• Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I was completely unaware that washing the vehicle with water could 1) void the warranty and 2) brick the vehicle.

    problem is that this was a known issue with the dolorean, how do they make this mistake again?

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      At least the Delorean was cool. Might be worth pulling that out once or twice a year if you're a car person.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        The DeLorean was a total failure that nobody wanted with panel gaps out the ass and quality assurance issues, until the CEO got arrested. So...you know, here's hoping the cybertruck becomes cool.

        • Dessa [she/her]
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          7 months ago

          The Cybertruck is ugly though. Im nit saying the Delorean is a good car made by good people. Just that it looks neat. If you're the type of person to keep an extra car just for show and baby it, there's a point to the Delorean. The Tesla truck is only good as a museum of curiosity discussion piece that will be k iwn only for how rare it is to find a well kept one

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      Im betting the only thing musk knows about the delorean is what he learned watching Back to the Future

      Edit: i got interested in the delorean after commenting and saw it was also stainless steel, and also had a recall involving sticking accelerators. Heh.

      • HexBroke
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        4 months ago

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      • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]
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        7 months ago

        You notice how the truck is silver? that's because it's made of stainless steel and it doesn't have a protective coat or paint on it, something that is expected to be on a car

        • SSJ2Marx
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          7 months ago

          soviet-hmm Perhaps we could paint the car with silver metallic paint, and make the body from standard automotive materials?

          agony-yehaw No way, it's gotta be stainless steel for reasons. Now pass me my ketamine, it's therapeutic I swear!

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        Not cold water specifically--just water. The waterproofing on the electronics is uneven (especially on earlier models). It has a "car wash mode" (lol) that is supposed to lock all that down, but some Teslas have been bricked by just driving in the rain. Also, the water seems to rust the stainless steel body. As I've said before, it seems like it was engineered for California weather and they never considered that people might drive it in other climates.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        It's not water proof, so rain has a chance of frying some of the electronics.

        • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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          7 months ago

          let's be fair with Tesla, being impossible to drive in the rain has always been a problem for cars in general, as we all know