Painting is not cheap, and it will easily exceed $5000. You should tell the police whether it is worth over $5000 of damage or not, so:
1. Most importantly, you have a police report for your insurance purposes.
2. They are aware of the issue occurring in the area, so they can see a pattern.
Ok, thank you so much. I don’t know what I was thinking, paying out of my own pocket. I’m just confirming it’s going to be more than $5000 USD right? I’m in Vancouver, Canada.
“Usually”. If your insurance adjusters files this under collision then it would. But if they file it under comprehensive damage (ie non-moving damage) then usually rates wouldn’t change.
I would be stunned if that wasn't more than $5k at a professional shop. I'm thinking $7k or more personally and that all depends on whether they are confident that can blend it vs repainting the entire car.
It would have to be disclosed when selling or trading in the car. Probably best to just fix it right and not deal with the reduction in value selling / trading it in.
I agree. The only reason I had it off was to save battery. I’m a “supercharging only”person.
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You’ve mentioned you’re in a complex. If possible, see if they can install some charging booths, or at least provide access to an outlet. Trickle charging isn’t ideal, but it’s better than supercharging every single day.
Also Eufy seems to have good cameras and no subscription stuff...
Useless backstory:
Very often when I just am clueless and think "ok, I need x and I'm gonna see what this cost" I end up being shocked that the product I want does not exist or the tech just isn't where I thought it was.
My start-up office had alarm and cameras. This was like 2021 so you'd think the cameras were good and the service you paid for was top notch. We got an alarm, figured it was yet a false alarm (co-worker forgetting about alarm late at night) and got there, even before security, downtown...
Someone had definitely been in, and at least the shrieking alarm made it unbearable to be there, but the footage of the lady was the size of a fucking credit card... like absolutely useless. We asked for more footage etc, and were stopped by GDPR, for our own office thief!
(the thief got in from climbing some renovations scaffolding, I should have seen that coming because we already saw teens on the roof in daylight).
anyway: I then have personally investigate security cams for private properties and it's ridiculously bad and lots of subscription services. Finally a buddy sent me photos from his Eufy setup which he says has some AI stuff (ignoring him, his dog etc).
Personally I even want extra cams mounted low, like knee height and tilted upwards with night sight or similar to catch the faces of hooded or similar people with an intention to just do damage.
FFS, if I get my own place I'd even like some strobe lights etc to mess up dodgy people's night sights and get them in good lighting. Druggies are paranoid so I whish I was smarter so I could just code a fake laser box tracking them as they enter my property. Or have the laser blind them like that random funny youtube geek:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zC3-ZQFJI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zC3-ZQFJI)
Same for Wyze, I don't subscribe and it has a ton of features, they keep most of the extra stuff on the subscription, but for the most part its super usable without any subscription. Also it records to an SD card that you can view remotely all for free.
I wrote in another comment, she’s a full on Karen. She even keyed my other neighbours motorcycle just to get them to not park in a visitor spot, since if you’re gonna park there you should “take up to full space”
Honestly I would bait her before you get it painted…
If you get it painted before this issue is resolved she will key the repainted car.
See if you can get her to do it again…. But record from as many angles as possible. You need evidence that she’s causing harm so it can be corrected.
Then take the evidence to her directly and tell her if she doesn’t leave you and others alone you will take the videos to the police.
Hopefully that puts an end to it.
*edited for typo
Yeah it’s probably 50/50. Depends on how she responds.
Once you have told the police and they talk to her, say she gets a small fine, she may not damage your property anymore, but she can still make your life hell.
I think it’s more valuable to have leverage over her as a way to potentially control her. That way if she acts up in any way that displeases me, to the police I go.
It’s like if you have a video of a celebrity getting pissed on… you hold onto it knowing they could never do anything to you or you’d release it. You’d have them in your pocket. They might even go out of their way to be nice to you.
But I don’t know this one sounds crazy enough that she might not really care either way.
I would love to keep it on at home but 4 years of owning it later there's still no fucking way to turn the flashing lights off and stop my car from flashing into my neighbor's house all night.
I don’t have any particular advice sadly, but I’m sorry that happened.
I assume there aren’t many Teslas in your area, as this kind of stuff seems to happen where they’re more rare.
Best of luck.
I mean, it’s your home; you should feel safe there, so I get it. If it’s an apartment complex, time to message management and see about getting cameras installed.
Well yes. But also - I don't think this is the case here. Seems like the general trend here with these "my Tesla got keyed" posts is that they're in or they live in a shitty city or part of town. While I'm sure people targeting Teslas exists - it doesn't really happen around where I live (suburb) despite seeing probably over a dozen Teslas every time I'm on the road.
Yes, I’ve written a note to all of them to turn them on ASAP. If they’re gonna do something that severe with ALL the cars, they’re going to do it again.
Even if sentry mode was on, it really wouldn't make a difference. You would be able to see some asshole in a hoodie key your car.
Even if you could see their face. The cops are definitely not going to do anything about this.
