one of my appliqués were missing a clip, you could lightly pull on the cover for the cross bar mounting points and the trim would pull up in that area. Mine stayed on, but if wind managed to get under it might have had the entire piece flying off.
It's not ideal to have parts flying off. I just don't think most Cybertrucks produced to date would ever have that happen. But there was a problem on a few early production units and so Tesla addressed it in a strong manner. Perhaps too strong. But maybe better safe than sorry.
When I first heard about the appliqué recall I checked mine to see if they weren't well attached. It's easy to do; just lift the inside edges with a bit of force, checking the entire length of the appliqué. Short strips of double-sided automotive trim mounting tape is used to affix the inside edges. If any of those strips are not well-adhered to both the sail and the appliqué it will be easier to lift it up.While I had the truck in the service department to fix my tonneau cover not closing properly (still not fixed), they performed the recall service on my sail pillar covers. A few days later it blew off in traffic on the highway, hit the car behind me. Whatever the fix is, it's either inadequate or isn't being performed properly.
After the replacement, mine were loose on each side near the position of the control switches. Mobile service did some additional double-sided tape on those two locations and the sail appliqués seem pretty secure. I like the new appliqués because they aren’t “wavy,” and are much more consistently flat.While I had the truck in the service department to fix my tonneau cover not closing properly (still not fixed), they performed the recall service on my sail pillar covers. A few days later it blew off in traffic on the highway, hit the car behind me. Whatever the fix is, it's either inadequate or isn't being performed properly.
Juse be sure to check them if you do get the recall work done!
This just happened to me today. The solution they came up with for the recall is inadequate. My piece hit the car behind me. I feel terrible. I could have hurt someone.While I had the truck in the service department to fix my tonneau cover not closing properly (still not fixed), they performed the recall service on my sail pillar covers. A few days later it blew off in traffic on the highway, hit the car behind me. Whatever the fix is, it's either inadequate or isn't being performed properly.
This was my case as well. I picked it up from SC after having the recall work done and drove to work. Walking back to the truck for lunch I could clearly see the sails were not lying flat in places. So I went around and pounded all the high points with my fist and heard the pieces click together.I held off on my DIY plastic protection using XPEL Armor on the sails until I got the recall parts installed. Got it home yesterday and went to town with the armor…only to find a lack of complete install of the new pieces. Should have taken a before photo, but I was too far into it before I noticed.
Photo here shows the areas in reference, but I first realized the pieces weren’t fully “clicked” into place when I laid the XPEL and started tucking it down between the exterior steel panels on both sides. The appliqué was standing proud from the top edge of the steel down towards the tailgate, and a small portion of the vertical outside edge of the trim was visible from 5’ back.
Started to push and feel around to see wtf was going on and the thing wasn’t even fully clipped in, mainly around the controls/rack mounts on the drivers side, but almost end to end on the passenger side. Once I saw it, I hammered around both sides and got the thing locked into what I hope to be its final home, but we’ll see how things go. Highly recommend the XPEL Armor though haha…pleased with the product overall-easy install, corners are fairly easy once you figure out the cuts, and it look like it should from the factory IMO.
Maybe the whole recall thing was just lazy installers not using their rubber mallets properly ??‍
