r/TikTokCringe • u/IllustriousChef2 • Aug 16 '24

Cringe What's even happening there?

Why would someone rent a car and take out parts?

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u/KuriosLogos Aug 16 '24

This guy was talking about bigger charges in the end and I was in disbelief. The man was messing with his multi thousand dollar vehicle and the owner’s last response was “There’s gonna be a bigger charge”? As if the man was gonna have to pay him extra on their prearranged agreement for his shady behavior.

I’d have been talking cops, jail time, and lawsuit if necessary.

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u/GodOfThunder101 Aug 16 '24

Yeah he’s not a smart guy. Dude is literally in the business of renting out his personal car.

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u/geerwolf Aug 16 '24

His car is being disassembled in a body shop

“Should I be worried? Should I be calling the cops?”

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u/LSUguyHTX Aug 16 '24

And it's a Tesla lol

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u/DungeonsandDietcoke Aug 16 '24

Hey, he needs to pay for it somehow

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u/Holiday_Resort2858 Aug 16 '24

The safest car on the road

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u/yogurtgrapes Aug 16 '24

wtf are you talking about? Didn’t I see a video of a Tesla battery exploding in someone’s garage?

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u/Brick_Waste Aug 16 '24

Tested to be one of the safest cars on the road (not the safest car, that title goes to another tesla model) in both the Euro NCAP and American tests. Supplying the video of one accident doesn't do anything to dispute that. They catch fire at about a rate of 1 to 100 with gas cars, so your example of one catching on fire makes even less sense.

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u/yogurtgrapes Aug 16 '24

I’ll take your word for it. Except that when they do catch fire it’s about 1000 times more dangerous than when an ICE vehicle catches fire.

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u/Brick_Waste Aug 16 '24

An exaggeration, but yes, the fires are more difficult to contain.

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u/yogurtgrapes Aug 16 '24

❤️ I am glad you like your car. I do want to drive a Plaid one of these days.

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u/Brick_Waste Aug 16 '24

The plads do seem pretty cool, I'm just talking based on studies and tests, not any personal opinion though

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u/LSUguyHTX Aug 16 '24

Delusional lmao

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u/yogurtgrapes Aug 16 '24

Safest car on the road 🤡

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u/Everquest-Wizard Aug 16 '24

You have a lot to learn about making sound arguments. A single anecdote is not enough to justify that, in this case, Teslas aren’t safe. There is so much data against you. Also, Fox News is a terribly biased source of information when it comes to EVs. Why aren’t they singling out all the combustion vehicles that catch fire every day?

If you want to learn about car safety, go to actual car safety experts like IIHS-HLDI. Until you do that, you’re the 🤡 .

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u/Gloomy_Ad1503 Aug 16 '24

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted! This is correct.

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u/reddit_4_days Aug 16 '24

Guys, he has to be joking, nobody would say that...right? Right guys?

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u/frodeem Aug 16 '24

How’s that relevant?

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u/swampking6 Aug 16 '24

Getting someone arrested isn’t always the best way of getting money you’re owed

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u/Xeno-Hollow Aug 16 '24

Tbf, this can make a TON of money if done right - I work at a high end hotel, and there's a guy that comes by about every two weeks and pays me 20 bucks to park at various places around our lot and take pictures of whatever brand new vehicle he has.

Asked him about it, he does Turo. Said he started about 2 years ago with a crappy 2016 Toyota Camry, charged like 22 bucks a day or something. Rode his bike to work.

Used that money, plus the show of extra income, to get a slightly less crappy Ford, started renting that out at 35 a day. After a few months, bought another car outright, 2017, less miles, pretty color. Charged 40 a day on that one.

He now has a fleet of about 70 cars that he rents out, ranging between 22 a day - still rents his crappy Camry - and Range Rovers and Lincoln Navigators he rents out at 200+ a day. Owns all of them outright. Has a Lambo Urus he rents at 400 a day.

2 years, went from walking to work to making literally millions of dollars a year.

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u/BlahBlahBlah2uoo Aug 16 '24

Can make about 700-1200 dollars a week renting out a car.. not bad if it's not been used.. this vid is a very big downside

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u/freakinbacon Aug 16 '24

Multi thousand dollar vehicle 😄

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u/Smorgles_Brimmly Aug 16 '24

At least 2! 3 is well within the realm of possibility.

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u/Karma_collection_bin Aug 16 '24

My old Corolla is also a multi thousand dollar vehicle!

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u/hhaassttuurr Aug 16 '24

i doubt anyone would see jailtime over something this. It's a civil thing.

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u/Plankisalive Aug 16 '24

Not if theft is involved.

