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I still owe $171,500

They aren't sending their best

The truck totals itself upon impact. Just about any collision is enough to cause the truck's deeply ill-conceived stainless steel exoskeleton to stress and damage the adjacent panels, because all of the force of the collision is applied directly to weak mounting points and then every adjacent part basically falls like dominoes.

They made a truck that essentially cannot be repaired, what few repairs that can be made can only be done by the factory stripping the truck down completely and rebuilding a new truck from scratch on top of the original structural battery, and because there is no frame every single trim panel is actually integral.

They made an eggshell out of stainless steel that tears itself apart because it's too rigid, attached it to a load bearing lithium-ion battery pack, and then just clipped the plastic interior pieces onto the eggshell.

For a normal car it's repairable, probably be an overpriced fix but not totalled. For a Cybertruck? Would not be surprised if Tesla dealerships are literally not capable of that level of repairs.

How its built, first the air bags went off which are crazy expensive which damages interior panels as well. It looks like both doors were damaged, and back quarter panel. I know the rivian pickup back quarter panel extends to the front of the truck so who knows what this does. The roll down cover for the bed was probably damaged if that back quarter panel was damaged. The bed could also be damaged depending on how its attached to the quarter panel. Stainless isn't very forgiving, its very rigid so its possible it could damage other things while being damaged. I bet only Tesla repairs these things too. So yes not surprised.

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-that-rivian-r1t-repair-cost-42000-after-just-a-minor-fender-bender/

Along with the other things mentioned, Tesla hasn't been good with insurance repairs. They have such a backlog with parts and service that insurance companies have been totalling a lot of vehicles that are repairable because they would take too long to repair.

Especially so with the cybertruck because there's no way use bondo and paint, there's only a few specialist Delorean shops that can rework stainless panels. That means only complete panel replacement, which is a complicated procedure on the CT because it mostly uses adhesive rather than fasteners to attach body panels. It's like a supercar, they don't design them to be repaired, because they don't want them to be repaired.

IIRC Musk was in talks with police and the military to have cybertrucks replace the humvee.

I'm now remembering the days that mElon was peddling the lie that Teslas would be an appreciating asset.

I only recognize one Foundation series.

I am the same way. it's wild to me that this is considered eccentric, but I do love running into my fellow freaks on the road, keeping some 15+ year old little economy car rolling from A to B, getting those groceries. no console, no frills, no payments.

car brains really internalize the marketing materials for cars. I get the weirdest pity from them over my little reliable relic. they have no idea how much pride I have in keeping this 20+ year old little gas sipper I snapped up for a song when a family member was "upgrading". they've changed cars 3 times since!

every time I run some car-required errands with this little enchantress, I feel like I am the unrivaled king of the road.

I remember first seeing they were offering 60 months terms on car loans. I was like, "who would be crazy enough to do that?" after seeing how popular they were, I decided to stop trying to understand car brain.

That's like a really nice used car

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