• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I was honestly excited about these. The difference in looks, the possibility of capabilities, etc. Then nazelon happened and I turned the rest of the way from Tesla. The issues that these keep having make me laugh at the cost that these idiots pay, the poor capability off road make me love my Tacoma even more.

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      9 months ago

      I’m no engineer but given that there’s soot marks I could imagine that a fire broke the seal on the hydraulics in the suspension. Or that the car was wedged into something, forcing the body down, and breaking the suspension.

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        9 months ago

        Fire. Airbags pop in large fires. These stupid things have airbag suspension, literally the least reliable way to make suspension.

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      9 months ago

      It has variable suspension. I suspect it is in its lowest position, on the bump stops

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        9 months ago

        Even on the bump-stops, the edge of the wheel-well shouldn’t dig-in to the tire like that. These don’t look like after-market tires either

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    9 months ago

    Earlier this year I protested outside a Tesla dealership, and there were more Cybertrucks coming into the dealership on flatbeds, than there were visiting or passing on their own power.

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      9 months ago

      It might also be reverse survivorship bias. Broken down cars tend to be freighted to workshops no matter brand. For Tesla the workshops just happen to be the dealerships.

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      9 months ago

      I definitely saw several a day earlier in the year, now I don’t recall the last one I’ve seen.

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    9 months ago

    I see a surprising number of them around here, considering how expensive they are. The styling is what I’d imagine an 8 year old boy would come up with if you asked him to draw a car.

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      9 months ago

      I would not be surprised if this is close to the truth. Straight lines are easier to draw so maybe that’s why Musk came up with this garbage design.

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      9 months ago

      I like the way it looks, I think modern car design is incredibly boring. I don’t like the guy who makes it or the mountain of design decisions that make it a rusting turd, but I like the aesthetic.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, it looks like shit. But it also can’t be taken out in the rain or through a car wash, falls apart constantly, catches on fire, and traps its users inside.

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      9 months ago

      The way it looks isn’t the issue, it’s the way it functions (or doesn’t). I can 100% tell that this truck was designed by someone who a. has never owned a truck, and b. doesn’t know why people own trucks.

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          9 months ago

          One of the things I do all the time in my truck is reach over the wall into the back of the bed. Literally I did that a week ago to move a large box of printer filament from the back of the bed toward the front where I could get it.

          In a Cybertruck, you can’t do that. If you slide something to the back of the bed, you just have to crawl into the bed to get it. I hate crawling into the bed of my truck. The grooves in the bed that guide water away from whatever you’re hauling huuuuuurt to crawl on. So, whoever designed the Cybertruck (Musk, I assume), has never actually used a pickup truck long term.

          There’s also the fact that the frame of the Cybertruck is aluminum, meaning if you tow with it, it’s a matter of when, not if, whatever you’re towing (plus the part of the frame it’s attached to) will snap off your truck and continue down the highway, meeting whatever or whoever unfortunately is driving ahead of you.

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            9 months ago

            I’m just saying, why would you crawl into the bed? Climb up, walk to the front, just saying there isn’t a reason to crawl across the bed.

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              I can’t step up three and a half feet, so I have to either crawl up or step up onto the back tire and climb over the wall. When I’m parked in my driveway, because of the angle of the driveway, I can make it so the tailgate is only about three feet off the ground, then I can step up, but that’s only if I’m parked at my house. And if I have the cover on my bed, then I actually do have to crawl all the way into the back, but then I wouldn’t be able to reach over the wall anyway, so that case doesn’t matter.

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        9 months ago

        b. doesn’t know why people own trucks

        Seems like it was designed for the people who buy trucks for the wrong reasons (i.e. pavement princesses and emotional-support trucks).

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    9 months ago

    Lucky you

    I live in Vancouver and I have to see these rust buckets on a daily basis