A Great Way to Wash the Roof & Windshield: Raised Platform

[Korben Dallas]

Hey guys. I just bought this raised platform the other day from Home Depot for a 100 bucks to improve access to the roof & windshield for washing. It’s very well made by Werner, is rated to support 300 pounds, & folds nice & flat.

I’m 6’-0" exactly with an average arm length and didn’t have any trouble at all getting to the center of all that glass, plus, the added height it provides gives a lot more cleaning leverage too.

Just be sure you leave your Texas rodeo belt buckles in the bedroom so you don’t ruin the side of your beautiful Cybertruck. Ditto for boots, shoes, & anything else that can damage the stainless steel. Wearing socks is what I ended up doing.

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[HaulingAss]

Just be sure you leave your Texas rodeo belt buckles in the bedroom so you don’t ruin the side of your beautiful Cybertruck. Ditto for boots, shoes, & anything else that can damage the stainless steel. Wearing socks is what I ended up doing.

None of those things can ruin the sides of your beautiful Cybertruck. I kick mine all the time, really hard, and it polishes up fabulously. Sometimes I let my shopping cart smash the side of my Cybertruck really hard, full of groceries, just to shock people. I just look at where it hit and say, "whew, no damage!"

 

[Cyber_P]

Got some running boards. Work fantastic... But I am rather tall.

 

[HaulingAss]

Got some running boards. Work fantastic... But I am rather tall.

This is the secret weapon to wash the Cybertruck. Your feet stay on the ground.

Extension handles for other cleaning tools tend to have standardized threads so you probably already have the extending handle that turns this brush head into the secret weapon for washing the Cybertruck fast. I wash the windshield from the center-front, and the glass roof/tonneau cover/bed area from the rear.

 

[jf64k]

For the windshield, I use a painter's extension pole with a microfiber and Sprayway.

I clean the roof while standing in the vault.

I like to stay planted on the ground or securely in the vault, haha!!

 

[BeFamousVideo]

None of those things can ruin the sides of your beautiful Cybertruck. I kick mine all the time, really hard, and it polishes up fabulously. Sometimes I let my shopping cart smash the side of my Cybertruck really hard, full of groceries, just to shock people. I just look at where it hit and say, "whew, no damage!"

You're funny. I've wanted to test hitting the SS with a rubber mallet to show people the SS strength. But I'm chicken it will leave a mark that I'll want to polish out. Have you tried hitting the truck with hammers or any other tool that would damage a painted vehicle?

 

[HaulingAss]

You're funny. I've wanted to test hitting the SS with a rubber mallet to show people the SS strength. But I'm chicken it will leave a mark that I'll want to polish out. Have you tried hitting the truck with hammers or any other tool that would damage a painted vehicle?

I've only kicked my Cybertruck (about 30 times) and run shopping carts into it a few times, always much harder than you would think the panels could withstand without leaving a big ugly dent. If you do it hard enough while the vehicle is dirty, or if the implement striking the vehicle is dirty, it will leave fine scratches that you can see when the light reflects off the scratches at the right angle. But nothing that won't quickly become invisible if you hit it with a random orbit sander with an appropriate abrasive pad. In fact, I've polished one entire side of my truck with fine abrasives, and it looks better than it did when it was new (more uniform).

Either of these kinds of impacts to the door panels on a traditional steel or aluminum paneled vehicle would instantly cause thousands of dollars of damage. On the Cybertruck they don't even leave a lasting scar. This is a big deal that is under-appreciated because people spend a lot of personal time, money and often insurance resources fixing common door dings and other "ooopsies". On the Cybertruck it just doesn't dent to begin with. And there is no paint or other coating to re-apply. Just pure, homogenous stainless steel alloy. Even a simple scratch on the clearcoat of a traditional door panel is problematic because the clearcoat is too thin to simply polish the scratch out without needing to re-apply a new coat of clearcoat. You can polish swirl marks out, but only a few times before your polisher goes through the clearcoat.

The Cybertruck is the first vehicle in decades to reverse the trend of body panels becoming increasingly thinner and more prone to dents from increasingly smaller impacts.

