Never buy the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you're just paying to be a beta tester.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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You would assume we have wipers down after decades without failure.
Wipers often are the only moving part still working after a car totalled.
No other wipers are this long and stupid though…
I mean, this amount of problems is still surprising for a first model year.
Never by the first model og anything really, everything is rushed to market and nothing is done properly the first time.
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Say what you want about Musk, but bankrupting TWO multibillion dollar companies at the same time is impressive.
Don’t forget PayPal. He almost ruined it until they kicked him out.
That isn't at the same time though... You kinda missed the whole thing with that.
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I'm shocked they sold that many
Over 2 million on backorder. They say avg 5 year wait, but if they've only made 11,000 (it was 4,000 for the first recall iirc) its gonna be waaaaay more than 5 years wait for those idiots
Except people 3 years into that wait are already getting called up for their turn. A lot of people are declining to take it up
A lot of people are declining a 20k markup for a foundation series.
A lot of people will also be declining since the prices don't match the initial specs, but we really don't have a clear picture on that yet.
"Backorder" meant "Idiots with a couple hundred dollars". "Orders" were a whole $100 fully refundable deposit. It was a complete non-commitment, and I know a ton of people who literally bought them solely to resell their "spot in line".
I knew a dude who put in an order for 5, just to ensure he could sell his "spots on the list". Dude was a service tech that couldn't afford even the fake $40k price, let alone the current $100k price. I've seen tons of stories like his as well, so there's a 0% chance even 20% of those are actually converting to sales.
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The truck was first shown in 2016, nearly 8 years ago, and only came out last year so there was about half a decade of hype building around this thing that was busy sucking in all the gullible rich people.
Honest question, what's there to be hyped about? I haven't ever looked into its feature set because it looks like ass. Do people just like the Tesla name or what?
I mean... It's unique in it's looks. I don't know if that's positive
It's unique in it's looks.
That's what they said about me.
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Who said they sold them? There was a recent story where there was a parking lot full of them that was spray painted "fuck Elon" so we can assume there are other lots of them rusting away.
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front windshield wipers that can fail
Seems irrelevant if the truck can't even get wet
The problem isn't that it can't get wet. The problem is that it mustn't get wet.
Very true. Now I'm angry at myself for missing an opportunity to use one of the worst contractions in the English language.
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Aka all trucks sold, lol.
They have lots full of these oversized ugly behemoths.
Aren't you supposed to test that shit before going live?
I mean most of the issues have been from the assembly process and not the fundamental design. However I would argue designing something you can't reliably assemble is just as bad. Adhesive needs to be done right on every unit and it's impossible to visually inspect it in this application. Clips are a pain in the ass but I'll take them over glued on trim any day of the week.
Coming from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet
Now it looks like cars have early access periods
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Day one patches effect physical games too I guess
11.000 people bought one?! I figured just a few museums would've picked one, to display in their abstract art sections, or the "even when we knew how not to we still built shit" section.
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Most expensive early access beta with pre-order ever. Tesla is the EA of cars.
EA is a more reputable company.
Oh no, anyway...
Are these things literally Little Tykes Cozy Coupes like wtf
Hey now those sons of bitches could be durable. I saw one get hit by a f150 once and the f150 had more damage. Dont fuck with the cozy coupes.
Yeah because Elon doesn't understand the concept of a crumple zone. God forbid a cybertruck hits anything solid faster than 35mph, the people inside would get splattered.
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Great, now I have to worry about the morons buying this garbage flinging it at me.
The Tron-inspired Cybertruck failed in a catastrophic accident because apparently the super powered x-treem window wipers were turbo maxed to the power of RAD.
Either they hired from Boeing or Boeing hired from them
I bet Simone Giertz's Truckla had working windshield wipers...
because unlike elon simone giertz is smart
Lol
I'm still not sure why anyone thinks it looks cool... -It looks like a truck designed using a Vecktrex. (Ok, admittedly, now that does make it sound slightly cooler to me...)
I've seen a few around, and I always think "It's the N64 truck!"
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Oh hey look the Failtruck is failing - who could have expected that?
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