1w ago

Cybertruck Off-Road Lights Keep Falling Off… As the Glue Holding Them to the Windshield Fails

Cybertruck Off-Road Lights Keep Falling Off… As the Glue Holding Them to the Windshield Fails - FuelArc News

We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, after Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue. This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredibly, the light bar is also glued in place.

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2mo ago

Cybertruck Off-Road Lights Keep Falling Off… As the Glue Holding Them to the Windshield Fails

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And they’re some how approved for road use even though they’re a hazard to everyone around them
- they are not approved in actually developed countries. instead of the capitalist hellscape of the USA
  
  I hope to escape the hellscape one day to a place that’s more sensible

- This guy is a legend
  
  Never seen him. Please enlighten me

They are not needed anyways, are they? The car wouldn't survive offroading anyways, so why glue them on properly? That's smart thinking by smart engineers!
- Why does it even have a light bar?
  
  so the tow truck knows where they're broken down.

Well, at least in 2025 we learned that glue does not really work for the exterior of cars.
- Not trying to defend the cybertruck here, but just wanted to point out that quite a lot of exterior parts are generally held on by glue, across the whole industry. Windshields, for one.
  
  Well yeah but besides the windshield I don't really have much glue on my exterior whatsoever. Especially not as the main thing holding something down.

Tesla really decided to apply Agile to car manufacturing
- If they had brought the car 4 years ago it might have been a good analogy. This is just incompetence.

Don't they still teach that mechanical fasteners are almost always better than adhesives in school? Especially if it's an object going at high speeds and over bumps. I'm having a hard time blaming the designers and not Musk suddenly being excited about this great new glue from a presentation.
- engineer: “Here’s the new glue we’re looking at”
  Musk: (puts bag over head and inhales deeply)
  Musk: (inhales again)
  Musk:
  Musk: “It’s great. Disruptive innovation! Delete the mechanical attachments and use it!”
  engineer: “Are you sure? The mechanical tolerances…”
  Musk: “That’s an order.”
  
  "that hits different. " - Elon Musk stumbling out of the Tesla adhesives research lab.
- I'm sure it all comes down to cost. Probably a lot easier to get a robot to place a panel on glue than to manage attaching fasteners all over.
  
  These are very expensive cars made for cheap, I agree.

Hope they upgrade from chewing gum this time.
- to elmers glue.

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