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The panels will not rust, which is the reason to avoiding scratches on other vehicles. You can beat the hell out of it and not have to care.

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Stainless steel can definitely rust. Leave your favorite knife in the sink for a few weeks and watch what happens, especially if it has any scratches on it.

And then put some salt in that water.

Oh did they fix the rusting issue from the beginning of the year?

I think that story turned out to be media sensationalism. I’ve owned one for over half a year, in the distinctly not dry PNW. No rust at all.

The PNW is distinctly dry during the summer, which would compose at least half of the months you have owned it.

Also, in my experience, it’s road salt/ice melt chemicals that really exacerbate rust rather than just rain. I assume that is why I see a lot more old cars everyday in PNW compared to the northeast.

Salt was bad for cars. (Having had a 80s car that was rusting badly). There was a hole in one of my rear wheel wells. Salt/ sand got into the hollow steel and rusted from the inside out at the base of the passenger door. It was was bad all over however.

Cars are galvanized now so they don’t rust. Is that truck running bare stainless with no finish?

Are you going to stick to it during the winter?

Yeah my truck has been running bare this whole time and I don’t plan to change that. I’ve parked it near a house by the ocean for days on end so it probably got some salty condensation on it.

Have they started salting roads there yet though?

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It has been terrible! I’ve been asked to transport large items for friends, and had to deal with excited children wanting to take pictures with it. When there was an extended power outage recently I didn’t get the chance to have the “real” outage experience because my truck powered my house. If only I had listened to HN and Reddit.

This is not contributing the discussion and sounds like sour grapes (never owned a Tesla product btw).

Just poking fun :P You can't drop one hundred thousand dollars on one of the ugliest gimmick vehicles ever made and not expect at least a little bit of stick.

CT owners have to have thick skins when interacting online so I chose to take it as good-natured ribbing :)

It has been a legitimately awesome purchase for me so it’s pretty easy to be positive.

What a statement to make. Tons of photo evidence of bare stainless steel panels rusting, cyber truck or not.

I live in New England, neighbor has a cybertruck that lives in the (outside) driveway. Every panel has a like....brown tinge to it.

2 years from now it will be manhole covered.

most people care about scratches because they look like shit.

paint is a bit more than just corrosion protection at this point, otherwise mfgs would just slap on the thickest toughest machine-tool grade enamel and call it a day.

why don't they? because it looks terrible.

And most cars end up scratched anyway, and most owners do not take their car in for detailing every time this happens (if at all).

Most cars don't end up scratched. They definitely don't end up scratched after 1 year.

We are not seeing the same cars or not have the same definition of what a scratch is, lol.

My car is 5 years old, 0 scratches. Other than a ding and some rock chips.

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