We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, the same day Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue.
This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredibly, the light bar is also glued in place, so we are wondering if there isn’t another recall coming down the pipe.
Gluing the Lights onto the Windshield. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Predictably, after gluing a big old light bar right where it’ll catch maximum wind resistance on a smooth surface like glass, the lightbars are coming unstuck.
Here is one driver whose Cyberbeast tossed his light bar at highway speeds.
More Cybertruck Light Bar Failures
Honestly, I feel bad. This guy seemed really pumped to take his luxury truck off-roading, and then it just… fell apart on the highway? It’s not like this was rough going like the King of Hammers.
And here’s another Cybertruck lightbar coming unstuck.
And here’s another Cybertruck lightbar coming unglued. Edit: Haha, this last one got taken down! You’ll have to use your imagination. I guess the Cybertruck owners’ forums are getting tired of seeing so many reports of components falling off?
The Cybertruck’s off-road light bar has always been a bit of a head-scratcher. For starters, it’s glued onto the windshield by Tesla, but it’s not wired by Tesla. That’s right… you get to do the wiring part yourself. More on that in a second.
The DIY Wiring That The Cybertruck Requires Looks… Involved
Activating the Tesla’s offroad light bar is sort of an ordeal, as it comes glued on from the Tesla Service Center, but not wired, so you need to splice the wires yourself.
Real talk: that’s just an outrageously chintzy product to ship to customers who paid upwards of $130,000 for a luxury truck. Cheaper off-roading vehicles, like the Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro and Ford Raptor, come with off-roading lights that are ready-to-use, obviously.
Look at this… can you imagine purchasing a $130,000+ vehicle, and then the service manual tells you that you need to do this to activate the lights?
Cybertruck off-road lights are glued on and require extensive manual wire splicing and soldering, per the official Tesla service manual. You can’t make this up.
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Per the Cybertruck service manual:
“WARNING. Tesla employees are not permitted to connect or assist with the RH B-pillar connection of the Cybertruck off road lightbar harness to the roof accessory jumper harness connector. Only the customer or a third-party entity is permitted to complete the lightbar harness connection.”
To add insult after injury: if the light bar falls off because the glue holding it onto your truck fails… then you got to do it all over again!
“Recall When?”
So, inquiring minds are wondering… when will there be a recall to keep these glued-on light bars from falling off in the street?
If the Cybertruck door panels are falling off because they’re glued on with glue “susceptible to environmental embrittlement,” it looks like the light bar has the same issue. Surely, Tesla doesn’t want the “World’s Toughest Truck” coming unglued on the highway!
Here at FuelArc News, we’ll watch this space while studiously avoiding the words “told ya so.”
