- There you are.
So, I'm thinking about getting rid of my Model S.
And, I figured I would go meet up with my friend Dan
who recently went through this,
and ask his advice.
Now, I'm not sure if we have the same reasons
to get rid of our cars,
but let's talk about it and see what he thinks.
By the way, we're on our way to the semi event,
so there's also that.
Alright guys, what's up.
So I'm here in LA and I'm with my friends Ben and Dan
and Ben owns unplugged performance here in LA
who does all kinds of cool stuff
with Teslas and other cars
and Dan of course has just recently
upgraded from - The S to the X.
the Model S to the X.
- It's been great.
- And so, I'm wondering about whether or not
I should get rid of my Model S.
And I thought I would ask you guys what you think.
So, maybe Dan, what was it for you?
Like, how did this work?
- Okay so, I even made a video about it,
but the important thing is,
is your car all wheel drive or rear wheel drive?
- [Interviewer] Rear wheel drive.
- See you just gotta get rid of it.
As soon as the tires go bald,
just get rid of it.
You can't get new tires.
Just sell the thing, right?
- [Interviewer] That's it.
- I made a video about it.
If you haven't seen it,
I got torn up in the Reddit community
for not knowing anything about cars.
- The big thing for me is that I'm missing autopilot.
But yeah, just walk me through,
what would you do to this car?
You know, like immediately and then
maybe crazy stuff that you could think of.
- First of all, people that don't have autopilot,
myself included, we like to call these things
driver's edition cars, 'cause we actually like driving
and that's what it's made for.
You know, your car's rear wheel drive
and it's an older car, which,
I'll play devil's advocate and
say that's actually way more cool.
The beauty of the Model S is that it's still the same car.
Even the new one still shares the same bones as yours,
so a lot of the things that your car has,
you can update.
Not everything, but quite a bit.
- My most favorite feature that only exists in the older car
and I'll show you right now.
And this is something that
I don't think you can get or do.
If you take a look, that is a full size stroller
that fits all the way back in here, right?
Like you can't even imagine how big that is.
And that doesn't exist, right?
- Yeah, they traded that on the newest cars
for that massive HEPA filter which is great
for your lungs but doesn't give you all the space there.
There's no wrong answer.
They're all really fun to drive.
They're all awesome.
They're all just different,
and you kinda trade one thing for something else.
- The thing that I started to not like about mine
is every time I would drive down the road
I started to notice that my car
had a giant big black thing on the front
and all the rest of the Teslas
looked sleek and like, silver or white or whatever it is.
So this thing, they took this off.
I think it was-- - We fixed that.
Was it 2015 they took it off? - Yeah.
- Yeah that's one of our biggest sellers actually.
We have a conversion for all the older cars that's seamless
that updates it to a newer style
that doesn't have this large black nosecone.
- Let's talk about that for a second
because I am very interested in doing this.
And you were telling me,
how long would it take to actually make that upgrade?
- We've engineered it in a way
where we can do a full install in 90 minutes flat.
- So what other low hanging fruit would you change?
- So this is a painted finish seat back.
This is what you saw in the Model X.
A lot of our customers want the car to have more grip
and they like going around corners really fast
and going in through the canyons and things like that.
We can do that.
If you wanna make it lighter and more efficient,
we can do that.
One of the neat things about the design
is that it looks lower
but it actually is not lower. - Oh, okay.
So, you won't lose any ground clearance with this.
- What would it take to go from this...
- Yeah.
- To that guy?
- Everything?
- Yeah.
- A little bit of time and
a little bit of money, for sure.
- The major differences from the outside
are the side framing, whatever you wanna call it,
the body kit. - Yeah.
And then the front fascia.
- Yeah.
- And the spoiler.
- Yeah, and the wheels. - Wheels.
Chrome delete and the color change, brakes.
- When I started that, - Lug nuts.
I thought that was gonna be a short list.
- Oh no.
- But no, this list is--
- We don't operate in short lists here, no.
(laughing)
- [Dan] What about keeping it--
- I think we should do that.
- Good plan, I like it. - Yeah.
- [Dan] I think you should too.
- Yeah, I'll come back and we'll do that.
- Let's do it.