Tesla Cybertruck Frame Snaps in Half After Hitting a Pothole – $34,000 & 4 Months to Fix, but Owner Says “This is the Most Amazing Truck Ever”

Expect that type of damages after driving off a cliff but not from a "pothole". Obviously the frame isn't strong enough for the trucks overly massive weight in rough surface use. This also brings attention to our roadways needing repairs before giving our money away stupidly.

It's a cult. My farm truck hits huge potholes all the time. Never broken the frame. Got a flat tire once when I was going too fast and had the back filled to over the can with feed bags. That is about the worst of it.

This isn't surprising to me - the CT owners I've been reading about seem to be mostly nearly fanatical about their silver dumpsters. That this guy sounds delusional is more of the same.

That owner sounds like he drank the stupid aid that's crazy I don't care what vehicle it is if you he a pot hole and it broke the frame that's a bad vehicle I've hit a median trying turn "not my best moment" going 50 in my lifted 2005 f250 and it didn't do anything to it period I thought I would have broken something got home looked around nothing granted that's an actual truck not an ev it's purpose built for durability and towing not "wow factor" but I'm not a fan of electric vehicles they're a cool idea just 30 years too soon just like everything they jumped the gun on building cars before infrastructure but I won't dealve anywhere into that. Bottom line if your car can hit a pothole and break your frame it's a poor design

What's with the singling out of the Cybertrucks?
Is it just Elon hate by biased media?
It's another vehicle on the road.
Who cares?

Truck breaks in half, costs 30k and 4 months to fix... and he thinks it's the best truck ever... lmao! He's a delusional moran. Lmao at you and your logic!!!

The owner sounds catastrophically dumb and brainwashed by the worlds richest grifter. Pathetic.

Yeah, they all say that. Literal garbage can, falls apart - "greatest truck ever". But thousands of Toyota, Isuzu etc trucks - decades old - drive on much worse roads daily and don't break

speaks volumes on what a piece of shit the truck it is and where to spend your money if you have too much and don't know where to spend it.

It's quite common for trucks to break in half while driving on a road and hit potholes. I must know at least zero people this has happened to.

I don't understand how all of these Tesla owners talk about the time and money it takes to repair their vehicles (if Tesla will even fix them) and still call them the greatest vehicles ever? Are they embarrassed for what they have done, buying a Tesla?

That's an expensive repair. Pothole damage isn't generally covered by warranty, but it might speak to the truck's durability. It's hard to say without seeing the specifics though. Where I grew up, you couldn't get the City to pay for damage done by potholes unless the pothole had been reported and the city failed to fix it in a reasonable amount of time. So that would go against collision on the insurance, and it's questionable what will happen with insurance rates.

Typical Tesla cybertruck idiot!

“This still is the most amazing truck I've ever had!”

This is what's known as doubling down on the moronic purchase you made.

This doesn't surprise me. A friend had a brand new Nissan GTR when they came out. Had it for a month. An old Ford f150 dropped a chrome rear bumper, the GTR being too close ran it over. 33k in damages. All the carbon fiber underneath the car destroyed.

Got totalled by a pothole can not be a definition of toughness.

Obviously, this owner is completely enamored with Tesla. Whistling Diesel didn't break the hitch, he broke off the whole rear frame with the hitch still attached. You don't make truck frames out of aluminum! It's not fixable, as it is not built as a body on frame design, like a normal pickup truck. It's built like a Honda Ridgeline or Ford Maverick, with the frame being part of the body. And the aluminum is more like stamped or cast, than forged or sheet. It's brittle. Steel has flexibility and memory that aluminum just don't have, which is why it snapped off instead of bent. And this guy's damage was mostly suspension, which is also weak (see Heavy D Sparks channel). I don't understand why people but these things. It has terrible rear window viewing, the stainless rusts, the suspension is prone to failure, the hitch can snap the rear frame off if you put more than 300lbs of weight on it (hitches are designed for 10% of the load on the tongue, for a safe and stable tow), and the steering is by wire (just wait for a software/hardware glitch that leaves your front wheels pointing somewhere other than where you commanded them). If I were to buy a battery electric truck, that wouldn't be it. There's better electric trucks out there, like the Silverado and the midsized R1T. There's a reason that CTs are getting "totaled" by water damage like crazy. People want out of their CTs, but resale is dropping like Russian soldiers. The supply is greater than demand, and prices are falling.

It is a great truck. Fun and smart. FSD is the best.

Fan boys sure are dumb.

Your car insurance must be astronomical....through the roof!!

This guy probably had never owned a truck before, and in reality, he still didn't own a truck because the CT has proven that it can't do basic "truck things". What an idiot.

Can some please post the definition of a cult.

This is more of a display of how bad body shops rape warranty companies over the auspice of "safety". The only time is see more waste, overspending and over repair, is when watching the federal government work.

Obviously I haven't seen the truck, but a rear subframe and shocks probably would have fixed it, but the shop used this as an opportunity to do an insurance subsidized rebuild. I'll bet that service writer at the body shop or dealer got the biggest bonus of his career!

Somebody drank the Kool-Aid...

It would have to be the mother of all potholes, or it's on a crappy built vehicle.

These trucks are built cheap and they charge a lot money for them and stupid ugly whould not own one and cost for repairs you buy new car for that would not drive a elon musk garbage can truck they even can shove his cyber trucks and telsas up his ass call me if you want 4064619612