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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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/542998

"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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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

the trim piece that flew off of his truck is connected to a plastic frame bolted directly to the car; that trim piece, he says, is stuck to the frame with adhesive rather than welded or bolted to anything. That adhesive has seemingly failed in multiple places on his truck, leading to the loosened roofline trim panels.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Most modern monocoque vehicles are held together with 2-part adhesive which (when correctly applied) is stronger than welds.

    The reason is that most vehicles are composite of different metals and alloys, fire to different components requiring different properties, and if they are directly connected, the different metals would result in galvanic corrosion.

    The problem is when the surfaces aren’t suitably prepared prior to the adhesive being applied, or the adhesive is not correctly applied which may happen during manufacturing because the workers are laughing so hard that anyone would purchase one of these hideous monstrosities.

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