Tom Wrongbottom 🍦: — Subium • Bluesky web client

It's hilarious that the Cybertruck's *heavy sigh* Gigawiper is a single point of failure, but what's less funny is that Tesla is once again fixing safety equipment without a recall, which is very much a violation of the federal Motor Vehicle Safety Act driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-p...

Tesla pauses Cybertruck deliveries over wiper motor issuedriveteslacanada.ca Tesla has temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue with perhaps one of the most talked about features on the electric truck, the Gigawiper. On Friday Cybertruck reservations holders star...

I read a month or more ago that Tesla had realized they cheaped out on the wiper motor, it was too weak, it would inevitably burn out very quickly. This is NOT, as asserted in the article, a supplier quality issue - Tesla just ordered and installed motors far too wimpy for the oversized wiper.

I had assumed that if I had read a news article about it weeks ago then surely Tesla must have bene forced to reconsider, would at least have switched to installing an appropriate motor in the cars that hadn't left their showrooms yet. But I guess it seems not.

Oh, hey, here's the article I read. Exactly a month ago! Tesla bragged they'd be able to power their giant wiper conglomeration with an 800 watt motor. Might have worked, too, except they installed a 120 watt motor - apparently only twice as strong as your normal car's wiper motor.

Tesla Cybertruck's Gigawiper Is Again in the Spotlight As Wiper Motors Fail Repeatedlywww.autoevolution.com The Cybertruck owners report that the gigawiper motors are failing repeatedly, which might force Tesla to issue a recall rather soon

The really fun bit, is that these wipers had to have failed under testing or no testing was done. Law suit discovery is going to be painful.

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