Tesla's Cybertrucks were 'rushed out,' are malfunctioning at astounding rate

[Caribbeans]

Source: NY Post

Tesla’s long-delayed — and pricey — Cybertrucks are getting panned by furious owners for malfunctioning at an alarming rate just months after Elon Musk’s futuristic vehicle hit the road.

Tales of the stainless steel Cybertrucks dying after traveling just 1 mile, randomly hard-braking on a wide-open road and already showing rust spots, among other gripes, were shared in the Tesla Owners’ Club forum.

In a thread titled “Worst delivery in my life (truck died in 5 minutes),” a Southern California-based owner wrote that after taking his truck for a spin the same day it was delivered last month, the vehicle “made it 1 mile down road, started getting steering error, flashing red screen, pulled off side of highway now the truck is dead and I’m waiting for a tow truck.”

“Dealer couldn’t do anything for me. It was great for 5 minutes. Tried everything, restarting, screen is stuck black and keeps beeping,” the user added in the thread, first reported on by automotive news site Jalopnik...more

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/business/teslas-cybertrucks-were-rushed-out-are-malfunctioning-at-astounding-rate/

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r/CyberStuck

[peppertree]

1. FIAT: Fix It Again, Tesla

So they're hideous and lemons.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

38. Hideous Lemons would be a cool name for a EuroRock/Synth band

[Ocelot II]

2. Like Eloon himself, who also seems to malfunction at an astounding rate.

[yankee87]

3. Tesla- wasted opportunity

Had the entire industry, and he squandered it.
I’m sad because this may set back EV sales from all companies.

[peppertree]

6. +1

Big Awl's secret weapon?

[OAITW r.2.0]

54. It was kinda over when Elon bought Twitter for 44BB dollars. He lost the Tesla script when he decided he needed to own

the Libs, his primary buying market. Well played, Stupid.

[C Moon]

4. I've seen a few in my area. Not the most beautiful vehicle on the road, that's for sure.

[ToxMarz]

45. I think the term is

'Butt Ugly'

[peppertree]

88. Or Fugly - like Muskrat himself

[doc03]

5. I think that will go down as the ugliest vehicle ever produced. An Edsel is a

work of art compared to that thing.

[peppertree]

8. +1

Clark Griswold can finally die in peace.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. You didn't order the metallic pea?

[JoseBalow]

40. You think you hate it now, but wait 'til you drive it!

[SergeStorms]

53. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster?

I'd buy one every day of the week before I bought one single Tesla.

[MuseRider]

69. Coffee just came out

of my nose! I LOVE that movie and this was perfect!

[peppertree]

77. Why, thank you

The best description I've read, is that it looks like Mad Max's contraption.



It's in there somewhere...

[OMGWTF]

7. Those things look like an angry kitchen applicance.

Hahahahaha Eloon. And now you have ruined Tesla too. EETD

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

39. Yep, copy and share!

#EETD Everything Elmo Touches Dies

[IronLionZion]

9. They're hideous and rust quickly

And needs to be towed up a slippery hill.

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. They are too ugly not to be more functional

That truck would have to wash itself, change it's own tires and pleasure me daily for me to buy something that looks like an ugly tank from the movie Robocop.

[Aristus]

21. Tanks may have a beauty only tankers can appreciate.

I understand that they're supposed to be ugly; they are for killing, after all.

But tankers think they are beautiful because form follows function 100%. It has to. A tank can't have a pretty paint job, or beauty panels.

Anyway, just a thought from an old tanker.

[SouthernDem4ever]

23. Agreed and it would be a good argument

if this was supposed to be a tank.

[Aristus]

25. Yeah. No way you'd ever get me in Elon's piece of junk.

My platoon sergeant when I was in Germany had a classic 1950's pick-up truck with a pearly-pink finish. At the end of the day, we used to pile in the back, just like in the movies, for a ride back to the barracks. Not a pick-up truck guy, but his was nice.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

63. I don't understand why it is called a "truck". Can't see any way to haul a payload.

Somebody should have consulted a 6 y.o. kid about the design -- it wouldn't be so ugly.

[MuseRider]

71. I wonder how many

bags of grain or bales of alfalfa I could fit in that thing? I can put several weeks worth in my old HHR but this "truck"? Bwahahaha, I would get laughed out of the parking lot at the feed store!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

72. I wonder if we will ever see one of those things with racks...

You could at least get a couple of bags of corn to stay on the thing, then.

[MuseRider]

86. Ha Ha Ha Ha!

I love that little truck!

I can imagine this scene, one of the Tesla trucks (HAHA) Beverly Hillbillied, with Granny in her rocker with her gun etc. and a big old slobbery dog. That is likely the future of people in this country anyway. A couple of goats would look cute in this truck.

[mahina]

93. That truck is a thing.of.beauty.

Unlike some. Ahem(cyberstank)

[TheRealNorth]

85. Why would you make a vehicle today with a steel exterior?

Excluding the structural support/frame and underbody, I thought most car companies decided the newer materials like carbon fiber for the body panels were better than steel because they don't rust and it is really the frame that is important when it comes to crash safety.

