Interestingly the invoice said that they both replaced the ideal AND installed a rivet. Unfortunately they forgot to realign the wheels or connect the tie rod or something else that caused the truck to pull to the right A LOT when I picked it up. So, it's back in the shop.
[picture of a screw poorly installed on the accelerator pedal that keeps falling apart and getting stuck]
I’m sorry but that looks terrible. They could have easily hidden the rivet below the rubber grip but instead they went with this cheap route. It looks like what a DIYer would come up with.
I'm glad that you know exactly what the pedal under the cover looks like and how to best resolve the issue. I'm sure that Tesla would appreciate your car engineering experience and your decades of working with regulatory agencies would be a great addition to thwm.
You do realize that those Tesla engineers that you are carrying water for with this comment are the ones that designed the faulty pedal in the first place. Not sure I'd trust them to come up with the best overall fix. The point is that I can't believe at the price of the Cybertruck that this cheap and aesthetic nonsense fix is acceptable. If there is in fact a regulator reason for the rivet to be there they could have redesigned the pedal cap to have a way to hide the unsightly thing. Why is it only ever Tesla owners that play mental gymnastics to forgive their car company for fucking them over? You should be holding Tesla to the fire when these issues pop up.
I was not carrying water for anyone just laughing at your sour grapes and self-assurance in your own seemingly non-existent engineering and regulatory compliance expertise. Why is it only ever non-Tesla owners who feel the need to troll in an enthusiast subreddit dedicated to a car?
I doth love the truck m'lord
Then this followup post was removed from r/Cybertruck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybertruck/comments/1clj1o2/called_ugly_at_a_stop_light/
All joking aside I've never seen this before in my life, this - idk what to call it, "brand loyalty" maybe? Like having a love one die in a cybertrunk crash because it was designed on the cheap as a cash grab then blaming your dead wife for her death rather then your lord and savior Elon. Psychologists better get in here and study this, whatever it is.
It's what attracts me to crypto goobers, Tesla owners, and pyramid scheme rubes. All three are Debordian spectacle at its latest stage, when it's some bizarre mix of cargo cult and Millerite apocalypse and libertarian revolution all embodied in the same terrible commodity fetish. As these things fall apart their owners will have such a malignant sense of sunk cost fallacy that they're going to go genuinely 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓀𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁.
back like a 10+ years ago, i took this class called "Sociology of the Environment" or something like that. it was one of those classes where we'd read a book or some articles, and then come in and have a mediated class discussion about it that might pop off with a brief lecture to discuss terms.
anyway, one of the standout lessons was about this phenomenon of technological adoption. how, quite literally, people who purchase a type of technology tend to become overnight advocates for that technology's place in society, particularly if that technology has a dependency on others also adopting it. and it isn't always something they do or understand consciously.
with teslas, it's pretty drastic, right? this ain't no trivection toaster oven or whatever. you drop $100k on this vehicle. you have pushed your chips in and are materially committed. you don't want to admit you got fucked (why people who are scammed rarely come forward / why people tend to act like they got a good deal on their car, house even if they didnt). but, maybe you're also vaguely aware that if Telsa goes tits up, your car might brick. certainly your maintenance and repair situation is going to become dodgy, and there isn't really a network of mom and pop garages that can deal with that thing. its very likely it becomes another piece of discontinued tech that is orphaned by capital.
i think all of that combines into an emotionally charged defense of the purchase and the company that they are discouraged from examining. certainly, musk's business model thrives on this: "if you buy this thing, you're a forward thinking genius and leaving the rest of the fools behind as you reach for the stars."
Future r/cybertruck post
People in this thread are asking if I blame my dead wife. On that steep hill the nav crashed. The the brakes failed. Then she screamed VERY LOUDLY. Then we crashed. Then the impact made the truck flip over a few times. And she died. Of course I blame her. Who else am I going to blame? Elon?