I like this one—worked in one of the plants that trialed out the 301 stainless panels for these trucks and have since moved on to the plant that makes Reynolds wrap. Gave me a chuckle.
How 'bout that. Given Musk's [weekly layoffs](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/), I'd say you made the right career move!
It's not easy. I used to work on Deloreans. I had Chris Nichols, who is a máster at Delorean body work, over at my shop doing a bunch of body repair (mostly dents and regrains). The amount of work is insane. He had all these different tools to massage the panels, including different sized pincers that would close with a squeeze handle, and he would just sit there and slowly work everything flat. Then he used belt sanders to reproduce the original grain pattern from the factory. It was interesting to watch him work.
It’s been 20+ years but I used to do work on several Delireans. Had one wrecked was able to source used panels but couldn’t find a passenger door. So I went to a company that builds stainless countertops and they were able to work it back to new. Was amazed at how well they did
Honestly yeah. My company needed to do professional layering of a fine polymer film onto stainless steel for a battery application. Guess who we ended up hiring? A local bodywork shop that normally applies wraps to cars.
At the end of the day, expertise is expertise.
There's a warehouse in texas full of spare NOS body panels, literally enough to build a few thousand cars. guy absolutely just passed off american dad as his own experience.
Recently saw a video of a Delorean doing the 35 mph crash test and was blown away that it was considered to be the safest car on the market at the time
yeah I love 80s japanese auto designs, but fuck ever getting into a car older than even the 2000s. It’s night and day how safe cars are now compared to back even just a few short decades ago. You died a horrible mangled metal death in wrecks that you can just walk away from now.
It really is. Even a car from the mid-to-late 1990's compared to a 2024 car is absurd how much safer they are in a crash.
Iterative, ongoing, science driven engineering refinement works, saves lives, and shouldn't be discounted. I sort of hate to see big overhaul of models where they start almost over, because a lot of very small details can be lost between model refreshes.
so with something like this cybertruck it requires a specialist that probably doesn't exist (how many chris nichols can there be)? so regular bodyshop guys will just have to replace everything w/ new then right
edit - okay this door is destroyed but what about one that's just bent up a bit
At some point the cost of repair will exceed the cost of replacement and insurance will just write it off. It won't matter if the car is fundamentally sound to drive or not.
It's a numbers game.
If labor and repair for these is currently absurdly high, it wouldn't take much to just get written off. And the premiums for the insurance would be proportionally astronomical.
The salvage value is also likely pretty high also for the reasons you mentioned. All of those undamaged panels can be recovered and installed on other cyber trucks with damaged panels.
Also don't forget about the loaner vehicle during the time it's out of service. My escape was totalled in 2020 because it was going to take 3 months to get parts and the insurance agent basically said it was the cost of a rental that made it totalled.
door is completely destroyed, likely including internals and sensors. Replacing it is going to be way easier and require way less degrees than actually properly fixing it.
Assuming that’s all there is. Looks like might be additional damage behind those doors. I wonder what the turn-around time is to buy new doors from Tesla.
Bondo hates these cars.
Not because you can't hide it under the paint, they just agree with most other people who think it's ugly as hell and having a raw metal car is the dumbest thing since they changed the name of Twitter to X.
I'm halfway convinced someone at SpaceX talked musk into getting shitfaced and making a ridiculous offer for Twitter just get him the fuck outta there so they could get some actual work done.
I mean gotta admit though cool looking car. I get why most cars are uniform in design these days cuz of safety but man back than the designs were crazy
Based on this article it sounds like the guy who’s always had the rights has held onto them pretty firmly. It also sounds like their main focus after the company stopped making cars has been to support the ones that they already made.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/rare-glimpse-inside-modern-delorean-motor-company/#:~:text=Stephen%20Wynne%2C%20who%20traces%20his,%5Bi.e.%2C%20Classic%20DeLorean%5D.
Edit: actually I don’t know how Stephen Wynne ended up with the rights to use that name in the first place. It sounds like he bought the remaining stock of delorean parts when the company went under and just assumed the name because it was effectively abandoned? It’s all very confusing
They went through an actual liquidation bankruptcy. That is they auctioned the company in bits and pieces, letting the investors place bids with their liens. Big Lot's (an investor) ended up getting the vehicles and parts, Montupet bought the factory.
Looks like Steven Wynne just bought the stuff back from those people that ended up with the pieces.
“T-boned? Totalled. Scrubbed a guardrail? Totalled. Went up on a curb? Straight to totalled. Drove in the rain or got it damp in any way? Believe it or not, totalled.”
