# Tesla Cybertruck **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866 "2019-11-23T10:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![stewie68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@stewie68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stewie68)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/601 "2024-01-19T14:31:48Z")
Too much, actually. I always have to turn mine down or off. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/602 "2024-01-19T19:42:22Z")
Yes, the ā€˜3ā€™ setting is much too hot. I imagine you could turn all 4 seats to ā€˜3ā€™ and heat the cabin! ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/603 "2024-01-20T03:16:08Z")
> **[Tesla: Youā€™ll Have to Wipe Dead Bugs and Bird Poop off Your Cybertruck ASAP...](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-youll-have-to-wipe-dead-bugs-and-bird-poop-off-your-cybertruck-asap-to-avoid-corrosion/)** > > Owners are finding the exposed stainless steel may be much more fragile than they expected. > ā€œTo 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.). Do not wait until Cybertruck is due for complete wash. If necessary, use denatured alcohol to remove tar spots and stubborn grease stains, then immediately wash the area with water and a mild, non-detergent soap to remove the alcohol.ā€ If you donā€™t do so, your warranty becomes void for any damage caused. Could anyone have possibly anticipated that paint is an amazingly protective barrier for bare metal surfaces on cars? Is there any possibly way the geniuses at Tesla could have figured this out at the design stage? Unfortunate that such esoteric knowledge was not uncovered in time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/604 "2024-01-20T03:18:51Z")
But it says stainless! Itā€™s right there in the name! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/605 "2024-01-20T03:19:26Z")
You know that bird shit etches paint too, right? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/606 "2024-01-20T03:56:30Z")
I find the idea of needing to remove alcohol kinda funny. The stuff evaporates just fine without help. Now whatever solids youā€™ve managed to adsorb into the alcohol will be redeposited, but thatā€™s a different problem. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/607 "2024-01-20T10:17:31Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > You know that bird shit etches paint too, right? Iā€™m aware that itā€™s mildly corrosive, but Iā€™m not meticulous about cleaning off the occasional bird poop right away and have never had paint damage from it. Whoever wrote those warnings was either being excessively cautious to the point of ridiculousness, or else the ā€œstainlessā€ surface really does stain or otherwise mark up quite easily. Either way, it must be terribly disappointing to the sort of yokel who spends $100K on this abomination because Musk has been spinning it as having virtually indestructible military-grade ruggedness, and then discovering that you have to baby it a lot more than a regular car. Or at least, if you donā€™t, it will (quite literally) look like shit. šŸ˜‰ The warning about road salt must be particularly jarring, since thatā€™s one thing that modern cars have become particularly good at resisting, both on body panels and in the underbody. As a resident of California and Texas, I doubt Musk cares any more about road salt than he does about frozen door handles on his Teslas. It wouldnā€™t surprise me in the least if the Cybertruck, which Iā€™m sure had a huge amount of Muskā€™s typical micromanagement behind it and was probably very poorly tested, was much more vulnerable to road salt than conventional vehicles out of Detroit or your typical Volvo out of Sweden, even if the ridiculous stainless steel panels themselves donā€™t actually rust. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/608 "2024-01-20T11:05:04Z")
Could you get the thing painted? Anyway, if the ā€˜finishā€™ starts looking like shit it will look like a truck (sort of) ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/609 "2024-01-20T11:43:18Z")
I suppose you could have it painted. The CT can be ordered with a wrap. Wraps are also available from the aftermarket, of course. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/610 "2024-01-20T11:58:51Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > Wraps are also available from the aftermarket, of course. Oooooo. Does anyone make a 'My Little Pony" wrap. Iā€™ve lots of ideas about this. Poka-Dots would be fun too. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/611 "2024-01-20T12:26:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > But it says stainless! Itā€™s right there in the name! but it also says ā€œstealā€ ā€¦ oh ā€¦ wait ā€¦ I can so see Tesla fending off any claims made concerning the aestethics of the body (and I can clearly smell a class-action-suit, as well) ā€¦ given their track-record of NOT honoring warranteeā€¦ just think of the poor sob in england where they refused warrantee work on a car with 180 miles on it, due to ā€œprior damageā€ ā€¦ jokes aside, if this turns out to become a problem (e.g. pockmarked body) - that might keep a lot of those anal-clean-truck people away ā€¦ another sub-set of the populace that may have the means, but no longer the inclination to own one. I guess that is one of those things, where one has to sit on the fence and see how it really pans out (overhyped-clickbaity-pseudo-problem vs. 90% trucks turning ugly) ā€¦ another reason (an we are not exactly short on those) to not buy a Tesla as early adopter. > [@enipla](#): > > Oooooo. Does anyone make a 'My Little Pony" wrap. Iā€™ve lots of ideas about this. Poka-Dots would be fun too. well, it seem that the smaller polka-dots are a root-cause of this problem šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/612 "2024-01-20T12:34:54Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Oooooo. Does anyone make a 'My Little Pony" wrap. Iā€™ve lots of ideas about this. Poka-Dots would be fun too. I see your My Little Pony and raise you one Hello Kitty. šŸ˜ Iā€™ve never used an AI image generator and all the ones I just poked at require sign-ups Iā€™m not willing to do. So no pix. Yet. Perhaps someone can oblige both of us and we can have a pix-off? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/613 "2024-01-20T14:30:48Z")
I couldnā€™t get it to do a wrap, butā€¦ā€¦ [![](https://i.imgur.com/5p6OfMk.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/5p6OfMk.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/614 "2024-01-20T15:33:22Z")
I canā€™t seem to get a cybertruck out of the AI, but hereā€™s a model 3: [![](https://i.imgur.com/Fp2Iv8z.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Fp2Iv8z.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/615 "2024-01-20T15:41:33Z")
Niiiiice. I would buy that. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/616 "2024-01-20T16:16:47Z")
You all realize My Little Pony is not the same as Hello Kitty, right? Somewhere a bunch of Bronies are spinning in their basements. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/617 "2024-01-20T16:41:08Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > You all realize My Little Pony is not the same as Hello Kitty, right? Somewhere a bunch of Bronies are spinning in their basements > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I see your My Little Pony and raise you one Hello Kitty. šŸ˜ ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/618 "2024-01-20T17:08:10Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/yst50Eb.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/yst50Eb.jpg) Happy? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/619 "2024-01-20T17:14:06Z")
šŸ©· Pinkie Pie! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/620 "2024-01-20T20:23:00Z")
I was too old for My Little Pony, but Iā€™m currently reading a book where Princess Luna from that universe is evil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866.md?page=32)