Tesla Cybertruck bricked after car wash, claims user
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Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'

Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’

    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      621·
      8 months ago

      I don’t know about the Cybertruck or its charging port, but cars do have rain sensors to activate the wipers automatically when it rains. Car wash mode likely turns those sensors off to prevent damage to the wipers.

      • heatofignition@lemmy.worldEnglish
        66·
        8 months ago

        It must be something more substantial in this case, tearing the windshield wiper off wouldn’t brick the truck

        • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
          4·
          8 months ago

          Water gets into the body, which lacks fluid drains and accumulates water, which can potentially reach wiring.

          • space@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            6·
            8 months ago

            I seriously don’t understand how this could be possible. How does the car manage rain water?

              • Thurstylark@lemm.eeEnglish
                6·
                8 months ago

                I don’t think it’s meant to be driven.

                I mean… It’s not even meant to be a vehicle, tbh. It’s an ego trip, status symbol, or virtue signal (pick up to 3) in the form of a vehicle.

                The part where it can propel itself and it’s occupants from place to place is, in fact, a bonus feature.

      • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        501·
        8 months ago

        So things normal people do to normal cars but with extra steps and Elon.

        • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          377·
          8 months ago

          Have you seen other people in a car wash? Park, reverse, drive but they start holding the brakes when the track pulls them along, leaving antennas up, not closing windows, opening fucking doors… A vast majority of the human population is some level of braindead.

          Fuck me, I’ve seen someone pull up into a manual car wash bay, open all their doors, and wash the INSIDE of their car. This was not a washable interior like a Jeep Wrangler or something, it was a typical sedan with carpeted floors and cloth seats.

          And these people (theoretically) are licensed to drive, right next to you.

              • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
                131·
                8 months ago

                Doesn’t it say that the vehicle was bricked, meaning it wouldn’t run after going through the car wash? Isn’t that what happened?

                • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
                  42·
                  8 months ago

                  Yeah, that’s what the headline says. In the article it states that it worked again after a service request and a (redidulously long) reboot.

                  • techt@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    151·
                    8 months ago

                    So then it didn’t run after the car wash – unless we’re ignoring the mandatory steps needed to get it working again, the headline is pretty accurate. Or are you considering “bricked” a permanent condition?

    • something15525@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      8 months ago

      Also locks the charging port, turns off the AC, locks the doors and windows. Still nothing that should prevent the car from breaking in a car wash…

      Also, upon reading the article, seems like the car was fine after a reset, it just took 5 hours. Didn’t have anything to do with the car wash it seems.