There are many, many reasons why you shouldn’t buy a Tesla Cybertruck, but even if you don’t have a problem giving your money to its bigoted CEO, there’s also no getting around the fact that it just isn’t a good vehicle. Heck, even if you don’t mind the recalls, we’ve also seen them get bricked in a car wash, send people to the ER due to sharp edges and snap the subframe trying to tow. As for the latest complaint, apparently, magnets cause rust and corrosion. The owners still love their trucks, of course.
Over on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, someone with the username “cybertooth” who also lists their name as Nick shared a series of photos of their Cybertruck’s bodywork, writing, “I feel like an idiot… Decided to put advertising magnets on my CT. Happened to take them off to wash the truck after a month and my heart sunk…rust and corrosion.” Nick was reportedly able to get most of the corrosion off, but even after a liberal application of Barkeeper’s Friend, you could still see some pitting in the sheet metal.
Nick isn’t the only one who noticed this either, with several other users replying that they’d had the same problem. Unfortunately for owners who want to decorate their trucks, it seems like these problems are most likely caused by different metals coming into contact in a way that causes electrolysis; even putting a thin layer of something else between the magnet and the steel body panel probably won’t prevent this problem in the future.
This news also comes after we learned that wraps and stickers also appear to damage the bodywork, so it isn’t exactly surprising that magnets would cause problems. Also, it’s worth remembering that some business owners ordered their Cybertrucks planning to use them as rolling billboards, which probably wasn’t the worst plan back when the Cybertruck was originally announced. Now that they’re having problems with magnets, stickers and wraps, though, it’s much harder to justify even even for the people who actually like all the racist shit the CEO is constantly spewing.