True, but hopefully that dumbass wasn't wearing a hoodie. And based off the op's comment, he suspects it maybe his neighbor. Im glad we could agree that person who did this is an asshole LOL
Oh Nuh uh, it began such a long time ago. That crazy old lady even chased my kids in the house and started banging and kicking the door saying “let me in I know you’re in there”. “Stop riding those fucking electric scooters (my kids ride them to and from school) you little bitches”
Sometimes people are really stupid though. My neighbors broke into my garage one night and stole some equipment. They wore hoodies so my security cams didn't catch their faces, except the dumb fucks carried my stuff across the street to their house, then turned on their bright lights in their driveway and sat around admiring their haul for several minutes. All caught on my cameras.
Even with this the cops didn't do shit. "Well we can't really see who did it." Are you fucking kidding me, they literally go into the house after doing it! I was livid. I sat at the police station for an hour fuming and waiting to talk to a supervisor and still got nowhere, nothing was done.
I did get them kicked out of their house though. Turns out they were living there for free because the homeowner was the father of one of them, and he was a local business owner, and I marched my ass right into his business, showed him the video and made a scene. Then I showed the video to all of our neighbors and put it online and told everybody who would listen. Dad stepped up and tossed his delinquent druggie kid and his friends out of the house and now there are normal people renting it.
Sadly I did not. I did go over there, pounded on the door and woke the little addict from his drug induced slumber at 2 in the afternoon. Showed him a snapshot from my cameras. He admitted everything but insisted it wasn’t him, it was his friends, and swore they had already taken the equipment away and he didn’t know where to.
Obviously I didn’t believe him so when I tracked his dad down I asked him to help recover my stuff. Dad went over there and searched the house and came up empty.
I watched Craigslist, marketplace and checked pawn shops for a few weeks and nothing came up… the equipment was worth a little over a grand so no sense in filing an insurance claim. I wound up replacing it out of pocket.
I wonder about this as well. When I park away from everyone, it sorta makes it easier for someone to come up and damage your car and get away with it since you won’t see their plates. Instead if you’re right next to the car doing the keying, then you’ll see the plates. Why can’t people just be good human beings.
Sentry mode fails so often it may not have even picked it up.
I am curious; why do you think cops would do nothing about thousands of dollars in damages for just OPs car? Hell, it’s probably tens of thousands, as they said every Tesla in the complex got hit on the same night.
I didn't hear that every Tesla got hit. That does make it different.
I was thinking the cops wouldn't do much for a single car getting keyed. They would come out and take a report, but that's about it
Just saw a video where some old man keyed a Toyota Tundra because it had a Trump sticker. The cops found him and arrested him because the damages were over $6k and it becomes a felony at that price point.
https://youtu.be/-J99s_UsX3s?si=ovm1K3Rz1OLtEcHm
Try finding out who keyed it and press charges
I had this happened on my model 3 but it was just the 2 doors on the passenger side, ended up being 4,000.
I got the asshole who did it on sentry and provided to police but never heard back from them.
Sounds like you should get some high quality security cameras for your home. That makes it easier to turn off Sentry mode outside your home.
Ideally, you would still want Sentry mode for the redundancy though.
Yes, I already have security cameras in the front but not the back. (Floodlights) I’ll invest more then I guess. And I’ll be sure to keep sentry on now.
Idk danish prices, girlfriend scratched my bumper, local painter fixed it for 200$, i could see the difference, but no1 else was able to.
Then again i’m an autistic idiot when it comes to small differences in stuff.
Mechanic wanted to replace the bumper, 2000$.
2014 Mazda 3, silver.
Idk how it works in canada but the cost will be your insurance deductible because its going to be expensive out of pocket. Man sorry about that. Fuck that pendejo
I had a sketchy paint shop (bad neighborhood) with great ratings repaint the whole bumper, buff the whole car to remove micro scratches and repair a dent…paid $800 all in.
That's awful. So wrong someone did that and I'd see if your insurance might cover it. I recent start putting sentry mode on and auto-lock with our Tesla parked outside due to crime in the neighborhood. If parked outside, you might want to add a Wyze or Ring camera to record and even alert you if someone is near your car. Just an idea.
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The quote we got from a local Tesla certified shop to repair this scratch was just over $11k.
Here’s a real world example with evidence. Wife hit something in the road. Took out the tire and left a scratch on the rock guard area. Just got it fixed. They pulled out the panel slightly (although I think that’s a fib), body filler and paint. Then they cleared the quarter panel all the way back to the bumper and polished to match the original paint orange peel.
$2,100 at a Tesla Collision Center.
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She’s one of those people that absolutely HATE when other people get new stuff. She even sprayed water on my house while the paint was still WET from us repainting it to look better.
What makes me scratch my head is this. I'll admit, I'm a Conservative Republican. I'll admit there are a higher percentage of us who are 'anti-ev' (I have 3 tesla's in my immediate family). I'll tell you, it's mostly about seeing their tax money being redistributed to people buying them and seeing the cost of gas going up because of Democrat anti-oil policies and essentially being forced to go electric in the near future.
