PSA on maintaining the stainless steel

[kbolt]

I'm sure DeLorean owners know this, but maintaining the stainless steel is a constant battle. We tinted the windows for a cyber truck last week. He had had the truck for one week before he brought it in. He just came in again because constantly using Windex on the truck is a problem.

Also, if you wipe too hard when trying to wipe it off you get uneven dark spots. He also has some streaks that he doesn't even know where they came from. He's now wanting to wrap it and it's going to be harder to get the stainless steel to look like new. So just a word of caution to anyone who is getting one soon just keep that in mind that the longer you wait to wrap it the harder it's going to be to make it look as good as it did when it was new.

Hopefully I've added a few photos (hard to know on the phone if it worked). Also it's hard to see with the way the camera focuses and the shop lighting.

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[kbolt]

I'm sure DeLorean owners know this, but maintaining the stainless steel is a constant battle. We tinted the windows for a cyber truck last week. He had had the truck for one week before he brought it in. He just came in again because constantly using Windex on the truck is a problem.

Also, if you wipe too hard when trying to wipe it off you get uneven dark spots. He also has some streaks that he doesn't even know where they came from. He's now wanting to wrap it and it's going to be harder to get the stainless steel to look like new. So just a word of caution to anyone who is getting one soon just keep that in mind that the longer you wait to wrap it the harder it's going to be to make it look as good as it did when it was new.

Hopefully I've added a few photos (hard to know on the phone if it worked). Also it's hard to see with the way the camera focuses and the shop lighting.

 

[kbolt]

 

[Gigahorse]

I'm sure DeLorean owners know this, but maintaining the stainless steel is a constant battle. We tinted the windows for a cyber truck last week. He had had the truck for one week before he brought it in. He just came in again because constantly using Windex on the truck is a problem.

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully CT SS is better with Teslas special blend than the DeLorean.

Have seen a couple sky is falling "without a windshield tint the Cybertruck is an oven" post.
Can you shed any light on that, obviously as a shop that does tint you have a little bias, but surely Tesla didn't ship a truck from CA and TX (HOT STATES) that boils people without a tint on the windshield, which most states don't allow.
?

 

[hridge2020]

Might want to try a product similar to this.

 

[Noblelr3]

Scare tactics. Not good when a business owner chimes in. Use caution.

 

[Crissa]

I don't see anything notable in this picture.

-Crissa

 

[Gurule92]

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully CT SS is better with Teslas special blend than the DeLorean.

Have seen a couple sky is falling "without a windshield tint the Cybertruck is an oven" post.
Can you shed any light on that, obviously as a shop that does tint you have a little bias, but surely Tesla didn't ship a truck from CA and TX (HOT STATES) that boils people without a tint on the windshield, which most states don't allow.
?

I love that you called something someone else said a sky is falling post lol

 

[Gigahorse]

I love that you called something someone else said a sky is falling post lol

I mean, no way Tesla is going to boil people under that megawindshield. Some panel gaps ok, some corrosion sure, hubcapgate mmmmk. But Tesla building a truck in CA and TX not offering any heat protection on megawindshield, I don't see it.

 

[agordon117]

I mean, no way Tesla is going to boil people under that megawindshield. Some panel gaps ok, some corrosion sure, hubcapgate mmmmk. But Tesla building a truck in CA and TX not offering any heat protection on megawindshield, I don't see it.

Don't know what to tell you. I sweat when I'm driving in sun during summer in my model Y. The climate system has a hard time keeping up with the greenhouse effect. The only reason I didn't take that to be tinted is that I knew it was just a placeholder for my cybertruck, and it would add zero value when I trade in the vehicle.

It's probably not that they added zero heat rejection to the glass as is, but they aren't doing enough vs how much glass these cars have, I can say that from experience.

