Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why
Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why
"It does suck, because everybody kind of makes fun of the Cybertruck. To the outside person, it's kind of weird, it's ugly, whatever. Once you actually get in it, drive it, you realize it's pretty frickin' cool," he says. "It's kind of been sad, because I've been trying to prove to people that it's a really awesome truck that's not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart, so it's just... Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate and sad."
TLDR Cybertruck is glued together garbage.
The accelerator pedal's plastic cover was also glued to the metal arm. It could easily come off and get the pedal wedged in. That dumpster is a bad fucking joke.
Glue is fine, if it's the right kind.
IIRC, the ceramic tiles were glued onto the Space Shuttle, and during re-entry it was exceeding Mach 12.
I've used structural adhesives that were stronger than the metal they held together, during stress tests the metal ripped before the adhesive failed. I believe Lotus was using adhesives on cars in the 80's, maybe 90's, because welding was problematic.
Mind, I'm not defending the monstrosity here, just clearly they chose the wrong adhesive.
But then you are still supposed to be able to remove panels to perform repairs.
Who am I kidding, Teslas are the iPhone of cars. They don't give a crap about repairability.
IIRC, the ceramic tiles were glued onto the Space Shuttle, and during re-entry it was exceeding Mach 12.
On the other hand, they did need to be carefully inspected and some of them replaced after every trip. Some minor bits of trim maybe, but it is not okay to have the quarter panels glued on.
So are they going to get these trash heaps off the road, or are we going to wait for a death/maiming caused by flying metal debris on the highway?
All of these pickups should be taken off the road. Tesla makes the news, but I'm not sure they are the worst offender in terms of the threat they pose to other motorists and pedestrians.
I've been wondering the same thing. Buuut unfortunately their owner is rich and powerful enough that I doubt it'll ever happen, though.
The copium is strong with this one
The
contentscomments on that's site are not kind to Tesla owners.