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Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek
Submitted 3 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://electrek.co/2025/03/20/tesla-recalls-all-cybertrucks-ever-made-over-trim-falling-off/
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BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could this be the worst designed car ever made? I really wish we could have a Top Gear episode on it.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
James did a test drive and he seemed to kind of like it, it was on drive tribe I think.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 months ago
I would probably like it too if i didn’t have to pay for it and keep it and maintain it. These cars aren’t on the streets anymore in 10 years. They will never be street legal in a non shit hole country
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yep. He wasn’t really reviewing the nuts and bolts, just the drive experience. I didn’t get the impression he got a ton of time with it and only spent an afternoon puttering around. It felt below his standard honestly for thoroughness.
rabber@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Whislindiesel made short work of one of these cars, absolutely glorious
natryamar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I mean, how many times have they recalled these same, like, 5,000 trucks? This is at least the third massive recall.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is it worse than the Delorean?
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The new models are being fixed by “nut clamping”
svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
Can I be added to the recall? 🥹
ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Only if you take me with you!!
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is this a service rendered to the owners or the vehicles?
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“We are not robbers.”
“Ok, you can rub them.”
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thats absolutely meaningless in the face steel plates adhered to a plastic frame.
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This guy clamps
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Here is a guy explaining the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8
It appears multiple panels on the truck are just glued on which is crazy. Will Tesla just slather on bunch more glue and call it good? That seems like a bandaid over a pretty major problem. I’ll be sure to have a large distance between my car and one of these shitty truck on the road in case they decide to shed some large panels.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
According to the article I read yesterday they are adding stronger glue and a bolt.
Zron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is also what this article says.
Although a single bolt is going to need to be quite strong to hold down a long piece of steel exposed to high speed wind regularly.
sporkler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Small text on the bottom of purchase agreement: ~This vehicle is not meant to be used as transportation in an external environment, any use outside of a garage or small enclosed campus is outside of the scope of this vehicle’s design and should be avoided.~
Zacpod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Staying away from cybertrucks is just good sense anyway. They’re being driven by morons and are NOT safe to be in a collision with. S’why they’re not road legal in the EU - they’re too dangerous to things they collide with.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Glue is commonly used in vehicle manufacturing to bond panels together. It’s typically stronger than welding, and is often used in the vehicle’s structural pieces as well.
The problem with the Cyberdumpster is that they used shitty glue.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It’s 18 months old and falling apart, literally.
svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it just wasn’t as safe as the other ones lololol thanks for this
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How do I know exactly what video that is without a preview and before clicking the link?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Is this a sketch or a real interview?
MohamedMoney@feddit.org 3 months ago
You’re wishing for more idiots in this day and age?
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Every wankpanzer ever? I had to check it wasn’t the onion. It’s not the onion.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
So what i gather is there’s probably a readily available solvent to dissolve the glue and make any Swasticar Wankpanzer fall the fuck apart?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It’s called cold weather.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can step up the scale of solvent molecular weights until you find one that gives the desired result, but I’m going to conjecture that regular old acetone will probably be quite sufficient.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Neat. On a serious note, i do not personally recommend doing this; that shit flying off on a highway could kill somebody.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 months ago
And nobody who is familiar with how technology companies operate was shocked to hear that the 100k incel camino is literally held together with cheap glue.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
That’s because Tesla is a data collection company, not a car manufacturer 😂
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t help but think “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” with this news
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“The front fell off.”
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Of course. Yet another Tesla recall. In a few months, we will all be here again
bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This one is different, though. Most of them are just OTA software updates, the physical ones aren’t as common. Although I think there was an issue with how they secured the top of the gas pedals on the Cybertruck earlier.
5in1k@lemm.ee 3 months ago
They sprayed lube on the pedal and glue on the cover, the lube caused the glue to fail.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The side is falling off.
zerofk@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And this time it is indeed typical
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This is why we don’t make them out of paper, or paper derivatives.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I wonder if those protesters vandalizing Teslas know this is their big opportunity? Insurance companies insuring auto shops are fewer in number and more selective than those serving the general population. If these trucks were damaged while waiting for repairs, we might witness insurance companies altogether dropping coverage for shops. Without insurance these places will find it difficult to continue existing.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have questions about what auto shops you think are doing recalls because it’s only Tesla’s service centers are going to be legally allowed to perform the recall (that’s how it works for every automaker). So it’s the same place they’re already going to protest (in most cases) and the same insurance. Regardless, the recall isn’t an “insurance thing per se” because Tesla the company is the insurance in this case. They will be footing to bill for any and all repairs done under recall. And more than likely the recalled vehicles won’t be sitting around the shop or lot waiting for parts because it’s up to consumers who will absolutely take their vehicle and leave if parts aren’t in stock.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
It might be different with Tesla but most dealerships are independent from the company manufacturing the vehicles. Dealerships typically also run the service shop and have to carry their own insurance.
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Between this and the door falling off a Boeing airplane, not so sure we should be all hot to make everything in 'merica 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Boeing (and McDonnell Douglas before them) actually made good planes when engineers ran the show. Then the finance bros took over.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tesla factories are like Amazon warehouses.
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It really is a metaphor for the current state of America.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
why would the tesla engineers commit terrorism like this
SlimeKnight@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This reminds me of “Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off” skit XD
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Panels on that shit are glued together, so I guess they got ahold of stronger glue.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Elmer’s glue mixed with Ketamine
FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 3 months ago
I guess they got ahold of stronger glue.
Only because they wanted to huff it. The panel thing was just a coincidence.
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 3 months ago
A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I’m the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he’d said this, I’d already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn’t gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude’s choice of vehicle told me I’d made the right choice.
Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he’s changed his mind about it.
Elkot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Even the melted ones? 😄
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Waiting for trump to send off musk to death camp for being a terrorist.
sporkler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think the current power dynamic in the whitehouse may make the opposite more likely.
anotherpurpleheathen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Amazing. :)
Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 months ago
“We have toytota hylux at home”
Toyota hylux at home…
Float@startrek.website 3 months ago
Haha
mooncake@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just send them all to the scrap yard, fucking heaps of junk.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cheap piece of junk
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This has exposed the sales numbers, and impressively, it’s sold even worse than the Fire Phone.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
46k trucks sold so far. For comparison, rivian sells about that many of their trucks every year.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 months ago
I still can’t believe that 46k people are both that stupid and have 100k to spend.
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.
Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I forgot the Fire Phone was a thing.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I will never forget, and I will hold onto my Fire Phones (yes, plural) until the day I die.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 months ago
I’m not sure that really says much. I hate swasticars as much as y’all do, but like, $400 phone versus $100K car. Makes sense the fire phone sold better. And I mean, it wasn’t being pushed by a literal Nazi so that helps.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The phone was $650 at launch, carrier-locked to AT&T, and was pushed by Jeff Bezos.