Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem::One of the more standout qualities of the Tesla Cybertruck is its bare stainless-steel body. The stainless-steel body gives the Cybertruck a unique design, but
Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem
Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.carsdirect.com/automotive-news/green-technology/tesla-cybertruck-may-have-a-rust-problem
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Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, don’t buy a car from a conman folks
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Watch it, you’ll make the musky bois froth.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Mmmm. Frothy musk.
ExLisper@linux.community 8 months ago
But isn’t Rust supposed to be great and memory safe?
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Shoulda used nim or something
archomrade@midwest.social 8 months ago
I think a lot of people who bought this expected stainless steel not to rust
It wouldn’t surprise me if musk thought this as well
camelbeard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Musk said something like they used a revolutionary new type of stainless steel, designed for spaceX rockets. Have you ever seen rust in space? No because it’s that revolutionary.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They should have used C#
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From what I hear, the panels of that car are sharp as fuck.
lando55@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Should have repurposed the Apollo 11 source code
ebits21@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The owner must immediately remove road salt? The rust belt is nothing but 3 piles of road salt in a trench coat for half the year…
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Almost all of Canada is a no go zone for that thing at least 3 months of the year.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“remember when cars rusted like shitballs? What if we sold trucks that did that?”
“people buy our cars and their panels have these gaps you wouldn’t see in any other manufacturer. And our cars, they seem to have a taste for the blood of children. People keep buying the cars though. We’re doing something right and it’s sure as hell not making cars”
“yeah but look at the stock price”
“good point”
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
But the good news is that if they give Musk 25% ownership he’ll agree to keep running the company.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uh but when you look at the graph upside down it, um, I mean sideways it, uh shut up
(shitposting aside ♥️❤️♥️)
ThePantser@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Coining it now, Cryberust
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 months ago
This made me laugh. Thank you. That was fantastic.
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could play it poorly quite well thank you very much!!
Artyom@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’d play a game with that name
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem::One of the more standout qualities of the Tesla Cybertruck is its bare stainless-steel body. The stainless-steel body gives the Cybertruck a unique design, but
Bot has great comedic timing.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
So they used the wrong grade of stainless?
FFS add it to the pile of embarrassment
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Worse, it’s a proprietary tesla steel.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Given their current track record for QA I’m going to guess that it’s the lowest grade they could still call stainless
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s not really a surprise at this point. They’ve been avoiding automotive grade parts for a reasonable amount of their cars. Notably the screen.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Link that isn’t behind VPN blocking site: archive.is/37ibH
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Rust proofing. Wasn’t that something dealers would add in as a scam for a few bucks?
Once again, there is a Seinfeld reference here.
I need a Seinfeld reference bot.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
filefly@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Yeah, but when the hell is it going to get wet? You don’t drive these things outside.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I saw one in the bay area Sunday, it absolutely had a distinct mud/baby-poop patina. Couldn’t believe how much it stood out, how non-practical it appeared to be as a truck (I’d take a Rivian r1t any day for functional truck), and just how rusted it appeared to be (I thought it had driven through mud at first, but it was way too evenly dispersed), it couldn’t have been a year old, or seen more than ten days rain.
taiyang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol; now to be fair (and I’m by no means a truck guy), I find the Rivian absolutely adorable with it’s unique headlight design. Makes me think of Megaman every time I see one, for some reason.
Ok, adorable might not be what a truck driver wants to hear, but I’m the kind of person who yells “tiny dick” to himself every time I see a F-250 or bigger, in pristine condition and nothing in the back. Adorable = not insecure = cool dude or dudette.
Guest_User@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do specific cars actually make you think of other men’s cocks? I too think pavement princess trucks are a joke but I just don’t understand why other people seem to think of genitals when they see vehicles.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think I’d prefer a patina over the bare stainless. It would make it look like something out of mad Max. There are steels that will form an oxidizing layer that actually protects the metal.
Raxiel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Weathering steel, we used it for bridges all the time a few years ago, although it seems to have fallen out of favour recently. Asset owners liked it because you don’t have to repaint it every few years (good for both reducing disruption and avoids having people work at height).
The patina can look quite nice (in my subjective opinion) but it’s not particularly resistant to impact, and requires a thicker section size than painted steel.
Automotive application could certainly be… Interesting.
ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good news, everyone!
Well, the sooner these fugly things rust back into the earth, the better.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Since I first saw a picture of the thing I thought it was ugly as hell. Last week I saw one in real life and I have to say, it’s even uglier than I thought it was. And it really looks like it could have been an '80s era crappy kit car for a full size truck chassis. I mean, strikingly ugly and stupid looking. Embarrassingly so.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve seen a few now and every time I can’t help but think that it’s like what a 4 year old with a marker and paper trying to draw a truck from memory would look like in real life.
Gazumi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just as with the battery issues, owners will be out with warranty for driving in the rain
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just now realizing this are we?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh no…anyways…
Lobotomie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can someone share some information on the actual steel they use? This linkedin thread says they use 301, someone in this thread says they use a proprietary steel? (Can someone share the chemical analysis in this case?)
anubis119@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oil…can…
zurohki@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m not sure Lemmy has many users old enough to get that reference.
anubis119@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most people that can afford a Cybertruck should get it. Then again, not many Cybertruck owners are on Lemmy. But if they were on Lemmy, they’d probably pose as non-owners of the Cybertruck, thus meaning they’d pretend to not get it… Oh no, I’ve gone crosseyed…
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s a you (tesla) problem not a we problem.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They should have went with weathering steel instead, and just leaned into it. This is literally Delorean all over again. Beginning to think Musk microchipped his own brain.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 8 months ago
How on Earth do you fuck that up?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Jesus Christ that crab is after us for our cars’ extended warranties now!
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Great news! Tell me - does he happen to make spaceships as well?
Asudox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thought it was Rustlang lol
tourist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same, but I’ve heard nothing but good things so I thought this was strange.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a fix, it just cost 6k…
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Selling you back the clear coat they never gave it.
PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The car equivalent of launch DLC that should have been in the base game
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Urethane? You mean paint?
www.eastwood.com/…/single-stage-urethane.html
vinylshrapnel@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
They keep using the words “stainless steel” which is an alloy created to be rustproof by removing the iron out of it. So how exactly is this stainless steel if it rusts?
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are different types of stainless steel. Remember kids, it’s stain less not stain never.
kiwi5400@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m being pedantic here, but stainless steel still has iron in it. The addition of chromium forms an oxide layer on the surface that prevents rust. If the body is rusting, that means they used a shitty grade of stainless. Stainless with an appropriate amount of chromium (and nickel) is expensive as fuck.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Stainless has chromium added. Iron is still the main element. Different stainless steels have various other elements added, like molybdenum. There’s a wide range of SS for various purposes. Not sure which one they used.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 months ago
it rusts less, far less in fact, but it still does rust.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The answer is in the name. It’s stainless not stainproof