Cybertruck takes a dump of cinder blocks in its bed and shows no damage (posted by official CT twitter)

[Crissa]

I know you want to test how tuff is the bed liner is but that type of load is so stupid, not worth the test. Have you heard of hand stacking? The bed could hold more blocks if hand like I would for my CT. So, it's like, tuff, stupid at the same time. I would never do that for my own truck that I love.

You've never dropped a block while hand stacking them?

-Crissa

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[CyberGus]

Who dumps cinder blocks into a bed?

Good way to wreck your cinder blocks

Yea, just a good way to break some blocks

No one dumps cinder blocks like that.

You've never dropped a block

 

[SolarWizard]

I think the point here is it didn't damage anything. That would have put a big dent in my rhino liner bed of my f150 and i have the steel bed. Do people pick up gravel in pickups in your yards? I cant believe people do that. $30 a load for delivery here and they will dump it right where you need it. Costs me more money to drive the trailer out there to pick it up.

A $60 horse stall mat from any farm supply fixes that but since no one with a brain would do that “COULD have dented my steel bed” is irrelevant

 

[HaulingAss]

A $60 horse stall mat from any farm supply fixes that but since no one with a brain would do that “COULD have dented my steel bed” is irrelevant

A horse stall mat is VERY heavy compared to the bed liner Tesla has used. And a horse stall mat doesn't protect the fragile painted sides of a traditional pickup bed.

As much as none of us would load concrete blocks like that, it was a good demonstration of the dent resistance of the included bed liner. My F-150 onlly has 50K miles on the odometer and the steel bed is all dents and scratches. If I didn't have a mostly water-proof tonneau cover on it, it would be full of rust.

It looks like Cybertruck has a light weight and tough bed liner included. That's normally the first thing the buyer of a traditional pickup has to buy. This adds real value to the Cybertruck that people tend to forget about.

No running boards needed to get in and out either. More time and money saved.

 

[PilotPete]

"Who..." "Why..." "What idiot..."

Really people??? It was STAGED as a DEMONSTRATION! It was posted BY TESLA! They aren't suggesting this is the way to load the CT or the best way to handle cinder block! They are showing that the bed is rough and tough and won't get damaged, EVEN IF YOU DO SOMETHING STUPID!

We got pictures of a bed a while back, and everyone gets their panties in a bunch because it "looked so hacked up" and "Doesn't look like it can take much abuse". But when they do a demo showing how much abuse it can take, everyone starts in about how stupid you would have to be to load blocks that way.

Sounds like they can't catch a break...

 

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[MilliVanilli]

Must be an engineering truck. No one would do that to their new truck.

I can see TSportline doing this to a customer's truck for video clicks .

 

[cvalue13]

I don’t mind the block/vault damage demo (don’t care much, either).

But on a different and related point it does give a visual of a different limitation of the CT bed.

That tailgate isn’t down just for the visuals, it’s down because the CT bed’s open air length is too short for even a compact loader’s standard bucket.

(The CT bed’s “open air” length is only 59”, or 7” shorter than a standard 5.5’ bed on a ‘normal’ truck.)

As a result, even with a compact loader, you’d dump material on both the cab and the tailgate top if you tried this with the tailgate up.

A standard compact loader bucket width (60”) is basically sized to be able to dump in the back of a normal 5.5’ bed truck, square on, and still have 7” of room to spare.

Doesn’t work too good when the bed is 1” shorter than the bucket.

Maybe a little oversight by the ‘truck guys’ over at Tesla

 

[CyberMoose]

I like the demonstration because I've heard a couple people mention that because of the sails, the Cybertruck couldn't be filled with a standard loader and would require an excavator. I always agreed that you'll have to drop things a little higher, but I never thought it would be impossible, unless maybe you have a really short one. Also it won't matter if it's something like dirt or sand, even gravel would be fine. If you want to drop things like larger rocks, sure you will scratch up the bed, but that's going to happen either way and if you are going to treat your truck like a truck, that won't really matter, at least not for those people.

