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I've always loved exploring off the beaten path but, in my F-150, it was always a cringeworthy exercise. Because my truck was almost always coated in mud or dust by the time I got to roads requiring bushwhacking, it would always leave scratches in the clearcoat and I was afraid of denting the bodywork, especially the upright A-pillar, with heavier brush. But the Cybertruck makes bushwhacking fun and relaxing again because its really damage resistant. Any small scratches in the finish of the stainless panels can be easily polished away repeatedly, without a clearcoat to worry about polishing through. In fact, with traditional trucks, many of the deeper scratches went through the clearcoats and into the paint.

The wedge shape of the Cybertruck parts the brush naturally, with lower impact than hitting the mostly vertical A-pillar of my F-150. Also, every other truck I've bushwhacking with had mirrors that didn't play nice with brush for various reasons. Either brush would get caught behind them and threaten to break them if I continued forward, or they had too large of gaps between the plastic fairings that would let smaller branches wedge in between the two plastic fairing pieces. The Cybertruck's wedge shaped mirrors have a very tight gap between the mount and the folding mirror that can only trap the finest of vegetation. Like maybe a leaf or a needle. They just work well. I leave them extended even though bigger saplings or branches will force-fold them. When that happens, I use the center screen to unfold them again because their wedge shape parts the brush best when extended.

Here's a short two minute clip of bushwhacking in action.



Turn up the audio or put on your headphones and enjoy.
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Helene dropped a tree on my CTb, shattered windshield, bent the ss siderails, scratched mirror plastics. Took delivery new Aug 20, had 1 month 1k miles, been in shop now for about 1 month (windshield on order, shop received it last week), shop says they need to replace full panel underneath windshield because they vacuumed 10x and still can't get all the shards out, so that's now on backorder.

I know I'm sidelining the Bushthwacking topic, but am missing my truck and the posts above are letting me live virtually. Am all about non-wrapped philosophy (just me), not interested in a $100k+ SS for pretty, love the engineering and practical utilitarian brilliance of this piece of genius. My rental is a 4cyl Camry:). Eager to get my Hermes Psychopomp (truck's name) back in use.

Thanks for awesome post.
 

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Helene dropped a tree on my CTb, shattered windshield, bent the ss siderails, scratched mirror plastics. Took delivery new Aug 20, had 1 month 1k miles, been in shop now for about 1 month (windshield on order, shop received it last week), shop says they need to replace full panel underneath windshield because they vacuumed 10x and still can't get all the shards out, so that's now on backorder.

I know I'm sidelining the Bushthwacking topic, but am missing my truck and the posts above are letting me live virtually. Am all about non-wrapped philosophy (just me), not interested in a $100k+ SS for pretty, love the engineering and practical utilitarian brilliance of this piece of genius. My rental is a 4cyl Camry:). Eager to get my Hermes Psychopomp (truck's name) back in use.

Thanks for awesome post.
I’m also keeping mine unwrapped. I like the look and a wrap defeats the purpose of a stainless steel body.
 

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I’m also keeping mine unwrapped. I like the look and a wrap defeats the purpose of a stainless steel body.
You don't lose the stainless steel body when you wrap it. For me it's just difficult to keep the stainless steel clean and that's why I'm going to wrap it. I do love the look of the stainless steel.
 

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My luck I would snag the wipper. Anybody have to replace on yet?
 


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You don't lose the stainless steel body when you wrap it. For me it's just difficult to keep the stainless steel clean and that's why I'm going to wrap it. I do love the look of the stainless steel.
The point is you’re not going bushwhacking with a wrap. And more likely to get damage from shopping carts, keys, etc.
 

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Helene dropped a tree on my CTb, shattered windshield, bent the ss siderails, scratched mirror plastics. Took delivery new Aug 20, had 1 month 1k miles, been in shop now for about 1 month (windshield on order, shop received it last week), shop says they need to replace full panel underneath windshield because they vacuumed 10x and still can't get all the shards out, so that's now on backorder.

I know I'm sidelining the Bushthwacking topic, but am missing my truck and the posts above are letting me live virtually. Am all about non-wrapped philosophy (just me), not interested in a $100k+ SS for pretty, love the engineering and practical utilitarian brilliance of this piece of genius. My rental is a 4cyl Camry:). Eager to get my Hermes Psychopomp (truck's name) back in use.

Thanks for awesome post.
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Turn up the audio or put on your headphones and enjoy.
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Awesome! Thanks for that and the tip on the compressor and hose set up! I did a similar thing here in the desert last Sunday. Some lines on the mirror but stainless looks great!

love the Cybertruck off road where it belongs!
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