America’s edgiest electric truck, Tesla Cybertruck, is back in the headlines, and this time it’s not because some edgy prankster tagged it with swastikas or a cheeky “Elon Smells” in spray paint. Nope, the Cybertruck’s latest drama is a little less punk rock and a lot more… unglued.
Deliveries are screeching to a halt faster than a Cybertruck trying to brake on a wet road (more on that later), all because the trim—yes, that fancy decorative flair—is reportedly peeling off and taking flight like a bad toupee in a windstorm.
Electrek, our trusty EV gossip rag, spilled the tea on this one.
Tesla’s service reps, bless their hearts, are breaking the news to eager Cybertruckers-to-be with the cryptic phrase containment hold. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, right?
“Sorry, Dave, we’ve got a containment hold on your truck—turns out it’s shedding parts faster than a molting lizard.” According to posts flooding the Cybertruck Owners Forum (a sacred digital watering hole for triangle-truck enthusiasts), Tesla’s keeping mum on the juicy details.
They’re not saying it’s the trim, but, wink wink, we all know it’s the trim. For the uninitiated, a containment hold is just car-maker lingo for “whoops, we’ve got a quality oopsie, and we’d rather not deliver you a truck that’s falling apart before you can flex it on Instagram.”
Electrek even snagged some spicy DM screenshots between a customer and a Tesla rep. For those of us who don’t speak car-nerd, the cantrail is that snazzy strip of trim above the door that’s supposed to make your truck look sleek, not like it’s mid-breakup with its own body.
Word on the street—or rather, the forum—is that this fix could take weeks, depending on just how badly Tesla’s glue game has flopped. Weeks! That’s an eternity in Cybertruck time, where every day without your futuristic wedge-mobile is a day you can’t flex at the gas station.
Now, if this sounds like déjà vu, it’s because the Cybertruck’s trim has been staging its own rebellion for a while.
Earlier this year, some eagle-eyed owners filed complaints with the feds, pointing out that the trim above the windows seemed to be held on by… wait for it… glue. Yep, glue!
The same stuff you used to stick googly eyes on your 5th-grade art project. And not even good glue, apparently—just the cheap stuff that gives up when the going gets tough.
This isn’t even the first trim tantrum; last summer, Tesla recalled over 11,000 Cybertrucks because the trunk bed trim sail applique (say that five times fast) was also playing fast and loose with its adhesive vows.
Let’s talk numbers: the Cybertruck has been recalled seven times since its grand debut in December 2023. Seven! That’s more recalls than my grandma’s got hot takes about millennials.
Tesla managed to sell about 40,000 of these stainless steel bad boys in 2024—not too shabby, considering they had over a million reservations from folks who clearly couldn’t resist the allure of driving a life-sized Hot Wheels car.
But whispers from the wild suggest Cybertrucks are piling up on used car lots like unsold fidget spinners after the craze died. Meanwhile, factory workers in Austin got an unexpected three-day vacay in December—probably to binge-watch The Great British Bake Off and pray the trim learns to stick.
And if that weren’t enough, Elon Musk’s new gig as Trump’s special advisor has turned the Cybertruck into a rolling political lightning rod.
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