Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue | EUROtoday

Tesla stated Thursday it will recall practically all of the Cybertrucks it has produced to restore a chrome steel trim panel that the carmaker stated might turn into indifferent from the car whereas driving. It’s the eighth recall for the distinctive all-electric pickup, which hit US roads simply over two years in the past.

Unlike many different Tesla-related recollects, although, this one can’t be fastened with an over-the-air software program replace, and should be introduced right into a service heart for repairs. The recall impacts greater than 46,000 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 2023 and late February 2025.

The recall is expounded to a beauty applique on the car’s exterior, which is connected to the remainder of the truck by a sort of glue, based on a submitting revealed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the US’ street security regulator. On affected Cybertrucks, the adhesive can separate from the remainder of the truck, making a potential “road hazard” for others and rising the chance of a crash.

Complaints concerning the trim first bubbled up in social media posts; Tesla reportedly halted Cybertruck manufacturing final week. Tesla says within the submitting that it started to analyze the problem in early January. The submitting says Tesla will restore the problem with one other sort of adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”

Dale Harrow, chair and director of the Intelligent Mobility Design Center on the Royal College of Art London, labels this newest glue recall for the Cybertruck as “surprising”.

“Glues are used a lot more than people think in car body construction these days,” he says. “Rather than having a mechanical fixing, weld or a screw or a bolt, it’s very effective gluing panels together for a lighter construction. It’s become very popular. Jaguar, Lexus, Audi, they’ll use glues at some point. So I’m very surprised. It’s not as if it’s an unknown science. I’ve not heard [of problems] anywhere else.”

There are quite a few glues the auto business makes use of to bond panels and components collectively, Harrow says, including that totally different adhesives are used relying on energy of bond wanted, specific circumstances, and supplies concerned. However, what’s totally different with the Cybertruck to different autos is its extremely unconventional use of chrome steel for its panels.

“Stainless steel is the big difference,” Harrow says. “So maybe there’s been an issue there?” Harrow points out this fault appears to be happening in cold weather, and that it might be that the stainless steel is conducting cold better, possibly just enough to make a difference in the curing process.

“I could surmise that something on the production line is not quite bonding at the right temperature or getting the right UV coverage? And that could be due to the stainless steel having a different density from standard steel. It’s not a small company, and it’s not doing things on the cheap. So I’ll be very surprised if there wasn’t the knowledge within the company to [fix] this. But it would need quite a bit of investigation, I think, to find out the real cause of it.”