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Difficult to eat through something that isn’t there: > The stainless steel body panels have no translucent “clear coat” paint.
by d1sxeyes 3y ago
Difficult to eat through something that isn’t there:
> The stainless steel body panels have no translucent “clear coat” paint.
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoThe acidity of bird droppings causes deterioration in clear coatings _and_ corrosion. I’m not making a statement about clear coats that don’t exist on Cybertrucks.
- londons_explore 3y agoWhich might be fine depending what their blend of stainless is made from. Plenty of stainless steel has been outdoors for 30 years and shows no sign of degredation.
- Zetobal 3y agoYou are not acknowledging what Tesla says in their own handbook.
- londons_explore 3y agoyes... but the handbook says exactly the same about all their other models of car, and has done for years. Clearly it wasn't written for/about the cybertruck specifically.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoAbsolutely. But it feels a bit to me like you’re missing the point. If their blend of stainless was designed to last 30 years, then it wouldn’t need to be cleaned per the owners manual. It also seems that clear coat would be a good protective step against the concerns they raise. So it seems as though your argument spins in quite tight circles.
- londons_explore 3y agoThat text in the owners manual has been there since ~2012 and applies to all their cars... It isn't new for the stainless cybertruck.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoTFA makes a point of how weird it is that Tesla just say “Cybertruck” not “the Cybertruck”, so whether it was written for the Cybertruck or not, it has at least been updated for the Cybertruck.
- jahewson 3y agoBird poop will etch its way through clear coat though. Ask me how I know :(
- albert180 3y agoBut theirs obviously doesn't