Cybertruck Off-Road Lights Keep Falling Off… As the Glue Holding Them to the Windshield Fails
Cybertruck Off-Road Lights Keep Falling Off… As the Glue Holding Them to the Windshield Fails
We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, the same day Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue. This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredib...
We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, the same day Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue.
This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredibly, the light bar is also glued in place, so we are wondering if there isn’t another recall coming down the pipe.
Here is one driver whose Cyberbeast tossed his light bar at highway speeds.
the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue
Wait, why is this thing glued together instead of fastened with bolts? Is gluing body panels on something other manufacturers are doing or just a tesla thing?
Maybe I haven't worked on new enough cars, but everything I've owned 2005 and prior had everything either welded, bolted, or in the case of interiors they might be held with plastic thingies. Everything structural was bolted or welded though.
They've been doing this since the 90s.
and featuring innovative self-piercing rivet and adhesive bonding techniques for critical joints.
That is a combination of rivet and adhesive for additional strength.
Rivets are placed on the Prowler in a one-second cycle. (One interesting aspect of using this mechanical joining method: sheets of different thicknesses can be put together.) But then there is the issue of stiffness. Which led to the need to utilize epoxy adhesives. So now there is a combination of technologies, with rivets used in combination with adhesives. The result is a structure with a stiffness that’s improved by 40%.”At Chrysler,” says Dr. Saad M. Abouzahr, Prowler Materials Executive,
The adhesive improves the the stiffness of the joint that already includes a rivet. Body panels aren't going to fall off if the adhesive was faulty when there are rivets.
The cybertruck doesn't use rivets, they went even cheaper than fucking Chrysler.
This isn’t the first time a panel has decided it wants to make a dramatic exit from the Cybertruck. In fact, the boomerang-shaped panel above the doors has a habit of detaching itself, so Tesla recalled every single Cybertruck to apply a more aggressive adhesive, along with a stud and a nut, to keep things in place. What’s surprising here is that the front panel is also popping off for some owners.
Bolding by me to make it very clear that the cybertruck didn't even have a single nut or rivet holding body panels on.
The difference is that they did a good job, instead of slapping some elmers on the truck and putting a 100k sticker in the window.