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I'm not saying it wasn't safe, it just wasn't as safe as the other ones lololol thanks for this
How do I know exactly what video that is without a preview and before clicking the link? ๐๐คฃ
Because the front fell off.
I'd like to say, that's not typical.
Also, apparently the back fell off too...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ubUXNSWGth0
What a fucking literal rolling dumpster ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Max tongue weight for a Cybertruck is 1100 lbs. They put almost ten times on it before it broke. It was fun, but it's not a valid test.
Incorrect, their listed maximum towing capacity is indeed stated to be 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms)
Feel free to check for yourself...
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/
Tongue weight and towing capacity are two different things.
They also explain in the video that you basically have to assume that at times the entire towing capacity load will fall on the tongue weight, like when you hit a pothole or speedbump and your trailer starts rocking back and forth a bit.
Everything might be fine and dandy when the load is more or less balanced on the trailer wheels while parked, but when driving, bumps and shit happen, and that towing tongue, back end of the vehicle, and suspension system better be able to handle it.
Any which way you look at it, the front fell off and the back fell off. All around the dumpstertruck isn't even half worth a shit compared to real work trucks.
Then the video is plain wrong in regards to tongue vs tow weight. No truck or trailer manufacturer anywhere in the world adheres to that.
I commonly tow a triple axle trailer that weighs 12,000 pounds with my GMC Sierra 2500HD. That much weight would snap the receiver off and bend the frame if the hitch had to support it all.
The CT is for clowns but that video is stupid and should be disregarded.
"The cybertruck being held together by glue was not in my 2025 bingo cards" hahahaha
FYI they have an entire section where they explain the difference between the trailer weight and tongue weight; complete with a little toy car and trailer demonstration of when the weight would be transferred from the trailer to the tongue.
Also, he says you want 90% of the weight in the trailer, but there are circumstances where the weight is transferred directly to the tongue.
I've watched my father's back axel break, twice when towing. Once on his Jeep Wrangler and the other truck I forgot. First was towing a boat up a steep incline (an example used in the video cough cough) and the second on the highway with a double jet ski trailer, and two jet skis, when he went over a large pot hole on the highway (another axample in the video cough cough). He fully expected his vehicle, in any sense of the word, tow hitch included, to bear the weight of what he was towing btw. And no my father is not an idiot, at least in this regard. He would explain the difference of the weights and off setting things to the back of trailers blah blah blah all the time to me.
And to say, no one expects a thing to do the job that thing is made to do is a dumb comeback. Try that one on Belichik and see how it goes.
"Come on coach, no one expects me to be able to throw a football, that would be stupid!" ๐
Buuuuuttttt you would know that if you watched the video instead of blindly reacting.
Also, what is the point of fighting this?? Being paid by Nazi car to say "nuh uh, it won't fall apart, that's a stupid test and those people are stupid...science is dumb!"
Seriously...what' the point.....
They went to great lengths to explain that and why a trailer load may transiently exceed it and used a 20 year old wrecked truck as a reference.
The other concern they mentioned was aluminum characteristics over time. Brand new strength will not equal strength over time. So 10k pounds is the trucks strength at its absolute best, but it will degrade over time. Also the mix of metals may cause a galvanic reaction to degrade it over time. No one else in the industry will use aluminum for the frame, for good reason
They even admit it fared better than they thought, but it's another example of Tesla ignoring engineering principles and the predicted consequences being demonstrated.
Cyberdump broke, other truck didn't. Same test.
However relevant or not you want to think of it, the results speak for themselves.