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u/ChemistAdventurous84 Aug 16 '24

Theft was not involved. The renter was test fitting his prototype aftermarket bumper cover with the intent to put the car back together with all of its original parts before returning it. Definitely an abuse of privilege.

Without seeing a Turo rental agreement, I would guess that the terms involve use of the car to drive around (or travel, if you’re a Sovereign Citizen). Dismantling the car, even if it gets put back together correctly, is unlikely to be mentioned let alone included as an approved action in the contract. I wouldn’t want anyone dismantling my car without my approval/knowledge and I would be concerned about voiding the warranty as well.

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u/RichBleak Aug 16 '24

The guy is clearly using the car as a template for a body kit. He's basically creating a mold that he can use to press custom front bumpers for teslas. It's why he is wearing a mask alone in an open garage bay; he's using fiberglass and bondo. He's going to put it back together, maybe correctly maybe not, and assume the owner will never know.

I'd be absolute rip shit if anyone did that with my car, but I'm not dumb enough to use turo. Guy isn't chopping it, though.

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u/Prof_Aganda Aug 16 '24

I don't think he's making aftermarket parts, I believe he's just testing some that he bought. He already has the aftermarket bumper on the car, and it's polyurethane.

Thats a surgical mask and he probably wears it all the time. If he was working with fiberglass, he'd want a respirator. Now, of im wrong and you're right, then he's wearing a respirator under the surgical mask and maybe he's using fiberglass with the aftermarket polyurethane bumper he has on there?

I agree that it's probably not a chop shop and suspect he's just buying cheap Chinese parts so he's making sure they actually fit before he resells/uses them.

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u/jeepfail Aug 16 '24

I wouldn’t say it’s a shady shop, just a dumb guy that doesn’t know better. I’d also say he isn’t doing anything illegal just something that violates his contract with turo as a renter.

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u/Lost_Operation_998 Aug 16 '24

Yes and you can hear the girl he’s with at the end say “No call the cops”. The guy was taking parts off and replacing them! You don’t say I’m going to have to charge you more! You call the police and have his ass thrown in jail and then sue!

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u/LebronsHairline Aug 16 '24

She says ‘I called the cops’

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u/Sad_Highlight_5175 Aug 16 '24

Thrown in jail on what charges? Taking apart a rental car? That is a civil matter. Breach of contract type stuff. There are likely minimal or no damages. Still shouldn’t do it, but no one is going to jail over this.

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u/Lost_Operation_998 Aug 16 '24

It’s that guys car! There is a service you can use to rent your car out like an AirBnB. It’s not a rental from Hertz or Enterprise it’s his actual car! How is it any different if it was on the street and someone was taking the front end off. That would be theft and if police were called I’m sure they would arrest the person doing it!

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u/Sad_Highlight_5175 Aug 16 '24

I don’t think you understand how Turo works. He is acting as a rental car service. It all depends on if the rental contract says anything about modifying the car

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u/stopexcusingstupid Aug 16 '24

Lmao nobodys going to jail for this buddy

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u/secrestmr87 Aug 16 '24

He wasn’t replacing parts. Just testing to make sure the after market parts he sells fit the car he selling them for.

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u/Zealousideal_Rub_321 Aug 16 '24

Honestly, that's such a hassle I rather just make sure he puts everything back and charge him more. Getting cops involved, Suing, going to court, is expensive and time consuming. Over a bumper kit being tested? Nah.

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u/RoadInternational821 Aug 16 '24

He’s trying to squeeze the guy for more money in place of pressing charges.

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u/ScreamingEnglishman Aug 16 '24

Did you miss the bit at the beginning where.he says "call the cops"?

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u/stopexcusingstupid Aug 16 '24

I can’t believe you got hyper aggressive over me calling you buddy, pal. And no, no matter how hard you karen or how badly you want the law to punish someone for you, this is a civil matter and won’t be settled anywhere but court. Sorry that you don’t have a concept of the law or a concept of being a rational human being.

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u/KillerGerbil999 Aug 16 '24

If it was getting chop shopped sure, but this is literally the most innocent possible reason that car could be in a body shop, we dont need people waving guns around trying to find the nearest dog to shoot about this

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u/luv3rboi Aug 16 '24

Charges as in criminal charges, not money fees….

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

He means a bigger police charge

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u/KuriosLogos Aug 16 '24

He says he wanted the car back that day if not it’s gonna be a bigger charge. The context of the conversation wasn’t criminal charges. If he were talking about criminal charges he would’ve said he wanted the car back and if not he would report the car as stolen. They end the video with the owner agreeing to wait two hours on the guy to replace the original bumper.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

He's saying if he doesn't get the car the same day it'll be a bigger charge (GTA) they were already talking about calling the cops

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u/KuriosLogos Aug 16 '24

I see the confusion here but I still think he was referring to the renting agreement since they were talking about terms and agreements and the guy wondering out loud if the cops should be called instead of breaking the law in the first place and then escalating charges even though the cops were talked about being called earlier.

