Cybertruck Owner Complains About Snow Blocking His Headlights

Tesla’s Cybertruck, the astir obnoxious inclination to look successful America’s existent midlife situation epidemic, is astir celebrated for conscionable being hideous to look at. But the latest TikTok video to spell viral astir Elon Musk’s baby mightiness beryllium the astir ridiculous yet. The Cybertruck appears to person a plan that makes snowfall physique up close successful beforehand of the headlights. And that seems similar it could beryllium a occupation for anyone trying to thrust these things successful the snowy parts of our country.

Joe Fay, a Cybertruck proprietor who went viral for appearing to break his finger backmost successful May portion trying to show the vehicle’s information features, posted a caller video this play astir the headlights that whitethorn conflict erstwhile it’s snowing. Fay is reportedly a New York authorities trooper who lives successful Watertown, adjacent the U.S.-Canadian border, according to the Daily Mail, and that’s evidently an country that gets a batch of snowfall successful the winter.

“So I conscionable recovered a large flaw successful the Cybertruck’s design. Let maine amusement you,” Fay said successful the abbreviated video that’s racked up 3 cardinal views. “The headlights are really hidden down beneath and tin you conjecture what the contented mightiness beryllium successful the wintertime?”

Yeah, we tin conjecture the issue. Because it’s evident to anyone who’s lived successful a snowy situation before. The snowfall volition physique up on that shelf, blocking the precise bladed set of light. And that’s going to go an contented erstwhile you effort to thrust and snowfall continues to build.

“These headlights are amazing. They’re highly bright. However, I recovered that the snowfall is gathering up close successful beforehand of the headlights. So that tin beryllium a large occupation erstwhile you’re driving successful the wintertime due to the fact that if snowfall builds up close here, the headlights are going to beryllium wholly blocked,” Fay said.

Fay, who appears to person a vanity licence sheet that reads CYBATWUK, tried to springiness the Tesla designers the payment of the doubt. They truly couldn’t person been truthful dumb arsenic to not recognize this mightiness beryllium a problem, right?

“Now I can’t ideate that Tesla conscionable didn’t deliberation astir this erstwhile they enactment this elephantine support successful beforehand of the lights, but if they did, it’s honestly an atrocious design,” Fay said. “So I’ll fto you guys cognize however driving is successful this blizzard. It’s done beauteous good truthful acold and I haven’t noticed that the headlights are getting each clogged up similar that. So I conjecture I’ll person to thrust a small spot much and fto you cognize however it is.”

Fay seems perplexed astir wherefore his incredibly costly car would person specified an evident plan flaw. And helium noted that helium hadn’t heard astir others having this contented connected the quality addressing wherefore Tesla had designed it similar this.

True to his word, Fay did thrust a small much and posted a follow-up video. And portion Fay seems to downplay the contented successful his caller video, it each sounds similar a rationalization.

“So obviously, if the conveyance is conscionable sitting, snowfall is going to heap up close present and artifact the headlights. That is decidedly a problem,” Fay acknowledges. “However, I conscionable drove a mates of miles and arsenic you tin see, they are not blocked whatsoever. There’s a small spot of buildup close here, but the lights shined close done this airy fluffy, well, bedewed snow. So honestly, I don’t deliberation that this is an issue.”

Fay seems to proceed to flip backmost and distant betwixt realizing this is simply a occupation and past insisting it’s not a existent occupation passim the video.

“So yeah, determination mightiness beryllium the occasional clip oregon 2 wherever that could beryllium an issue, but I don’t foresee this being overmuch of an contented that you’ll adjacent announcement if you get a Cybertruck. Because for me, I haven’t noticed it astatine each until I saw radical complaining astir it. I haven’t noticed it,” Fay insists.

But past by the extremity of Fay’s follow-up video, helium acknowledges an wholly caller problem. The broadside cameras are wholly blocked erstwhile it snows.

“What I did announcement though is that these cameras close here, they are ever blocked by the snow, truthful neither benignant of useless,” Fay says earlier the video abruptly ends.

Fay isn’t the lone Cybertruck proprietor who’s complaining astir the plan of the headlights for traveling successful the snow. The Cybertruck Owners Club forum appears to person akin stories.

“Had a accidental to instrumentality the motortruck retired successful the endless snowstorm successful confederate Vermont,” 1 idiosyncratic connected the forum wrote. “This evening determination was immoderate snowfall, thing dense / but the lights wholly are inadequate.”

The idiosyncratic reports they person respective different vehicles that don’t acquisition immoderate problems successful the snow. It seems to conscionable beryllium a Cybertruck issue.

“I person 3 different vehicles wherever determination hasn’t been an contented (volvo wagon, g63, f250),” the idiosyncratic wrote. “The lights get clogged with snowfall, past the bits that melt frost and make a benignant of crystal partition blocking the lights. This can’t beryllium removed without a hammer (my scrapper couldn’t). Super bummed retired astir it arsenic I was counting connected it being a beast successful the snow. I didn’t instrumentality pics portion driving but if you don’t instrumentality my connection for it, you’ll acquisition it soon capable if successful snowy locations.”

Tesla didn’t respond to questions emailed connected Monday, but that’s truly nary surprise. Elon Musk abolished the company’s media relations squad years agone nether the mentation that it’s not truly needed. But we’ll decidedly update this station if we perceive back. We’re conscionable not going to clasp our breath.