- Oh my gosh!
Safety is not our number one priority.
Don't touch them together!
(seat exploding)
(shouting)
(upbeat music)
On my quest, seemingly endless quest
to destroy everything
that's inside of a Tesla,
you guys asked us to destroy a Tesla seat
and see what's inside of it.
If you remember to about
a year and a half ago,
Lincoln and I went to Stuttgart,
Germany with Mercedes Benz.
They asked us to come out there
and tear apart the Mercedes S-class seat.
Their nicest vehicle that they have.
And I gotta be honest, I
was completely blown away
with the quality of the seat
that they have inside of it.
They had hot stone massage,
they had air cooling in
the bottom of the seat.
They had heating inside of the seat.
They had these little side things
that whenever you turned on a sharp road,
it would come out and hug
you and keep you in place.
I was blown away with the amount of time
and effort that they spent on it.
And one of the knocks
on Tesla over the years
from a lot of people that are from
traditional auto manufacturers
or people that have just
driven other vehicles,
pretty much any other vehicle,
they've been very
underwhelmed with the quality
of the Model S and the
Model X seat and now the Y
and the three, because you're
paying so much money for a car
but you can tell that
Tesla hasn't been around
for all that long as an auto manufacturer.
So they don't have that
much history of creating
like the most comfortable
or luxurious seats
or seats with options in them.
We're gonna compare it to
the S-Class of the Mercedes
and kind of see what the differences are.
Mr Lincoln.
- Yeah.
- Go ahead Lincoln, you wanna take a seat?
In my car seat here.
- Feels like you're getting
in the road strips so low.
(laughing)
- That's about as low as the road strips.
- Yeah.
Safety is not our number one priority.
It's like in the top five.
We've said that many times and
so if we just get out a knife
and we start cutting it,
- That could be bad.
- I don't know.
We need to get inside and
find the airbag and disable it
or just make it explode.
- There we go.
Now I can lean back.
That's nice.
- It's a rocking chair.
- Yeah.
- Okay, for the airbags,
we phoned a friend.
This is our expert friend Bobby.
If you have seen our videos
in VR180 where we destroyed
a vending machine and
what was the other one?
- It was for the trees.
- Is it for the trees?
oh, the Sahad!
(crashing)
The team trees, team trees.
So we did both of those at his pit.
He's an excavator and so
he has all kinds of things.
Like if you look across the
street at that big old CAT thing
whatever it is, backhoe thing.
I don't know.
- My excavator.
We tear houses down with it.
- What's your YouTube channel?
- Veteran Garage.
- Veteran Garage.
How many subscribers do you have?
- I am almost at a 1000 subscribers.
We're 998 subscribers.
(laughing)
- Okay, who wants to be
his 1000th subscriber?
We'll put a link in the description.
Let's see if we can get in this airbag.
- We're gonna set it off
and then have it blow up.
(laughing)
- [Host] Boom, let's make it explode.
I would imagine, so they have
- It's right here.
- [Host] What is it?
This explodes right here and this explodes
or do they have one up there by the head?
- Nothing here that would disable you.
So if somebody hits you
on the side right here,
the airbag pops out right here,
so that you're protected from the impact.
- Okay, let's do it.
We need to find the correct
wires that are for the airbag
'cause what I wanna do is I
want the airbag to explode
with the front of the seat
looking as normal as possible
so we can see what would happen
if you were in an accident
what would it look like when it explodes.
12.0 battery, is that good enough?
- Yeah, that's exactly what we need.
- We are going to make the airbag explode
by using the Tesla Model X.
This is a smart idea.
We don't know for sure which one,
which cable is the one
so we're guessing it's
this black one right here.
We're gonna break it open and
then connect two cables to it
and run it to the 12 volt
battery on the Tesla Model X.
And if it's the right
one, this right here,
this whole part should
explode as an airbag
and rip the threads and
this curtain airbag,
the side airbag would come out.
And it's gonna be fun to explode it.
If something breaks, it's for science.
At least we got it on video.
