A furious Tesla owner claims he was remotely locked out of his car and would have to pay $26,000 (£22,783) for a new battery before he could access it.
Mario Zelaya was left fuming after his $140,000 (£122,678) Tesla allegedly locked itself automatically after the battery ran out.
Mario explained that he had been planning to sell the car as he didn't want to pay the ridiculous price for a new battery.
Unfortunately he was unable to do so because the proof of ownership papers were inside the car, which had automatically locked itself.
Some viewers suggested that he try to dismantle the car, but he explained he didn't have time for that.
Fortunately he was eventually able to obtain a copy of the papers for $30 (£26) and subsequently sold the car for $19,000 (£16,600).
In the video posted to TikTok, Mario even claimed that he thought that Tesla had shut the car down remotely because he had been complaining about the company on TikTok, as it had been plugged in and had still not unlocked.
Mario bought the Tesla in 2013, but subsequently found that his model and subsequent ones from 2014 have a technical issue involving fluid leaking onto the battery.
The motorist has now sworn he will never buy another Tesla, and has urged other people not to buy the vehicles, calling them "brutal".
He said: "I'll never buy another Tesla again. That's the long way of me saying stay the f**k away from Teslas.
"They're brutal cars, brutal manufacturing, and even worse, they're a 10-year-old company."
He added that he had also been in contact with another Tesla owner who had experienced exactly the same problem he had.
"Tesla's trying to sweep it under the rug," he said. "They won't give them any explanation of why their battery died."
He explained that the pre-existing problem in the car was made worse as standard services for Teslas do not include an assessment of the battery.
The doors on Teslas feature handles which "pop out" when someone approaches, a feature which has tragically proven more than an annoying inconvenience in the past.
In February 2019 48-year-old Dr Omar Awan died after his Tesla caught fire and neither he nor an assisting police officer were unable to open the doors to get him out of the car.
