why would the tesla engineers commit terrorism like this
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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It really is a metaphor for the current state of America.
It’s 18 months old and falling apart, literally.
Between this and the door falling off a Boeing airplane, not so sure we should be all hot to make everything in 'merica 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Worth noting that both of these companies have essentially blank checks from the government and use it as a funnel for taxpayers to shareholders who then dont pay taxes. It’s a Ponzi scheme that just happens to make airplanes and shit people actually need.
But are too scared to nationalize.
Boeing (and McDonnell Douglas before them) actually made good planes when engineers ran the show. Then, the finance bros took over.
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That's because Tesla is a data collection company, not a car manufacturer 😂
Here is a guy explaining the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8
It appears multiple panels on the truck are just glued on which is crazy. Will Tesla just slather on bunch more glue and call it good? That seems like a bandaid over a pretty major problem. I'll be sure there is a large distance between my car and one of these shitty trucks on the road in case they decide to shed some large panels.
Small text on the bottom of purchase agreement: ~This vehicle is not meant to be used as transportation in an external environment, any use outside of a garage or small enclosed campus is outside of the scope of this vehicle's design and should be avoided.~
According to the article I read yesterday they are adding stronger glue and a bolt.
That is also what this article says.
Although a single bolt is going to need to be quite strong to hold down a long piece of steel exposed to high speed wind regularly.
High speed wind hitting a car? A chance in a million!
Let's hope they won't cheap out on those bolts. Thankfully cheaping out on everything is not an habit they have, right?
They probably had some office assistant order a pallet of bolts from Home Depot.
This is the company that glued the accelerator pedal on, you think they know what grade of bolt they need?
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Staying away from cybertrucks is just good sense anyway. They're being driven by morons and are NOT safe to be in a collision with. S'why they're not road legal in the EU - they're too dangerous to things they collide with.
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This has exposed the sales numbers, and impressively, it's sold even worse than the Fire Phone.
46k trucks sold so far. For comparison, rivian sells about that many of their trucks every year.
I still can't believe that 46k people are both that stupid and have 100k to spend.
. . . and have 100k to spend.
You can get an 84 month auto loan these days if you're dumb enough to do it.
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If you’re dumb, and you can get $15-17k from selling an existing vehicle, you can get a 3 year lease down to delta of $500-$600.
Telsa was pushing leases pretty hard because a lot of EV incentives are lease-only. I’ll bet they duped a lot of people into putting a shitload down for a lease.
Go to Boulder CO and you’ll see plenty of rich morons with that kinda cash. I saw multiple swastitrucks a day over there
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To be fair, Rivian is selling as many trucks as they can produce. Rivian could sell more vehicles if they had the line capacity.
Tesla is an older company with more mature manufacturing lines, and they can make more Trucks, but no one wants them.
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Every wankpanzer ever? I had to check it wasn't the onion. It's not the onion.
Based Tesla makes a car that vandalizes itself
Could this be the worst designed car ever made? I really wish we could have a Top Gear episode on it.
Whislindiesel made short work of one of these cars, absolutely glorious
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The side is falling off.
And this time it is indeed typical
This is why we don't make them out of paper, or paper derivatives.
This reminds me of "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off" skit XD
A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I'm the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he'd said this, I'd already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn't gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude's choice of vehicle told me I'd made the right choice.
Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he's changed his mind about it.
The new models are being fixed by “nut clamping”
Is this a service rendered to the owners or the vehicles?
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Haha
The difference with the old trim is that the new one will have a better adhesive assembly and “a stud welded to the stainless panel with a nut clamping the steel panel to the vehicle structure.”
It's a good thing Elon doesn't think "exposed screw heads are cool.". This could have been fixed with a carbide drill bit and some self-tapping screws.
Even the melted ones? 😄
So what i gather is there's probably a readily available solvent to dissolve the glue and make any Swasticar Wankpanzer fall the fuck apart?
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I can't help but think "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" with this news
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