this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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... many of the body/trim panels... are glued onto the frame.
Not even fasteners of some kind.
Just glue.
Glue which keeps failing so often that basically all cybertrucks have been recalled because ... the body / trim panels will fly off on the highway, like an uncovered/unsecured truck load.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/03/23/tesla-recalls-nearly-every-cybertruck-citing-loose-metal-panel-issues/
Nothing wrong with the -right- adhesive being used. The problem isn't "glue", it's incompetence.
I don't know enough about specific kinds of epoxy/glues... but has anything actually been reported as to... is it just the wrong kind of glue? applied improperly? combination of both, and/or other errors?
Given that it affects ... basically every cybertruck produced, im guessing its not just one guy or one shift that's incompetent, and more likely a fundamental manufacturing process/materials problem, management or c suite incompetence.
I'd wager a combination of both. Cheaped out on the adhesive and screwed up the application instructions. Probably cheaped out again by cutting the time/temp of the postcure.
WhistlinDiesel on Youtube has a fun video of him destroying a Cybercuck. At one point he's tearing off the trim by hand and you can see that the glue globs were hand-applied pretty much randomly. He also broke the back of the frame clean off when he attempted to tow an F150 out of the mud. And just for fun: when he slammed the doors the interior part broke off.
It's just mind-boggling what absolute pieces of shit these things are.