A Tesla Cybertruck Owner Says Both His Front Wheels Turned Inward Towards Each Other in the Middle of the Road – Adds “The Tie Rod is Completely Unbolted & I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This; My Kids Were in The Truck Going 70 MPH”

Steven Vining is a Cybertruck owner from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he recently experienced a major failure that left both his front wheels turned inward.

Steven has turned the Cybertruck’s steer-by-wire steering wheel all the way to the left; however, the driver-side tires are stuck and turned all the way to the right.

With the left wheel turned right and the right wheel turned left, Steven’s Cybertruck has its tires pointing inward.

This is not ideal; however, on top of this, Steven adds that he was driving down the highway 70 mph with his kids in the truck before the wheels turned inward.

Thankfully, Steven did not get into any accident, and at the exact time his Cybertruck wheels failed, he wasn’t driving high speed, and his kids were already out of the truck.

This is good; however, since the tie rod connecting the steering wheel to the tires is simply separated without any visible damage, Steven expresses his suspicion that his steering system may have been manipulated by an anti-Tesla vandal.

Steven says that the Cybertruck may have been sabotaged by unbolting the tie rod from the steering knuckle.

The suspicious Cybertruck owner posted a brief video displaying his truck’s wheels turned inwards, with the Cybertruck stranded in the middle of the road, awaiting a tow truck while blocking traffic.

Steven, beginning from inside his Cybertruck cabin and moving out to showcase his inward-angled tires, says in the video… 

“So the tow truck is coming. Kelly and I are still stuck on the side of the road, and we’ve got traffic backed up a mile.

But my wheels are pointing in towards to each other. I noticed a wobble yesterday, and of course, everybody knows the Tesla craziness I’ve been through with all the protesters.

But if you look, this tie rod is completely unbolted and out of the whole. It’s not broken; it’s not stripped; it’s literally unbolted.

Guys, I would hope somebody would not do that on purpose because my kids were literally just in this truck going 70 miles an hour down the road.

I don’t know. We’re going to get loaded up, and we’re going to take it to the Tesla service center and let them look at it, but it’s crazy to think somebody would do something like that.”

Steven then shares the video under the title “Someone sabotaged my Cybertruck????”

Looking at the comments, even Tesla fans were divided on whether the tie rod failure was sabotage or whether Tesla failed to tighten the bolt sufficiently during manufacturing.

Ashley Seay responds to the video writing…

“That's some paranoia right there. Why would they take the time to specifically unbolt the tie rods to screw over a Tesla owner? That makes no sense.”

In response, Steven says sabotage is a real possibility, pointing out that he has worked on cars all his life and he’s never seen the tie rod simply become unbolted.

He writes…

“Definitely not paranoid after all the things people have been doing to me. I’ve worked in cars my whole life. This doesn’t happen.”

This may be true; however, a mechanic who is also a Tesla and Cybertruck enthusiast states that those protesting Tesla lack the technical expertise to tamper with the tie rod.

He writes…

“I’m a mechanic. I think it was a big quality assurance miss on Tesla’s part. What leftist do you know that is capable of removing the cotter pin and tie rod nut without spilling their latte?”

That’s certainly an interesting perspective. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Another thing that people wanted to know is if the Cybertruck’s sentry cameras captured any video of someone tampering with the vehicle.

In response Steven shares a picture of a guy that was recorded by his Cybertruck’s sentry camera during the night.

Steven believes the guy might be holding a wrench; however, looking at the picture closely, the young man appears to simply be looking at the Cybertruck with a big smile, and in his hand, he has what seems to be a large video camera on a gimbal mount.

Overall, people seem divided on whether the Cybertruck failure relates to Tesla’s quality assurance miss or if it’s sabotage. However, let me know what you think in the comments.

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Tinsae Aregay has been following Tesla and the evolution of the EV space daily for several years. He covers everything about Tesla, from the cars to Elon Musk, the energy business, and autonomy. Follow Tinsae on Twitter at @TinsaeAregay for daily Tesla news.