Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’

  • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    25911 months ago

    “To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.),”

    Not washing it could fuck it up. Got it.

    “CAUTION Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage (for example, to the charge port or windshield wipers). Damage caused by car washes is not covered by the warranty.”

    Also washing it could fuck it up.

    • CALIGVLA
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      It’s worse than that, washing the car even in wash mode will damage the car because the fucking thing is made out aluminum stainless steel, you know, a mineral that corrodes if exposed to water long enough. It’s mind boggling how badly designed this car is.

      Edit: sorry, confused my minerals there.

        • CALIGVLA
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          111 months ago

          I’ll pretend I understand there’s a difference. :)

          • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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            111 months ago

            Breaking Bad. Macho man starts collecting minerals. His wife (Marie) refers to them as rocks. He ends up shouting something similar.

      • rigatti
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        There’s a few things wrong here. First, it’s made of steel, which is iron and not aluminum. Second, neither of those is as mineral. Third, aluminum has pretty good corrosion resistance in terms of metals.

        None of that is to say that Tesla had any idea what they were doing when designing this monstrosity.

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        Also locks the charging port, turns off the AC, locks the doors and windows. Still nothing that should prevent the car from breaking in a car wash…

        Also, upon reading the article, seems like the car was fine after a reset, it just took 5 hours. Didn’t have anything to do with the car wash it seems.

        • @space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          411 months ago

          But what if there is heavy rain? Are you supposed to put the car in car wash mode then? Why wouldn’t those things be sealed all the time?

      • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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        6111 months ago

        I don’t know about the Cybertruck or its charging port, but cars do have rain sensors to activate the wipers automatically when it rains. Car wash mode likely turns those sensors off to prevent damage to the wipers.

          • DarkThoughts
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            Water gets into the body, which lacks fluid drains and accumulates water, which can potentially reach wiring.

                • Thurstylark
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                  I don’t think it’s meant to be driven.

                  I mean… It’s not even meant to be a vehicle, tbh. It’s an ego trip, status symbol, or virtue signal (pick up to 3) in the form of a vehicle.

                  The part where it can propel itself and it’s occupants from place to place is, in fact, a bonus feature.

          • Midnight Wolf
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            3011 months ago

            Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors… A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.

            Fuck me, I’ve seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.

            And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.

              • just another dev
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                -411 months ago

                So did this one, but if you include irrelevant details like that, the headline wouldn’t get as many clicks.

                • Cyborganism
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                  1211 months ago

                  Doesn’t it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn’t run after going through the car wash? Isn’t that what happened?

    • @heleos@lemm.ee
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      511 months ago

      FYI you’re supposed to remove all that from normal cars too, it’s not good for the clear coat/ paint

    • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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      611 months ago

      They could have solved this with a layer of clear coat.

      Without that, every single one will eventually patina.

  • Jeena
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    9011 months ago

    “You wouldn’t wash a car!”

  • @Addition1291@lemmy.world
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    3211 months ago

    This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can’t use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    4011 months ago

    Just to play devil’s advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).

    That’s the best defense I can give.

    • kbin_space_program
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      The Vasa comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

      USSRs space shuttle, although technically that didnt fail on its own.
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

      The failed Chinese attempts to use stolen SpaceX plans that resulted in at least one town that we know of being destroyed with toxic smoke and fire.

      Virgin’s space program.

      Boeing’s space program. Increasingly, the 737-MAX too.

      Amazon’s space program.

      Musk and the stupid decisions made around Starship, that resulted in over a year of setbacks since the launchpad had a woefully inadequate flame trench that everyone called out long before the first two failed launches.

      The Titanic.

      Related to the last one: OceanGate and the Titan.

      When the Athenians starts the Peloponnesian War by invading a different city state than Sparta(to ostensibly use that city’s military against Sparta), but screwed it up, creating the conditions for them to lose said war.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        1511 months ago

        The Buran was actually quite technologically advanced. It was able to fly to orbit and land itself completely autonomously.

        • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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          111 months ago

          It also just got crushed in a collapsing hangar? 4 years after the test flight? That doesn’t sound like a failure, it sounds like it got mothballed and forgotten

        • @pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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          111 months ago

          And they were smart enough to recognize it as a huge boondoggle and cancel it, before killing a bunch of astronauts.