Personally this goes under the "wouldn't do it but I'm glad to know I can" category for me. I'll fill the bed up with lots of things, anything up to gravel, but I'll baby the bed with anything bigger. Just like I'm going to let my interior get a little dirty from time to time and i'll definitely get the non-white version in the future so I can treat it more like a truck, but I still want to be able to wipe it down and make it pretty when I want to show it off.

As a result, even with a compact loader, you’d dump material on both the cab and the tailgate top if you tried this with the tailgate up.

I see this as one of those problems that aren't really a problem when you think about it.

whatever you are filling the bed up with, probably isn't something that you are going to care if it spills a little on the tailgate. Realistically, I'm going to assume that if you are dumping things into the bed, you will probably be shoveling it out later, and there is a good chance everything gets dirty with some minor scratching.

Even in probably the worst case scenario where you are dumping something big and heavy like in the video, but it's something that you need to keep the tailgate closed for, and something hits the top of the tailgate and damages the plastic....it looks really easy to replace from the close ups of the tailgate in videos that I've watched.

 

[Hunter71294]

There just trying to show no damage. Not super impressive to me, should've dumped it from higher. Also nobody dumps gravel or anything in your bed. Get a dump trailer for that. You going to wreck your bed, shovel it out, and then have to pressure wash it? Or just rent a dump trailer? When they didn't come through on the tow capacity that really bummed me. 14k+ would've been nice.

 

[FarAway]

Forget the cinderblocks , that has to a skid steer operator you really trust!

 

[Ehninger1212]

When people who don't own trucks want to do "truck things"

 

[mark555055c]

"Who..." "Why..." "What idiot..."

Really people??? It was STAGED as a DEMONSTRATION! It was posted BY TESLA! They aren't suggesting this is the way to load the CT or the best way to handle cinder block! They are showing that the bed is rough and tough and won't get damaged, EVEN IF YOU DO SOMETHING STUPID!

We got pictures of a bed a while back, and everyone gets their panties in a bunch because it "looked so hacked up" and "Doesn't look like it can take much abuse". But when they do a demo showing how much abuse it can take, everyone starts in about how stupid you would have to be to load blocks that way.

Sounds like they can't catch a break...

LOL, for real.

People are SO unbelievably uptight. I'm not a proponent of illegal drugs or medication, but perhaps some people need illegal drugs or medication so that us chill folks can have some peace and quiet and be allowed to enjoy things.

 

[cvalue13]

I see this as one of those problems that aren't really a problem when you think about it.

maybe didn’t think about it enough

having the tailgate down to dump even something innocuous like mulch defeats the purpose of dumping in the first place.

having the tailgate up, and for things like gravel, you’re not now only deciding on dumping material on just just the top plastic of the tailgate, but also the rear roofline of the cab. Maybe more to the point, you’re also now WAY more concerned about who ver is piloting that loader.

And regardless, the needle-threading described above is all and only about a standard sized compact loader bucket at 60”

if your yard isn’t running compact buckets that day, or doesn’t run compact front loaders any day, you’re now that much more worse off. There are trucks with a standard 5.5’ bed not

not a huge deal. Just raised/ emphasized bu this block dump

 

[Kahpernicus]

maybe didn’t think about it enough

having the tailgate down to dump even something innocuous like mulch defeats the purpose of dumping in the first place.

having the tailgate up, and for things like gravel, you’re not now only deciding on dumping material on just just the top plastic of the tailgate, but also the rear roofline of the cab. Maybe more to the point, you’re also now WAY more concerned about who ver is piloting that loader.

And regardless, the needle-threading described above is all and only about a standard sized compact loader bucket at 60”

if your yard isn’t running compact buckets that day, or doesn’t run compact front loaders any day, you’re now that much more worse off. There are trucks with a standard 5.5’ bed not

not a huge deal. Just raised/ emphasized bu this block dump

Time for tesal to add a cyber funnel to their kit bag.

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