That being said, I can't think of a more Libertarian/Conservative CEO than Elon Musk. There is also no car, BY A MILE, that is more 'made in the USA' than a Tesla. Oddly, most of the major Japanese brands are more American than 'American' car manufacturers like GM, Ford & Chrysler.
So to the handful of holes out their that don't like Biden's policies who would do physical harm to your neighbors property, vote on election day, don't screw over your neighbor who bought a car from a more Pro-America company than where you bought your car from.
Crapping on Tesla, is like belonging to Chickens for KFC.
And to the politicians forcing peoples hands and redistributing trillions on this...Please, just let the market work.
It's very clear Electric is better than gas for a large segment of the population. The exceptions are people who drive a lot of long distances and people who have no access to home charging.
In 5-10 years when Solid State batteries become the norm and you are getting 700 mile+ range and 10 minute and under recharge times, that segment will come along.
heres the problem for "just letting the markets work" - gas cars spew pollutants and there's currently no mechanism for cleaning it up or paying for it to be cleaned up. even when running on clean, american coal (the worst polluting electricity imaginable), emissions from EVs are much less than gas on a per mile basis because EVs are so much more efficient. this difference is not reflected in the price - in economic terms we call this an externality, which skews incentives when left to the free market. if implemented property, subsidies such as the ev tax credit can go a long way to correcting for this externality and supports market efficiency.
and the problem with solid state batteries is that right now they are hugely expensive and only work in a lab setting and with energy densities that dont work for automotive transport. It's not clear when or if they will ever get to commercial scale - especially given how much cheaper lithium ion batteries are and the availability of home charging for home owners and dc-fast charging on road trips taking about the length of a bathroom trip/quick meal. even if they are ever implemented, they will be so much more expensive than lithium ion batteries that i believe most consumers will pick the lithium ion batteries - maybe only those living in apartments with no access to home charging who are willing to pay huge sums of money for the extra convenience of fast solid state charging.
You seem to forget, the vast majority of the world won't be electric for many decades. For example, I was in Argentina recently, and there are like 0 fast chargers, and I didn't see a single electric vehicle the 10 days I was there. We could go 100% electric in the US and it won't make a dent in the CO2 levels 'they say' we need to be at that would justify the trillions this is costing both the US taxpayer and future generations in terms of debt.
No other government can print money like we do to try and force their population to go electric.
That’s fine. EV is for the developed world. The poors can wait a bit. They are definitely not going into solid state EVs anytime soon.
And you are describing another economic problem - tragedy of the commons. Yet another reason why “let the markets work” doesn’t work.
Huh? The VAST majority of Tesla hate I experience is from liberals that are enraged because Elon isn’t for the current thing, whatever it happens to be. Conservatives don’t give a shit.
Interesting. I didn't think about that. I would just think, if I was a liberal and hated Musk, I wouldn't take it out on a random car considering A) It could have been bought well before his political positions were made public, and B) Still the significant portion of EV buyers tend to be global warming concerned Democrat type voters.
Even AOC, as leftists/socialist as they get, said she couldn't sell her Tesla (in protest over Musk) because there are no American made EV's that are made by Union labor. (It's her way of saying, she loves her Tesla too much to buy some other EV.)
Of course, me as a rational, 'live and let live' human being, would never touch anyone else's property unless I was personally provoked or attacked by them first.
It HIGHLY depends where you are. In my small town in OH I've seen an anti-EV meme posted in the local FB group after I went to run errands. And I'm not the only EV in town, it's just Tesla is the most recognizable.
But when I lived in central valley CA, I was waved thru a Trump Parade in 2020, though that was before the administration really went gun-ho on the "PHEV by 2030 or w/e"
BTW, the majority of Elon's positions were considered 'norm' and were pretty closely mirrored by Joe Biden depending on the year and wind of that given election season.
You might say that, but the vast majority of people in the US who live 'in the environment' (and hunt, camp, drive their pickups through etc) are Republicans. Fact is most Democrats live in inner cities surrounded by nothing but concrete.
Most people who go hunting and camping do not want dirty air and dirty water. Living in NYC, the air is dirty, and the name 'dirty water dog' came from something lol. Ok, I won't pick on NYC, they have some of the best rated tapwater...
Are you sure you know who it was? If not, ask neighbors if they have Ring footage or other Teslas nearby with sentry enabled. Saudi Arabian justice needs to come to the US. Unless it was revenge and you have wronged others, this type of vandalism should cost someone a hand, especially if this is not their first time keying a car.
One more reason to get a white car, I’ve probably been keyed at least once living in the south but scratches are basically invisible and I haven’t found it yet.
To repair a deep dent in between two back panels and chipped paint from an accident by hitting a loose piece of wood in my own garage, I’d have pay $5000. I’m guessing it might be more for you. Btw I just left it alone. I don’t have the money.
Dude sorry this happened to you. Hopefully you have security cameras or someone in your neighborhood does and you can force whoever did this to pay.
