• Nora
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    161 year ago

    Why would cold water brick the truck?

    • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]
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      381 year ago

      You notice how the truck is silver? that’s because it’s made of stainless steel and it doesn’t have a protective coat or paint on it, something that is expected to be on a car

      • SSJ2Marx [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        soviet-hmm Perhaps we could paint the car with silver metallic paint, and make the body from standard automotive materials?

        agony-yehaw No way, it’s gotta be stainless steel for reasons. Now pass me my ketamine, it’s therapeutic I swear!

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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      281 year ago

      Not cold water specifically–just water. The waterproofing on the electronics is uneven (especially on earlier models). It has a “car wash mode” (lol) that is supposed to lock all that down, but some Teslas have been bricked by just driving in the rain. Also, the water seems to rust the stainless steel body. As I’ve said before, it seems like it was engineered for California weather and they never considered that people might drive it in other climates.