          • TimeSquirrel
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            It was canceled because of budget issues and also the fall of the USSR itself. USSR wasn’t really doing too hot at the time, economically. Not because it was dangerous. It was obviously proven space-worthy.

          • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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            111 months ago

            The only boondoggle was not iterating on the design, especially when they couldn’t launch intelligence payloads to polar orbits. They should have kept the original fleet and been given funding to develop another one - a “space car” for the Shuttle’s “space truck” - that could ferry lighter payloads and a smaller crew to more varied orbits.

            I used to think like you but I’ve grown to like the Shuttle. Without it things like the final Hubble repair and building the ISS would have been a lot more complicated. Yes, it was a very ambitious design with more fatal flaws than we’ll ever really know about - what if it had had a major issue in orbit - it kept the dream of manned spaceflight alive, and built a ton of experience at NASA for managing manned spaceflight.

            • @pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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              111 months ago

              The biggest downside I see to the shuttle is how it blocked anything better. Spaceflight got stuck in a local maximum for 30 years, possibly solely to enrich certain congressional districts and well connected contractors. True reuse is needed to make manned space travel possible to more than a few elite astronauts, and the shuttle never had that.

              • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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                111 months ago

                I think we’re seeing two sides of the same coin: The fact that we didn’t keep designing new spacecraft is the problem. And I wouldn’t blame the shuttle for that, just the American people for losing their zeal.

                • @pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
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                  111 months ago

                  I blame the politicians like Richard Shelby actively preventing any other technology from being used or even considered. The lack of zeal was from the people in charge of the money, who clearly had no interest in space beyond its ability to get them and their pals larger McMansions on a golf course somewhere. Myopic, stupid and corrupt assholes.

      • Phoenixz
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        211 months ago

        Casa definitely was worth it, just in a different way the king envisioned at the time

    • Chris
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      211 months ago

      Tesla made good cars before. It is reasonable to assume that they would continue to do that. The people that have a cyberteuck today are people that paid for it years ago, so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.

      I can’t account for Tesla’s continuing and worsenin quality control though as well as their cost saving measures that make the cars less safe. I don’t know how you see those trends and not cancel your pre order.

      • @dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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        311 months ago

        so they wouldn’t have known how shitty it actually turned out to be.

        Hard disagree here. A) I knew from the first moment they showed a picture of it how bad it would be. You could tell it was a car a 7 year old would design and have all the faults that come with that. B) Those people have had years to cancel those deposits, during which we’ve seen how shitty it was going to be.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Standard “Good Delivery” 400-oz gold bricks are worth about $930k today.

    • @the_third@feddit.de
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      Probably prevents auto engagement of the parking lock and emergency breaking which would result in damage when the car gets dragged along the chain drive in the car wash. At least that’s what that does in my car.

        • @the_third@feddit.de
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          1011 months ago

          Dunno, for my car it is a bit more. No automatic wipers, no automatic braking and it prevents the parking lock and the parking brake from engaging.

          • @Schmuppes@lemmy.world
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            711 months ago

            While that explanation of yours is helpful and comprehensible, the whole thing seems stupid to me. But then again, my 1999 Golf has none of those features and I wouldn’t want them either.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    7111 months ago

    “world’s most expensive brick”

    Even this insult gives the Cybertruck too much credit. That piece of shit isn’t worth anywhere near as much as the actual world’s most expensive brick: a standard 400-troy-ounce gold brick, for instance, is worth about $930K today.

    • @Grippler@feddit.dk
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      Those are called “bars” and not bricks, it even says so in your link. So technically it cannot qualify as the world’s most expensive brick since it isn’t a brick at all.

  • Xero
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    2011 months ago

    Wait, so Car Wash mode has to be on while driving in the rain also?

  • @umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    6311 months ago

    Can we just say that Cybertruck is basically a sum of everything wrong with right wing wackos?

    “Look at me, I’m a badass, driving around in a badass vehicle, unlike you filthy libruls. … Aww shucks! There’s road salt! And my accelerator pedal just fell off wtf. …OH NO! A LITTLE WATER TOO! Anything but that!”

