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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.
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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.
Some Cybertruck owners say their fellow Cybertruckers are blowing things out of proportion,
and one said it’s a good idea to not “…drive it in the rain, or get it wet.”Others expressed anger that Tesla’s options for protecting the steel panels cost thousands of dollars.
😂😂😂 just incredible,
having a car that rusts in the rain clearly is just haters blowing things out of proportion.and of course the solution only costs 5 grand.
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Yeah it’s just such a shame that every car has this issue since the invention of paint doesn’t exist. Oh if only there was a common sealing agent that could be used to avoid this… Oh well guess this expensive car is just going to have to be repeatedly buffed for all of existence to keep it looking as intended
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In b4 elon musks dicksuckers say they like the look and want it to rust.
They already did, in the article.
Others are in favor of their Cybertrucks developing orange stains, saying that they’re looking forward to the patina the stainless steel may develop.
Already?
Yup. One response said this …
“They documented the corrosion, and told me they’ll give me a call next month when the tools have arrived and they can perform the service/repair,” the user wrote after taking their vehicle to their local service center. “The Cybertruck has 381 miles on it, and has spent much of the 11 days in my custody parked in front of my house.”
Bro got the “stainless” steel.
🦀must rewrite cybertruck🦀
I’m quite disappointed how rabid, mischievous and ill-wishing people have become. Really, what’s going on here on lemmy?
Anyhoo, have a read at these two posts about owners having rust marks on their cars and how they are easily removed. They seem to be rusting particles from train transportation or other environmental stuff:
No, I don’t own one and don’t plan to.
That can’t be all it is though. All new cars have train rust debris. This isn’t a new phenomenon. If you care how your car looks, never let the dealer “wash” it and always have it professionally detailed immediately. Then add PPF while it’s still mint
Yeah sometimes you can tell people were waiting for a negative article to justify their personal opinion. Even if it’s a low effort slightly misleading article people are just too excited to say they were right to actually look deeper than the surface level 😮💨
Lemmy is full of miserable people
I’m quite disappointed how rabid, mischievous and ill-wishing people have become.
I thought the way you do, but now my opinion is that people have always been like that. The internet just exposes you to more of it, so it seems like some new behavioral tendency.
There wasn’t some golden age of core decency found in social discourse, ever.
Having had access to the internet since 1986 before The Web was a thing, I would agree with this sentiment. There were some awful takes that you’d run into back then, they just didn’t have the exposure to the public they do now.
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Hey, if you want to make fun of a group of people for something they thought was cool but you don’t, go for it.
But if you act this is proof that the entire product is falling apart and completely flawed, when it’s actually just some blemishes from shipping… That’s pretty sad.
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.
Good knives rust, bad knives don’t. You need high iron to hone a perfect edge properly. You can still resharpen a shitty knife, your grocery butcher will likely do it for free, but it will never have the same edge as a properly honed good knife.
Do you hone it 1000 times, knife sama?
Just quickly before use. If you keep up with it, you rarely ever need to actually sharpen it.
“Surgical” stainless - a marketing term - will rust simply because it’s still an alloy of chromium and steels - it just takes far longer than the higher carbon steel alloys because of the lower carbon content. And yes, scalpel blades are made from high carbon stainless alloys that WILL rust if not properly stored - they are single use items and tossed when done being used once.
Your stainless sink is probably made from some 304 stainless alloy due to it’s deep draw properties thanks to the extra nickle content. Things marked “Surgical” stainless would fall into this type of alloy. But 300 series stainless steels still contain about .05% carbon which is still enough to cause eventual rusting or staining.
You do know that more than scalpels are used right? Things that are put into autoclaves and used over and over and over again.
Marine stainless will absolutely rust. I bet surgical stainless will to next to the ocean.
Yes, yes it will. Since “surgical stainless” is a marketing hype term, (just like something marked “billet” or “military grade”), it’s just a lower carbon/higher nickle content stainless. Marine stainless steels are most often cheaper 300 series steels.
I never said “surgical stainless”. I said medical, as in the tools that are used in the medical space. These are typically reused after going through an autoclave.
Medical grade and surgical grade are just marketing terms. It’s all 304 and 316 (sometimes 440 or 420)
There are ASTM standards for biocompatible metals.
All stainless steels are alloys.
You’re correct, I should have said “some”
Knifes are different though, as that is a different stainless steel alloy. I don’t remember the specifics, but something about higher carbon content so it can be hardened? This is why you shouldn’t put knifes into a dishwasher, they don’t like the salt and will get pitted over time.
Nevertheless, no “normal” stainless is actually immune to rust or general corrosion anyway. It also depends on the environment (ask boat folks about this one), specifically if oxygen can get to it. And salt just makes everything 100x worse, too.
Closest you get to real rust proof steel is nitrogen steels, which are used for diving knives. Super super hard though, doubt it’d make a good auto body, I’d imagine such a thing would be prone to cracking. Expensive too. I’m gonna say Daddy Elon’s best bet is to slap regular painted body panels on it and take the hit. I think we all know what he’s not going to do though.
Even the nitrogen alloy steels used for diving knives will corrode. It just takes a lot longer than the normal high carbon stainless alloys.
Water is the universal solvent…
If/when BYD builds their first manufacturing plant and starts selling, Musk might change his mind about that.
Let’s spread a rumor that elon pisses on each and every cybertruck before it leaves factory to mark dominance and his drug induced piss is the reason of rust.
Imagine what kind of clown you’d have to be to buy a Tesla in 2024. I mean, Jesus Christ. They might as well tattoo the word TWAT onto their forehead in flashing, fluorescent ink.
This was inane from the start and calling rust a “patina”…
I swear, if this doesn’t certify them as a cult, I don’t know what will.
What is often referred to as “patina” is a form of rust/corrosion layer that provides a natural protection from active rust/corrosion that will ruin whatever steel alloy it forms on and is actively applied to many steel alloy surfaces. And even metals like aluminum and titanium naturally form a “patina” to prevent corrosion also.
See: Blued/browned gun barrels or case colored steels. All forms of protecting patina that can be quite striking to look at. Particularly case colored steels.
Perhaps - but that bluing is not whats on the truck, hence my comment about rust. And this was never mentioned by Tesla, which is another concern.
Anyway, let’s revisit this in 6 months and see how the “patina” is working out.
No, but that “patina” does form a protective coating. Now, evidently Tesla doesn’t provide any type of coating and the ship their truck in the “bright”. But a patina would definitely help to provide some protection.
I would think most of the uproar is simply about the the loss of the shiny bright look of the factory new look that simple time and use made go away. And that’s why your Grandmother spent all that time polishing that silver coffee service she had. It looked crappy and she didn’t like it.
idk if there’s any other slobs here but stainless still will absolutely rust in certain conditions. Its usually easy to clean but sometimes difficult to remove.
These vehicles will 100% rust and will probably permanently discolor with prolonged exposure to certain acids.
It’s stain-less, not stain-never.
It’s
stainquality-less. FTFY
This is just fitting for people who were so afraid of other people damaging their cars that they go stainless steel cars, only for them to rust in every day rain. Hahaha cyber truck is a gift that keeps giving
Grift that keeps on grifting
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
