Picking mine up next week - What do I need to know?

[Tony2times]

@Tony2times tap "Location" in the app. You'll see a search bar with "Navigation" near the bottom. Enter an address there and it will show your route and superchargers along the way.

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[kpanda17]

If you can afford it install the home charger. Preferably the wall charger, but to be really frugal you can just install a 240V outlet where you park it.

In the long run this will pay for itself as the supercharger costs on average $0.28 per kWh. At home it can be as low as $0.03 per kWh.
Supercharging is not bad, but it's nice to have your CT ready to go in the morning.

Do a Tesla Universal Wall Connector with 60 amp circuit/48amp breaker and it supports PowerShare V2H bi direction

 

[mongo]

I assume you mean to get a home charging setup, preferably a Wall Connector. People without personal charging miss out on the best thing about owning an EV. If you can't plug it in where you live or work you are like all those poor SOBs that have to regularly visit gas stations.

Yeah, home charging setup. We ended up with delivery on short notice so repurposed a 50A circuit to power the Mobile Connector included with the truck. Not the fastest charge, but it's worked fine while Powershare details get hammered out.

 

[kpanda17]

Use the trip planner in the app to see what it says your charge will be for those adventures. One thing that is nice about going off the main roads is if you are going slower, say 35 mph, compared to highway speeds you will use less juice over the same distance. You can plan a trip in the app changing the starting location and set the departure SoC. I does a great job of showing you the SoC for all the destinations you put in.

For example I just made up a trip in the app pic below). You can set the battery departure % to play with what the trio would look like. Don’t be worried about charging to 80 or 90% if you are going to head out and worried that it says you will be below a level you are comfortable with getting home. There may also be Superchargers closer to your camping location that you can “top off” before you get off the main roads. While camping be sure to disable Sentry Mode and close all devices that have Tesla apps specifically ones set up to be keys. They could keep the truck from sleeping thus consuming more battery.

Will post more thoughts later, need food!

Soon set destination charge for at the camp site SoC, guides you to a SC right before your arrival at the site

 

[kpanda17]

Don't forget alignment when needed as well.

I’m three Teslas in
Feel, post delivery state it’s out of alignment to get your initial non factory alignment done under warranty

 

[M0unt41nm4n]

I’m three Teslas in
Feel, post delivery state it’s out of alignment to get your initial non factory alignment done under warranty

So Tesla will do alignments for free during the warranty period? Thats news to me, but if so, thats good news. Mainly because if you off-road with this vehicle, you will definitely be needing an alignment at some point, especially if rock crawling.

 

[REM]

Read the manual cover to cover:

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/

When you go to pick your truck up, take a high-def video of both the inside and outside. Move slowly when taking the video. Take lots of pictures before you leave. Don't attempt to point out any issues during pickup, just make sure you highly document them and schedule service appointments if needed. And of course, if anything is crazy out of spec you can refuse delivery (but seeing how you have a FS, you options may be limited).

Go ahead and download the Tesla app and create an account (make sure you use MFA to login too for the most security). Getting this done ahead of time allowed me to be in an out of my delivery center in less than 5 mins.

 

[AlmostHuman]

Thank you

I use the shit out of that feature in the app to plan trips and just see what different routes will do for our adventures.

 

[AlmostHuman]

Soon set destination charge for at the camp site SoC, guides you to a SC right before your arrival at the site

Yeah that is going to be neat as well!

 

[AlmostHuman]

Drive it for a couple of weeks and you will wonder why even new ICE trucks feel so clunky and nebulous, things you never noticed before becoming accustomed to the way the Cybertruck drives.

What I find wild is even driving our 2020 X feels so outdated even though it is still an amazing vehicle.

I assume you mean to get a home charging setup, preferably a Wall Connector. People without personal charging miss out on the best thing about owning an EV. If you can't plug it in where you live or work you are like all those poor SOBs that have to regularly visit gas stations.