    • @skozzii@lemmy.ca
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      1511 months ago

      Yeah, but someone is gonna buy that gold off you as it holds value , not sure who they’ll be able to trick into taking it off their hands as it’ll be worth a sack of potatoes.

      • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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        1111 months ago

        You’re telling me gold doesn’t immediately diminish in value after you move it a few feet from where you purchased it?

          • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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            411 months ago

            Woah. Move over, Mercedes, Audi…other luxury car companies…FERRARI! That’s one.

            From now on, I only drive Gold.

  • dinckel
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    3311 months ago

    I have zero sympathy for any of the 3878 chumps who wasted their money on this vehicle. They knew exactly what they were getting

    • Endorkend
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      Quite a few really didn’t.

      It’s incredible how delusional some of these people are, like Twitch Moderator being 100% convinced Amouranth is going to bang them if they spend enough in her Onlyfans tier delusional.

      They are entirely convinced he shits gold and everything he touches is Star Trek tier tech.

      • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        1011 months ago

        He chased away the brilliant people to bounce ideas of and that made that stuff work. Now he’s left with a lot of sycophants who just run with every whim. It’s the common story for any authoritarian leader.

      • dinckel
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        111 months ago

        That’s a whole other can of worms, that isn’t even worth discussing. People like that need urgent psychiatric evaluations

      • @Coreidan@lemmy.world
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        511 months ago

        convinced Amouranth is going to bang them if they spend enough in her Onlyfans tier

        Escort services were invented for people like this

          • @addie@feddit.uk
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            211 months ago

            That’s Amaranthe you’re thinking of. If you’re a fan of the Swedish metal ‘soprano and gravel’ sound they’re well worth a listen.

      • BruceTwarzen
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        This is unrelated, but for the longest time i thought thatwhen people talked about amouranth, i thought they talked about that mmo streamer with the filthy room and similar name. I was very confused why everyone wanted to bang him and drink his bathwater.

        • DarkThoughts
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          That’s Asmongold. And the bathwater afaik was Belle Delphine. But maybe I missed some stuff, I’m not into that whole Twitch shit.

    • @KaiReeve@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      You never know. Someone could make a time travel movie with it one day and then collectors will pay an arm and a leg for the left door.

      • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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        211 months ago

        “Tell me Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 2017?”

        “Donald Trump.”

        “Donald Trump? The fraudster? Ha!”

    • BruceTwarzen
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      I really wonder if this is just an average shitty car and dumb people buying it ir something historically stupid. Like in 10 years. Youtubers make top ten videos about the dumbest car ever and on number one they are all like: well, we all know what that is, so we might as well skip it.

      • @not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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        1511 months ago

        Historical stupid.

        My 2 unprofessional cents, I think the way this vehicle was executed wrong. Everybody understands metal rust even if it’s stainless steel, if you don’t take care of it correctly it will rust. Second, sharp angles on vehicles that will be used by family’s is by far reckless, videos show how sharp they are and how the front trunk can do some real damage to body parts. Lastly, we moved away from strong body structure to prevent deaths when accidents happen. Why are we going back to the 60’s car body structure? Yes we might have better safety equipment in vehicles now, but we still have vehicles that just have 1 airbag, seatbelts, and bad body structure safety.

      • Rhaedas
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        611 months ago

        The 21st century DeLorean, only no one bothered making a time machine out of it.

  • Nougat
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    How hard does it have to be raining to require car wash mode?

    • @farcaster@lemmy.world
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      Car washing mode prevents the automatic wipers from triggering and the charging port from opening, so neither get damaged from the spinning brushes of an automatic car wash. It has nothing to do with whatever caused this issue.

      • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        So Tesla says they will have the Full Self Driving very soon now for real, but the car can’t figure out by itself it’s in a car wash.

        • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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          111 months ago

          Many different brands have a car wash mode for the very same reason. This is not a Tesla thing exclusively.

  • @KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    10211 months ago

    Oh shit, the sun came out and I forgot to put my Cybertruck into “Sunlight Mode”.
    It’s bricked now, but it’s really my fault.