me anyways, but they totally get their look from me because mom is hideous that was a joke, and unfortunately, the four wheeler I modified video will not upload, but I uploaded a bowl of flowers I make for my daughters, every day fresh from all of my gardens can I grow myself and thats not even all of the flowers since it requires me to upload proof of purchase, and I am a future customer not current I just uploaded my fence permit receipt which I think is absurd to have to pay $250 just so I can build a fence on my own property I have no clue how much more I can add more details about what the red * its not allowing me to proceed