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According to the comments (from people who have far more time on their hands) the same guy posted about doing massive jumps in the truck, which is probably why he has that 'insurance paid so I can't talk about what happened' disclaimer - IE if he says "I jumped my truck and broke every suspension mounting point" he'd be up for insurance fraud.

Fingers crossed someone's grassed him, he can be $100k in debt for the shitheap divorced-dad-mobile, and on the hook for the money the insurance company will want to claw back for the repairs, and their legal fees

Edit: The alleged post about when they jumped it:

The latest masterful gambit from people who bought a cybertruck; you can make it charge faster if you wrap the charging handle in a rag and soak it.




This is not a troll post as far as I can tell. This is a thing people are actually doing.

That's been a thing since before the Cybertruck. The old Tesla chargers which have thin charging cables aren't water cooled so quickly ramp down to manage temperatures, which people got round by wrapping a wet towel round the handle.

Mito Man wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 11:06 am which people got round by wrapping a wet towel round the handle.

You said “people” when I assume you meant “loonies”?

Yes. Although looking at the top comment on the reddit post it seems the main concern is pouring water on the high voltage cable but these chargers are all outside, usually wet and I'm not aware of anyone who has been zapped to death using one in the pissing rain.

The water isn’t an issue at all, connections will be wet in some countries etc. The issue is thermal cycling of the cable so it breaks down quicker.

Another example of how people have virtually no u Der standing of the energy 150KW actually is.

Dave!

Elon spec; https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... attachment

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:10 am Elon spec; https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... attachment

Oh, they made a remote control transporter for his bullet proof helmet!

Annoying that if he wasn’t from the uk there’d be nothing the police could have done about it though

Still got the hubcaps on as well - I thought all Cybertrucks had to have them removed because they shred the tyre sidewalls?

Yianni from the Carwow videos has one in the UK on Albanian plates, but he does seem to be trying to get it through an IVA at least.

"I'm going to flout the law and show off how much money I have and how alpha I am by buying a vehicle that's not legal in the country and is so immediately recognisable that the police will almost certainly stop me on sight and have a long list of reasons to take the car off me. I am a very smart person"

Christ, the sort of people who gravitate towards this car are breathtakingly stupid.

I'm sure whomever it is will be banging on about the UKs communist government with two tier policing by the weekend.

Presumably the one Yianni is driving is also uninsured here and will meet the same fate now that Police are aware.

Jobbo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:36 am Still got the hubcaps on as well - I thought all Cybertrucks had to have them removed because they shread the tyre sidewalls?

I was going to say the same thing.
https://www.theautopian.com/tesla-cyber ... nt-page-1/

Looks like the one above also has an Albanian plate. Let's hope if it isn't the same one as that other pillock's that his gets seized as well, especially as the dumbass has uploaded videos of it being driven on UK roads

It isn't the same one - Yianni's isn't wrapped (odd when he runs a wrapping business).

Yianni also posted a video two days ago of touring the UK in his He can only claim to be the second person in the UK to get his Cybertruck seized at best. Bad for clicks. Hasn't been seized so far as I am aware. Yet...

ETA: just to make it clear - I don't watch Yianni, but I googled to see whether it was his and found the video.