Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’
Oh shit, the sun came out and I forgot to put my Cybertruck into “Sunlight Mode”.
It’s bricked now, but it’s really my fault.
“…a pigeon could shit on it, who knows!”
You were holding the
phonetruck wrong
Telsa’s designers have weird history with water. I get the sense that they just don’t do a lot of proper testing in wet environments.
For example, it’s not uncommon for a lot of Teslas to actually grow mold in their air filtration system because they don’t properly drain water.
For example: https://youtu.be/vQxP6PaSmLc
Maybe that happens if you design a car like an iPod with a bunch of engineers living in California and Texas.
TX and CA do get plenty of rain. In fact, TX gets hit with hurricanes all the time.
It’s worse: they are not doing sufficient testing. This is why the larger manufacturers are passing Tesla by - they already have the standards and procedures in place.
Texas has plenty of rain and car washes. This is just bad overall design.
True, and GM makes plenty of cars that rust at the drop of a hat. My old truck had its brake lines sandwiched between the bed and the frame, and they weren’t non-corrosive, so these things regularly fail if you don’t keep them dry.
California has had it’s share of rain too
“There’s no water on Mars so we don’t have to worry about it” - Elon, probably
Carwash mode? U wot M8?
🤣😂… God bless these clowns for making me laugh.
Probably prevents auto engagement of the parking lock and emergency breaking which would result in damage when the car gets dragged along the chain drive in the car wash. At least that’s what that does in my car.
…so carwash mode is just fancy neutral?
Dunno, for my car it is a bit more. No automatic wipers, no automatic braking and it prevents the parking lock and the parking brake from engaging.
While that explanation of yours is helpful and comprehensible, the whole thing seems stupid to me. But then again, my 1999 Golf has none of those features and I wouldn’t want them either.
Not even a water issue.
The advisor said that “it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours.”
This is crappy and lax software testing and verification testing.
That’ll be
80k, 100k.Which is incredible considering Tesla’s software is typically considered their strong point. This is just a train wreck.
“world’s most expensive brick”
Even this insult gives the Cybertruck too much credit. That piece of shit isn’t worth anywhere near as much as the actual world’s most expensive brick: a standard 400-troy-ounce gold brick, for instance, is worth about $930K today.
The largest one is 15 million dollars O_o
Those are called “bars” and not bricks, it even says so in your link. So technically it cannot qualify as the world’s most expensive brick since it isn’t a brick at all.
But gold-pressed latinum comes in bricks so I think they would win.
Can we just say that Cybertruck is basically a sum of everything wrong with right wing wackos?
“Look at me, I’m a badass, driving around in a badass vehicle, unlike you filthy libruls. … Aww shucks! There’s road salt! And my accelerator pedal just fell off wtf. …OH NO! A LITTLE WATER TOO! Anything but that!”
I’m amused that liberals bash Tesla for being a conservative virtue signaler by extension of Elon, while conservatives bash Tesla for being an EV virtue signal for liberal tree huggers.
How are there so many things wrong with this vehicle? Like a total recall for the accelerator pedal sounds like the least of their concerns when the car can be bricked by a reboot and the exterior isn’t allowed to have bird shit on it unless it’s removed immediately.
I mean, I know why. But how? Aren’t vehicles massively regulated? How did any of these make it off the production line?
Depends on the local laws. It’s not road legal in the EU, for example
Even if it were, it weighs 3,4 tons empty. Most EU Citizens have drivers licenses that allow cars up to 3,5 tons max. weight, including driver, passengers and cargo.
It’s impossible to use in the EU without an actual truck driving license.
“Truck driving licence” is rather simplifying it.
There are carious degrees of licences between B (up to 3500kg) and a “proper” truck driving licence, CE, which allows you to operate actual full combination trucks.
C1, one above B is basically a van licence, and that’s up to 7500 kg and up to eight people. This is a fairly common licence.
I myself have a C licence, which was also very common to drive when I went through driving school, and it has no weight limit. I can drive a truck of any size, but I don’t have an “actual truck licence” in the sense that I don’t have the CE licence nor do I have the professional licence for a C sized truck. (And I can’t drive buses, those call for a D licence instead)
So basically something that exceeds 3500kg but isn’t a professional vehicle is the only thing my C would be useful for. B class licence is certainly more common, but C and especially C1 are still plenty common.
That’ll change when EVs begin to dominate the market, they all weigh considerably more than their ICE counterparts.
Thank god. At least I won’t die of cringe after seeing this on the streets.
Vehicle regulations are typically only for emission standards or exhaust loudness. For the most part as long as the vehicle can do the speed limit there’s very little regulation on the matter.
Just to play devil’s advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).
That’s the best defense I can give.
Tesla made good cars before. It is reasonable to assume that they would continue to do that. The people that have a cyberteuck today are people that paid for it years ago, so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.
I can’t account for Tesla’s continuing and worsenin quality control though as well as their cost saving measures that make the cars less safe. I don’t know how you see those trends and not cancel your pre order.
so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.
Hard disagree here. A) I knew from the first moment they showed a picture of it how bad it would be. You could tell it was a car a 7 year old would design and have all the faults that come with that. B) Those people have had years to cancel those deposits, during which we’ve seen how shitty it was going to be.
Standard “Good Delivery” 400-oz gold bricks are worth about $930k today.
This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can’t use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.
And 9 cameras you have to consent to using. Total and utter crap.
I make sure to spread my butthole to each and every one of them while it starts up. It’s my morning ritual
Thank you for your service
🫡
You can be a true fartographer
I’ve been doing that for years. Guess I always knew these were coming
Appropriate, since I always reflexively start doing the Hand Wash gesture every time I see one.
This is definitely not true. Teslas can absolutely go through a car wash. They do recommend touchless ones, but pretty much every manufacturer does.
There’s gotta be some misinformation going around.
I rented a Mach-E recently and drove it a ton around Texas. I was warned at the desk not to take it in a car wash, but I also drove it through the craziest rainstorm my Yankee eyes have ever seen.
I think dragging them is the issue. They can get wet.
To all the chuds that bought this…
Insert Nelson HAAAA HAAAA
Gold bricks are worth like $750k so its definitely not the most expensive brick.
I have zero sympathy for any of the 3878 chumps who wasted their money on this vehicle. They knew exactly what they were getting
You never know. Someone could make a time travel movie with it one day and then collectors will pay an arm and a leg for the left door.
It was an expensive brick before the car wash, too.
Wait, so Car Wash mode has to be on while driving in the rain also?
Did they hire former boeing engineers?