Inside of this side,
there's that pink and purple wire.
Right there.
And it comes down to this right here.
There's a chance its those two.
- [Bobby] It might be these two right here
or it's these two.
- Okay, we're gonna test them.
We're gonna film it in slo-mo.
If this thing explodes,
should look pretty cool.
This plane is evolving very very quickly.
We wanna see the force that it exhibits.
- So we got one of our water bottles,
you can click the link in the description
whatsinsidemerch.com.
- Yeah, this is a metal water bottle.
It's like a hydro flask.
And then here's a full drink of soda.
- So then we can set it on top
and so then we can get more of a person.
- Enough of the height.
Maybe hit a wall.
Hopefully not hit the camera.
I need to move the roadster, cause-
- What if it hits it?
That would be
- I don't want it to get hit
(car engine revving)
All right, the car is out of the way.
Hopefully the purple and the,
whatever the that color is, pink.
- [Bobby] Pink and silver.
Purple and silver.
- [Host] So you just put it in there?
- [Bobby] Yeah, we're just
gonna put it in there.
- [Host] I'm like stepping
away from the airbag
- [Bobby] Yeah.
- [Lincoln] Could it go off right now?
- No, there's no power.
- There's no power on our end
but?
- But it still could if there
was some kind of build-up
but I don't know.
(dramatic music)
Okay, this might work, it might not.
We may have to switch it.
- [Host] Oh, you're
shaking the drink, huh?
I see you over here.
Okay, this is scary.
We've got them on here right now.
We have the red and the yellow wire.
Don't touch them together.
(laughing)
All right, are you nervous?
- I'm nervous.
- All right, let's see this.
- You ready?
- [Host] Yeah.
(suspense music)
- Nothing.
- Nothing.
- So I'm gonna swap it in case.
Okay, let's try it again.
(suspense music)
- [Host] The seat's moving!
The seat's going up.
(laughing)
It's moving up.
- Yes, I found the seat vac.
- [Host] Okay.
- [Bobby] We just move this.
- [Host] So that was that button
and so the other one next to it
must be for those other controls.
(laughing)
I was nervous.
I was really nervous.
Bobby, were you stressed out
on that one a little bit?
- I was a little bit, my
heart was racing a little bit.
- [Host] Is the seat gonna fly
back and smash into the car
and wreck your leg?
- No, I don't think it's that strong.
- [Host] We're breaking
all the plastic away
so that we can put the wire
directly onto those little
bronze things that are
sticking out of there.
Hey Bobby?
- Yeah.
- [Host] Were you in the military?
- I was.
- [Host] Did you ever diffuse a bomb?
- No.
I was not EOD.
But I worked with EOD.
- I can tell.
Let's hope this works.
Otherwise we're gonna have
to go find more wires.
This is the second go at some wires here.
All right Lincoln, how does it look?
No cars?
- [Lincoln] No.
- [Host] Okay, ready.
(wires sparking)
- [Bobby] Nope.
- Nothing!
I don't know what that one does
but apparently it's not that.
We're gonna switch it out really quick.
Find another one.
(dramatic music)
- Yap.
(seat exploding)
- [Host] Oh!
We found it!
- [Lincoln] Yes!
- Wuuuh!
- Wuuuh!
- [Host] Yes!
- [Bobby] Where did the thing go?
- The monster energy drink is still there.
It didn't even move.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh that was loud.
- What?
- [Host] That was so loud.
(seat exploding)
(laughing)
- [Host] Wow!
- Oh my gosh!
- How'd my bottle do?
It just like fell off.
It didn't even do much.
So this is the side airbag.
- [Lincoln] Wow!
- [Bobby] See it's ripped
right down the stitch.
- [Host] Oh yeah, down the stitch.
- I would expect there
to be more air in it.
- [Host] Oh no, when it explodes,
there's tons of air in it.
- Yeah.
- For a second
And then it quickly goes away
but it somehow saves you.
It ended up being this is
one of the weird connector
that we originally thought that it was.
