People are blaming window tint? Because "water can get in the doors during the tinting process" and damage sensitive components? Water gets in vehicle doors all the time. Every other car maker considered this and has been managing it since, ever.
For the longest time I was worried about rain and snow falling into the window switches on the door of my car only to find out that all of that stuff is waterproofed. All of those switches have rubber gaskets in a well designed vehicle.
Oh for sure. Even OEM door speakers in most vehicles have rain shrouds. The bottoms of vehicle doors have weep holes. Because, you know, it rains sometimes and car washes are a thing.
Yeah. I had my window down to put in my code for a gate during a rain storm and I was panicking about water getting in, then a few years later the switch started malfunctioning so I took it out and it turns out I could dunk the whole thing in water and it would still work. In the end the contacts just needed to be cleaned since it was a 14 year old vehicle. Seems like an easy thing to get right but apparently that's too much for Tesla.
They're menaces on the road. I don't trust their hardware or software, most people roll around with them in "full self driving," and in the case of the Cybertruck they weigh like 7,000 damn pounds.
The one "truck" that can't do truck things, even if it wanted to. There's at least two wrapped Cyberstunks in Edmonton, one puke green one halloween orange. It's winter here, and these things completely lick ass not in a good way.
I can kind of understand this. I too have had shitty cars that I nonetheless had affection for.
I had a 1998 Subaru Impreza Sport that was a shitty underpowered hatchback trying to pretend to be a rally car with the hood vents that are all blocked.
The passenger side looked like someone took a sander to it to get ready to paint it and then just said fuck it. The rear bumper was so scuffed up that I didn't even know where I got hit when someone rear ended me gently. Something was also horribly wrong with the differential. Whenever I turned sharply it sounded like one of the wheels just wasn't turning sometimes and it made a clunking sound.
It was all around a piece of shit. But it was my piece of shit and was amazing in snow. Shit. I guess I can say something positive about it.
Jesus Christ people, I'm not defending the idiotic vehicle just that we can sometimes have affection for terrible things we own.
With that price you can't expect it to be very good but I bet you got a hell of a lot of use out of it. My first car had blown head gaskets, holes in the headers, a cracked transmission case and 200k miles on it when I traded it in. I had kept a 5 gallon of both oil and transmission fluid in the trunk to top it off. I definitely got my use out of it and was surprised they took it as a trade in without inspecting it. Still miss the bench seats.
Same, I've had about a dozen cars in my life, all of them hoopties, yet I couldn't afford a new car and payments. Plus, it wasn't worth having a new car in the city (let alone a car at all.) My husband gets irritated when I defend any of them.
Yeah, "i love my car" is very different from "it's a good car" in this context.
The CT owner admitting that they love it and that they are sad to report issues is refreshingly honest to me. More self aware than many in this sub really.
I can kind of understand this. I too have had shitty cars that I nonetheless had affection for.
Absolutely, same here.
But our shitty cars all had traits that the Cybertruck can't.
First cars are often crappy, but they're memorable, because they were your first car. Many newly minted adults can only afford to shop near the bottom of the used market where there's a lot of junk, but as you say, it's your piece of junk. But nobody's bought a Deplorean as a first car because it was all they could afford.
And shitty cars can still have character. Not all do, but many can. Maybe you moved across the country in it, maybe it took you and your high school friends out for fun on Friday nights, maybe it brought you on fun road trips, maybe it was unreliable as hell but plucky and determined and never outright stranded you anywhere. But any character the Cybertruck might have had was subsumed by "I fell for the world's richest racist loser."
What else is left? "Sure, it sucks, but it's cutting edge tech!" No, it's mostly dead-end tech fever-dreamed up by the ketamine-fueled emperor of Dunning-Kruger. "It's apocalypse proof!" Hahahah, no. "It's an electric truck!" So are the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T, which beat the CT to market, weren't designed by a moron, work as trucks, don't fall apart from normal use, and don't immediately label owners as sympathizing with the wrong side in WWII.
