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Two friends on a never-ending quest to provide the highest quality and best fitting mats on the market for your model 3 and Y, all while offering the best and most personable customer support answered by our co-founders.

Hello, My name is Jason and I handle all the day-to-day activities and also our marketing and outreach. My partner Sebastien, handles design, manufacturing, and logistics. We started this company almost three years ago while I was a sophomore in college. 

Our first product was our all-in-one door sill protection kit. This kit had everything you need to install a door sill protector and included a clear door sill protector. Having no funds and starting this on our own, we took out credit cards (not recommended) to buy materials and including our own vinyl cutting machine! We were making our own door sill protectors and fulfilling orders all from my grandmother’s garage. At first, things were going great and sales were strong. However, One day, I was left alone with the machine and was not sure how to properly operate it and had over 300 orders crinkled up! I wanted to conserve our product and not let them go to waste so I brought them home and used an iron to make our sills look brand new. I sent them out hoping for the best, but then I started to see the consequences of this soon-to-be mistake. An unprecedented amount of people were returning their product and giving us negative reviews. I learned an extremely important lesson: do not ship out orders until you are certain that the product is perfect!

Some time has passed and a family member of mine who has a model 3 was raving about their car, but was confused on why their car did not come with floor mats and was completely unsatisfied with the all-weather ones that were purchased. Her complaints consisted of a bulky logo, not enough coverage on the dead pedal, and lackluster customer service with representatives not in the United States and lacking complete knowledge of their own product. We decided that we are going to make a difference and stand in the face of these huge Chinese conglomerate companies not putting their customers first. We came to the decision that we were going to offer 24/7 customer support that is accessible by phone, email, text, and even on various websites and blogs that we have a presence on. Not only that but we custom-molded our mats to make sure we had at least 25% more coverage than what’s out on the market and a seamless design to ensure that our mats blend into the floors and have the least amount of gaps possible.

We started out with our 2017-2019 model 3 floor mats and we were an instant success and sold out within a few weeks! We then came to you guys at Tesla Motor Club and announced our expansion onto other mats and was overall successful. We have experienced some growing pains but now we are stronger than ever! Our second batch of orders has been a huge success! We have already started on our third batch and will now include options for our model y 7 seater folks. We have just launched our product repertoire on Amazon and Walmart in addition to our online store! If you would like to reach out to me personally I have my direct line available here: 786-838-6897

Jason

PS. We have added the 2021 model 3 and Y floor mats and their respective frunk and trunk mats back on our website. Although they are on back order, we are offering a special. For this month only, if you buy on our website, you get 30% off your order! Enter: “backorder2021” at checkout to redeem!

www.Teslashields.com

 
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So there was a shipping delay this past weekend that postponed my delivery to today. So I just got my Tesla Shields (2017-2020) delivered and finished installing them. Overall I'm happy with these floor mats and the fitment is pretty spot on. Great quality material and feels great under my feet (with or without shoes)

Before the Tesla Shields, I had the OEM Tesla All-Weather mats and found they got dirty so easily with dirt and scoff marks along with easily dirt being trapped in the grooves. Would highly recommend picking up these floor mats if you're looking for some! Cheers to @tshields!

Here are some photos of all of the floor mats installed and various angles for fitment and material.

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those look exactly like my 30 dollar mats from alixpress
 
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I for one think it is awesome that a young entrepreneur saw a need and came up with a good marketable solution that has developed into a real business. Its a heck of a better story that I would rather buy than....I found it on alixpress for 5 bucks cheaper. But to each their own!
Thank you so much. Just an FYI Ali express does not have 24/7 support answered by the main person in charge with their phone number plastered everywhere. Nor do they have free shipping and a lifetime warranty with free replacements for life. Also we custom molded our mats and own the molds for them as well
 
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Thank you so much. Just an FYI Ali express does not have 24/7 support answered by the main person in charge with their phone number plastered everywhere. Nor do they have free shipping and a lifetime warranty with free replacements for life. Also we custom molded our mats and own the molds for them as well

are those floor mats actually your design and chinese vendors have copied/stolen the design or selling factory overmakes on aliexpress?
 
are those floor mats actually your design and chinese vendors have copied/stolen the design or selling factory overmakes on aliexpress?
Our floor mats are our design. No one has copied us. They charge around $100+ for shipping and could take as long as 30-90 days for shipping. All support is in China with translator apps and does not come with a warranty or a money back guarantee. If you would like to discuss specifics between our mats and theirs please send us a pm. Thanks!
 
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They don’t look like ours. Plus they’re charging and additional $85 for shipping. .Ours are less.
Tesla Model 3 2020-2021 All Weather Interior Liner Floormats (30% off this month only!) *Back Order: August 2021 Production*

Tesla Model 3 2020-2021 All Weather Interior Liner Floormats (30% off this month only!) *Back Order: August 2021 Production*


Tesla Model 3 2020-2021 All Weather Interior Liner Floormats (30% off this month only!) *Back Order: August 2021 Production*
 
props to starting a company and marketing yourself, bro. I love the lifetime guarantee, but I will say, i have 2 year old Maxpider floor mats and my wooden soled dress shoes basically wore a hole through my driver side mat. I emailed them a few months ago (20 months of ownership, approx) and with a pic they sent me a new mat free of charge. Was i surprised? absolutely - this was no defect of their product. only normal wear and tear. All i'm saying is the lifetime guarantee is nice, but not a huge differentiator, imo. but it may get more people to buy it. As they say in Tommyboy "people want a guarantee on the box. they think they put that box under their pillow at night maybe the guarantee fairy may come and leave them a quarter...am i right Ted?" HAHAHAH anyway, keep on keepin on. my next floormat set (when i get an S, hopefully you've got em made) will be a Tesla Shield! (honestly b/c cannot stand their stupid logo. always catches my shoes as i exit my car. )
 
I ordered mine and received them before the car. Now that I have my Model Y, I just put them in and they look amazing! They look so slick compared to a lot of other mats. They feel very comfy and I would definitely recommend them!
 

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