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Bluetus

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17. It is much worse than that. Pick-up trucks are supposd to be rugged.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 05:20 PM

Apr 2025

Trucks are supposed to take a beating. Just as soon as Elon's Folly hit the streets a year ago, there were immediately reports of the back part of the frame just snapping off when using the trailer hitch. This is because the genius inventor used a cast aluminum frame. That was bad enough, but then the hitch piece was welded on, which is just not a good idea with aluminum. Rather than admit this catastrophic design flaw that was completely uncorrectable without starting over from scratch, Tesla blamed the owners and put out a complex formula for how little weight could safely be put on the trailer hitch.

Well, fast forward to this week, when a collision caused Elon's Folly to literally break in half -- again because of that terrible choice of a cast aluminum frame. A person would have to be insane to buy one of these things now.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/31/tesla-cybertruck-split-half-crash-with-g-wagon/

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It is much worse than that. Pick-up trucks are supposd to be rugged. Bluetus Apr 2025 #17

+1 dalton99a Apr 2025 #30

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