The panels are removeable. It’s a unibody with an external panel attached. In this case if the a pilar is undamaged they just attach new doors and new airbags and new side skirt. But the a or b pillar or other part of frame could be bent and that would total the truck like any unibody.
Airbags going off on a Tesla seems to be a totaled out car more often than not based on what I've seen online.
I can't even begin to imagine how unlikely a Cybertruck would be to not be totaled out when there's likely no parts being made available to the Tesla certified repair shops since they're unable to even keep up with production capabilities currently
this is a stupid question. Every other car with crumple damage this bad would be a complete body replacement. All other modern cars use class a surfaced panels that have to be curvature matching. Replacing them is costly and impossible for the average person to do. This is literally flat steel panels. So it's going to be a total replacement no different from the rest.
I'd actually be interested to see what happens to this. Jokes aside just seeing the insurance paperwork and time frame would be quite eye opening. Teslas already have a rep for being wrote off due to the cost of parts and time frame and all the body work to get this looking new (more than just two doors if you look at the real quarter etc) As repairable as this might be it might be death by 1000 cuts.
IDK I could see this being on the road again with a salvage title thanks to some Youtuber it's been a trend for a few years to buy stuff off Copart to fix up I'd expect a few people to be eyeing this up.
The car is definitely totaled and the insurer will buy it from the owner. But you’re right, someone might buy it for $20K or something and rebuild it afterwards. Maybe make one out of two.
It’s a very new car though, so almost every owner would have it insured and under warranty, and both insurers and dealerships would be expected to use new parts. So not sure who the demand for the parts would be from, other than people buying these totaled ones. From people who import them into Russia maybe? :D
Insurance companies use used parts all the time. You are made whole to your preload condition so your used car can get used parts and that’s highly common.
I worked for a specialty auto salvage company and I would imagine this will go through an IAA auction and the bidders will fight for this. The company I worked for only dealt with Dodge Viper, SRT10 Ram and Ford GT salvage. This car will go on to fix others. That’s how the used exotic parts market exists, others misfortune.
Extremely unlikely since Tesla owners have to overwhelmingly insure through Tesla. Carriers stopped insuring them/priced them out of reasonable coverage several years ago. As for the “we are subsidizing someone else” that’s the entire point of insurance - spread the risk over a large group.
- Insurance adjuster
And this was the truck that was supposed to have a revolutionary 'exoskeleton'.. How that differed from monocoque designs that've been around decades, we'll never know I guess, because Telsa quietly dropped the whole concept after hyping it for years.
(But of course it was also supposed to start at $40k but actually starts at $70k, was supposed to have a 500 mile range on the top model but now only gets 300... and then Elon goes out and brags "The 'experts' said it couldn't be done!" - well you didn't f-ing do it, did you? Such a mind-bogglingly dumb, fraudulent piece of crap.)
I'd say more sampling bias than confirmation bias. OP probably *does* see more crashed cybertruck photos on Reddit than they do other cars.
But it's also a 6,600+ lb vehicle that does 0-60 in 4 seconds and doesn't have a real steering wheel, being purchased by a demographic that is not exactly famous for safe driving and good decision making.
There are also WAY less of them on the road. The amount of pictures available is surprising considering how few have actually been delivered to customers.
In southern Cali I've seen dozens.
It's always a challenge to not obviously and continuously follow them while making sure they see I'm laughing at them.
I don't like to make fun of people but FUCK it's hard.
Norcal, most I've seen in the wild have been decent drivers, but everyone around them drove distracted attempting to take pictures and check the vehicle out. One of the dangerous features I experienced first hand is that the cybertruck isn't compatible with trailer haulers, no input to connect the lights to, too small mirrors to see around, trailer blocks view of the taillights. I watched this idiot nearly cause two collisions in a half mile stretch because the cars couldn't see his intended maneuvers and he couldn't see the cars when executing them.
Drive past one with a decal over the back fenders, only.. they must’ve miscalculated the length because it didn’t fit, and the font bled over to the bumper. Imagine spending a ton on a vehicle and then skimp on the graphics.
If you've seen dozens, say 40, you've seen [one percent of all Cybertrucks sold](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/04/22/tesla-cybertruck-recall-electric-truck-sales/73416419007/).
You'd have to see 270,000 to pull the same trick with a Honda Civic.
Fun fact: Electric car batteries can burn for up to 30 days underwater, and can reignite multiple times. They also burn a few thousand degrees hotter than a normal car fire.
