The Vault that loses things

[wtibbit]

I hate to put up negative topics about the cybertruck I'm not trying to be negative just being real.
This is what happen I picked up a few welding supplies from my local supplier to do a little tig welding
filled up my tank with argon got some tungsten tips and some filler rods in a bag they are about 3 feet long
and in a sealed bag. my tank is a small tank so i put it in one of the three storage bins at the top of the vault
and behind the cargo divider. That left the whole back half clear so i laid the long rods down right there
perpendicular to the tailgate. Well, little did i expect this to happen.
but my filler rods got lost somewhere along the way.
there is a gap between the tailgate and bed floor that runs along the whole length of the tailgate
it's about a 1/4" inch wide.
what kind of vault loses shit while closed?

Here is what I did to fix my over-size gap. I did it to prevent dust from getting in; you could do it to prevent your stuff from getting out.

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...ed-of-the-cybertruck.18224/page-3#post-353022

That fix has been in place for about 3,000 miles of town and highway driving, including a lot of dusty roads. It's still working great. It's easy. It could save a rod or two

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[ARMANDO PADILLA]

me:

That left the whole back half clear so i laid the long rods down right there
perpendicular to the tailgate.

I meant parallel to the tailgate not perpendicular.

Thank you to: wtibbit
for that idea I think it's a good solution,
although aftermarket solutions will be plentiful especially as the number of people buying this product rises, they inevitably will encounter the design flaw and look for a solution. demand drives the aftermarket products into existence. The argument I was trying to make is that this issue should have been resolved with a stock OEM part solution prior to release any real-world testing would have shown that. heres a quote from another owner who encountered this issue on his trip into Yellowstone.

Only downside I need to fix is snow comes up through the gap underneath the tailgate.

I think it was an intentional omission. that could have been solved with a cheap but efective weather strip of rubber if implemented during manufacture stage. early enough it would have cost tesla pennies and a few headaches probably but it's a lot cheaper to shift that responsibility to the user even if it will cost the user 10 times more to fix it. all they have to do is nothing. To create an opportunity to sell the premium bed liner that we can mark up to match the demand. and the fact that there are low quantity's available in the store from what i can see things are always out of stock is probably another strategy to drive demand up.

 

[wtibbit]

me:

I meant parallel to the tailgate not perpendicular.

Thank you to: wtibbit
for that idea I think it's a good solution,
although aftermarket solutions will be plentiful especially as the number of people buying this product rises, they inevitably will encounter the design flaw and look for a solution. demand drives the aftermarket products into existence. The argument I was trying to make is that this issue should have been resolved with a stock OEM part solution prior to release any real-world testing would have shown that. heres a quote from another owner who encountered this issue on his trip into yellowstone.

I think it was an intentional omission. that could have been solved with a cheap but efective weather strip of rubber if implemented during manufacture stage. or create an opportunity to sell the premium bed liner that we can mark up to match the demand. and the fact that there are low quantity's available in the store from what i can see things are always out of stock is probably another strategy to drive demand up.

Armando, I'm not sure the gap is the result of an intentional omission of a part (with a plan for a premium bed liner or other part to sell from Tesla's shop). Also we know that Tesla performed extensive real-world testing (long Baja trips with multiple vehicles, winter trips, thousands of miles of pre-sales testing using release candidate vehicles and Tesla volunteers, etc...) that undoubtedly resulted in dust and debris in the bed.

I think it was simply a design decision that resulted in a larger than needed gap. Incidentally, when I was looking for a solution I found dozens of aftermarket products that have been available for years; apparently, a big gap is a common "feature" of other pickups. Here's a sample from Amazon:
https://a.co/d/8oQPQKs

 

[ARMANDO PADILLA]

I've no doubt they did the testing, but they chose to ignore this issue, or the list of higher priorities was so long they never made it to the low priority issues.
my scenario is just as likely as yours you can't say for sure that it was not intentionally overlooked either.

 

[ARMANDO PADILLA]

I said this before, but I have owned a lot of trucks I mean a lot and I never not even once had anything fall out through the gap while the tailgate was closed. I did lose a good BBQ grill out my truck once on a curve. when I say lose i mean rip kicked the bucket. because I did stop and cleaned up the mess but that went over the top of the bed and clearly my fault no straps going too fast. but I have owned Toyota 4x4s, Dodge ram 2500 extra Cab long bed with v10, Mitsubishi mighty max 3 times, Datsun, Nissan never not even once lost something while the gate was closed and on the road. Also never had a drainage issue with any of the trucks except one time as kids we intentionally flooded the bed of my dad's truck to use it as a pool, but we did that with a plastic liner. my pops was not amused when he got home and saw the strain on his suspension, I think he got a bath when he unhitched the tailgate. California is mostly desert I don't live in a tropical rain forest. and I can't imagine how much rain it would take to justify a gap of that size, and it also has an additional gap at the front of the bed thats equal in size. somthing I have never seen in any other truck. Im not saying that they dont have a drain of somesort but definetly no gap that runs the full width of the bed at the front of the bed never.

 

[Crissa]

I have only driven a few trucks, but I've seen trucks lose stuff all the time. I have a bunch of tools that literally fell off trucks and were in the middle of the street.

I would never trust anything to stay in the bed, let alone small things.

-Crissa

 

[Jack27]

Yeah I’ve owned like 10 trucks and I can’t be sure because I didn’t check this on all of them but there is def a gap big enough to lose some tungsten on them. We are talking about something so thin here
I’m willing to Bet every truck has a gap that a tungsten rod would roll through.

 

[wtibbit]

I've no doubt they did the testing, but they chose to ignore this issue, or the list of higher priorities was so long they never made it to the low priority issues.
my scenario is just as likely as yours you can't say for sure that it was not intentionally overlooked either.

I won’t argue with you.

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