Tesla tried to do this to a friend of mine. In 2015 his Model S was delivered with missing or defective rivets "holding a horizontal part of the unibody to a v

Tesla tried to do this to a friend of mine. In 2015 his Model S was delivered with missing or defective rivets "holding a horizontal part of the unibody to a vertical part". This was discovered when he took the car in for them to diagnose an annoying squeak after a few days of ownership. He balked at having the car repaired by a bodyshop, because he wondered what else might be wrong. Tesla offered a new, identically configured car to replace the defective one. However, they wanted him to sign what was effectively an NDA. The problem was that he couldn't, as he'd already talked to people about it. Even if he hadn't, he probably would not have signed it anyway on general principles.