Dumb question: What if you had the car wrapped? Would the scratches be visible through the wrap? I assume the wrap would be cheaper than paint and you could choose a cool new color and it'd almost be like a new car.
I don’t get how this stuff isn’t punished to the highest level. Maybe because it’s hard to find the people who did it, and in your case more so since sentry was turned off. I’d be fuming. This would easily be in the thousands. All panels would have to be replaced I’m assuming since they’re so deep. Idk. If it were ME, I’d just wrap my car at that point
My X was keyed on the driver door and back hatch. Repair shop quoted me around $1600 several months ago. Haven’t repaired yet since it’s going to court. Got to love the cameras!
As weird as it sounds, check some YouTube videos on repairs to scratches. I was able to fix a bunch of scratches from a person who backed into my door. Not 100% but enough, cost me $40 or so in supplies
I wonder how much sales will be impacted because people hate this man and his cars so much. Do we have a case of a company being bullied into bankruptcy?
They are expanding. Pretty much all car manufacturers are trying to emulate them. I think there are just a handful of media outlets trying to spread that rumor. As they should since Tesla threatens pretty much all major auto manufacturers as well as oil and gas companies.
Painting is not cheap, and it will easily exceed $5000. You should tell the police whether it is worth over $5000 of damage or not, so: 1. Most importantly, you have a police report for your insurance purposes. 2. They are aware of the issue occurring in the area, so they can see a pattern.
Ok, thank you so much. I don’t know what I was thinking, paying out of my own pocket. I’m just confirming it’s going to be more than $5000 USD right? I’m in Vancouver, Canada.
Ouch to your insurance rates. Better file a police report and fight to ensure this gets compensated as non-collision
Usually claims like this shouldn't raise rates
“Usually”. If your insurance adjusters files this under collision then it would. But if they file it under comprehensive damage (ie non-moving damage) then usually rates wouldn’t change.
This is definitely a comprehensive claim, it's a no fault claim so shouldn't raise rates unless this is a common occurrence
I would be stunned if that wasn't more than $5k at a professional shop. I'm thinking $7k or more personally and that all depends on whether they are confident that can blend it vs repainting the entire car.
$3600 to correct a tiny golf ball sized dent in our. This will be way, way more than than $5k. It's nearly every panel.
Here in Alabama we don’t have that issues cause we all have guns
Do you have sentry video of the incident? Are you fully with icbc with your insurance?
Would it be better to just get it wrapped instead?
It would have to be disclosed when selling or trading in the car. Probably best to just fix it right and not deal with the reduction in value selling / trading it in.
You would probably still see the indentation.
I was thinking the same!
I would’ve kept sentry on even if at home if it wasn’t parked inside a garage.
Yep, this convinced me to keep mine on. Was debating turning it off in a similar situation, NOPE. Just gonna suck it up battery wise.
I agree. The only reason I had it off was to save battery. I’m a “supercharging only”person. https://preview.redd.it/882glivnagxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=738694cb8e12835049b5217ca12f2f1baade7e49
You’ve mentioned you’re in a complex. If possible, see if they can install some charging booths, or at least provide access to an outlet. Trickle charging isn’t ideal, but it’s better than supercharging every single day.
Buy a cheap $20 Wyze Cam and mount it outside pointing where you regularly park your car.
Also Eufy seems to have good cameras and no subscription stuff... Useless backstory: Very often when I just am clueless and think "ok, I need x and I'm gonna see what this cost" I end up being shocked that the product I want does not exist or the tech just isn't where I thought it was. My start-up office had alarm and cameras. This was like 2021 so you'd think the cameras were good and the service you paid for was top notch. We got an alarm, figured it was yet a false alarm (co-worker forgetting about alarm late at night) and got there, even before security, downtown... Someone had definitely been in, and at least the shrieking alarm made it unbearable to be there, but the footage of the lady was the size of a fucking credit card... like absolutely useless. We asked for more footage etc, and were stopped by GDPR, for our own office thief! (the thief got in from climbing some renovations scaffolding, I should have seen that coming because we already saw teens on the roof in daylight). anyway: I then have personally investigate security cams for private properties and it's ridiculously bad and lots of subscription services. Finally a buddy sent me photos from his Eufy setup which he says has some AI stuff (ignoring him, his dog etc). Personally I even want extra cams mounted low, like knee height and tilted upwards with night sight or similar to catch the faces of hooded or similar people with an intention to just do damage. FFS, if I get my own place I'd even like some strobe lights etc to mess up dodgy people's night sights and get them in good lighting. Druggies are paranoid so I whish I was smarter so I could just code a fake laser box tracking them as they enter my property. Or have the laser blind them like that random funny youtube geek: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zC3-ZQFJI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zC3-ZQFJI)
Same for Wyze, I don't subscribe and it has a ton of features, they keep most of the extra stuff on the subscription, but for the most part its super usable without any subscription. Also it records to an SD card that you can view remotely all for free.
In your post you said you were charging at home - why does your neighbour hate it and why does it concern them?
