Tesla Cybertruck Suspension Explodes In Owner's Driveway, Forum User Claims

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It's valid to dislike the Tesla Cybertruck because Elon Musk is a creep and because it was designed specifically to entreaty to nan kinds of dads who get kicked retired of small convention games for screaming astatine nan umpire, but it's besides conscionable a bad truck. It's been recalled 8 times truthful far, might threat its framework if you tow pinch it and was famously defeated by a regular aged car wash. Now, one Tesla owner's forum personification claims to person encountered a caller rumor pinch their Cybertruck — nan truck's suspension exploding successful their driveway.

According to Tesla Owners Online personification DeanS, their Cybertruck was parked successful nan driveway astatine astir 3 p.m. connected a Saturday erstwhile they heard "a shotgun-like bang." When they looked outside, they reportedly saw "what looked for illustration 'smoke' aliases dust" coming disconnected their Cybertruck's bed. While nan truck's artillery hadn't abruptly burst into flames, they opportunity diagnostics later showed nan problem was pinch nan passenger-side aerial suspension. Oops. 

They past had nan motortruck towed to a Tesla work center, wherever they were told "the harm was owed to an 'outside influence' and not covered by warranty," leaving them pinch a $250 measure if they wanted nan motortruck released. Sadly, they didn't opportunity really overmuch they expect it to costs to repair a blown aerial suspension wherever "the outpouring pushed itself done nan [bed frame] and collapsed immoderate difficult components." Everything astir that condemnation judge sounds expensive, though. What a shame.

According to DeanS, they judge "[e]xtreme power caused aerial to grow blowing nan aerial suspension," since nan Cybertruck "was virtually sitting successful [their] driveway, and had not been driven successful 12+ hours." While they sewage immoderate support for that theory, pinch 1 personification calling it "a clear creation error," others were speedy to constituent retired that aerial suspensions don't really detonate connected their own, astatine slightest nether thing approaching normal conditions, moreover successful Texas.

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When asked astir what they'd done earlier nan suspension exploded and whether aliases not they'd attempted to recreate nan Baja 1000 successful their Cybertruck, DeanS didn't springiness galore specifications but did opportunity that "[l]iving successful a agrarian portion of Texas not each of nan roads are paved, truthful yes it's driven off-road, done pastures, hay fields, etc." Hmmm...

Anyway, personification zroger73 pushed backmost powerfully connected nan full "it conscionable sat successful nan basking sun excessively long" theory, writing:

Given that you look to beryllium successful Texas and your region from Houston, nan somesthesia of nan vehicle's components would apt person fluctuated little than 80°F assuming a debased somesthesia of 70°F overnight and a maximum somesthesia of 150°F successful nonstop sunlight astatine 3:00 PM. According to perfect state law, that's little than an 8 PSI difference.

The Cybertruck's aerial reservoir is tested to 261 PSI. The moving unit is importantly little than that. The unit successful each aerial outpouring is moreover little – astir 60 PSI fixed nan size of nan Cybertruck's aerial springs and nan curb weight.

They past concluded that "the astir likely origin of nonaccomplishment successful my sentiment is outer harm that weakened nan casting alternatively than a defect aliases creation flaw pinch nan suspension system. When nan casting collapsed causing nan suspension to collapse, nan bladder aliases aerial statement was trim causing a abrupt and uncontrolled unit merchandise which explains nan 'smoke' you saw."

That surely sounds a batch much plausible than nan aerial suspension spontaneously exploding, wholly unprompted. Especially since DeanS already admitted to off-roading their Cybertruck regularly. On nan different hand, this is simply a Tesla Cybertruck we're talking about, truthful you ne'er know. Maybe nan Cybertruck's aerial suspension really does conscionable do that. 

H/T: CarScoops