 

[Gigahorse]

Don't know what to tell you. I sweat when I'm driving in sun during summer in my model Y. The climate system has a hard time keeping up with the greenhouse effect. The only reason I didn't take that to be tinted is that I knew it was just a placeholder for my cybertruck, and it would add zero value when I trade in the vehicle.

It's probably not that they added zero heat rejection to the glass as is, but they aren't doing enough vs how much glass these cars have, I can say that from experience.

Yea but the Cybertrucks windshield is HUGE, no way they wouldn't put significant heat rejection in it. They built these things in TEXAS and they have been testing them outside, in Baja, etc, no way they say "yea its fine to not have heat rejection on MEGAWINDSHIELD 9000"

 

[agordon117]

Yea but the Cybertrucks windshield is HUGE, no way they wouldn't put significant heat rejection in it. They built these things in TEXAS and they have been testing them outside, in Baja, etc, no way they say "yea its fine to not have heat rejection on MEGAWINDSHIELD 9000"

You keep saying that as if it's something you already know, or if you are in denial about how it is.

-Heat rejecting tint can always improve the heat rejection
-At least one person here has posted that it gets hot in the sunlight because of the windshield

If you would have asked any of us in 2019, we would have said no way a lot of the things about the cybertruck launch would have gone the way they have. How long it took, lack of built in 500 mile range option, the pricing, removal of certain features, adding of other features... There is, in fact, a reality in which they did not take any further heat rejection steps than they have taken on their other vehicles.

But take all of that, and put it aside... we simply will not know unless more people complain about it. If more trucks are delivered and it doesn't get talked about? Then it's probably great.

 

[Gigahorse]

You keep saying that as if it's something you already know, or if you are in denial about how it is.

-Heat rejecting tint can always improve the heat rejection
-At least one person here has posted that it gets hot in the sunlight because of the windshield

If you would have asked any of us in 2019, we would have said no way a lot of the things about the cybertruck launch would have gone the way they have. How long it took, lack of built in 500 mile range option, the pricing, removal of certain features, adding of other features... There is, in fact, a reality in which they did not take any further heat rejection steps than they have taken on their other vehicles.

But take all of that, and put it aside... we simply will not know unless more people complain about it. If more trucks are delivered and it doesn't get talked about? Then it's probably great.

For sure, the one I sat in it was on a cloudy day, I have not gotten into one that has sat in a parking lot in 80 degree full sun weather.
Yes Tesla missed on some things, range, price, etc. But no way they make that thing an easybake solar oven manufacturing in TX/CA, maybe if their factories were in North Dakota and Maine.

 

[Dazureus]

I saw one picture here with a Cybertruck in the rain. The front windshield had that golden rainbow color that I see on my Model X, which I think has good heat rejection on the front windshield. I usually experience the most heat coming from the side windows rather than the front.

 

[DMC-81]

I'm sure DeLorean owners know this, but maintaining the stainless steel is a constant battle. We tinted the windows for a cyber truck last week. He had had the truck for one week before he brought it in. He just came in again because constantly using Windex on the truck is a problem.

Also, if you wipe too hard when trying to wipe it off you get uneven dark spots. He also has some streaks that he doesn't even know where they came from. He's now wanting to wrap it and it's going to be harder to get the stainless steel to look like new. So just a word of caution to anyone who is getting one soon just keep that in mind that the longer you wait to wrap it the harder it's going to be to make it look as good as it did when it was new.

Hopefully I've added a few photos (hard to know on the phone if it worked). Also it's hard to see with the way the camera focuses and the shop lighting.

DeLorean owners don’t fret about maintaining the stainless. Here’s some consolidated advice on the subject from the DeLorean Club of Florida.

Rail dust and other contaminants:
#29

Using Barkeepers Friend:
#15
#5
#32

Washing and Cleaning Fingerprints:
#40
#11

Don’t Use Windex and other advice:
#13
#18
#24
#45
#37

I will go out on a limb and say that the streaks he’s seeing is related to the constant use of Windex. Refer to the last section for details.

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