So while there are valid personal, non-deplorable reasons to love a crappy car, none of them apply to the Cybertruck.
My piece of crap first car is only a piece of crap because it’s a 20 year old econobox. It runs reliably and has never given me issues but it’s very much a point a point b type deal
Yeah I feel that. My first car was objectively a complete piece of shit but I LOVED that shitty little death trap. It was FREEDOM and that's all that mattered.
I absolutely love that. They think it’s caused by having the windows tinted because it makes water run down inside which destroys the motors, lol. Yes absolutely, an apocalypse proof vehicle.
I can understand the concept in general, I bought a fountain pen a few years ago that I admit has tons of problems, but at the end of the day I really enjoy using despite this. But this is just sad, spending that much money on something so useless and ugly and hated that is only going to be a further financial burden and even safety liability.
We should really get one of these in a museum soon seeing as how it'll be significant as one of the foremost automotive failures of all time, on par with the Pinto and the Corvair. But by the time people recognize that they'll all have fallen apart.
Hooked on that copium!
Gender affirming vehicle.
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“I love what Elon claimed my Cybertruck was going to be, and how cool he told me everyone would think I was for owning one.”
Saw one of these idiots out driving today. Had the obligatory "I bought this before Elon blah blah blah.."
Hey, my dude, those things were finally out waaaay after we all knew, or should have known.
Anyone driving a CuckTruck knew exactly what their money was supporting.
Yeah, when the Swastikar first launched Elon hadn't thrown any Nazi salutes yet, but it was clear that he was most of the way there.
I feel like you have to have an old model S or MAYBE an early model 3 to be able to claim ignorance. Otherwise, bullshit but you don’t wanna admit it
elon has always been a pro-apartheid douchebag
but a nazi as well?!?!
Shitty car maker makes shitty cars- more news at 11
People are blaming window tint? Because "water can get in the doors during the tinting process" and damage sensitive components? Water gets in vehicle doors all the time. Every other car maker considered this and has been managing it since, ever.
For the longest time I was worried about rain and snow falling into the window switches on the door of my car only to find out that all of that stuff is waterproofed. All of those switches have rubber gaskets in a well designed vehicle.
Oh for sure. Even OEM door speakers in most vehicles have rain shrouds. The bottoms of vehicle doors have weep holes. Because, you know, it rains sometimes and car washes are a thing.
Yeah. I had my window down to put in my code for a gate during a rain storm and I was panicking about water getting in, then a few years later the switch started malfunctioning so I took it out and it turns out I could dunk the whole thing in water and it would still work. In the end the contacts just needed to be cleaned since it was a 14 year old vehicle. Seems like an easy thing to get right but apparently that's too much for Tesla.
They're menaces on the road. I don't trust their hardware or software, most people roll around with them in "full self driving," and in the case of the Cybertruck they weigh like 7,000 damn pounds.
An all electric vehicle with electrical issues. No rodents required.
It's a cult.
Still love the truck tho
Could've picked a Ford f150 lightning instead but chose a shitty ass truck.
The one "truck" that can't do truck things, even if it wanted to. There's at least two wrapped Cyberstunks in Edmonton, one puke green one halloween orange. It's winter here, and these things completely lick ass not in a good way.
Brutal on ice, and the tires are garbage.
Well that was fucking short lived wasn't it.
They cancelled the Ford f150 lightning.
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I can kind of understand this. I too have had shitty cars that I nonetheless had affection for.
I had a 1998 Subaru Impreza Sport that was a shitty underpowered hatchback trying to pretend to be a rally car with the hood vents that are all blocked.
The passenger side looked like someone took a sander to it to get ready to paint it and then just said fuck it. The rear bumper was so scuffed up that I didn't even know where I got hit when someone rear ended me gently. Something was also horribly wrong with the differential. Whenever I turned sharply it sounded like one of the wheels just wasn't turning sometimes and it made a clunking sound.
It was all around a piece of shit. But it was my piece of shit and was amazing in snow. Shit. I guess I can say something positive about it.