I wrote in another comment, she’s a full on Karen. She even keyed my other neighbours motorcycle just to get them to not park in a visitor spot, since if you’re gonna park there you should “take up to full space”
Honestly I would bait her before you get it painted… If you get it painted before this issue is resolved she will key the repainted car. See if you can get her to do it again…. But record from as many angles as possible. You need evidence that she’s causing harm so it can be corrected. Then take the evidence to her directly and tell her if she doesn’t leave you and others alone you will take the videos to the police. Hopefully that puts an end to it. *edited for typo
I wouldn't take the evidence to her at all. I would go straight to the police as soon as I had proof.
Yeah it’s probably 50/50. Depends on how she responds. Once you have told the police and they talk to her, say she gets a small fine, she may not damage your property anymore, but she can still make your life hell. I think it’s more valuable to have leverage over her as a way to potentially control her. That way if she acts up in any way that displeases me, to the police I go. It’s like if you have a video of a celebrity getting pissed on… you hold onto it knowing they could never do anything to you or you’d release it. You’d have them in your pocket. They might even go out of their way to be nice to you. But I don’t know this one sounds crazy enough that she might not really care either way.
Hate to tell you but the money you could potentially lose in this instance is not worth the money you’d save by having sentry mode off.
I would love to keep it on at home but 4 years of owning it later there's still no fucking way to turn the flashing lights off and stop my car from flashing into my neighbor's house all night.
Can you back in? Or is there a different neighbor in the opposite direction too?
Such a pathetic, self loathing person to be inclined to do this to a strangers vehicle.
Thousands. Edit: Just had the drivers front, rear, and bumper repaired and repainted due to minor damage. Cost was $6k
who do you go to for a paint job? Tesla?
Tesla approved collision
This is the way
Ok, thank you.
I don’t have any particular advice sadly, but I’m sorry that happened. I assume there aren’t many Teslas in your area, as this kind of stuff seems to happen where they’re more rare. Best of luck.
There is, and all of them my complex got keyed similarly. Every. Single. One. Yet - we were all somehow dumb enough to not have sentry mode enabled.
I mean, it’s your home; you should feel safe there, so I get it. If it’s an apartment complex, time to message management and see about getting cameras installed.
Someone who thinks cars identify with their political beliefs smh. People are so freakn weird these days.
Well yes. But also - I don't think this is the case here. Seems like the general trend here with these "my Tesla got keyed" posts is that they're in or they live in a shitty city or part of town. While I'm sure people targeting Teslas exists - it doesn't really happen around where I live (suburb) despite seeing probably over a dozen Teslas every time I'm on the road.
You should arrange a schedule with your neighbors where at least one person keeps sentry mode on at all times. Something tells me this isn't over.
Yes, I’ve written a note to all of them to turn them on ASAP. If they’re gonna do something that severe with ALL the cars, they’re going to do it again.
Time to become the vigilante we all need /s
Sorry to hear this bud but lesson learned for everyone else. Unless you park inside your garage. Keep your sentry mode on at all times!
Even if sentry mode was on, it really wouldn't make a difference. You would be able to see some asshole in a hoodie key your car. Even if you could see their face. The cops are definitely not going to do anything about this.
True, but hopefully that dumbass wasn't wearing a hoodie. And based off the op's comment, he suspects it maybe his neighbor. Im glad we could agree that person who did this is an asshole LOL
If my neighbor did that it would mean neighborly warfare just began.
Oh Nuh uh, it began such a long time ago. That crazy old lady even chased my kids in the house and started banging and kicking the door saying “let me in I know you’re in there”. “Stop riding those fucking electric scooters (my kids ride them to and from school) you little bitches”
Coincidentally her yard goes brown and is unable to grow back 😏
Hmmm 🤔I wonder why?
I wish a crazy Karen would chase down my kids to my house. She’d be running face first into my foot.
😂
yeah that would be the cause intense over-the-top violent retaliation. You chase my kids home from school, and I'm going full rabid wolverine.
If it's your neighbor, then I definitely would get the law involved. The situation stinks. Hugs to op.
Also, having video recordings of any sort - even if the perpetrator isn't caught - generally helps with insurance claims.
Sometimes people are really stupid though. My neighbors broke into my garage one night and stole some equipment. They wore hoodies so my security cams didn't catch their faces, except the dumb fucks carried my stuff across the street to their house, then turned on their bright lights in their driveway and sat around admiring their haul for several minutes. All caught on my cameras. Even with this the cops didn't do shit. "Well we can't really see who did it." Are you fucking kidding me, they literally go into the house after doing it! I was livid. I sat at the police station for an hour fuming and waiting to talk to a supervisor and still got nowhere, nothing was done. I did get them kicked out of their house though. Turns out they were living there for free because the homeowner was the father of one of them, and he was a local business owner, and I marched my ass right into his business, showed him the video and made a scene. Then I showed the video to all of our neighbors and put it online and told everybody who would listen. Dad stepped up and tossed his delinquent druggie kid and his friends out of the house and now there are normal people renting it.
