Fit / finish / gaps 👍 on this (Master Candidate?) Cybertruck spotted today

[Baldey]

MC is not Master Candidate. I laugh every time I see that.

master of ceremonies
Just waiting for the mic drop

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[Cybertruck 1974]

Has anyone else had a vehicle where the door windows don't have a track to seal to? Worried about the flapping of glass against seals on bumpy roads such as the hell we drive in bay area, off road. Noisy? Seal well? Dust, water enter vehicle?

 

[samueldion1]

Looks okay to me

 

[tidmutt]

Bought a M3P in 2021 and the panel gaps were as good as my wife's Volvo. Absolutely not one gap that I had to take to Tesla to get resolved. I think that was an old issue that has been resolved for the most part.

I have a 2022 Model Y Performance and I did need to take it into service for them to align the rear hatch and tail light assemblies, adjust the drivers door and the hood. The drivers door is a lot better but still not great, they did a good job or resolving most the other stuff. Over all it's fine, but Tesla has more work to do here, at least based on my 2022.

I believe the vehicles out of Germany and China are much better, would be great to have some real metrics on this. Not sure if Austin is better or not.

Nothing I experienced had an actual functional impact though.

 

[TyPope]

Has anyone else had a vehicle where the door windows don't have a track to seal to? Worried about the flapping of glass against seals on bumpy roads such as the hell we drive in bay area, off road. Noisy? Seal well? Dust, water enter vehicle?

The windows seem to seal well in the Model Y and they aren't as thick of glass. The frame around the door has a seal that the window tracks into. In fact, opening the door manually can damage that seal because the window is inside it. There's no flapping. Now, road noise is a different story...

 

[dempster]

Has anyone else had a vehicle where the door windows don't have a track to seal to? Worried about the flapping of glass against seals on bumpy roads such as the hell we drive in bay area, off road. Noisy? Seal well? Dust, water enter vehicle?

They're using the same type of seal as the model 3/Y. We've had no issues with ours, no water or dust comes through.

Admittedly, my 2020 3 is quite loud inside the cabin, however the newer Y is not (thicker glass in the Y I believe, so the seal is not to blame)

 

[kbolt]

Once you wrap black, you never look gap!

Black don't gap

 

[PilotPete]

The windows seem to seal well in the Model Y and they aren't as thick of glass. The frame around the door has a seal that the window tracks into. In fact, opening the door manually can damage that seal because the window is inside it. There's no flapping. Now, road noise is a different story...

My convertible uses the same thing, with thinner glass. No issues.

 

[ÆCIII]

Need to include or append the Date (10/10/23) on the Thread Title, because "...today" has passed and is now yesterday.

- ÆCIII

 

[Rozonoe]

That hood gap still looks pretty wide ? definitely not sticking out like earlier RCs, but a bigger gap than all the other door gaps where it’s noticeable. Looks clean tho!

I have a 2018 M3LR, RWD & no excessive panel gap!

 

[cbrtrckrsrvd112219]

Once you wrap black, you never look gap!

Vantablack!

 

[cbrtrckrsrvd112219]

Yes I agree the gap between right fender and frunk lid is wide, and I'd prefer it be more consistent with the gap of the doors. Yet this kind of gap is usually easy to correct with alignment/adjustment in most vehicles. I guess we'll see if that's the case with the Cybertruck.

While I'm continually observing a lot of details in the release candidates (including the one that visited Starbase recently in particular), I'm withholding most of my detailed observations on the fit and finish until about a thousand or so are delivered and many of them are photographed and observed.

At that point they will be production VINs and not prototypes, so I'm hoping I will have some optimistic or positive improvements to note and comparisons to make, versus any fit or finish problems that persist or have been ignored or neglected in production. I'm hoping I'll be discussing the former rather than the latter, but I'll express my honest observations nonetheless.

- ÆCIII

trunk and doors gaps seems much tighter than on existing luxury cars (Mercedes)
SS makes those gaps stand out more.
Frunk still need more Lego fit although I suspect comparing it with caliper side-by-side with in market cars would result in same measurements (especially if you compare to UAW built cars)

 

[Klaxon]

Now those who like to discuss the CT panel gaps should order their custom gaps

 

[Warbird]

Unrelated but I didn’t think this needed its own post so I’ll just leave this here.

Much better, thank you for taking out the door handles from this photo shopped image.
Matte Black looks sweet.

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