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
A Tesla owner who wraps vehicles for a living has an idea why his truck lost a piece of its bodywork at speed.
"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."
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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.
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.
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.
I don't know a whole lot about it, but doesn't glue tend to degrade over time?
There's probably that bell curve graph with the concave head and the sage monk saying "glue breaks down over time" and the crying tryhard who says "There's basically no such thing as 'glue' because we use all manner of things as adhesives that have almost nothing in common; some do break down with time or heat or vibration or moisture or light or scathing remarks, others have held furniture together for thousands of years."
So Elon decided to use one that breaks down with heat/moisture/vibration in his... Trucks?
Interesting, as they say.
More likely than not they used the one that breaks down when exposed to scathing remarks
Probably used hot glue.
Super super super glue
That glue is crazy.