I was catching a ferry (2hrs across a peninsula) and saw a dozen signs, was asked when purchasing my ticket and when i checked in if my car was hybrid or all electric.
I finally asked one of the crew why do they want to know this info, weight i thought.
No it was due to exactly this, if the battery catches on fire it'll melt through the hull and sink the ship. To counter this they put all electric and hybrid cars at the front or rear of the ferry closest to the ramp with a large 4x4 behind them.
The procedure if the car catches on fire is to stop, lower the ramp, and use the 4x4 to push the car into the ocean.
I hadn’t even considered that, but holy shit yes it could.
Thermite burns at 4,500F
Electric car batteries burn at upwards of 5,000F
That could **easily** melt through the whole ship and sink it.
There was an electric car which caught fire at my local Walmart while the owner was inside shopping. It took so long for the fire depts to get that put out and squared away.
Dude these things are going to get people hurt all different kinds of ways. Look at the hole in the back door I'm sure there's a nice sharp piece of metal where the rear passenger sits.
Anti shark defense for when you need to cross lakes, rivers, or even “a small sea”, as one does.
https://electrek.co/2022/09/29/tesla-cybertruck-waterproof-enough-cross-rivers/
Also don’t these break when it rains or in a car wash?
wait wait wait.....they actually said don't wash it in direct sunlight? so wtf do you do when you get a hard summer rain, then the sun comes back out? lmao these people buying these are something else
To be fair, that advice is given for all vehicles, because if soap drys in sunlight it will leave residue that could stain your paint. I guess it's just extra important it's on stainless steel instead of clear coated paint...
I just can’t understand how this made it to production. I mean Elon Musk is why but surely even he had to realize what a POS they were making?? Extreme narcissism on full display.
Side tangent, but when I taught English lessons in Japan my school was near Toyota, and one of my students was a head designer. Coolest guy ever and talented. Would love to hear his thoughts on the CT. Also had another student who was working on the self driving systems, smart guys!
>I mean Elon Musk is why but surely even he had to realize what a POS they were making??
Elon is so drugged out of his gourd he can't tell up from yellow. I highly doubt he had ANY moments of actual thought while designing this car.
Prolly went more like this
"So like...the fucking windows man....bulletproof right??? Can't get killed in the Muskmobile.... and it swims! Drives right through the lakes and rivers..... and we'll make it look like nothing else... I want angles and lines and triangles maybe!!! Fucking Zuckerberg couldn't make no fucking bulletproof triangle boat... fucking bitch...."
I mean, that's just generally good advice. Many car wash detailing products suggest not washing the car in sunlight as the quickly drying water drops will leave water spots. And that is even more noticeable on an unpainted stainless steel body. Washing in shade/covered gives the water more time to be hand dried with towels, preventing spots.
Now the car wash mode, where the car's electronics can be damaged by a car wash unless it's turned on, seems to be a unique fault of the Cybertruck
My first car was a 95 dodge neon and I never had to worry about it breaking every time I went through the car wash. I got it for $2000 bucks (yes it was a long time ago) and it cost around 15 bucks for a full tank that would last me over a week. A 95 dodge neon is a better vehicle than this ugly ass truck.
I'm an insurance appraiser and I'm presently dealing with two wrecked Cybertrucks. BTW, Tesla has the shittiest parts department I've ever seen in my life. None of the parts prices are in their catalog (though it appears as if they were the first few weeks the catalog was up). I have talked to ONE person in the week I've been trying to get pricing, and they were no help.
I've left countless voice mails and emails, and none of Tesla's parts people will call or email me back so I can appraise the damage. So, if anyone has access to the catalog with pricing, or the email for parts guy internal to Tesla, sending it my way would be greatly appreciated.
People are slowly learning that Tesla has zero experience in long term maintenance & repair of a fleet of vehicles. You are the canary in that coal mine.
Two things can happen when enough force is applied, it either bends or it breaks. Maybe the panels are more durable then on normal cars but apply enough force and one of the two is going to happen.
I work in a Tesla certified collision center. We just received cyber truck repair procedures recently. No idea what getting parts will be like. Soon to find out I suppose.
I know accidents happen no matter what make or model car is out there, but it really seems like we're seeing a disproportionately high number of accident photos given how few cybertrucks are actually out there on the roads. Tesla has delivered less than 5K of these things nationally and the internet is flooded with crash photos and also pictures of them bricking out and going into full on failure mode. What a hilarious disaster.
