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

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/electriccars@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 48 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

TLDR Cybertruck is glued together garbage.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Glue is fine, if it's the right kind.

IIRC, the ceramic tiles were glued onto the Space Shuttle, and during re-entry it was exceeding Mach 12.

I've used structural adhesives that were stronger than the metal they held together, during stress tests the metal ripped before the adhesive failed. I believe Lotus was using adhesives on cars in the 80's, maybe 90's, because welding was problematic.

Mind, I'm not defending the monstrosity here, just clearly they chose the wrong adhesive.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know a whole lot about it, but doesn't glue tend to degrade over time?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's probably that bell curve graph with the concave head and the sage monk saying "glue breaks down over time" and the crying tryhard who says "There's basically no such thing as 'glue' because we use all manner of things as adhesives that have almost nothing in common; some do break down with time or heat or vibration or moisture or light or scathing remarks, others have held furniture together for thousands of years."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So Elon decided to use one that breaks down with heat/moisture/vibration in his... Trucks?

Interesting, as they say.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

More likely than not they used the one that breaks down when exposed to scathing remarks

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