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Whistlin Diesel is gonna hurt some feelers with this one (R32 abuse)

bgaidan said:
Windows down and nothing supporting the glass around the edges - I bet most vehicles would see the same result.
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I still would have figured it could take it. It's a door slam. not a drop from 10ft. Auto glass is pretty hardy.
 
I hope he’s making eleventy-million
 
Held up better than I thought it would except the tow hitch. Obviously aluminum is the wrong material for it. I would not want an aluminum frame on anything that sees shock loading.

Wasn't really a fair comparing a 100k tesla to a probably 50k f150. Comparing to a raptor would be more in line price wise.
Was definitely click bate to bring out the tesla fan boys. Some things held up better than I thought the would and some things held up worse.
 
I brought that cast structure up to my Tesla fan boy brother years back when he was trying to flex cyber truck specs on me.

I explained how a cast rear structure had to be about the dumbest thing I'd heard of in regards to a trailer hitch attachment point.

Likewise a "stressed" skin on the original cyber truck concept seemed pretty dumb, have the 14k trailer on the tongue and a fender bender now causes a chassis failure....

Good to see my Spidey senses weren't too far out of tolerance
 
CarterKraft said:
I brought that cast structure up to my Tesla fan boy brother years back when he was trying to flex cyber truck specs on me.
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Is it cast or forged? I thought those sorts of parts were the purpose of that giant press Tesla bought.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Is it cast or forged?
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Cast

arse_sidewards said:
I thought those sorts of parts were the purpose of that giant press Tesla bought.
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Die casting "press", not forging press.

Tonnage ratings on plastic injection molding and metal die casting machines are tons of closing / clamping force holding the dies together against the injection pressure X surface area of die cavities. Example at small scale: 1500 PSI injection pressure X 200 sq inches of projected surface area= 150 ton press required.
 
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They really fucked the pooch with that stupid design and material choice.

Do we think their will eventually be a recall because of WD's video to replace those sections with steel parts?
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
They really fucked the pooch with that stupid design and material choice.

Do we think their will eventually be a recall because of WD's video to replace those sections with steel parts?
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If that's all part of a monolithic die cast frame, and it sounds like it is, that's going to be one hefty recall.
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
They really fucked the pooch with that stupid design and material choice.

Do we think their will eventually be a recall because of WD's video to replace those sections with steel parts?
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They'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming and even if they do there's no way they replace it. They'll add a barely sufficient stamped bracket over it to distribute the force better. :laughing:
 
arse_sidewards said:
They'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming and even if they do there's no way they replace it. They'll add a barely sufficient stamped bracket over it to distribute the force better. :laughing:
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The government doesn't like Elon and I'm sure they'd have no problem having him recall every cybertruck ever made.

If even one single trailer falls of the back of one of those trucks and kills a single soul, even if the damage was caused in a previous light rear ending and had nothing to do with the trailer, Elon and Tesla will get sued by everyone and their brother right into bankruptcy saying they were well aware of the "problem" and that there is even video on YouTube of it happening.

I think WD accidentally opened up a can of worms for Tesla that they didn't want opened.
 
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