Jesus Christ people, I'm not defending the idiotic vehicle just that we can sometimes have affection for terrible things we own.
But did you buy it new for a ridiculous price?
1000 dollars cash. Like a quarter of that in ones since I was a pizza delivery driver at the time.
God it was a piece of shit.
With that price you can't expect it to be very good but I bet you got a hell of a lot of use out of it. My first car had blown head gaskets, holes in the headers, a cracked transmission case and 200k miles on it when I traded it in. I had kept a 5 gallon of both oil and transmission fluid in the trunk to top it off. I definitely got my use out of it and was surprised they took it as a trade in without inspecting it. Still miss the bench seats.
Same, I've had about a dozen cars in my life, all of them hoopties, yet I couldn't afford a new car and payments. Plus, it wasn't worth having a new car in the city (let alone a car at all.) My husband gets irritated when I defend any of them.
Yeah, "i love my car" is very different from "it's a good car" in this context.
The CT owner admitting that they love it and that they are sad to report issues is refreshingly honest to me. More self aware than many in this sub really.
Absolutely, same here.
But our shitty cars all had traits that the Cybertruck can't.
First cars are often crappy, but they're memorable, because they were your first car. Many newly minted adults can only afford to shop near the bottom of the used market where there's a lot of junk, but as you say, it's your piece of junk. But nobody's bought a Deplorean as a first car because it was all they could afford.
And shitty cars can still have character. Not all do, but many can. Maybe you moved across the country in it, maybe it took you and your high school friends out for fun on Friday nights, maybe it brought you on fun road trips, maybe it was unreliable as hell but plucky and determined and never outright stranded you anywhere. But any character the Cybertruck might have had was subsumed by "I fell for the world's richest racist loser."
What else is left? "Sure, it sucks, but it's cutting edge tech!" No, it's mostly dead-end tech fever-dreamed up by the ketamine-fueled emperor of Dunning-Kruger. "It's apocalypse proof!" Hahahah, no. "It's an electric truck!" So are the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T, which beat the CT to market, weren't designed by a moron, work as trucks, don't fall apart from normal use, and don't immediately label owners as sympathizing with the wrong side in WWII.
So while there are valid personal, non-deplorable reasons to love a crappy car, none of them apply to the Cybertruck.
My piece of crap first car is only a piece of crap because it’s a 20 year old econobox. It runs reliably and has never given me issues but it’s very much a point a point b type deal
I had a 05 Legacy sedan. That thing was a fucking beast in the snow.
It had some really stupid design flaws that were more an annoyance than anything, but I loved it.
Yeah I feel that. My first car was objectively a complete piece of shit but I LOVED that shitty little death trap. It was FREEDOM and that's all that mattered.
Welcome to Costco I love you.
That’s why it’s a CuckTruck. Just sitting in the corner crying and stroking saying “I love her so much!”
Its impossible for some to accept they have made an incredibly poor decision and will always find some way to rationalize it.
Sunk cost fallacy.
He's probably divorced.
I absolutely love that. They think it’s caused by having the windows tinted because it makes water run down inside which destroys the motors, lol. Yes absolutely, an apocalypse proof vehicle.
Sunk Cost Fallacy
I mean at this point its a good thing he like it or his mind would be affected
I can understand the concept in general, I bought a fountain pen a few years ago that I admit has tons of problems, but at the end of the day I really enjoy using despite this. But this is just sad, spending that much money on something so useless and ugly and hated that is only going to be a further financial burden and even safety liability.
He's not drinking the kool-aid, he's mainlining it.
Lemonade powder
I don't get this bramd worship trend.
I won't defend my beat up Toyota, if you ask me about it, I will list everything I find good and bad about it.
It’s the same with his kids
Stockholm is a mental health issue.
We should really get one of these in a museum soon seeing as how it'll be significant as one of the foremost automotive failures of all time, on par with the Pinto and the Corvair. But by the time people recognize that they'll all have fallen apart.
His marital situation must be interesting. "I love my wife but I can't think of a single good thing about her."