 

[SE.MI.CT]

I'll often have my stainless steel water bottle in my hand when showing my truck to someone. Part of the demonstration is whacking a door panel with the bottle. BANG BANG BANG. Huge sound, not a mark on the truck.

 

[Outdoors]

I've only kicked my Cybertruck (about 30 times) and run shopping carts into it a few times, always much harder than you would think the panels could withstand without leaving a big ugly dent. If you do it hard enough while the vehicle is dirty, or if the implement striking the vehicle is dirty, it will leave fine scratches that you can see when the light reflects off the scratches at the right angle. But nothing that won't quickly become invisible if you hit it with a random orbit sander with an appropriate abrasive pad. In fact, I've polished one entire side of my truck with fine abrasives, and it looks better than it did when it was new (more uniform).

Either of these kinds of impacts to the door panels on a traditional steel or aluminum paneled vehicle would instantly cause thousands of dollars of damage. On the Cybertruck they don't even leave a lasting scar. This is a big deal that is under-appreciated because people spend a lot of personal time, money and often insurance resources fixing common door dings and other "ooopsies". On the Cybertruck it just doesn't dent to begin with. And there is no paint or other coating to re-apply. Just pure, homogenous stainless steel alloy. Even a simple scratch on the clearcoat of a traditional door panel is problematic because the clearcoat is too thin to simply polish the scratch out without needing to re-apply a new coat of clearcoat. You can polish swirl marks out, but only a few times before your polisher goes through the clearcoat.

The Cybertruck is the first vehicle in decades to reverse the trend of body panels becoming increasingly thinner and more prone to dents from increasingly smaller impacts.

I let my shopping cart run into it for reaction. Really hard. I know it is really dumb.

 

[HaulingAss]

I let my shopping cart run into it for reaction. Really hard. I know it is really dumb.

I consider it more of an impromptu product demonstration. People still don't know.

 

[TexasRaider]

Hey guys. I just bought this raised platform the other day from Home Depot for a 100 bucks to improve access to the roof & windshield for washing. It’s very well made by Werner, is rated to support 300 pounds, & folds nice & flat.

I’m 6’-0" exactly with an average arm length and didn’t have any trouble at all getting to the center of all that glass, plus, the added height it provides gives a lot more cleaning leverage too.

Just be sure you leave your Texas rodeo belt buckles in the bedroom so you don’t ruin the side of your beautiful Cybertruck. Ditto for boots, shoes, & anything else that can damage the stainless steel. Wearing socks is what I ended up doing.

Simple solution under $4000 haha

 

[Speednet]

I let my shopping cart run into it for reaction. Really hard. I know it is really dumb.

I hate that this is a thing people do because it encourages all the low IQ people out there to do the same thing to people's Cybertrucks. Plus it's just really stupid to do stuff like that to your truck.

 

[HaulingAss]

I hate that this is a thing people do because it encourages all the low IQ people out there to do the same thing to people's Cybertrucks. Plus it's just really stupid to do stuff like that to your truck.

This is the same logic of the previous narrative that it was bad to demonstrate that bullets don't penetrate the doors because then all the crazies will start shooting guns at Cybertrucks. It hasn't happened, and I don't expect people will start anytime soon. I don't understand the logic used to create such narratives.

And why is it stupid to bang things into your truck if it doesn't damage it? That narrative makes no sense either.

 

[Speednet]

This is the same logic of the previous narrative that it was bad to demonstrate that bullets don't penetrate the doors because then all the crazies will start shooting guns at Cybertrucks. It hasn't happened, and I don't expect people will start anytime soon. I don't understand the logic used to create such narratives.

And why is it stupid to bang things into your truck if it doesn't damage it? That narrative makes no sense either.

I have seen a bunch of videos of non-owners trashing other people's Cybertrucks. You know, standing on the window and jumping until it cracks, stuff like that. That's not ok in my book. But if you think it's cool for owners to perpetuate this stuff, then I guess you do you. I'd rather not have that be a thing, so that I'm not at risk of a loon trying it to my truck.

 

[SE.MI.CT]

I have seen a bunch of videos of non-owners trashing other people's Cybertrucks.

A bunch, huh? Should be trivial for you to link to three of them then, right? I would be interested in seeing them, since I have not seen anything like that.

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