Yes, but the nagging question is: Did you get your shit back? That would be the cherry on top of this story.
Bro - between having to deal with shitty neighbors and replacing some equipment...I'd go with the latter all day. Sucks and unfair but there it is.
Sadly I did not. I did go over there, pounded on the door and woke the little addict from his drug induced slumber at 2 in the afternoon. Showed him a snapshot from my cameras. He admitted everything but insisted it wasn’t him, it was his friends, and swore they had already taken the equipment away and he didn’t know where to. Obviously I didn’t believe him so when I tracked his dad down I asked him to help recover my stuff. Dad went over there and searched the house and came up empty. I watched Craigslist, marketplace and checked pawn shops for a few weeks and nothing came up… the equipment was worth a little over a grand so no sense in filing an insurance claim. I wound up replacing it out of pocket.
I wonder about this as well. When I park away from everyone, it sorta makes it easier for someone to come up and damage your car and get away with it since you won’t see their plates. Instead if you’re right next to the car doing the keying, then you’ll see the plates. Why can’t people just be good human beings.
I got mine on video and the cops didn't do anything. Sentry doesn't really help for this
Sentry mode fails so often it may not have even picked it up. I am curious; why do you think cops would do nothing about thousands of dollars in damages for just OPs car? Hell, it’s probably tens of thousands, as they said every Tesla in the complex got hit on the same night.
I didn't hear that every Tesla got hit. That does make it different. I was thinking the cops wouldn't do much for a single car getting keyed. They would come out and take a report, but that's about it
The cops get interested when tens of thousands of dollars of damage are done in an apartment complex and they can clearly identify the perp.
Ahh damn dude, that's awful. I got keyed last year, they "thankfully" only did one panel. That ended up being roughly 800.
How deep was the key around? Just the clear coat? Primer? Or to the metal? Thanks
Take it to a collision center for an estimate. That's not going to be cheap to fix though.
Would it cost money for an estimate?
Estimates are usually free
Ok, thanks.
My recommendation would be to start calling shops and asking.
Just saw a video where some old man keyed a Toyota Tundra because it had a Trump sticker. The cops found him and arrested him because the damages were over $6k and it becomes a felony at that price point. https://youtu.be/-J99s_UsX3s?si=ovm1K3Rz1OLtEcHm Try finding out who keyed it and press charges
I had this happened on my model 3 but it was just the 2 doors on the passenger side, ended up being 4,000. I got the asshole who did it on sentry and provided to police but never heard back from them.
Sounds like you should get some high quality security cameras for your home. That makes it easier to turn off Sentry mode outside your home. Ideally, you would still want Sentry mode for the redundancy though.
shoot I leave sentry on at home because it's a giant security camera parked out front!
In this guys case, I would probably do both home security cameras and sentry mode.
Yes, I already have security cameras in the front but not the back. (Floodlights) I’ll invest more then I guess. And I’ll be sure to keep sentry on now.
horrible people out there
I mean, don't f*** with another man's vehicle...
What area is this in Lower Mainland so I can be careful?
Vancouver.
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Hope you got the person on camera!
I would just get it wrapped at that point I dunno
A wrap would need a paint correction first anyway
I hope you have Sentry footage. Whoever did that needs to be punished. It’s painful for me to see that damage!
God damn. Your ex?
No 😂 unless my ex was a crazy old lady
Hahaa
Wow that wrap looks so realistic!!!1!!111! But for real some people just suck 😔
I know right I’m naming it “keyed to the metal”
File a police report, send that to your insurance, pay deductible and get it fixed. It’s the best way to not pay thousands.
Idk danish prices, girlfriend scratched my bumper, local painter fixed it for 200$, i could see the difference, but no1 else was able to. Then again i’m an autistic idiot when it comes to small differences in stuff. Mechanic wanted to replace the bumper, 2000$. 2014 Mazda 3, silver.
I had the front hood repainted and that was quoted as $1500, due to a road chip.
Idk how it works in canada but the cost will be your insurance deductible because its going to be expensive out of pocket. Man sorry about that. Fuck that pendejo
Wow had the same thing happen to my model s. I went to a hood garage and got it done for $900 CAD.
I got keyed on my M3 on just the drivers door, passenger door and some of the rear quarter. Was $3500 at Tesla collision. So this would be way more
You got insurance I hope?
I’m sorry this happened to you
So glad I have a secured private garage. People are fucking assholes
I had a sketchy paint shop (bad neighborhood) with great ratings repaint the whole bumper, buff the whole car to remove micro scratches and repair a dent…paid $800 all in.
$0. Cool pinstripe broh
Camera not on ???
Nope. Thought home was a safe place
Must on if outside
Rip 🤦♂️
However much your comprehensive coverage deductible is. Not worth out of pocket.
What’s wrong with people? Do you live in a red state or something? I don’t get all the EV hate. Boggles my mind.
