Glued
The manufacturer is recalling 46,000 of the vehicles due to a faulty exterior panel, marking the eighth time it's been recalled.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27114855
Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks Because the Trim Is Just Glued On
Nobody at Gizmodo has ever worked in the automotive industry. It's absolutely amazing how far automotive adhesives have come. I think many people would be shocked to learned how many parts on their car are "simply glued" together.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=automotive+adhesives&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
But it has to be the right adhesive for the material, then prepped and applied right. This clearly wasn't one of those things.
TIL
Yeah, there's even STRUCTURAL adhesives. Like, not for body panels, but important joints for it to continue to successfully be called a car.
