(suspenseful music)
- Today is the day, you
knew that it was coming,
as soon as I got a new red Roadster,
I couldn't go a day without
sending it up to to LUXE Auto Spa
and having them protect the paint!
They've gotta fix it.
So I've got Wyatt here from LUXE Auto Spa.
- [Wyatt] What's up, guys?
- It's Saturday right now,
and so Cougar is like, on
the ski slopes today skiing.
He's a really good skier.
Hi, Cougar.
(dinging)
Does he ski?
- I doubt he skis, I don't know.
- I just made that up. (laughing)
But I'm sure he's doing
something fun today.
And so Wyatt gets the fun job
of coming down here and
picking up the Roadster.
So here's the blue one,
it is super dirty right now.
This is not the one that we're sending.
We're sending our red Roadster up.
If you remember from this video,
where we sent the blue
one up to LUXE Auto Spa,
they took the paint, it
had like a Clear Bra on it.
And they ripped off all
the old garbage Clear Bra.
They put on this XPEL PPF cover coating
around the entire car,
and then what that does,
is that it makes the paint
pop a little bit more,
and then the car gets cleaner faster.
And then when you're
driving down the road,
and somebody has a rock
chip that comes up,
which for the Roadsters,
its such a tiny car it
happens all the time.
Instead of getting a chip
inside of your paint,
it just hits that protection layer,
and it just bounces off,
or maybe it'll damage it a little bit,
but not much, its really,
really strong stuff.
So, with a classic, iconic car,
like the red Tesla Roadster,
one of the last 20 ever
made, one of the only 70
that was made with every
one of the options,
and the only one that's used
in Tesla's marketing and PR material.
(upbeat music)
That's the car that I bought,
and so you've got to protect that thing.
Less than 10,000 miles.
I hope to keep that car for a long time,
but if not, I hope to sell it to somebody
that owns a future or
next generation Roadster,
and just wants to have
a companion red Roadster to go with it,
because it's not one of a kind,
but in the car world,
it's basically one of a kind of a car, so.
Next steps, we've gotta
get this car out of here.
(bouncy music)
All right, red Roadster is out of here.
So cool seeing both of them side by side,
and when it comes back,
we have a huge surprise
of what we're doing with
it, when it does come back.
So, I'm not sure if that's
gonna be in this video or not,
but let's get this bad boy out of here.
(bouncy music)
(thudding)
It is not easy getting
out of these Roadsters.
(bouncy music)
- She looks good, she's on
this little ramp right here.
And it does fit inside of there,
I'd imagine there's like certain trucks,
that are not going to fit inside of this,
just fancy cars, there's
not that big of a space.
So this is the system that
we have inside the trailer.
This is a winch, right here,
that you see sometimes on the front
of like Jeeps or off-road trucks,
but they have it set up right here.
After we put the car on this ramp,
can I control the button?
- [Wyatt] You can control the button.
- [Dan] In and out, that seems,
pretty self explanatory there.
- Don't get them wrong.
- [Dan] All right, here we go.
Come to me, Roadster.
Oh, I probably shouldn't stand
directly on the wench rope,
but uh, let me, let me
just move over to here.
Okay.
(bouncy music)
Stop there?
- Stop there, we gotta
hook it up to the red ones.
- [Dan] Oh.
- Then it pulls the whole thing.
You wanna keep pulling, you can pull.
- [Dan] Good thing you're here.
- Then it's gonna get destroyed.
- [Dan] I would have just
kept going. (laughing)
Okay, Leslie.
- Yeah?
- [Dan] Say goodbye to your
favorite car in the world.
- I actually like this car
better than the blue one.
- [Dan] Oh, my heart hurts right now.
- No, I like the blue color better,
but this car rides better,
the interior is nicer,
like, its just a great car.
- [Dan] It is a great car, it is special.
I will admit, I think I might
like the red one more too.
What do you think about
us wrapping it blue?
- But then we'd have two blue cars,
so we could definitely sell
the other one then, right?
- [Dan] Yes, I think so.
- Yes, I'm all for that!
- [Dan] We're not wrappin'
it blue, it's stayin' red.
- What, no, Cougar, do it.
- [Dan] No, Cougar, don't
do it, don't wrap it red.
- I like the idea of blue,
I think it would look good.
- Uh-oh, Wyatt's on
board, Leslie's on board.
Looking right here, you can
see that it says sport on it,
this is a Roadster Sport.
It used to say, right
here, Roadster Sport,
you can even kind of see in here.
I don't know if you can see it right now,
but there's like, you see a
little bit of the remnants.
I'm sure Cougar will get
rid of that right there,
and make it look better.
Once they replaced the battery
pack inside of this thing,
they changed it to Roadster 80.