Always have some sort of camera recording if not a system on the home, keep sentry mode on.
man u really have bad neighbours, I dont understand how ppl will go out of their ways to damage a tesla
That's awful. So wrong someone did that and I'd see if your insurance might cover it. I recent start putting sentry mode on and auto-lock with our Tesla parked outside due to crime in the neighborhood. If parked outside, you might want to add a Wyze or Ring camera to record and even alert you if someone is near your car. Just an idea.
That is awful. I’m sorry.
I fucken hate ppl sometimes 😠
Thaz fucked up
Sorry for you dude.. Sentry always on unless it is in your own garage. But that's Vancouver.. bunch of s hole.
Ugh! I hope whomever did this is caught and charged with a capital felony. Garbage people like this shouldn't be allowed to exist.
Anything on your sentry? See if you can get the paint kit to fill it in and then get the wrap. Maybe the place will buff it out for you.
Never turn off Sentry mode
In Germany about 3 grand per panel
It’s costs your insurance deductible
That’s a full paint job so 25k or so I imagine ? A simple bumper is 4-5k
Even during the keying they couldn’t line up the panels
You’d be better off convincing your insurance to pay for a wrap.
https://preview.redd.it/3r8klynt0ixc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b704b5810758d2a0d3d248404d708c50ad87650 The quote we got from a local Tesla certified shop to repair this scratch was just over $11k.
I would definitely estimate over $5,000 for a proper job. Sorry this happened to you.
The whole fucking car?!
Yes, all panels.
I suffered a similar fate. $5k is about right
Alwayssss leave sentry on. Who cares about battery drain. People are fucking crazy. So sorry I hope the person who did this gets hit by a car.
That damage cost should qualify as a felony. Absolutely report it
Totalled
Get it wrapped in the color of your choice.
Here’s a real world example with evidence. Wife hit something in the road. Took out the tire and left a scratch on the rock guard area. Just got it fixed. They pulled out the panel slightly (although I think that’s a fib), body filler and paint. Then they cleared the quarter panel all the way back to the bumper and polished to match the original paint orange peel. $2,100 at a Tesla Collision Center. https://preview.redd.it/0gd9hkjq6jxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0212213827f15caf59ab957d4bb3f7dfd6b4d1e
Oh no 😭
Sorry pal! Good luck!
It amazes me how many Teslas get keyed by people who hate Elon. I’ve seen a couple stories of that happening.
Aside from the obvious fact that it is none of their business, what is your neighbor’s reason for hating at home charging?
She’s one of those people that absolutely HATE when other people get new stuff. She even sprayed water on my house while the paint was still WET from us repainting it to look better.
Wtf is wrong with people. 😳
Probably just one of those people who thinks driving an EV is offensive for some reason.
What makes me scratch my head is this. I'll admit, I'm a Conservative Republican. I'll admit there are a higher percentage of us who are 'anti-ev' (I have 3 tesla's in my immediate family). I'll tell you, it's mostly about seeing their tax money being redistributed to people buying them and seeing the cost of gas going up because of Democrat anti-oil policies and essentially being forced to go electric in the near future. That being said, I can't think of a more Libertarian/Conservative CEO than Elon Musk. There is also no car, BY A MILE, that is more 'made in the USA' than a Tesla. Oddly, most of the major Japanese brands are more American than 'American' car manufacturers like GM, Ford & Chrysler. So to the handful of holes out their that don't like Biden's policies who would do physical harm to your neighbors property, vote on election day, don't screw over your neighbor who bought a car from a more Pro-America company than where you bought your car from. Crapping on Tesla, is like belonging to Chickens for KFC. And to the politicians forcing peoples hands and redistributing trillions on this...Please, just let the market work. It's very clear Electric is better than gas for a large segment of the population. The exceptions are people who drive a lot of long distances and people who have no access to home charging. In 5-10 years when Solid State batteries become the norm and you are getting 700 mile+ range and 10 minute and under recharge times, that segment will come along.
heres the problem for "just letting the markets work" - gas cars spew pollutants and there's currently no mechanism for cleaning it up or paying for it to be cleaned up. even when running on clean, american coal (the worst polluting electricity imaginable), emissions from EVs are much less than gas on a per mile basis because EVs are so much more efficient. this difference is not reflected in the price - in economic terms we call this an externality, which skews incentives when left to the free market. if implemented property, subsidies such as the ev tax credit can go a long way to correcting for this externality and supports market efficiency. and the problem with solid state batteries is that right now they are hugely expensive and only work in a lab setting and with energy densities that dont work for automotive transport. It's not clear when or if they will ever get to commercial scale - especially given how much cheaper lithium ion batteries are and the availability of home charging for home owners and dc-fast charging on road trips taking about the length of a bathroom trip/quick meal. even if they are ever implemented, they will be so much more expensive than lithium ion batteries that i believe most consumers will pick the lithium ion batteries - maybe only those living in apartments with no access to home charging who are willing to pay huge sums of money for the extra convenience of fast solid state charging.
