1 a million Cybertruck drivetrain oil leak

[Mini2nut]

What are the odds?

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/t...ds-7660-motor-replacement-but-who-should-pay/

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[Outdoors]

Same dirt roads that Dirty Tesla drives on. Some part of me feels for the owner. Tesla hasn't really been good at sealing cars from the elements. The 3 and Y's are starting to see all rusted out lines on brakes due to just not thinking on design for colder climates that use salt. Using sound absorbing felt doesn't cut it when it becomes salt encrusted.

Yet it is an external item causing damage in this case. Where does it end? A mouse could get in. So could a Python.

I love Tesla, but this isn't a strong suit for them. Yet in the bike shop world when I was a kid we had a saying when someone would bring in bike that was broken. I was JRA. Just Riding Along when it broke. I wonder on the only driving dirt roads. Very close to a very nice community off road park.

Sucks all around. Tesla Clarkston is the most sucky of all of it. They are the worst.

 

[CTInProcess]

The vehicle design is perfect, obviously its user error again. Any other truck would have been worse……

 

[devdrone6]

What are the odds?

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/t...ds-7660-motor-replacement-but-who-should-pay/

Anyone able to figure out exactly where underneath it was and maybe all that is needed is a plastic shield to keep rocks out?

 

[CarMan ElecTruck]

This could happen to any car or truck..

freak occurrence

 

[Florida]

 

[dalton108]

Murphy’s Law.

 

[Black306]

This could happen to any car or truck..

freak occurrence

Agreed; freak occurrence. Gap between the DU case and subframe could have been different and a different rock could have wedged into that gap.

JB Weld time ?

 

[eswimm]

Never tried, but could you get insurance to cover this? If a rock breaks my windshield or headlight, insurance. If I drive over a rock and destroy my wheel/bumper/oil pan/etc, insurance. A rock ended up somewhere it shouldn't be and it pierced the drive unit housing. Certainly seems closer to an insurance claim than it does a warranty claim.

 

[Crissa]

Agreed; freak occurrence. Gap between the DU case and subframe could have been different and a different rock could have wedged into that gap.

JB Weld time ?

Can you JB weld something that is weeping oil?

And yeah, agree that it's silly that anyone thinks rocks wouldn't do this. Rocks contain random crystals some of which are as hard as diamonds, and yeah, they can do this. Gotta peek under there randomly if you drive fast on loose rock.

Maybe it needs better shielding - we've seen a cat get stuck, the fairings break the shroud, etc. But you can't always predict all the secondary failure points until it happens.

-Crissa

 

[mark555055c]

Never tried, but could you get insurance to cover this? If a rock breaks my windshield or headlight, insurance. If I drive over a rock and destroy my wheel/bumper/oil pan/etc, insurance. A rock ended up somewhere it shouldn't be and it pierced the drive unit housing. Certainly seems closer to an insurance claim than it does a warranty claim.

Yes this is an insurance claim.

Warranty is not and should not cover things like this, that is unless this starts happening to hundreds or thousands of vehicles.

 

[Black306]

Can you JB weld something that is weeping oil?

-Crissa

I wouldn’t suggest it. But if someone really wanted to band aid this on the cheap, they could drain the oil, clean up the area, add JB Weld, and add oil.

Next best would be to pull the DU, take it apart, weld the hole, and reassemble. (Not a welder, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to weld a DU case in place even if oil was drained cause there would be oil remnant in the case.) Probably be cheaper than $7k, but finding someone to do it and do it right is the key.

In either case above, there is a risk of a future warranty denial if something were to go wrong with the DU.

All that said, just do an insurance claim to replace the DU and be done with it. ?

 

[Crissa]

Next best would be to pull the DU, take it apart, weld the hole, and reassemble. (Not a welder, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to weld a DU case in place even if oil was drained cause there would be oil remnant in the case.) Probably be cheaper than $7k, but finding someone to do it and do it right is the key.

In either case above, there is a risk of a future warranty denial if something were to go wrong with the DU.

No risk. In that case, who did the repair would be liable.

Gotta hold people to standards.

-Crissa

 

[igs]

I was told EVs don't use oil ?‍

 

[DeBergo]

From looking at the pic , I’d just drill it out and tap it and screw in a drain plug. Don’t overthink it people

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