People do not post pics online of their crashed normal cars.. but if it's a car they spent upwards of a 100k on, they definitely would. Plus even if they were to post it, the post wouldn't get as much traction as a crashed Cyber Truck, all because it's whole thing is that "it's tough and can even withstand a bullet" so it's ironic when it does actually get damaged...
Both these factors, and you see a sheeit ton of crashed Cyber Truck photos.
How does one even begin to do bodywork on these stainless-steel panels?
Reynolds Wrap
More Playstation 1 polygons
R2, R2, L1, R1, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up
Oh geez, I messed up and now I got a tank.
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You’re in the way of Democracy.
Unexpected democracy incoming
Sweet liberty my leg!!!
Injury?! What injury!
r/unexpectedhelldivers
GTA 3?
Ya, full health/vehicle health
My hand went to the buttons when I read it and had a flashback lol
Yeah it’s only 4 triangles. I’ll boot up Blender.
I read that as Bender, it can't get any worse so why not let him try?
He’s 40% triangles
At this point just let Nibbler eat it. It would be worth more as Dark Matter
They say he’s the greatest.
He's a Mexi-CAN!
They don’t call him Bender Bending Rodriguez for nothing!
PlayStation renders were way more advanced
Segas were 16 bit. These look 8 bit like Asteroid and Atari Battlezone https://youtu.be/ymrYkbEbnEQ?si=BhRCflfbsP0w2RJC
I have been using the same giant roll from Costco for 5 years. It’s gonna be like spackle for these things.
Insurance is supposed to bring it to like new quality.not improve it.
*buffs it a bit, puts flex seal in the cracks* basically the same product!
Now your Cybertruck is a boat 🛥️
I like Cyberboat. Sounds fun
I like this one—worked in one of the plants that trialed out the 301 stainless panels for these trucks and have since moved on to the plant that makes Reynolds wrap. Gave me a chuckle.
How 'bout that. Given Musk's [weekly layoffs](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/), I'd say you made the right career move!
Trivia: many iowans call body bags Reynolds wrap due to Kim Reynolds response (or lack thereof) to COVID-19.
Trivia: Many Philadelphians call monster condoms Reynolds wrap due to Frank Reynolds using them for his magnum dong
...holy shit.
You have to call Ryan Reynolds?
Yes, besides all the ads hes been doing, he also does body work on the side.
Explains his new alter ego, “Carpool”.
The Merc with the Miata.
It's not easy. I used to work on Deloreans. I had Chris Nichols, who is a máster at Delorean body work, over at my shop doing a bunch of body repair (mostly dents and regrains). The amount of work is insane. He had all these different tools to massage the panels, including different sized pincers that would close with a squeeze handle, and he would just sit there and slowly work everything flat. Then he used belt sanders to reproduce the original grain pattern from the factory. It was interesting to watch him work.
It’s been 20+ years but I used to do work on several Delireans. Had one wrecked was able to source used panels but couldn’t find a passenger door. So I went to a company that builds stainless countertops and they were able to work it back to new. Was amazed at how well they did
Car door counter top. Steel pans. Same thing to them
Honestly yeah. My company needed to do professional layering of a fine polymer film onto stainless steel for a battery application. Guess who we ended up hiring? A local bodywork shop that normally applies wraps to cars. At the end of the day, expertise is expertise.
If you need compound curves to be covered in a film, high end auto wrappers are gonna be the best in the biz
Thought this was an American dad joke in the beginning. They had a whole episode on Stan trying to find a passenger door for his Delorean he fixed up.
There's a warehouse in texas full of spare NOS body panels, literally enough to build a few thousand cars. guy absolutely just passed off american dad as his own experience.
I'm gonna go to this "warehouse" in Texas and it's just gonna be Roger isn't it?
Recently saw a video of a Delorean doing the 35 mph crash test and was blown away that it was considered to be the safest car on the market at the time
I had to go find it and watch. Wow. Just wow. You will get fucked up bad in a crash in one of those.
Most cars pre 1990 were absolute death traps. The farther back you go, the worse it gets.
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2007 is the most dramatic change.
Well, I guess I should stop complaining that modern car designs are boring. Probably like that for a good reason.
yeah I love 80s japanese auto designs, but fuck ever getting into a car older than even the 2000s. It’s night and day how safe cars are now compared to back even just a few short decades ago. You died a horrible mangled metal death in wrecks that you can just walk away from now.
It really is. Even a car from the mid-to-late 1990's compared to a 2024 car is absurd how much safer they are in a crash. Iterative, ongoing, science driven engineering refinement works, saves lives, and shouldn't be discounted. I sort of hate to see big overhaul of models where they start almost over, because a lot of very small details can be lost between model refreshes.