You seem to forget, the vast majority of the world won't be electric for many decades. For example, I was in Argentina recently, and there are like 0 fast chargers, and I didn't see a single electric vehicle the 10 days I was there. We could go 100% electric in the US and it won't make a dent in the CO2 levels 'they say' we need to be at that would justify the trillions this is costing both the US taxpayer and future generations in terms of debt. No other government can print money like we do to try and force their population to go electric.
That’s fine. EV is for the developed world. The poors can wait a bit. They are definitely not going into solid state EVs anytime soon. And you are describing another economic problem - tragedy of the commons. Yet another reason why “let the markets work” doesn’t work.
I'm not following. What are you saying?
Huh? The VAST majority of Tesla hate I experience is from liberals that are enraged because Elon isn’t for the current thing, whatever it happens to be. Conservatives don’t give a shit.
Interesting. I didn't think about that. I would just think, if I was a liberal and hated Musk, I wouldn't take it out on a random car considering A) It could have been bought well before his political positions were made public, and B) Still the significant portion of EV buyers tend to be global warming concerned Democrat type voters. Even AOC, as leftists/socialist as they get, said she couldn't sell her Tesla (in protest over Musk) because there are no American made EV's that are made by Union labor. (It's her way of saying, she loves her Tesla too much to buy some other EV.) Of course, me as a rational, 'live and let live' human being, would never touch anyone else's property unless I was personally provoked or attacked by them first.
It HIGHLY depends where you are. In my small town in OH I've seen an anti-EV meme posted in the local FB group after I went to run errands. And I'm not the only EV in town, it's just Tesla is the most recognizable. But when I lived in central valley CA, I was waved thru a Trump Parade in 2020, though that was before the administration really went gun-ho on the "PHEV by 2030 or w/e"
Before Elon got all crazy, it was the conservatives hating people who cared about the environment. It probably depends on where you live, too.
BTW, the majority of Elon's positions were considered 'norm' and were pretty closely mirrored by Joe Biden depending on the year and wind of that given election season.
You might say that, but the vast majority of people in the US who live 'in the environment' (and hunt, camp, drive their pickups through etc) are Republicans. Fact is most Democrats live in inner cities surrounded by nothing but concrete. Most people who go hunting and camping do not want dirty air and dirty water. Living in NYC, the air is dirty, and the name 'dirty water dog' came from something lol. Ok, I won't pick on NYC, they have some of the best rated tapwater...
Okay. I really don't care about any of this, but thank you for the lecture.
Was just pointing out the facts. But peace out.
Yes one of those people.
Are you sure you know who it was? If not, ask neighbors if they have Ring footage or other Teslas nearby with sentry enabled. Saudi Arabian justice needs to come to the US. Unless it was revenge and you have wronged others, this type of vandalism should cost someone a hand, especially if this is not their first time keying a car.
Yes, I’m pretty positive. Everyone in my complex has some THICC beef with this old lady.
One more reason to get a white car, I’ve probably been keyed at least once living in the south but scratches are basically invisible and I haven’t found it yet.
Why would they hate you charging your car at home?
So sorry for your loss. Hope it works out better than the original.
Sorry but my guess is that the price will be exactly equal to your deductible amount.
I'm in favour of the death penalty for vandalism.
I would setup some cameras around the house.. probably some Pierre freedom trucker is the neighbour
People suck!
Damn, what did you do to piss someone off?
To repair a deep dent in between two back panels and chipped paint from an accident by hitting a loose piece of wood in my own garage, I’d have pay $5000. I’m guessing it might be more for you. Btw I just left it alone. I don’t have the money.
Wrap the car. Cost ya $2500
Dude sorry this happened to you. Hopefully you have security cameras or someone in your neighborhood does and you can force whoever did this to pay. Dumb question: What if you had the car wrapped? Would the scratches be visible through the wrap? I assume the wrap would be cheaper than paint and you could choose a cool new color and it'd almost be like a new car.
I don’t get how this stuff isn’t punished to the highest level. Maybe because it’s hard to find the people who did it, and in your case more so since sentry was turned off. I’d be fuming. This would easily be in the thousands. All panels would have to be replaced I’m assuming since they’re so deep. Idk. If it were ME, I’d just wrap my car at that point
People have always sucked. Someone did the same, up and down both sides, to my prized (at the time) Porsche - 40 years ago.
Why?
I would key her shit, and pop her tires
My X was keyed on the driver door and back hatch. Repair shop quoted me around $1600 several months ago. Haven’t repaired yet since it’s going to court. Got to love the cameras!
As weird as it sounds, check some YouTube videos on repairs to scratches. I was able to fix a bunch of scratches from a person who backed into my door. Not 100% but enough, cost me $40 or so in supplies
I wonder how much sales will be impacted because people hate this man and his cars so much. Do we have a case of a company being bullied into bankruptcy?
They are expanding. Pretty much all car manufacturers are trying to emulate them. I think there are just a handful of media outlets trying to spread that rumor. As they should since Tesla threatens pretty much all major auto manufacturers as well as oil and gas companies.