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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/electriccars

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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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (13 children)

TLDR Cybertruck is glued together garbage.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (10 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

On the other hand, they did need to be carefully inspected and some of them replaced after every trip. Some minor bits of trim maybe, but it is not okay to have the quarter panels glued on.

[–] dorkage 1 points 2 months ago

I dislike this vehicle as much as the rest.

But gluing panels one is normal. Windshields have been glued in for forever.

Panels on LRVs and Buses are glued on.

There is nothing wrong with the concept of gluing panels on.

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