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I mean, don't buy a car from a conman folks
I think a lot of people who bought this expected stainless steel not to rust
It wouldn't surprise me if musk thought this as well
Musk probably said something like they used a revolutionary new type of stainless steel, designed for spaceX rockets. Have you ever seen rust in space? No because it's that revolutionary, and we all know space is filled with water and oxygen.
But isn't Rust supposed to be great and memory safe?
Shoulda used nim or something
The owner must immediately remove road salt? The rust belt is nothing but 3 piles of road salt in a trench coat for half the year…
Almost all of Canada is a no go zone for that thing at least 3 months of the year.
Coining it now, Cryberust
This made me laugh. Thank you. That was fantastic.
Edit: A friend pointed out that this would be the perfect name for a metal band as well. I wonder if you could play the steel guitar.
"remember when cars rusted like shitballs? What if we sold trucks that did that?"
"people buy our cars and their panels have these gaps you wouldn't see in any other manufacturer. And our cars, they seem to have a taste for the blood of children. People keep buying the cars though. We're doing something right and it's sure as hell not making cars"
"yeah but look at the stock price"
"good point"
“yeah but look at the stock price”
Uhhhhhh...
I think the stock market noticed this was a shit car guys. Look at that steep drop from December / January into February.
But the good news is that if they give Musk 25% ownership he'll agree to keep running the company.
They should have used C#
From what I hear, the panels of that car are sharp as fuck.
Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem::One of the more standout qualities of the Tesla Cybertruck is its bare stainless-steel body. The stainless-steel body gives the Cybertruck a unique design, but
Bot has great comedic timing.
So they used the wrong grade of stainless?
FFS add it to the pile of embarrassment
Worse, it's a proprietary tesla steel.
Given their current track record for QA I'm going to guess that it's the lowest grade they could still call stainless
Depends whether Elon made the decision or Captain Sensible snuck in and did it while Elon was playing with Twitter.
It's not like Tesla doesn't have smart people, they just don't get to make the decisions some of the time.
Rust proofing. Wasn't that something dealers would add in as a scam for a few bucks?
Once again, there is a Seinfeld reference here.
I need a Seinfeld reference bot.
Yeah, but when the hell is it going to get wet? You don't drive these things outside.
I saw one in the bay area Sunday, it absolutely had a distinct mud/baby-poop patina. Couldn't believe how much it stood out, how non-practical it appeared to be as a truck (I'd take a Rivian r1t any day for functional truck), and just how rusted it appeared to be (I thought it had driven through mud at first, but it was way too evenly dispersed), it couldn't have been a year old, or seen more than ten days rain.
Good news, everyone!
Well, the sooner these fugly things rust back into the earth, the better.
Since I first saw a picture of the thing I thought it was ugly as hell. Last week I saw one in real life and I have to say, it's even uglier than I thought it was. And it really looks like it could have been an '80s era crappy kit car for a full size truck chassis. I mean, strikingly ugly and stupid looking. Embarrassingly so.
Just as with the battery issues, owners will be out with warranty for driving in the rain
Oh no...anyways...
Just now realizing this are we?
Can someone share some information on the actual steel they use? This linkedin thread says they use 301, someone in this thread says they use a proprietary steel? (Can someone share the chemical analysis in this case?)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-tesla-cybertruck-uses-301-stainless-steel-zhong-chen-ph-d-
That's a you (tesla) problem not a we problem.
They should have went with weathering steel instead, and just leaned into it. This is literally Delorean all over again. Beginning to think Musk microchipped his own brain.