Since its launch a year ago, Tesla’s flagship Cybertruck electric truck has been stumped by all kinds of pretty mundane obstacles. It’s so far been caught out by snow, slight inclines, water and now one Cybertruck owner reports that a pothole left them with a $34,000 repair bill.
A Cybertruck owner took to Facebook recently to share the story about how they were left with a $34,000 repair bill on their Cybertruck. The poster reportedly hit a pothole that sent a shock through the truck and snapped its suspension mounts and broke the frame, as Carscoops reports:
“The rear suspension mounts broke and then punched through the frame, requiring the full rear frame replacement,” he explains. “Front and rear rack and pinion steering, suspension all the way around, front and rear bumpers, air suspension systems, and bed components, to name a few.”
As a result of the damage caused by the pothole, the original poster was forced to replace the air suspension compressor, the air compressor exhaust assembly and the valve block for the suspension. On top of this, the work took a reported 90 hours to complete, which left the truck’s owner with a bill for $34,013 that was shared across Reddit recently.
The truck’s owner attempted to explain the damage through their post, but honestly it left many with more questions than answers. Chief among those questions was how do you need to drive in order to cause so much damage while navigating a pothole?
This led other commenters to question whether it really was just a humble pothole that caused the 30 grand in damage that the Cybertruck owner was left with, as Carscoops added:
Some Reddit commenters have openly questioned whether a pothole really would cause that much damage to a truck, regardless of whether it’s a traditional body-on-frame pickup or built around aluminum castings, like the Tesla.
One commenter claims (without offering proof) that the owner posted in August that the damage occurred when he jumped the truck 22 ft (6.7 m), and the owner’s slightly cryptic comments in this latest post only serve to fan the flames.
The owner is remaining tight-lipped on that topic, and simply said “since the insurance paid for it I won’t comment on how it was driven, just that a very large pothole in our washed-out road caused all the dominoes to fall,” as per their Facebook post.
While all the work was being carried out, the truck’s owner was left without their beloved EV for around four months. Clearly, in this case, distance made the heart grow fonder as they finished the post by saying “this is still the most amazing truck I’ve ever had” despite it being wrecked by a pretty common phenomenon across America.
Potholes and Cybertrucks are becoming a bit of a menace to drivers around the world. The Tesla pickup has already sparked a culture war on wheels and the first Cybertruck to make it to the UK has begun sparking something of a stir across the pond.
Potholes, meanwhile, have left the state of California with thousands of dollars in fees to pay out to owners of cars that have been damaged passing over them.