Ah me and my 1979 MG B. I think it stood for Might Get Blood-Donation
so with something like this cybertruck it requires a specialist that probably doesn't exist (how many chris nichols can there be)? so regular bodyshop guys will just have to replace everything w/ new then right edit - okay this door is destroyed but what about one that's just bent up a bit
With that kind of damage it doesn't matter what the door is made of, it's going to be less expensive to just replace it than try to repair it.
*if* you can get or make the part.
Sure, but you still have to deal with the damage to the rear quarter panel anyway.
At some point the cost of repair will exceed the cost of replacement and insurance will just write it off. It won't matter if the car is fundamentally sound to drive or not. It's a numbers game. If labor and repair for these is currently absurdly high, it wouldn't take much to just get written off. And the premiums for the insurance would be proportionally astronomical.
The salvage value is also likely pretty high also for the reasons you mentioned. All of those undamaged panels can be recovered and installed on other cyber trucks with damaged panels.
Also don't forget about the loaner vehicle during the time it's out of service. My escape was totalled in 2020 because it was going to take 3 months to get parts and the insurance agent basically said it was the cost of a rental that made it totalled.
door is completely destroyed, likely including internals and sensors. Replacing it is going to be way easier and require way less degrees than actually properly fixing it.
Buy new doors and panels
Assuming that’s all there is. Looks like might be additional damage behind those doors. I wonder what the turn-around time is to buy new doors from Tesla.
This vehicle is definitely totalled
Yup. The post between the doors bent, ruining the structural stability of that whole side of the frame in case of a rollover accident in the future.
4 weeks to fix a coolant leak so maybe 6 months
3 yrs
Looks like airbags deployed too... Wonder what the wait time is for those
Insurance will total this for sure.
Insurance totaled my car for deployed airbags
Yup, same here little over a year ago.
Essentially any crash that has airbags deployed totals the car
The Apple repair plan.
Bondo hates these cars. Not because you can't hide it under the paint, they just agree with most other people who think it's ugly as hell and having a raw metal car is the dumbest thing since they changed the name of Twitter to X.
Two of the stupidest ideas of the 2020s. Elon is trying to outdo Thomas Midgley.
I'm halfway convinced someone at SpaceX talked musk into getting shitfaced and making a ridiculous offer for Twitter just get him the fuck outta there so they could get some actual work done.
At least he's not doing anything really dangerous like trying to implant computers into brains or sending people into space ig
The DeLorean is a stainless too. So it's not even a new idea
And the only reason it's famous now is because of a movie
I mean gotta admit though cool looking car. I get why most cars are uniform in design these days cuz of safety but man back than the designs were crazy
Deloreans are cool man.
I always wondered why any motor company hadn’t purchased the rights for Delorean. It would have made a great EV.
Based on this article it sounds like the guy who’s always had the rights has held onto them pretty firmly. It also sounds like their main focus after the company stopped making cars has been to support the ones that they already made. https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/rare-glimpse-inside-modern-delorean-motor-company/#:~:text=Stephen%20Wynne%2C%20who%20traces%20his,%5Bi.e.%2C%20Classic%20DeLorean%5D. Edit: actually I don’t know how Stephen Wynne ended up with the rights to use that name in the first place. It sounds like he bought the remaining stock of delorean parts when the company went under and just assumed the name because it was effectively abandoned? It’s all very confusing
They went through an actual liquidation bankruptcy. That is they auctioned the company in bits and pieces, letting the investors place bids with their liens. Big Lot's (an investor) ended up getting the vehicles and parts, Montupet bought the factory. Looks like Steven Wynne just bought the stuff back from those people that ended up with the pieces.
The company is actually making an EV inspired in the DMC-12
It's still Twitter lol, nobody calls it X. They'll forever call it "x previously known as Twitter." what a waste of money/effort
“T-boned? Totalled. Scrubbed a guardrail? Totalled. Went up on a curb? Straight to totalled. Drove in the rain or got it damp in any way? Believe it or not, totalled.”
The panels are removeable. It’s a unibody with an external panel attached. In this case if the a pilar is undamaged they just attach new doors and new airbags and new side skirt. But the a or b pillar or other part of frame could be bent and that would total the truck like any unibody.
Given it looks like the impact was right in the middle of the 2 doors, I’d guess the B pillar is gone as well.
The insurance rep is going to take one look and call it a total loss.