I think the only exterior panel of my car that is steel is the hood (I presume it has to be made of steel due to the amount of heat from the engine)

Maybe Elon was trying to court the survivalists? (Is the steel thick enought to stop small caliber bullets?)

[IronLionZion]

89. If you enjoy easily disproven lies, Musk describes it on the Tesla website

https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

NO PAINT, NO CHIPS
AN ULTRA-HARD STAINLESS-STEEL EXOSKELETON HELPS TO REDUCE DENTS, DAMAGE AND LONG-TERM CORROSION. REPAIRS ARE SIMPLE AND QUICK.

SHATTER-RESISTANT
ARMOR GLASS CAN RESIST THE IMPACT OF A BASEBALL AT 70 MPH OR CLASS 4 HAIL. ACOUSTIC GLASS HELPS MAKE THE CABIN AS QUIET AS OUTER SPACE

BEYOND
PREPARED
HAUL EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITH 2,500 POUNDS PAYLOAD AND 11,000 POUNDS TOWING CAPACITY—THE EQUIVALENT OF AN AVERAGE AFRICAN ELEPHANT. THE SUPER-TOUGH COMPOSITE BED DOESN’T NEED A LINER AND IS BIG ENOUGH FOR 4'X8’ CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS.

PACK
IT UP
ACCESS A 6’X4’ BED, PLUS EVEN MORE ROOM IN THE FRONT TRUNK, ON THE ROOF AND IN A HIDDEN GEAR LOCKER.

DOPAMINE
GO 0-60 MPH IN JUST 2.6 SECONDS† IN BEAST MODE WHILE MAINTAINING HIGH-SPEED STABILITY. WITH STEER-BY-WIRE AND REAR STEERING, YOU GET THE HANDLING OF A SPORTS CAR AND A BETTER TURNING RADIUS THAN MOST SEDANS.

[pfitz59]

12. Ugly, too heavy and have little utility

a vanity vehicle that is a huge waste of potential.

[peppertree]

15. Like ILL-on himself

Or his buddy Trump.

[Voltaire2]

61. That describes most oversized pickup trucks.

[4lbs]

13. I saw a CyberTruck last week.... being towed by a Ford F-150 Lightning.

[Biophilic]

14. I can't figure out why anyone would want to shell out money for this ugliness.

Saw one on the road a few weeks ago. I was just astonished by its ugliness. Sat next to it at a light. Gave me a chance to look it over. Man, what a waste of resources. Nothing but a vanity, see how cool I am, purchase.

[peppertree]

18. You're not kidding. It finally dethroned the Nissan Cube as the ugliest car of the modern era.

When I saw that that's what ILL-loon was unveiling as the "next big thing," I told my blockhead father to sell his Tesla shares.

He didn't. And as you can imagine, we don't bring it up whenever I see him.

[GB_RN]

22. I Think You Forgot One...

The Aztec. That thing beat the shit out of a Nissan Cube in terms of ugly.

[Biophilic]

24. Yes, agreed, but Elon's truck wins hands down.

[GB_RN]

33. It Is An Ugly-Assed POS...

For sure.

[LisaM]

30. The Aztec was AWFUL, but are you forgetting..

the Volkswagen "Thing"?

[GB_RN]

32. Can't Say I'm Even Familiar With That One...

And based on the way you say it, it sounds like I should be grateful! 😂

[hatrack]

70. It was the 1940s, by way of the 1970s . . .

[GB_RN]

73. OK...

Definitely ugly. I can see the “Volkswagen” in it; it looks like a squared off Beetle.

[hatrack]

74. WWII photos and films show plenty of these running around . . .

Staff cars for Nazi officers in many cases, but for 1,001 other uses as well.

[VMA131Marine]

83. It's basically a Type 82 Kbelwagen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VW_Kuebelwagen_1.jpg

[MichMan]

37. VW Thing is very collectible

It is a consumer variation of the German WWII type of jeep.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

41. I wish I'd had one

I had a Bug and a Ghia myself and good memories of the VW day camper we had. That camper is what I learned to drive on.

[obamanut2012]

91. My uncle has one

I have begged him to leave it to me, I love it. I learned to drive via The Thing and an old column-shifter Rambler.

[Easterncedar]

49. What about the Gremlin?

Distinctive, for sure, especially the way pieces kept falling off it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

64. The VW Thing was useful and practical. It was spartan. Egoloon's thing simply represents his ego.

[brush]

84. The Aztec, hands down is one of the ugliest vehicles ever produced.

I'd add Gremlins, Pacers, Yugos, and The Thing.

[True Dough]

55. I remember the Cube!

And i also thought it was totally unappealing, esthetically speaking.

[dembotoz]

80. i liked the cube...did not buy one but liked it

i will never afford a cool car
so maybe an odd car....

i had a gremlin and loved it.

[dalton99a]

16. Suckers

[cstanleytech]

17. *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* The sound of a tow truck loading up a Tesla which many owners better get used to.

