Despite the recent release of these Tesla EVs — and the little road time they’ve been subjected to — Cybertrucks are already developing imperfections on their body panels, leading owners to debate what’s causing the early signs of rust on forums. From Futurism:
One Cybertruck Owners Club forum member says they started noticing small orange flecks appearing on his truck after driving it in the rain for just two days.
“Just picked up my Cybertruck today,” they wrote. “The advisor specifically mentioned the cybertrucks develop orange rust marks in the rain and that required the vehicle to be buffed out.”
The Cybertruck owner posted followup photos after washing the vehicle down with soap, and they didn’t inspire much confidence, showing body panels already pockmarked with small orange spots.
Cross post from https://lemmy.world/comment/7544395
Yet another example proving that having more money is no indication of intellect or critical thinking skills.
Teslas have always been junk. Junk the manufacturer doesn’t even bother stocking adequate replacement parts for because you already bought it, suckers.
Almost like they’re not made of stainless steel
Stainless steel can still rust though.
But rust is a stain, and it’s stainless
Stainless is a marketing term though. It has way less rusting than carbon steel, and it doesn’t create a patina like a carbon knife do.
But it is still steel, with iron content thay can rust.
There’s a bunch of Deloreans out there still rustless. Meanwhile at Tesla…
Wow, up until today I thought the DeLorean body panels were aluminum. TIL DeLorean body panels are stainless steel. I’ve had the opportunity to view them up close several times (auto auctions, car shows, etc.), and never noticed any signs of rust or discoloration.
There are different stainless alloys comprising of various level of iron. Nickel-based stainless, for instance, will not rust. Lots of surgical stainless steels will not rust.
This is just Tesla choosing the wrong alloy to save dollars.
But apparently this one isn’t stainless at all…? So…it’s not stainless steel, then. Because it stains.
It’s stain-less not stain-free. Stainless steel stains less relative to steel. The amount it stains less is relative to its additional alloys added like chromium. The more chromium the less stain, it also increases its price considerably.
The amount of stainless steel used on these vehicles is considerable. So there will be a lot of money to be saved by using a low grade stainless steel.
Thats…not how that suffix works in English, lol.
And yet, in this case he’s right.
Sounds like they’re both right.
Stainless steel shouldn’t be named stainless because it can stain despite the suffix meaning “without”.
stainless ≠ rust free
That’s literally why it’s called stainless instead of rust free. All stainless isn’t made equal and actual rust free steel is expensive.
Wait, there isn’t any protective coating on those plates?
I don’t think so, no. It’s just plain stainless steel.
How did they not foresee this? I mean, leave a body panel out for a few months and see what happens to it.
It really depends on the type of stainless. My stainless grill which I leave out in the elements year round has not rusted, it’s made of 304 stainless which is corrosion resistant but not as much at Marine grade 316. There are thousands of slightly different alloys under the stainless umbrella some are better than others as far as rust goes.
Many manufacturers use ferritic types of stainless as sheets can be moved with magnets, many of these are cheaper and less corrosion resistant.
I get all that, I’m just saying, Tesla should have foreseen this.
They were too busy using calipers to measure door gaps to the micron level to focus on materials lmao
$81,000 and go up to $101,000 depending on the trim and options
And they cheap out on the steel?
They probably uses a ferritic type of stainless, you can pick sheets up with magnets making manufacturing much easier but they are less corrosion resistant than 304 or 316.
Best reason I could find for this is related to the DeLorean since it also uses stainless steel. Apparently, the reason it doesn’t rust easily is because of a high chromium content in the steel, so maybe tesla used cheaper stainless steel.
maybe tesla used cheaper stainless steel
Actually uh its because chromium doesn’t do as good a job of uh um… stopping bullets.
Idiot.
So which is it, stainless steel or bullet proof?
Listen, Elon Musk said it was both and if you don’t believe his Joe Rogan YouTube video then you don’t care about climate change and are probably a pedophile.
Ok, genuinely fuck you for that one. Maybe if Elon wasn’t using giant lithium batteries to power his cars we wouldn’t have so much damn electrical waste from cars, and he’s actively trying to leave the planet so he clearly doesn’t care about it.
he’s actively trying to leave the planet so he clearly doesn’t care about it.
And when he gets to Mars - which he definitely will, very soon now! - you’re not going to be invited.
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Shoulda paid the extra 6 grand for the paint.
Half the joke is how the paint also corrodes the metal, just from the underside so it isn’t quite as obvious until it starts flaking off in big chunks.
For what it’s worth you don’t have to spend much time around stainless steel to realize the word ‘stainless’ isn’t literal. I bet you exactly 0 knife nerds actually believed this thing wasn’t going to rust.
Stainless doesn’t rust. Stainless alloys do. Knives are an alloy because they need certain properties to be able to sharpen them properly and hold an edge.
Medical stainless doesn’t rust and whatever the hell my kitchen sink is doesn’t either.
All stainless steels are alloys.
You’re correct, I should have said “some”