And that was Tesla that did that,
but that's the difference
between this one and my blue one.
This is a Sport model,
It's supposed to go .2 seconds faster,
zero to 60, than the blue one.
- That's faster.
That definitely has just
a little bit more pick up.
And then I've told you guys
about the battery upgrade before,
but basically these batteries,
when you run them down to
zero, it bricks the car.
This one was never bricked,
but when the girl bought this,
originally, I think she
paid $160,000 for this car,
and part of that was the a $20,000,
one time batter replacement payment.
Any point, if she needed
a battery replacement,
they would replace it.
Well about 4 months ago,
they finally called her,
and they're like hey we want
to replace your battery.
It sounds like Tesla
is making some changes
to their Roadsters, the
way that they service them,
because for the longest time,
they don't even service their old cars.
Which is not a very good image,
when you're trying to become,
you're supposedly the
biggest market share company,
in the entire world for auto companies,
and you don't even service your car
that's only 10 years old.
If it was Honda, or
Toyota, or Ford, or Chevy,
they would service those cars,
probably, from 20 years old,
and they have parts for them.
Tesla doesn't even have a lot
of parts for these Roadsters.
So what's kind of sad, what
they're doing right now,
is they're buying back original Roadsters,
from Roadster owners,
and the roadster owners are like sweet,
65,000, 75,000, I get
to sell my car to Tesla,
I can use that to buy a Model
3, or a Model S, or a Model X.
They're totally cool with it,
but then, some of them have found out,
that what Tesla is doing,
is they're taking those Roadsters,
that they paid for them.
Some of them have like two or 3,000 miles,
and they're beautiful, and
Tesla is using those cars,
basically to take them apart,
and to use those as parts
for people that have Roadsters
that come into service them.
So, I get the point, that they need parts
to be able to service it,
I kind of wish that they would go,
and they would find some
of the bricked Teslas.
Or use one of the two companies,
there's one, Carl Medlock,
up in Oregon, I think
he is, or Washington.
And then there's guy Gruber, Peter Gruber,
he's in Phoenix, and they
make their own parts,
for these Roadsters,
and they service them,
and fix them and do a really good job, so.
It'd be cool if Tesla
could just partner up
with those guys and maybe
create some new parts,
or use some that are totaled,
like cars that were totally wrecked,
instead of just buying
perfectly good Roadsters
from unsuspecting owners,
that are nostalgic about these cars,
and think that it's gonna
go to a new, good home,
and then just gets destroyed.
There's something weird about that.
So here's what people want to
know, that are watching this.
Do you still worry about the kids,
whenever you ride in the Roadster?
- I always worry about the
kids, no matter where I drive.
- [Dan] Do you yell the
kids, daddy, the kids!
- Oh my gosh, I feel
so dangerous right now.
If we both die, the kids, daddy, the kids.
- I really felt like you were
going like 150 miles an hour.
I haven't been in a convertible
since I was like a little kid.
Its so low, and it felt super dangerous.
Seriously, this is super dangerous.
- [Dan] Well for now, we're
only going to have one Roadster,
'cause this one's outta here.
Get out of here, Roadster.
(upbeat music)
All right, Wyatt.
- [Wyatt] All right.
- [Dan] Take good care
of this car, all right?
- You better believe I will, man.
- [Dan] Drive safe.
Be careful around snow banks
- Don't ski, don't get
pulled over and don't crash.
- [Dan] Drop it off safely.
The charging cables are in the trunk.
If this truck breaks down,
and you get to safety,
just get in the Roadster,
and you can take it and it'll help you.
- In that case I might just
not fuel up when I leave--
(laughing)
I'm just gonna run out and
be like, oh man, now what?
- [Dan] Good plan.
- I can just hop in there.
- [Dan] All right, man,
thanks Wyatt, see ya.
- [Wyatt] See ya, thank you.
- Stay tuned for the next video,
of uh, seeing what this thing
looks like when it comes back,
and we're gonna be
putting it in the garage,
and doing something special
with both of the Roadsters,
because when we get this back,
we will officially be living
inside of our new house.
So, it's happening.
We have water bottles, look
at all these water bottles.
They're like Hydro Flasks,
and we have 2 different ones,
I'll put a link in the description.
Its our first ever merch we've ever done,
if you guys want to buy
some, its uh, water bottles.
They're good for, uh, taking to school,
keeping your drinks cold or hot,
and dropping them and having
people say weird things to you.
All right, see ya guys.
(upbeat music)
We get $110,000 off the second one.
- No, we don't need this.
Why, that would we be so silly.
- [Dan] It's half off.
- It doesn't matter.
- [Dan] It's a good deal.
- No, it's not.
- [Dan] You always like a good deal.
- I do like a good deal.
