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Saw this morning that there's a video on TikTok of a Tesla truck in Toronto. Seems it got stuck in snow in a parking lot, yet all the economy type cars are coming and going around it with no problems. The truck it seems just could push it's way out of a foot or so of snow. I'd be embarrassed to have paid around 6 figures yet get out performed by a Corolla, Kia and others costing way less....
 
mikephillips said:
Saw this morning that there's a video on TikTok of a Tesla truck in Toronto. Seems it got stuck in snow in a parking lot, yet all the economy type cars are coming and going around it with no problems. The truck it seems just could push it's way out of a foot or so of snow. I'd be embarrassed to have paid around 6 figures yet get out performed by a Corolla, Kia and others costing way less....
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I just think it's the ugliest thing on four wheels. Although some of the other Teslas are very nice looking cars.
 
As was said before - they need to include raccoon repellent with every truck.
The raccoons keep trying to get in to them,think they're a rolling garbage bin.

( Oh wait - the bins look much nicer).
 
Basil said:
I just think it's the ugliest thing on four wheels. Although some of the other Teslas are very nice looking cars.
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I just can't help but think back to when I was a youngster and a buddy of mine's family had an old Ford F150 we used for everything when as Boy Scouts we needed to move something. Drove that thing into fields, into snow and everywhere else and never got stuck. And not the so called replacement for those trucks couldn't even get out of a parking lot where the small cheap cars were rolling in and out with no problems. Like buying a real nice new house and finding the plumbing doesn't move any water and the windows leak where your old place may not look so nice, but everything worked.
 
While I will not defend the Tesla’s terrible aesthetics (putting it mildly😀), the snow problem is independent of looks. Cybertrucks are delivered with a hard tire, intended to decrease the wear rate in the heavy vehicle. These hard tires only get harder in the snow - with inevitable consequences.

Tirerack has many options for snow tires. My manual-shifting, beautiful-as-heck 😜VW, would have a similar fate, had I not replaced the OEM summer tires with winter tires.

(It also saves money in the long run. Snow tires are considerably cheaper than high performance tires!)
 
Another aspect of the "Tik Tok video" - the Cybertruck was stuck in snow where it was parked. All the cars moving past the Cybertruck are already free of snow, and on the road.

But the point about hard tires is new to me. Mike - thanks for pointing that out.

Just for kicks, here's a video of a guy explaining how to free a Cybertruck from snow. Using multiple in-car screen menu choices (which would drive me absolutely nuts ...) Note the example is done on a sunny snow-less day.


Frankly, I think all that is hysterical: From screen to screen, from menu to menu - all those steps to free the truck, but ending with "and if it still doesn't get the car out of the snow, call a tow truck".

TM
 
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Not only does the Tesla get stuck in the snow, it can't be driven when it's snowing hard because the headlights get blocked by snow. They are just above the bumper and snow collects there.
 
John Turney said:
Not only does the Tesla get stuck in the snow, it can't be driven when it's snowing hard because the headlights get blocked by snow. They are just above the bumper and snow collects there.
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I have that light problem in snow with mt Telluride. If it’s snowing hard sometimes the snow will accumulate on the large rectangle lights. The reason in my case is that the lights are LED and don’t produce heat that would normally help melt snow.
 
Yikes - never thought about that 'til Basil mentioned it. LED lights wouldn't melt off accumulated snow.

Think I'll go back to acetylene ...

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One of my biggest complaints - WHY do they make those
lights so bright on low beam?I'm really tired of getting blinded
every day,on my way to work.
And almost every idiot who owns a CJ type Jeep has to have
BRIGHT driving lights,or a bright light strip that they never seem to
turn off while in traffic,or for oncoming vehicles.
 
AngliaGT said:
One of my biggest complaints - WHY do they make those
lights so bright on low beam?I'm really tired of getting blinded
every day,on my way to work.
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Tell me about it! I have mine adjusted properly on my KIA Telluride, but still get flashed all the time by oncoming traffic thinking I have my brights on when I don't. What makes things worse is when people insist on driving around with their "fog/driving" lights on also! I only use those if I'm in conditions that require them.
 
And not just the brightness but the height. when we drove the Mini I was forever having to adjust my rearview mirror due to the height and brightness of the lights on the car/truck/suv behind me. Now with an SUV there are still a ton of trucks that are high enough (even stock) to blind me.
 
JPSmit said:
And not just the brightness but the height. when we drove the Mini I was forever having to adjust my rearview mirror due to the height and brightness of the lights on the car/truck/suv behind me. Now with an SUV there are still a ton of trucks that are high enough (even stock) to blind me.
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I know! Sometimes I feel like the Richard Dreyfus character (Roy Neary) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the UFO pulled up behind him and the train crossing.
 
Basil said:
Oh so YOU'RE the one! LOL! I can't blame them for flashing, but that's just the way these cars are made these days. Dang it!
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I'm on a one man crusade to get people to quit driving those things. My rear view gets flipped up as soon as someone gets behind me about half the time.

The funny thing about flashing people is when they get fed up and actually flip their brights back I have a brief moment of clarity where is doesn't look like I am driving directly into the sun as the bright lights shoot over the top of my car. Then it goes back to the heckscape which is LED lights burning my retinas from my eyes.
 
JPSmit said:
And not just the brightness but the height. when we drove the Mini I was forever having to adjust my rearview mirror due to the height and brightness of the lights on the car/truck/suv behind me. Now with an SUV there are still a ton of trucks that are high enough (even stock) to blind me.
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Driving a Healey in South Lake Tahoe at night was a nightmare. The lifted trucks/SUVs would blind me whether they had their high beams on or not.
 
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