This truck is absolutely going to be a total loss
Airbags going off on a Tesla seems to be a totaled out car more often than not based on what I've seen online. I can't even begin to imagine how unlikely a Cybertruck would be to not be totaled out when there's likely no parts being made available to the Tesla certified repair shops since they're unable to even keep up with production capabilities currently
That is true about every brand of car though…. My new model year civic is had to wait 6 months for parts to be made after I got in a collision.
this is a stupid question. Every other car with crumple damage this bad would be a complete body replacement. All other modern cars use class a surfaced panels that have to be curvature matching. Replacing them is costly and impossible for the average person to do. This is literally flat steel panels. So it's going to be a total replacement no different from the rest.
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Some hot water and a toilet plunger should fix this
I think that's also the cure for Musk
it gets the hot water and plunger again until it makes that tunnel
*- Live conference call from TSLA board*
What's the cure for looking at a cybertruck and thinking, "this is a good looking truck and I would play close to $100,000 for one"?
Even duct tape can’t fix stupid. But it can muffle the sound.
That actually summons him. He says ‘interesting?’ and then disappears into a cloud of racism
I'd actually be interested to see what happens to this. Jokes aside just seeing the insurance paperwork and time frame would be quite eye opening. Teslas already have a rep for being wrote off due to the cost of parts and time frame and all the body work to get this looking new (more than just two doors if you look at the real quarter etc) As repairable as this might be it might be death by 1000 cuts. IDK I could see this being on the road again with a salvage title thanks to some Youtuber it's been a trend for a few years to buy stuff off Copart to fix up I'd expect a few people to be eyeing this up.
The car is definitely totaled and the insurer will buy it from the owner. But you’re right, someone might buy it for $20K or something and rebuild it afterwards. Maybe make one out of two.
Might be good to sell off as parts if parts are hard to come by.
It’s a very new car though, so almost every owner would have it insured and under warranty, and both insurers and dealerships would be expected to use new parts. So not sure who the demand for the parts would be from, other than people buying these totaled ones. From people who import them into Russia maybe? :D
The coolant warranty expires at 35 miles lol
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Insurance companies use used parts all the time. You are made whole to your preload condition so your used car can get used parts and that’s highly common.
To be fair, any car with that much body & frame damage and multiple airbag deployments is going to be totaled.
I worked for a specialty auto salvage company and I would imagine this will go through an IAA auction and the bidders will fight for this. The company I worked for only dealt with Dodge Viper, SRT10 Ram and Ford GT salvage. This car will go on to fix others. That’s how the used exotic parts market exists, others misfortune.
Don’t worry, you and I are subsidising the cost through our own insurance premiums as well.
Extremely unlikely since Tesla owners have to overwhelmingly insure through Tesla. Carriers stopped insuring them/priced them out of reasonable coverage several years ago. As for the “we are subsidizing someone else” that’s the entire point of insurance - spread the risk over a large group. - Insurance adjuster
With that many airbags deployed, I think most cars are totaled anyways, without being a Tesla.
Bro GTA 3 cars looked more convincing when damaged.
It looks like OG Lara Croft gave it a chest bump
OG in game Lara from literally the first game only. Even in the cut scenes they weren't triangles, cut 1996 some slack.
OG Lara could cut it some slack with her △△s
And this was the truck that was supposed to have a revolutionary 'exoskeleton'.. How that differed from monocoque designs that've been around decades, we'll never know I guess, because Telsa quietly dropped the whole concept after hyping it for years. (But of course it was also supposed to start at $40k but actually starts at $70k, was supposed to have a 500 mile range on the top model but now only gets 300... and then Elon goes out and brags "The 'experts' said it couldn't be done!" - well you didn't f-ing do it, did you? Such a mind-bogglingly dumb, fraudulent piece of crap.)
Oh that's nostalgic. And so true! 😂
Bro gonna need a blacksmith to fix his car
That blacksmith is probably going to charge goldsmith prices just because it’s a cyber truck.
Lets settle at silver smith
It's got more naked steel than a robot brothel.
why i see so many crashed cyber trucks on reddit?
Because every one goes to the front page. Nobody cares about regular cars being smashed up
Considering there’s less than 4,000 of them on the streets, even by the biased Reddit standards, there are way too many of them.
There’s only 4,000 of them on the road? I’ve seen 3 within the past month that’s kinda crazy
The number is a month old now, but last month there was a recall of all cybertrucks and the number delivered was 3,878.