I agree 100% Even if you don’t have a larger circuit at first (48-60amp lets say) you can still just charge off a normal 15 amp 120 volt outlet albeit a trickle I’d still plug it in to a 15 amp outlet just to give you some juice over night but I have to imagine that the first couple weeks/months of ownership you are going to be driving it so much the 15 amp outlet will not cut it alone!

Oh good thread about home charging:
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...-awg-copper-wire-for-60a-2pole-breaker.18098/

 

[eclipseforever]

Enjoy your truck, walk around and record every inch of it so you have a record on day one. Lots of great advice already on this thread.

 

[mongo]

Enjoy your truck, walk around and record every inch of it dso you have a record on day one. Lots of great advice already on this thread.

If going to that level, check the little dangley down aero bits in front of the tires, especially the front ones. Susceptible to curb/ loading damage.

 

[HaulingAss]

So Tesla will do alignments for free during the warranty period? Thats news to me, but if so, thats good news. Mainly because if you off-road with this vehicle, you will definitely be needing an alignment at some point, especially if rock crawling.

I've bought four new Tesla including the Cybertruck, and none of them have needed an alignment (and I'm sensitive to that and pay close attention to tire wear).

I bought one Tesla up on the used market and could tell it needed an alignment before I bought it because the tires were wearing horribly unevenly. I assume the previous owner had hit something hard. The Wh/mi were far higher than they should have been. I had Tesla do a four-wheel alignment, and I put new tires on it, and the Wh/mi dropped dramatically, back into the lower end of the expected range. Obviously, this was not a typical "drifting out of alignment" scenario because it was so far out.

You make it sound like Tesla need more alignments than other cars. I don't think that's the case. I think they hold their alignment better than average. Far better than average. Because they have more rigid chassis and stiff suspension arms, etc.

 

[M0unt41nm4n]

You make it sound like Tesla need more alignments than other cars. I don't think that's the case. I think they hold their alignment better than average. Far better than average. Because they have more rigid chassis and stiff suspension arms, etc.

Uhhh no I didn't. You are making conjecture. Sorry dude but I call BS on you.

There should be no difference in alignments between Tesla or ICE. I fully doubt your comments on the "more ridgid chassis and stiff suspension". You are 100% wrong on Tesla suspension being better than average (at least for a truck). My Jeep and Fords are far more beefy than my Cybertruck. The diameters on my control arms, tack bars, leaf springs, etc, are significantly bigger than the CT (for where it has them). I'll let someone else prove it to you:



Alignments are a normal thing in life. ESPECIALLY when you rock crawl. From reading through many other comments on Teslas (Reddit, TMC, etc), alignments appear to be fairly normal and comparable to ICE.

Also, I am interested in alignments coming under warranty because Tesla appears to claim it as a maintenance item.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_th/GUID-94F63B13-EA2C-45D9-83AB-5DCA6295D587.html

 

[HaulingAss]

There should be no difference in alignments between Tesla or ICE. I fully doubt your comments on the "more ridgid chassis and stiff suspension".

I actually agree with you, I just felt you were calling out the Cybertruck as being more "needy" when it comes to alignments when you spoke of needing an alignment with "this vehicle". You distinguished it from all other vehicles by specifying "with this vehicle". If that was not what you were trying to convey, good enough, but that's how I thought it came across.

There is no doubt the Cybertruck has a more rigid chassis compared to all other ICE trucks out there, it's not even close.

There are two primary reasons a vehicle might need an alignment after hard use:

1) The suspension components have wear in them and are no longer holding the wheels at the correct attitude. This is a gradual change in alignment over many thousands of miles and all vehicles can and will experience this if driven far enough.

2) The chassis of the vehicle has changed shape. With traditional pickups this is more common than you might imagine, particularly under hard off-road use or pushing the payload ratings. The Cybertruck is constructed in such a way (with aluminum castings and large panes of glass) that, if the chassis changes shape, you have much bigger problems than needing an alignment. Short of a collision or other severe structural damage (like from hard landings after a jump), it's just not going to happen.

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