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”

It can't be that amazing, if a pothole took it out. I hit a pothole in my chevy bolt and slammed the frame on the pavement. All I needed was new tire and alignment.

He must've been driving it pretty hard to do that damage on a pothole. Even the most durable trucks have their week points. I drive a Nissan Patrol, which is designed from the ground up as an off road 4wd, but it also has its weaknesses if you hit uneven terrain at high speed.

This is ovolouus not damage caused by a pot hole. The owner ever kinda points to that by not giving the details as to the drive when the damage occurred.

Had it been any other brand truck you'd have never hear about it.

Spoken like a truly. brainwashed Tesla cult follower. Truck frames should not break in half unless it's something catastrophic, not hitting a pothole.

There's simply no way my 72 international harvester 3/4 ton short bed would be damaged by any sort of pothole anywhere. The transfer case came down on rock, pulverized it and I it cracked a bracket which was easily welded. Theres no way I possibly could have cracked the frame like that. That is in part due to the tickness of the steel members in it and in part due to the fact that it's rivited and not welded or even worse, a casting. It can flex.

Spoken like a truly. brainwashed Tesla cult follower. Truck frames should not break in half unless it's something catastrophic, not hitting a pothole.

The cybertruck does not seem like a good investment if hitting a pothole will cause a $34k bill. Not a truck guy but would definitely buy any other brand and not something this low quality, to me it seems like the owners are trying to justify their extremely bad purchase with whatever they can think of

All the problems out of these vehicles and production is still rolling? Probably the self centered owners enjoying the stares that come with a vehicle that looks like it was dreamed up for Oscar the grouch. They must not realize that I'd hate to be the guy driving that bucket is what comes with those looks. An amazing truck wouldn't have snapped as this one did, an amazing truck would have made that pothole fill itself!

The cyberjunk does not make you lack of manhood any more impressive to women..

You can probably get a better truck for that $34,000 the repair cost you.

If I were an insurance company I think I would be having second thoughts about insuring this vehicle and the people who choose to buy it. Obviously the guy did something beyond a simple pothole. Regardless of whatever the owner did, the repair bill and the time needed for the repair are excessive. Insuring risk-taking drivers who buy costly & fragile vehicles is a losing bet.

I cannot in good conscious, trust what fanboys write about that overengineered, overweight DeLorean. Wait to see what these tubs look like in just a decade. These trucks will dissappear in short order and it will be DeLorean all over again lmao. Not to mention the fact I can buy several brand new vehicles for the cost of one of those children's drawings of a truck.

Sounds to me like he beat the hell out of that truck. It wasn't a typical pot hole you might hit going 20mph. He was probably pushing 100 mph and didn't notice the section of road missing. He even said
"Since the insurance paid for it, I won't comment on how it was driven; it was just that a very large pothole in our washed-out road..."
yeah im sure it was a very large "pot hole"

I believe the Cybertruck needs an overhaul in the design department. The engineers should go back and check the rear frame of the truck. This is not the first time a Cybertruck frame broke. It was a pothole that broke the frame. It is a design flaw that could cause serious damage and injury. That's my 2 cents worth. Until next time..... Peace!

That's crazy. Expensive for a pothole. That will only put insurance rates sky high on these vehicles. It should have been built with more research into how real trucks are built so they don't break like that.
Worst truck ever. I would say. Not really a truck.

I mean the insurance paid for it. His only inconvenience was time. Sounds like he's still pretty stoked on the truck. Still the 3rd most popular truck sold in the US. Stuff happens. Should be more pissed at the city than Tesla.

Sounds like a manufacturing defect to the frame components since many people have been jumping these trucks and putting them through absolute hell.

If the cybertruck is so great and will retain 70% of it's value at 3 years old as Tesla claims, then why is Tesla refusing to accept any cybertruck tradeins on a new Tesla vehicle even when the owner is willing to pay more for a higher end vehicle??

Dude basically admits to insurance fraud on a 34k claim. No wonder rates are through the roof.

I hope his insurance company sees this