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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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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 48 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

TLDR Cybertruck is glued together garbage.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 points 17 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.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

But then you are still supposed to be able to remove panels to perform repairs.

Who am I kidding, Teslas are the iPhone of cars. They don't give a crap about repairability.

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