[kysrsoze]

19. This is what you get when Musk is in charge of design.

Now that the CIO who was really running the company has quit, watch for much darker times for this company. If the board doesn’t oust Elmo, it will get much worse.

[GB_RN]

20. Mad Max Called...

He wants his truck back.

I swear, if not Mad Max, then it looks like this thing was built for some other 1980s, post-apocalypse movie.

[marble falls]

29. Max would not be driving those pieces of shit.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

43. I suggest that an update of 1977's 'Damnation Alley' with Jan Michael Vincent is what this was made for

If it doesn't start at :40, fast forward there

?feature=shared&t=40

[GB_RN]

67. Oh, Wow...

That’s…bad doesn’t begin to describe it. Terrible is still inadequate. Terribad might be a beginning, but still weak. 😂

But as to the “cyber truck”, yeah, it fits in that waste of ~ 1 minute that I will never get back. 😉

[marble falls]

26. Oh Noes.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

44. They look like you can fry an egg on them

Remember the Delorian?

[marble falls]

46. I know, right?

[GarColga]

27. How the heck are people

going to clean the insides of those windows?

[onecaliberal]

28. Womp womp.

A fool and his money, will soon be parted.

[LudwigPastorius]

31. Waiting for the inevitable Boeing/Tesla merger.

[ms liberty]

34. They're also incredibly fugly.

Fugly = f**king ugly

[JoseBalow]

42. Fugly f**king ugly

[Grokenstein]

35. Perhaps someday humanity will stop putting idiot inheritor celebrities on pedestals

and calling them "the creators." I doubt I'll live to see it, but it would be a glorious renaissance.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

36. Never has this meme been more appropriate!

?1621889878

[moniss]

47. Long ago I dubbed it

the Tedsel.

[Ferrets are Cool]

48. Wait one moment while I...

You buy one of these, you deserve every moment of torture it brings you.

[Kid Berwyn]

50. Looks like Jetsons.

Runs like Flintstones.

[OAITW r.2.0]

51. I'm betting Cybertruck is 100% Elon's design.

Stupid, 9 YO design.

[RockRaven]

52. Even though people too infrequently get what they deserve, it

DOES happen on occasion.

[PSPS]

56. What is sardonically funny is that Tesla has no clue how to fabricate and handle stainless steel.

[yardwork]

75. Steel has been around how long? These guys are super engineers?

They don't even know how to make stainless steel? But they're cutting edge engineers?

[Ocelot II]

57. Ugly, expensive, and they don't work. What's not to like?

[cos dem]

58. I'll bet it doesn't even play "La Cucaracha"

[NBachers]

59. One came up behind me yesterday- We pulled over and let it go past, just to take a look. What's the idea calling it a

truck if you can't load 2 x 4's, sheetrock, plywood, cement blocks, or bags of concrete into it and haul them to the job? The damn thing won't even fit a bicycle!

[Demovictory9]

60. "It was great for 5 minutes. "

Lol. Too much tech?

[Blue Owl]

62. The Muskmobile is a hideous abomination on wheels

I’ve never seen anything so ugly

[bucolic_frolic]

65. Best not to buy new models, give it 2-3 years to work the bugs out. /nt

[catbyte]

66. It looks like a lame version of those vehicles storm chasers build to withstand tornadoes.

Except those actually were built for a purpose, unlike Eloon's vanity project. It also proves that all of his taste is in his mouth. That thing looks ridiculous.

[tornado34jh]

68. Haste makes waste as they say

We know how the Boeing 737 MAX turned out because they wanted to save money and not do safety designs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

76. Who is surprised by this?

[getagrip_already]

78. Remember when then the loon hit the bullet proof glaas with a bat...

And it broke?

Yeah. That was a hint.

Where are all the tesla apologists?

Oh well.

[grumpyduck]

79. First time I saw the design, I thought they intended it

to look like a stealth fighter.

[Ursus Rex]

81. I saw that design in some "men's magazine" in like 1979

Either Playboy or Penthouse (can't recall). I was doing research for a middle-school project on "Cars of the Future" and that article showed up in a literature search - the cool librarians at South Alabama got me ILL photocopies and I relied on the info heavily (I didn't see the color versions for years).

It wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if Elon once saw that same article and instead of just doing a report, tried to make it happen without doing any use-case research etc.

[dembotoz]

82. any new car can break down and the lack of a dealer network

I mean where the f**k do you have AAA tow it

[beaglelover]

87. There are Tesla service centers all over the country.

[dembotoz]

90. per tesla 2 in the whole fricken state of wisconsin

hope you have the extra special towing package from AAA

yep thats a dealer network you can trust

[beaglelover]

92. Yeah, the people is less populated states will have fewer service stations. Not an issue here is southern CA.

There's a service center 5 mintues away from my house. Very convenient!

[Zorro]

94. I believe Autopilot has not been implemented on the Cybertruck yet

Although not impossible, I'd be a little suspicious of some of these complaints.