- Elon Musk addressed considerations a few Cybertruck panel hole on Tuesday.
- YouTuber Marques Brownlee had identified a big hole within the door of a Cybertruck he’d reviewed.
- Musk mentioned the difficulty on Brownlee’s truck was associated to a loosened door striker and might be rapidly fastened at a service heart.
Elon Musk was fast to handle considerations about panel gaps on the Tesla Cybertruck after tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee known as an alignment difficulty on his door the “worst I’ve ever seen in a manufacturing automobile.”
In a assessment of the electrical pickup, Brownlee identified the gaps in his evaluation of the truck’s exterior.
“I believe there’s going to be one thing flawed with this door as a result of it actually seems to be prefer it’s open. That is fairly dangerous. I’ve by no means seen a niche fairly that dangerous,” Brownlee mentioned after he closed the driving force’s aspect door and the door nonetheless appeared to hold about half an inch open.
“It is most likely a type of issues the place I will should deliver it in to Tesla. They will tighten some issues up and it will look tremendous, however that is the stuff you’ll most likely should take care of when you get a low VIN Cybertruck,” he added.
In a response to a display screen seize of the door hole from Brownlee’s assessment, Musk mentioned he’d seen the difficulty in round 15 of the vehicles.
“Not a ‘door match’ difficulty,” Musk wrote on X. “About 15 Cybertrucks in service had a difficulty the place the door striker loosened within the area, resulting from inadequate torque after door match.”
Musk mentioned it “takes 5 minutes to repair in service and has been addressed in manufacturing.”
Miles Somerville, a producer on Brownlee’s present, instructed Enterprise Insider that he got here up with a “short-term repair” — gaffers tape. Somerville mentioned he utilized the tape to the door striker, the metallic clip that the door latches onto, with a purpose to get it flush with the automobile.
“I believe a door striker ought to be comparatively easy to not screw up upon supply,” Somerville mentioned in an emailed remark.
A spokesperson for Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Even earlier than Tesla started deliveries in November, Tesla followers had identified prototypes of the truck with poor panel alignment. Final 12 months, The Wall Road Journal reported that because of the truck’s chrome steel physique being made out of metallic that got here in massive coils it was vulnerable to curving and trying to renew its earlier form, even when it had been flattened.
Musk additionally reportedly commented on the difficulty forward of the truck’s launch. CNBC reported in August that the Tesla CEO emailed workers saying the truck’s design required excessive accuracy in measurements and “any dimensional variation reveals up like a sore thumb.”