Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

droidjj

Gift link: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/926741/tesla-cybertr...

LightBug1

Forgive me, but LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Great headline. What a POS.

tusimi

"All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled" 173...

jeffbee

Rivian had to recall all of theirs for the same reason. Turns out a 3-ton car is hard to engineer.

stephencanon

What sort of engineering standards are these Cybertrucks built to? Oh, very rigorous engineering standards. The wheels aren't supposed to fall off for a start.

dnemmers

Please tell me they had the wheels studs mounted into a steel hub, and not aluminum…

DarkNova6

Sorry, but every time I read news about the Cybertruck I have to think of the Simpsons Canyonero song: Can you name the truck that's been recalled twelve times, Costs less each month 'cause nobody's buying mine? Cybertruck! Cybertruck! (Whip crack!) Her trim falls off when you drive through rain, The steering locks up on the highway lane! Cybertruck! Cybertruck! Top of the line in utility trucks! Started at a hundred, now they're slashing bucks! She's got a price that drops faster than her resale value, And a windshield wiper motor that'll surely fail you! Cybertruck! Cybertruck! (Whip crack!) Twelve recalls in a single year! Drive-by-wire that fills your heart with fear! The accelerator pedal pops right off the floor, But Elon says it's you who doesn't love her more! Cybertruck! She rusts if you look at her wrong in the dew, The tonneau cover works... for a week or two! She's marked down like a Kmart blue-light special now, A stainless steel disaster and a broken vow! Cybertruck! Cybertruck! (Whip crack!) Whoaaa, Cybertruck! CYBERTRUCK!

kevin_thibedeau

They're replacing both front and rear rotors. Is there a reason the rears are different than the AWD models?

lelanthran

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

jpalawaga

That I can't tell whether "the wheels coming off," is literal or figurative when it comes to Tesla is an indictment about their product quality at this point. What a disaster. I don't really know anyone who is voluntarily buying Teslas when there are so many other viable options in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

sourcegrift

Rocket man bad (after 2022)

xiphias2

I don't understand the problem, my new car had like 8 recalls in 2 years for problems that might happen, it's just normal

Finnucane

Jeez, "wheels not falling off car" has been a solved problem since at least the 1965 Corvair.

allears

No problem, that'll buff right out

stathibus

If you're reading this thinking "wow, a recall! tesla must suck at building cars!" then you probably don't know anything about how the automotive industry works and you should refrain from commenting

ajross

Lest folks get too carried away, the headline is a lie. The failure is "brake rotor stud separating from wheel hub". Now, sure, that's a serious failure. It's not "wh33lz f411 oFF!". Everything about this company is cursed at this point. The jeering masses are just as bad as the CEO. The cars themselves though continue to be really pretty great. Though maybe not the truck.

cubefox

173 cars are being recalled. The Verge always tries to make anything remotely involving Musk sound as bad as possible.

shevy-java

Anyone still wants to buy a Tesla though? The design used to be futuristic-novel. But novelty passes - it now looks like a car pressed to pieces in a shredder. And it is very expensive. But most importantly, after Elon did his right-arm raise gesture twice, even aside from mass-firing people at DOGE or elsewhere ... does anyone still want to give more money to a very strange oligarch, who uses money to buy more influence and opinions here? Or buys a platform to turn it into a propaganda amplifier for his strange remarks about race and ethnicity?

jjk166

It's worth noting that crack formation is affected by more than just the design - variation in material and manufacturing steps could also contribute. A more robust design can potentially compensate for material or process variability, but those variables were likely not known nor knowable during the design stage. We should not boo companies for acknowledging and correcting issues which may not have been reasonably foreseeable.