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Total recall for the Cybertruck. The gas pedal cover comes loose (it's neither rivetted or glued), wedges itself under the dash, resulting in a 100% throttle. So 3000 rust buckets from the US are going back to the "dealers". Elon is a genius
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Gas pedal you say, in a Tesla???
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Originally Posted by Martylaa
Perfect
It seems the product is a disaster , yet another failure from Musk
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Not according to Matt Watson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adZztW0YbJ0
And people are buying them
https://www.motor1.com/news/716771/t...y-numbers/amp/
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So many issues being reported, one guy drove it from the forecourt his windscreen went red and the car died , he had on 3 minutes
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If it’s like every other electric car, a prod of the accelerator will make the brakes engage and it will stop?
Their recall fix is a self tapper through the accelerator cover.
Doubtful it’s stainless.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
I’d love to see a photo of someone that’s been hit with one of these, by the look of it with flat edges and stainless it’s going to cause serious damage if a body comes in contact with it at any speed.
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I’ve never heard of that before, I’ll have to find a quiet road and give it a try.
Must be gutted, and only the second richest man in the world.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
He won't be forever if he keeps making crap products
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Same with almost any SUV or truck. Move the main point of impact up from the legs and you're going to be causing more damage to a human, especially with the weight and potential for it to accelerate much faster than a human can make it stop.
"A man of little significance"
Chinese are eating his lunch, hence another round of price slashing on his other car models.
To some he can do no wrong, personally I think he's struggling but let's see, the truck looks like a disaster to me
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There's a massive change already underway in what cars are and why people buy them. 90% of the Chinese market, where so many EVs are being built, are for the market below £35k, but those buyers want size and technology (and that's what our immediate future looks like as these cars are imported here in massive numbers). The buyers in China are mostly people who'd not have had a car 20 years ago and want to catch up fast. It seems to be the same here, people are perfectly happy to keep getting bigger and bigger cars until we reach gridlock on everything but the biggest roads and only every other car park space is useable. Cybertrucks aren't bought to be used as trucks, they're a statement, an Instagram post, something completely different to what everyone else drives, something oversized and attracting attention. Personally I have no interest in buying one (or any other Tesla) but really like the in your face aspect of the design. You don't buy a big truck or SUV because you want something subtle, so make it crazy instead, and you don't buy a Cybertruck if you want to haul logs. I really laugh at anyone who thinks any SUV or truck is good-looking but in a market where the Tesla is put in the same category as the F150 and Dodge Ram, even the Rivian R1T, I don't see why the Cybertruck comes in for so much criticism. They're all ugly awful things, why is any one any more awful than the others?
"A man of little significance"
You can't even fit a push bike on the cyber truck bed
And tbf 90% of road users are still better off with a hybrid, Toyota still adamant about that
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I imagine stateside preppers love the Cybertruck it has a rather Logans Run- post zombie apocalypse vibe, the steel and sharp looking edges!...it´d be really fascinating to know if they´ve been bought by Dems or Reps...Didn´t Elno claim the glass would be armoured, bullet proof in the CT so I guess that was a USP over a F150 or other truck, then he rather embarrassingly smashed a window on the display model with a stick iirc, lolz...Ah the madness of billionaire moguls and crowds...
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Bit like all the ‘ANIMAL’ etc 4dr pose-ups you see at Wickes wondering how to fit stuff in the back then!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Yeah but even those are bigger lol
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I can’t imagine we’ll see many Cybertrucks over here in the UK, they’ll be limited to business promotion tools, YouTubers or car collectors.
Still, 2m pre-orders for the truck apparently, so not sure about it being a failure.
If I was in the market for an electric pickup truck, the Ford F150 Lightning would be my pick. Fortunately, I’m not in that market and never will be.
Cybertruck isn't being sold in Europe as the design doesn't comply with basic safety standards in the event of a collision with a pedestrian.
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The development cost of the cybertruck would have been much better spent on a smaller crossover vehicle for European markets as that’s that the consumer wants at the moment, rather than this vanity project.
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Nor do lots of US market vehicles, but that doesn’t stop people from importing them to the UK.
I expect the number imported will be small, but It’ll be the new Hummer for those people who drive them for whatever reason.
Personally, I would agree with that, but seems the planned ‘Model 2’ has been canned as Musk feels it wouldn’t compete with the raft of competitor vehicles coming in that space, and he sees the future as ‘Robo Taxis’ or some such.
Still, u-turns and about faces aren’t uncommon with Musk!
Neither is making products with loads of faults charging loads of money for poor production standards
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I’m no Tesla/Musk ‘fanboi’, but the (somewhat perversely!) China built M3s like the one my wife owns were a step up build quality wise from the Fremont examples that came before them and gave Tesla the reputational issues that are hard to shake off.
No mass manufacture is immune from quality issues, even Toyota, so perspective is required.
That said, my wife is due to replace hers early next year, and she’s decided it won’t be another Tesla as she doesn’t like the way that the Highlander update has removed the indicator stalk, for one.
But back to the Cybertruck, whilst it isn’t something that I would ever drive, I do admire the push to build something different and disrupt the status quo in a US market that is very traditional and has led other manufacturers to build EV versions of pick-up trucks.
Yep that has been confirmed. Brake overrides the throttle and you can safely stop the vehicle and put it in park.
Harry Metcalfe mentions this in the review of the facelift model 3 that just went live on his YouTube channel. It looks beyond infuriating to use honestly!
That and the gear stick will stop me from buying another Tesla. I can tolerate with Tesla in exchange for the positives but that is just too far for me.
Don’t follow this advice, I meant a prod of the brakes!!
Don’t!! I meant a prod of the brake pedal - mind must have been foggy when I posted that!!!
I wish you’d told me earlier, I’ve rear ended three cars this afternoon!
Oh no, now your car will be on fire for 3 weeks - fire so catastrophic it will be visible from space, and take out 3 car parks and a small market town. Oops!
And they’ll have to dig a quarry the size of Angola to provide vibranium for the new batteries.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
If you go back in time, there was another all stainless steel vehicle that proved to be a commercial flop. - history repeating itself?
Is Elon is trying to go back to the future…
Looked at one today in Tesla dealership in International Mall Florida there was a lot of interest I spoke to the sales assistant re problems with the Cyber Truck and he said I should check that the information regarding stacks of faulty ones parked in the factory (it was in the daily mail) was correct I then asked him was there a price cut today and he said yes $2000 sheepishly.
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