• adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    10 个月前

    how tf are these things insurable, or even in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards?

    • ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.socialOP
      70·
      10 个月前

      how tf are these things insurable

      That’s the neat part, they aren’t.

      or even in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards?

      Because American standards only focus on the safety of those inside the vehicle, they also assume that the manufacturers make the frame out of something at least a little stronger than wet tissue paper.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        10 个月前

        It’s a picture of the upper control arm when it’s probably the lower ball joint that broke (and not the whole lower control arm)

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
          15·
          10 个月前

          Almost certainly the ball joint. Exact same thing happened to my 1993 Buick Regal. The difference is my car was worth fixing, even at 250k miles.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          10 个月前

          Yep. My '99 Crown Vic did the same thing… around the 250,000 mile mark. Had it flatbedded to My local mechanic 400 bucks later I was back on the road.

          Good thing this is a truck with similar body-on-frame construction, otherwise that would be really expens…oh wait…

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          61·
          10 个月前

          You are prob right (and prob it’s a design shitshow below too), but if the car was moving the higher ball fucking off could lead to lower ball quitting the job soon after as well.

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      10 个月前

      I think my Miata and Tercel have thicker control arms, and they’re both a pinch heavier than 2000 lbs.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    21·
    10 个月前

    I feel like I have seen this exact same damage multiple times already for the cyber truck. Same wheel and everything, front passenger side.

    There must be some extremely faulty design with that wheel.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      342·
      10 个月前

      I was going to say. It’s not my style, but that matte finish looks better than stock for sure.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        16·
        10 个月前

        I have also seen some “cyber” paint jobs that look decent on it. But, it sucks getting an expensive paint job on it before it falls apart. And there are much nicer looking base cars to take advantage of a cyber paint job, like pretty much any recent lamborghini or even lower priced techie looking cars.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 个月前

    That ain’t no frame issue…

    In this thread, people who never took a look at the mechanical components of a car.

  • Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 个月前

    I would like to say that if it was 2018-ish and Elmo was just running around with “not a flamethrower”, this dumpster would still be a piece of shit.

  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
    4·
    10 个月前

    wouldn’t surprise me it’s Trump gives Tesla a military contract to mass produce cybershites for the military.

    let the military get fucked with them.