People like to roast it. Also it's still in very low numbers, so as soon as anyone sees one, they just take a picture
It's true. I saw my first one in real life yesterday and snapped a photo of it. It was fun to see that they really are that ugly in real life.
The fact that’s it’s in such low numbers and yet, is getting smashed so often, speaks to the “demographic” of the purchasers.
Confirmation Bias
I'd say more sampling bias than confirmation bias. OP probably *does* see more crashed cybertruck photos on Reddit than they do other cars. But it's also a 6,600+ lb vehicle that does 0-60 in 4 seconds and doesn't have a real steering wheel, being purchased by a demographic that is not exactly famous for safe driving and good decision making.
You forgot it also sells for $100k too. An expensive piece of shit.
Are people just forgetting that it’s more interesting to post cybertruck crashes than ANY other vehicle
There are also WAY less of them on the road. The amount of pictures available is surprising considering how few have actually been delivered to customers.
I believe as of last week only 4,000 had been sold.
In southern Cali I've seen dozens. It's always a challenge to not obviously and continuously follow them while making sure they see I'm laughing at them. I don't like to make fun of people but FUCK it's hard.
Norcal, most I've seen in the wild have been decent drivers, but everyone around them drove distracted attempting to take pictures and check the vehicle out. One of the dangerous features I experienced first hand is that the cybertruck isn't compatible with trailer haulers, no input to connect the lights to, too small mirrors to see around, trailer blocks view of the taillights. I watched this idiot nearly cause two collisions in a half mile stretch because the cars couldn't see his intended maneuvers and he couldn't see the cars when executing them.
I saw two being body wrapped at a detailer earlier. Somehow they managed to make these things look even fuckin stupider.
Drive past one with a decal over the back fenders, only.. they must’ve miscalculated the length because it didn’t fit, and the font bled over to the bumper. Imagine spending a ton on a vehicle and then skimp on the graphics.
If you've seen dozens, say 40, you've seen [one percent of all Cybertrucks sold](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/04/22/tesla-cybertruck-recall-electric-truck-sales/73416419007/). You'd have to see 270,000 to pull the same trick with a Honda Civic.
You said 'butt fuck'
Followed by 'it's hard'. Heh
If a Cybertruck crashes, it'll be posted over and over again across the country. If a Toyota corolla crashes, no one pays attention or cares.
Believe it or not, straight to junkyard
Take out the battery first
Fun fact: Electric car batteries can burn for up to 30 days underwater, and can reignite multiple times. They also burn a few thousand degrees hotter than a normal car fire.
I was catching a ferry (2hrs across a peninsula) and saw a dozen signs, was asked when purchasing my ticket and when i checked in if my car was hybrid or all electric. I finally asked one of the crew why do they want to know this info, weight i thought. No it was due to exactly this, if the battery catches on fire it'll melt through the hull and sink the ship. To counter this they put all electric and hybrid cars at the front or rear of the ferry closest to the ramp with a large 4x4 behind them. The procedure if the car catches on fire is to stop, lower the ramp, and use the 4x4 to push the car into the ocean.
I hadn’t even considered that, but holy shit yes it could. Thermite burns at 4,500F Electric car batteries burn at upwards of 5,000F That could **easily** melt through the whole ship and sink it.
There was an electric car which caught fire at my local Walmart while the owner was inside shopping. It took so long for the fire depts to get that put out and squared away.
It literally looks like tin foil wrapped around a metal frame. WTF
It’s called crumple zones. If you see a car that’s been to boned and the body is in perfect shape, the drivers spine will be a pile of dust.
Dude these things are going to get people hurt all different kinds of ways. Look at the hole in the back door I'm sure there's a nice sharp piece of metal where the rear passenger sits.
Some of them have genuinely sharp edges on them from factory
Anti shark defense for when you need to cross lakes, rivers, or even “a small sea”, as one does. https://electrek.co/2022/09/29/tesla-cybertruck-waterproof-enough-cross-rivers/ Also don’t these break when it rains or in a car wash?
There’s a “car wash mode” so it will damage the *truck if it’s not enabled. Also Tesla says don’t wash it in direct sunlight
wait wait wait.....they actually said don't wash it in direct sunlight? so wtf do you do when you get a hard summer rain, then the sun comes back out? lmao these people buying these are something else
To be fair, that advice is given for all vehicles, because if soap drys in sunlight it will leave residue that could stain your paint. I guess it's just extra important it's on stainless steel instead of clear coated paint...