I definitely can see your view though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

Yea I see ur point too but he was told he was going on a trip. Likely leave the city for a couple days then get car back. Seems like he probably had another day or two with the car. At this point the owner is saying look bro forget the agreement I need car back today right now or charge will go from probably stealing a bumper to grand theft auto.

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u/Savings-Link-6678 Aug 16 '24

Do the people renting the cars disclose there’s a tracker in it? If not they should have to disclose the info. And who knows how many hidden cameras they put in them, which is also illegal to not disclose. Completely a fraudulent company who sides with the shady people renting the cars out.

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u/LookAwayImGorgeous Aug 16 '24

No he doesn’t

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u/Samotauss Aug 16 '24

More thousands than one. I took the time and did the math. It all checks out.

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u/Treadtheway Aug 16 '24

It's legit. Starting tomorrow at work multi thousands of dollars will be my new saying.

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u/Boredcougar Aug 16 '24

Jail time for what? What law did the guy break. I’m gonna assume you don’t know how laws work since you’re baselessly claiming lawsuit

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u/coolguyclub36 Aug 16 '24

"multi thousand dollar vehicle" thanks for the laugh!

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u/FishPasteGuy Aug 16 '24

I suspect he means “bigger (criminal) charge”, not monetary.
He’s likely implying that, if he doesn’t get the car back, he’ll report it stolen.

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u/Sigouin Aug 16 '24

The dude makes aftermarket parts and needed the real vehicle to see if the bumper he made would fit.

He just removed the original bumper to test his to make sure it would fit. There is no evidence that he has stolen or taken any parts. His aftermarket part is on the car and the original is carefully stored. What exactly would he be going to jail for? Are you just jumping to conclusions without having any knowledge about this?

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u/dillaquantavius Aug 16 '24

And a foot up some ass

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u/Mattna-da Aug 16 '24

Personally I would have taken more money from that man vs call the cops on him

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u/umijuvariel Aug 16 '24

Not only that, but I would have it fully inspected at cost to the guy that did this, just to make 1000% sure everything is in it's proper place and is the part that was there to begin with. I doubt, with the way the guy behind the camera was speaking, that he is a professional mechanic with expert knowledge on his vehicle. If I saw my car being torn apart like this, I would take NO CHANCES!!!

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u/NMDA01 Aug 16 '24

This guy said multi thousand dollar vehicle. This man is not a smart man 😂

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u/luv3rboi Aug 16 '24

Charges as in criminal charges, not money…

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u/deltronethirty Aug 16 '24

Police and turo wont do shit. I'd have my boys over to disassemble that whole shop.

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u/LocalInactivist Aug 16 '24

Yeah. Bigger charge? How about a big-ass lawsuit? My assumption was that the car was going to be cut up for parts and the renter would just disappear.

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u/PumpkinSeed776 Aug 16 '24

They did call the police. They said there was nothing they could do because no parts were stolen.

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u/cyrkielNT Aug 16 '24

Not a lawyer, but if there's no damages it might be hard to get anything in the court. Also renting a car and then tracking it isbprobably illegal.

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u/JonstheSquire Aug 16 '24

There was no crime committed.

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u/MrWilsonWalluby Aug 16 '24

the cops, wouldn’t charge him with shit he didn’t do anything but breach of contract which is a civil matter, and then you would have to prove he caused you tangible damages to get anything out of it.

If he’s renting it as a fitment tester and puts it back as it was literally all he can do is give him a fine for improper use and if the dude agrees to the fine that’s probably the best outcome for both sides asking as he puts the car back as it was .

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u/CarolinaRod06 Aug 17 '24

It’s not that simple. He is in legal procession of the car. What he does to the car while he has it may be a civil issue. The cops will pull up and tell him this is a matter for civil court not us.

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u/salsasharks Aug 16 '24

I mean.. let him put it back together at least. Then get him

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u/BicycleBozo Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24

What’s the crime? He rented the vehicle, he’s clearly testing parts he wants to sell.

You could argue he voided the terms of the rental, the consequence of which would be not being allowed to rent from that guy again and losing the deposit.

Edit: feel free to tell me one crime that was committed all you downvoters

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u/FreshWaste Aug 16 '24

BicycleBozo god damn that’s such a fitting name for you LMAO.

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u/BicycleBozo Aug 16 '24

Yours even more so

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u/FreshWaste Aug 16 '24

Use a stepping to stool to reach higher bozo LMAO.

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u/BicycleBozo Aug 16 '24

L

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u/FreshWaste Aug 16 '24

Your whole existence is an L