New WhistlinDiesel: Cybertruck vs. F-150 Frame & Hitch Video

[eswimm]

If it is a real photo, it's probably just a case of the trailer coming off the ball and being only partially restrained by the safety chains. We would almost certainly hear a more official account if the entire Cybertruck receiver was so weak it tore off simply due to the truck hitting a pothole. I don't believe that for a minute. Sounds very fake. Remember the "wonky wheels"? Yeah, that investigation got closed with no action determined to be necessary. There is a group of cretins that love to drum up Tesla negativity out of thin air. It's a game to them and it gives them standing in the Tesla hater community when they are able to create a stir.

Exactly how I feel. Any impact capable of breaking the rear casting would probably shear the ball off the receiver or break the retention mechanism of the coupler. If this incident actually happened then it should absolutely be investigated. Until there's actual evidence it did however, it's a meaningless (perhaps fraudulent) claim.

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[Cyber Satoshi]

I guess such a kit would be handy if you planned to lower the truck to lowest setting and spend several attempts slaming it on a concrete culvert?

Hey I'm all for over building... Just saying I'd buy it; not that it would be necessary with general use.

 

[Kahpernicus]

If this was a legit issue I feel like we would have seen it already. There has been a ton of towing achieved with these trucks thus far.

But with that being said... I'd probably buy a re-enforcement kit if it came out for this hitch now...

Incidentally, that's what hitches on traditional frames basically are.

Which can be a hinderance in accidents because it's creating a more rigid body.

 

[OldDirtyRobot]

I haven’t see this mentioned yet, but the DM he received about the incident the person witnessed comes from this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/s/q9xRocC3Bk.

 

[HaulingAss]

I haven’t see this mentioned yet, but the DM he received about the incident the person witnessed comes from this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/s/q9xRocC3Bk.

But the photo looks Photoshopped and there are no collaborating accounts.

In other words, we have no reason to believe this isn't just a big lie. Weird times we live in.

 

[Kahpernicus]

I haven’t see this mentioned yet, but the DM he received about the incident the person witnessed comes from this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/s/q9xRocC3Bk.

Looks like they got rear ended by another car. There's left over grill on the right side.

 

[OldDirtyRobot]

But the photo looks Photoshopped and there are no collaborating accounts.

In other words, we have no reason to believe this isn't just a big lie. Weird times we live in.

I dont disagree. I think it's odd that a Reddit post existed well before someone DM'd him about an accident they "witnessed.", but this Reddit post has none of the details of the incident.

 

[OldDirtyRobot]

But the photo looks Photoshopped and there are no collaborating accounts.

In other words, we have no reason to believe this isn't just a big lie. Weird times we live in.

I couldn't find the original tweet either. The Reddit post is older than the original WD video.

 

[Dirt Worker]

Towing equipment can stress a hitch on a good day. Now I understand why they dropped from a 14,000 to 11,000 lb tow rating.

 

[Crissa]

Never mind it looks like they sheared off the true rear casting assembly:

The casting isn't designed to be replaced as a single part, as the casting replaces multiple welded parts.

There's supposed to be bolt-on replacements for the crush cores that provide that rear support.

-Crissa

 

[Jack27]

I am a little worried that maybe my hitch could rip off my truck now…

I’m just here for the 299999 people who don’t and will never tow with there hitch over 1k acting like this is a big deal. Go buy a F150 then. I have a 2500 Chevy HD for my big stuff… carry on

 

[WenssCT88]

Unless you plan to repeatedly jump your truck with a large trailer attached this is just not an issue. At all. I’ve towed thousands of miles with CT and it’s the best tow vehicle I’ve ever used.

 

[mongo]

The casting isn't designed to be replaced as a single part, as the casting replaces multiple welded parts.

There's supposed to be bolt-on replacements for the crush cores that provide that rear support.

-Crissa

The casting is completely replaceable when damage is too severe for repair. Crush cans are mostly a front casting thing. Cybertruck has rear energy absorbers which are bolt off/ bolt on.

From the collision guide:

The criteria to determine if a cast Rear Under Body component is repairable or if the Rear Under Body must be replaced are based on both the severity and the location of the damage. Use the images and information below to determine if the Rear Under Body component may be repaired or if replacement is required.

Repair sections

Full casting (plus towers)

https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybe...UID-B0B31EF5-A87A-4AAD-AC35-B4B268807556.html

 

[2blentendre]

If you have hit your hitch receiver as hard as Whistin' Diesel did by dropping the rear of the truck in a 5 vertical foot free-fall, then I think you need to reconsider how you off-road. It looks to me like they may have identified a way to break the receiver and then designed the "test fixture" consisting of the 6' diameter culverts and the concrete curb at the bottom to exploit that knowledge.

When they backed into the logs and tore off the plastic receiver cover, they acted all surprised that there was a receiver under that cover. But it looked to me like they were already intimately familiar with that area of the truck and were just feigning ignorance. That they had already studied the structure of the receiver and identified a way to apply an unnatural impact to it.

They knew exactly what they were doing and, even then, they needed to do multiple takes of the drop off the culverts to crack the receiver frame. The evidence of that comes from careful analysis of the drive mode and state of charge in various video cuts. It looks like the first drop didn't break the receiver due to the truck being in off-road mode (because they needed to do another take). We did not see this clip. They then drove it back to the top of the culverts with it in "low" suspension mode, not "Off-Road" (and the battery SOC was now 2% below where it was before the initial drop). This took a while to film and make happen so they could splice all the cuts together to create their desired fake narrative. The curb was not tall enough to impact the receiver hard enough to fracture it when the suspension was in Off-Road mode.

This is just a wordy way of saying it was hard for them to exploit the perceived weakness they found, and this is not the kind of impact that could normally happen, even during rugged off-roading maneuvers, unless one was doing incredibly foolish and reckless things with zero regard for the truck. This is not how truck owners actually use their trucks.

I might be a little concerned if they had been able to crack the casting with only an 18" vertical drop. But anyone with a knowledge of physics can tell you there is a world of difference between the impact forces involved in a 5-foot vertical drop and those of an 18" vertical drop.

This post is so important. /thread

Your post needs more visibility. Not just on these forums, but globally. These pricks in the video need to be exposed for their bullshit.

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