Cybertrash? Owner claims to have found MORE flaws with new EV - days after ... trends now
A Tesla Cybertruck owner claims he has had to have four separate issues repaired on his EV in just over a month of ownership.
Based in California, the driver claimed that the issues began with a flawed windshield, with a line right in his field of vision.
After the local service center replaced the windshield, new issues with the gear selector, accelerator pedal, and tailgate appeared.
The shifter fell from the windshield and dangled by a wire, the accelerator pedal was fixed improperly by a Tesla technician, and the tailgate won't open - or stay closed.
The new issues come just a few days after the automaker issued a recall for the accelerator pedal on every single Cybertruck it had shipped so far - 3,878 vehicles.
A new Cybertruck owner shared a photo of the gear selector hanging by a wire, just days after the company announced a recall for the vehicle's accelerator pedal.
The unusual gear selector is located on a piece of trim that runs down the center of the windshield. The sun visors are attached to the sides of it with magnets. A former Tesla engineer told DailyMail.com that this poor design puts too much stress on the gear selector, which is not anchored firmly enough to handle it.
The frustrated Cybertruck owner, who goes by the username kobratoldya, shared photos of the electric vehicle's problems to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, in a post titled 'The issues are piling up...'
'I’m starting to get a little frustrated with the problems I’m having with the Cybertruck,' the post began.
'It started with an imperfection on my windshield that caused there to be a long line on my line of sight,' wrote kobratoldya.
'They replaced my windshield but I think something happened to the top gear selector panel.
'It dropped down and won’t stay back up.'
This problem with the gear selector comes down to poor design, former Tesla engineer Cristina Balan told DailyMail.com.
The truck does not have gears, but the selector enables a driver to put the car in park, drive, neutral, and reverse.
The issue, she said, is that the truck's sun visors attach to the gear selector with strong magnets, but the gear selector is not attached sturdily enough to take the stress the visors put on it.
'The visors are one of the parts in the car that take the most abuse,' Balan said.
Whenever someone drives their Cybertruck in sunny weather, they will be flipping the visor down or adjusting it to block the glare.
Every time they do, the magnet that attaches it to the gear selector will tug on the plastic housing, eventually pulling it out of place, as happened to kobratoldya.
'They've attached a moving part to another moving part,' said Balan.
The gear selector is not meant to move, but because it is not anchored firmly to the windshield it will end up moving, she said.
Balan noted that the gear selector is only attached with four clips to the trim running down the windshield - and zero screws.
'I'm really surprised that nobody caught that,' she said. 'It's critical! You have the gear in there!'
The solution, she said, would be to attach the visors to the windshield trim that the gear selector attaches to, as pictured below.
Former Tesla engineer Cristina Balan shared this and the following sketch with DailyMail.com, showing where the sun visors should have been attached.
Because of the daily pressure put on the sun visors, Balan said, they should be attached to something more sturdy than the gear selector, which is not even
