Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why (www.roadandtrack.com)

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"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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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

the trim piece that flew off of his truck is connected to a plastic frame bolted directly to the car; that trim piece, he says, is stuck to the frame with adhesive rather than welded or bolted to anything. That adhesive has seemingly failed in multiple places on his truck, leading to the loosened roofline trim panels.

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Most modern monocoque vehicles are held together with 2-part adhesive which (when correctly applied) is stronger than welds.

The reason is that most vehicles are composite of different metals and alloys, fire to different components requiring different properties, and if they are directly connected, the different metals would result in galvanic corrosion.

The problem is when the surfaces aren’t suitably prepared prior to the adhesive being applied, or the adhesive is not correctly applied which may happen during manufacturing because the workers are laughing so hard that anyone would purchase one of these hideous monstrosities.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Somebody just go start a class action lawsuit already 😅

[-] Markovchain@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised Muskrat's rockets don't blow up more!

Everything about the Swasticar is so crappy.

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I do have to admit that their normal cars (that are built in China) are actually very well built.

The problems with the Cybertruck are;

a complete fuck-knuckle had complete creative control and did not leave it to his engineers.
like all^^ US manufactured vehicles, it is a piece of Shit.

^^ (the greater majority of)

this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025

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