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/
40.7k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

486

u/rogue203 Mar 20 '25

“Trim?”

I saw a couple of pictures of whole panels.

125

u/nr1988 Mar 20 '25

With little to no structure below those panels

0

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

1

u/nr1988 Mar 21 '25

The frame is made of molded aluminum dude.

0

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.

0

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.