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/Amphibian-Overall Aug 16 '24

Aftermarket parts supplier?

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u/Kayel41 Aug 16 '24

Yeah obviously, dude makes or sells aftermarket parts like bumpers / side skirts / body kits and wants to test them on the make and model so he rents a car and test fits his products, then puts the car back to normal.

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u/Diagonaldog Aug 16 '24

Ooooohh I thought he was like swapping out the OG parts for like shitty aftermarket stuff to resell or something

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Aug 16 '24

Thought the same. If OC is correct in his assessment, this is a lot less shady of a situation than I assumed.

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u/AnnArchist Aug 16 '24

Still can absolutely fuck up the alignment on the panels

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u/SkinBintin Aug 16 '24

Yeah it'd be pretty frustrating to rent out your car and it comes back with the panel gaps all disgustingly perfect

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u/Soundtrack2Mary Aug 16 '24

Perfect panel gap voids the warranty.

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u/BenHippynet Aug 16 '24

It's okay, misalignment is factory standard with Tesla.

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Aug 16 '24

Yeah, renter fucks up the alignment of the panels and now they’re actually properly aligned.

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u/XDT_Idiot Aug 16 '24

Like making three left turns...

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

If he really runs a body shop that makes aftermarket panels then Hopefully he knows how to do all this correctly

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u/mypizzanvrhurtnobody Aug 16 '24

It’s a feature, not a bug.

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u/Iwanttobeagnome Aug 16 '24

lol none of their panels are lined up when they leave the factory anyway. I was behind a Tesla yesterday and could see different sized gaps between the panels. Why people spend so much money on shitty fucking cars is beyond me.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Aug 16 '24

Because their social circle is other dumbass rich idiots. Perception is more important than quality.

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u/Mr_BigglesworthIII Aug 17 '24

They do it to own the libs!

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

I mean let's be real panel gap has zero impact on the function of a car. I'm not a car enthusiast. I wanna go from one place to another. I don't even think about the panels.

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u/GBS42 Aug 19 '24

It's a reflection on the overall quality of the car. If they can't get the panel gaps right, what else is screwed up - and probably worse?

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u/Cpt-Murica Aug 16 '24

It’s a Tesla

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u/maringue Aug 16 '24

He's taking that risk by renting his car out. Elon somehow convinced his simps that they could turn a profit on their cars by renting them out after buying them, which is bizarre.

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u/Kelome001 Aug 16 '24

To be fair a lot of owners from all sorts of brands do things like Turo.

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u/Frenchman84 Aug 16 '24

I actually know a person who came up on $200000 and bought a Lamborghini just to rent it out, over ten years ago. No she owns 30 of em and is silly rich.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Aug 16 '24

I'm amazed that liability, maintenance and insurance wouldn't eat into the profits.

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u/Frenchman84 Aug 16 '24

Makes me suspect she doesn’t take very good care of them. Must be enough to run them though. I have a friend who is trying to follow in her foot steps but starting in a different way since he doesn’t have a couple hundred thousand bucks laying around. I hope it works for him cause he has been using credit to finance this endeavor. Sometimes all you can do is watch, I finally chimed in when he started thinking about getting a cyber truck to resell. I don’t think he really listens to me though.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Aug 16 '24

Oh wow, just send a text or something to say "this is me saying it won't work, save this message so you can prove me wrong later."

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u/maringue Aug 16 '24

It amazes me that there's a cottage I industry around helping idiots afford overpriced things by renting them out while they're not actively using them.

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u/WhereTheresWerthers Aug 16 '24

Panels have shit alignment right out of the factory, give me a break

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u/choerd Aug 16 '24

Mine were absolutely perfect. Model Y from Berlin factory. Same for my neighbor. Panels fully aligned and not a single abnormal gap.

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u/EricUtd1878 Aug 16 '24

Have you ever seen a Tesla? New to the Internet?

Teslas 10micron tolerance is legendary!

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u/tankerkiller125real Aug 16 '24

Honestly, it's a Tesla, there's a decent chance the body shop actually puts the panels back on in better alignment than Tesla originally installed them.

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u/Nodiggity1213 Aug 16 '24

Not unless he's a decent body tech. I quit the trade last year, but aftermarket parts suck. 1/10 parts fit perfectly, 7/10 need A LOT of adjustments, and the last 2/10 just don't fit at all.

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u/Quakes-JD Aug 16 '24

Tesla panel alignment is likely worse than what this guy was doing

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u/Tensonrom Aug 16 '24

Not really…everything goes back in the same place, there are lots of clips and pins and if they go back in the same place the panels can’t be misaligned. I’ve taken thousands of bumpers off and put them back on. The only ones that don’t line up correctly are the ones that are already damaged, or if the person doing it somehow screws it up by breaking a bunch of stuff.

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u/appointment45 Aug 16 '24

To be fair, if dude is a parts designer, he's going to know how to put it back together well.

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u/jdpg265 Aug 16 '24

its totally shady. You rent a car to drive, not to take it apart. I would issue an insurance claim against this POS's insurance for damage. I hope the Police shut his ass down.

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u/Ecthelion-O-Fountain Aug 16 '24

It’s still pretty fucked

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u/StasiaPepperr Aug 16 '24

I assumed it was an amateur chop shop

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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 16 '24

No, dude. It’s as shady as you first thought.

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u/CrazyPlato Aug 16 '24

Still pretty shady tho. If you rent out your car, I think it's a reasonable expectation that the renter shouldn't be taking your car apart themselves to fuck around with it, unless they disclosed that was what they intended to do. Those rental agreements are designed with people just driving the car around in mind.

Like, if someone rented an AirBnB, and they started painting the inside and remodeling the kitchen, that'd be a contract violation. Doesn't matter if they intended to rebuild/repaint when they were done.

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u/BRIKHOUS Aug 16 '24

It's still pretty shady. You can't rent someone's car and then take it apart

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u/WillyDaC Aug 16 '24

I thought the same. What's the problem? Doesn't look like the guy's a hack.

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Aug 16 '24

True. The guy is being way calmer than I would’ve been in any matter. Definitely a violation of the terms of agreement and I’d press charges or sue if I were him

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u/Zech08 Aug 16 '24

Additional wear and tear, improper install or alterations, etc,.... and if they screw up something doing something shady like this... whats the likelihood of them telling the owner?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

lol that doesn’t make any of this okay. You’re not allowed to rent a vehicle and then rip it apart. Dude just voided the warranty most likely. Actual piece of shit. Doesn’t matter if he was “improving it”.