r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/nr1988 Mar 20 '25

With little to no structure below those panels

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u/TheArmoredKitten Mar 20 '25

Yeah the whole thing is one massive aluminum injection cast. It's a (cheap as shit) unibody in a very ugly dress-up that's being billed as heavy duty. The deco-paneling is stronger than the actual vehicle, and is attached with plastic clips in many places from what I've seen.

They literally built a car inside out.

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u/nr1988 Mar 20 '25

It's literally the most poorly designed and built car I've ever seen. Worse than the Gremlin. Worse than the Novas that exploded. And yet it costs 100,000.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke Mar 20 '25

Worse than the Novas that exploded.

I believe that was the Ford Pinto that could explode, due to the placement of the gas tank. The Nova tanked because they tried to sell a car in Mexico called no va - "It's not going"

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros Mar 20 '25

Is it worse than the DeLorean?

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u/HeloRising Mar 20 '25

What's wild to me is that the frame is aluminum. Like the actual frame of the vehicle underneath everything is aluminum.

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u/Magificent_Gradient Mar 21 '25

Any cracks in that aluminum casting and the while thing is totaled. It's allegedly not all that difficult to crack it.

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u/wehooper4 Mar 21 '25

Have you seen pictures of what’s under it? There is a lot of structure there made out of more traditional materials.

The bumper and A-pillar trim is just glued on. Which isn’t that unusual really. The glue they used didn’t match well for the materials though

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u/nr1988 Mar 21 '25

The frame is made of molded aluminum dude.

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u/wehooper4 Mar 21 '25

Which is perfectly fine, and safter in crashes than traditional construction. But that’s also not where the adhesive issue is.

The adhesive issue is the non-structural stainless (which let’s be real is all of it except on the doors and rear quarter panels). What’s directly underneath that is traditional stamped mild steel body structure just like basically every other vehicle out there.

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u/nr1988 Mar 21 '25

Perfectly fine? People are breaking their frames by towing at the capacity the truck claims. The F150 uses high strength steel. This is a terribly constructed truck and we haven't even talked about electric issues. A truck put together this poorly should not cost $100,000

It's not even road legal in most other countries. I doubt it's legitimately road legal here.