- It was just the wrong two.
- We did the first two
and then rather we gave up
so we went back to it and did those two.
And it totally worked.
- That was awesome.
- [Host] We used an actual
Tesla to explode the airbag
on a Tesla seat.
When the airbags go off in a car,
it becomes something that when
you try to resell the car,
it hurts the value of
your car because I mean,
you saw the seat it totally ripped.
From what I understand
you don't wanna buy a car
that has the airbags that have gone off.
And now it is time to
actually cut the seat
just like we did on the
S-Class, the Mercedes car.
We're just gonna go
right down through here.
What's inside of this seat?
- [Lincoln] Oh, wow!
- Oh man,
can you imagine somebody doing
that to their actual car?
(tape scratching)
First layer is just this
soft foam cushioning.
The second layer is this white part.
- That's the heating thing, isn't it?
Yeah, there's the wires.
- There are the heating coils
when you have the seat warmers that go.
These coils heat up really really fast
and just get it going.
More foam beyond that.
Just like memory foam
from your classic bed.
(upbeat music)
And then that get us to the spine of this
which, that must be the lumbar support.
Very interesting like a pulley system.
That is crazy, we need
to get into that more.
(upbeat music)
Has a lot of foam, that was a lot of work.
But what I think is really cool,
this cable looks just like
the cable from brake on a bike
with this wire going through,
and then this motor will
spin and it'll tighten this.
You've got this little hook
that's connected to it.
Somehow this contracts
and makes it so you've
actually got lumbar.
This was not what it looked like inside of
the Mercedes S-Class seat.
One of the questions I have,
is why does this have like,
what looks like liquid
in here under the seat.
This is some weird cable
that looks like there's liquid in there.
What in the world?
Look at that.
- [Lincoln] That's gel.
- [Host] Freak, what in the world?
- [Bobby] What is that?
- [Host] See that coming out of there?
Oh my gosh!
What would you call that?
Like the spinal fluid?
I think we got the spinal fluid.
- [Bobby] Yeah, that's the spinal fluid.
- It's incredibly sticky.
All right, to the seat we go.
(upbeat music)
Some foam right there.
And again, the Tesla cushion
front row it says on here.
These are the heating coils
that keeps your bum warm.
(upbeat music)
We are finding the answer here.
So we've got this protective layer,
this hard plastic right here.
All the gel, it's like some
sort of liquid, gel I think.
If you can see underneath here,
this is where it's all connected.
(laughing)
Why is there this bladder?
Why is this in your seat Elon?
Why do we have this?
- I don't know.
- What is the purpose?
So your seat can get harder or softer?
This is a mystery Elon Musk.
(laughing)
- I've never seen anything
like that before, that's crazy.
The whole thing is just like
a big pillow bladder of oil.
Here's the motor for it.
- It's just that little
tiny motor right there.
It's a tiny little piece.
You guys are always so
smart in the comments
and give me the actual answers to things,
what's with the vegetable
oil underneath the seat?
What is the purpose of it?
I'm not some expert in seat design,
but I will say that this had
more in it than I thought.
We tore up the seat, we found the airbag,
we exploded the airbag,
we found some vegetable
oil underneath the seat
that you sit on.
No hot stone massage but we
do have the mystery liquid.
Okay Elon.
Nice Tiger Woods shirt Lincoln.
- It's a very sad week,
it's the week of what the
Master's would have been, so.
- [Host] I know.
Oh, Tiger Woods.
Sorry Tiger Woods.
If you're gonna win the Master's
it's gonna have to be in November.
I've seen videos on the internet,
where people take an airbag
and they put like a cell phone on it
and it explodes the thing
like a mile in the air
or they put a tire on an airbag
and it goes up and then it
comes down and smashes the car,
I'd like to do that someday
it actually sounds fun.
Don't try this at home.
Go check out Bobby if you
wanna see stuff destroyed
and he rebuilds cars so he
does know a lot about cars.
He's rebuilding two Hellcats right now.
(seat exploding)