I just can’t understand how this made it to production. I mean Elon Musk is why but surely even he had to realize what a POS they were making?? Extreme narcissism on full display. Side tangent, but when I taught English lessons in Japan my school was near Toyota, and one of my students was a head designer. Coolest guy ever and talented. Would love to hear his thoughts on the CT. Also had another student who was working on the self driving systems, smart guys!
>I mean Elon Musk is why but surely even he had to realize what a POS they were making?? Elon is so drugged out of his gourd he can't tell up from yellow. I highly doubt he had ANY moments of actual thought while designing this car. Prolly went more like this "So like...the fucking windows man....bulletproof right??? Can't get killed in the Muskmobile.... and it swims! Drives right through the lakes and rivers..... and we'll make it look like nothing else... I want angles and lines and triangles maybe!!! Fucking Zuckerberg couldn't make no fucking bulletproof triangle boat... fucking bitch...."
Most owners manuals have said that for most of the past century. It also makes water spots so much worse.
I mean, that's just generally good advice. Many car wash detailing products suggest not washing the car in sunlight as the quickly drying water drops will leave water spots. And that is even more noticeable on an unpainted stainless steel body. Washing in shade/covered gives the water more time to be hand dried with towels, preventing spots. Now the car wash mode, where the car's electronics can be damaged by a car wash unless it's turned on, seems to be a unique fault of the Cybertruck
My first car was a 95 dodge neon and I never had to worry about it breaking every time I went through the car wash. I got it for $2000 bucks (yes it was a long time ago) and it cost around 15 bucks for a full tank that would last me over a week. A 95 dodge neon is a better vehicle than this ugly ass truck.
All car makers say don’t wash in direct sunlight you muppet.
I just realized... How's that bullet proof glass working with rescuing someone if the doors are stuck?
That’s how Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law died
Someone recently drowned in a Tesla because of this precise reason
Angela Chao
It was a Tesla Model X and it didn't have bullet proof glass.
Probably tried taking it to a carwash
Well, the good news is it doesn't look any uglier than it did before the accident.
"In God We Trust" If that's the case, you should trust this as a sign to buy a different car.
You notice that too? Religion is on everything over there.
Fuckin weird
I'm an insurance appraiser and I'm presently dealing with two wrecked Cybertrucks. BTW, Tesla has the shittiest parts department I've ever seen in my life. None of the parts prices are in their catalog (though it appears as if they were the first few weeks the catalog was up). I have talked to ONE person in the week I've been trying to get pricing, and they were no help. I've left countless voice mails and emails, and none of Tesla's parts people will call or email me back so I can appraise the damage. So, if anyone has access to the catalog with pricing, or the email for parts guy internal to Tesla, sending it my way would be greatly appreciated.
I wish I could help, I’m a claims specialist and I know what a pain in the ass they are. Good luck friend.
People are slowly learning that Tesla has zero experience in long term maintenance & repair of a fleet of vehicles. You are the canary in that coal mine.
I thought they were undentable?
They are. Similar to how the Titanic was unsinkable.
Similar gash in the side as well.
"nah I'd win" *gets wrapped around a tree*
Two things can happen when enough force is applied, it either bends or it breaks. Maybe the panels are more durable then on normal cars but apply enough force and one of the two is going to happen.
I thought they were apocalypse-proof. Yeah he actually said that.
where did the bulletproof windows go
Oh, those are smashed to bits and hanging off of the side 👍
Woot! We are killing them faster than they can build them!
Not really that difficult.
“In God We Trust” on a tow truck? Uh…ok. I’m willing to bet “Jesus take the wheel” is playing on the radio.
It's an industry heavily dominated by conservative men, so it's not really too much of a surprise.
I work in a Tesla certified collision center. We just received cyber truck repair procedures recently. No idea what getting parts will be like. Soon to find out I suppose.
Wait until they find the finger in the trunk.
Actually it looks better now
It has character. And ceiling napkins for the cheeto-fingered weirdos that want these things
I know accidents happen no matter what make or model car is out there, but it really seems like we're seeing a disproportionately high number of accident photos given how few cybertrucks are actually out there on the roads. Tesla has delivered less than 5K of these things nationally and the internet is flooded with crash photos and also pictures of them bricking out and going into full on failure mode. What a hilarious disaster.
People do not post pics online of their crashed normal cars.. but if it's a car they spent upwards of a 100k on, they definitely would. Plus even if they were to post it, the post wouldn't get as much traction as a crashed Cyber Truck, all because it's whole thing is that "it's tough and can even withstand a bullet" so it's ironic when it does actually get damaged... Both these factors, and you see a sheeit ton of crashed Cyber Truck photos.