The Tesla Cybertruck has solely been terrorizing America’s roads for a little bit over six months, however somebody has already managed to get their huge electrical pickup truck totalled. A plucky engineer purchased the wrecked monstrosity and is making an attempt to deliver it again to life, however it doesn’t sound like a enjoyable process in any respect.
A Ford Edge totalled the truck in query earlier this 12 months, stories Autoevolution. Insurers wrote the Cybertruck off, after which it was offered on to YouTuber and budding wrencher Kyle Wade, who runs the BoostedBoiz channel.
In his newest video, which is accessible to look at for your self beneath, Wade outlines all the problems he’s run into whereas making an attempt to save lots of the ruined truck, a mission he describes as a “unhealthy concept.”
The truck he began out with had two caved-in doorways on the passenger facet, in addition to injury to the motive force facet after it hit a pole in addition to rear monitoring points that have been brought on when the Cybertruck was pushed into the curb. There have been additionally every kind of bodywork and trim items lacking.
To attempt to restore the truck, Wade and his workforce took a methodical strategy that started with changing some key fuses that he says often blow when Tesla vehicles are concerned in crashes. Subsequent, they recognized a difficulty with the 48v battery and changed that. Miraculously, this acquired the truck to begin up as soon as once more – however there was a difficulty, as Wade explains:
We did get the Cybertruck shifting as soon as once more, however it was in a limp mode that solely allowed it to go 4 mph. It had a giant crimson warning on the display that mentioned ‘vital steering subject detected’.”
The answer, they thought, was to recalibrate all of the sensors on the Cybertruck to attempt and reset the crimson warning that was flashing up on the middle display. In addition they tried to recalibrate the truck’s steer-by-wire system, which they thought might have been impacted by the crash.
To do that, the workforce wanted to hire Tesla’s Toolbox software program for a day. For $165, this gave them higher entry to the truck’s controls and allowed them to dive deeper into the operation of the entrance and rear steering, in addition to the response from the steering wheel.
Plugging the toolbox into the Cybertruck did seem to assist them make progress on the rebuild, because it uncovered 25 points with the steer-by-wire system onboard that they suppose may be remedied by calibrating the steering and all of the related sensors. However whereas this appeared to work on the rear wheels, it failed on the entrance wheels and the steering wheel itself. Not good.
Issues have been simply as unhealthy after they tried to energy up the truck, and the display flashed crimson and advised the workforce to drag over safely. Clearly, not a lot progress is being made on the totaled truck.
After infinite hours of work on the Cybertruck, this progress involves a halt. Wade describes the totaled truck as a “massive previous stainless paperweight” by the tip of the video, because it nonetheless doesn’t drive, doesn’t steer and sill has two doorways lacking.
However he isn’t giving up, and defined that his subsequent step will probably be to place the doorways on, plug all the things again in after which attempt the method another time. Wade additionally defined that the problems they’re going through might be right down to the steering management module, which he say is the following goal for the workforce’s repairs.
The complexities of the restore simply go to point out how a lot vehicles have modified with the swap to electrical autos. We’re used to seeing builds the place folks revive ruined inner combustion engine vehicles, with one other YouTube presently working to revive a ruined Rolls Royce. Nevertheless, might the pivot to EVs deliver an finish to this style of automotive builds with out correct backing from automakers?
