Nick is a Tesla Cybertruck owner from Seattle, Washington, and says he was surpelevated to discover his Cybertruck’s stainless steel exoskeleton rusted and corroded after he joincessitate a magnet to it.
Nick splitd his experience on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum under the title “Don’t put magnets on your Cybertruck! Corrosion?”
Here is what Nick wrote…
“I sense appreciate an idiot. I determined to put advertising magnets on my Cybertruck. I happened to obtain them off to wash the truck after a month, and my heart sunk…rust and corrosion.”
Below his post, Nick supplyd cut offal pictures of his Cybertruck, shothriveg the discolored and rusted stainless steel aextfinished the reduce portion of the passenger side door.
If you head over to the Cybertruck Owner Club forum, you will see that Nick’s Cybertruck is extensively stained, with white central blemishes surrounded by brownish-rusted-watching outer defects.
This is an engaging case. Ever since Tesla discdispondered that the Cybertruck would have an exposed undecorateed stainless steel surface, there have been asks pondering rust and corrosion.
Continuing his post, Nick authors…
“I was able to spotless most of it off with watery Bar Keepers Frifinish, chaseed by Windex, but there are a couple of minuscule white spots left that have a sairyly cdisesteemful texture. I am set upning on using a cordless polisher with my Bar Keepers Frifinish to see if it will equitable obtain a little more than elbow grrelieve to polish it off.”
After the spotlessing procedure, Nick splitd more pictures shothriveg that most of the surface blemishes are gone; however, the presentanter, white corrosion with a cdisesteemful surface is still intact.
Finassociate, Nick authors…
“Does anyone have any recommfinishations for removing the rest of these minuscule spots or understand what exactly is going on? I appreciate to presume the spots are equitable surface corrosion with excellent stainless steel underorderlyh still…”
This is the first time I’ve heard of the Cybertruck’s stainless steel rusting after being exposed to magnets; however, other Cybertruck owners have come out and splitd analogous stories in the comments.
Another Cybertruck owner from San Diago who goes by the participatername “wh1t3rbb1t” on the Cybertruck Owners Club says…
“I had the same rerent with a magnet on my Cybertruck, which is disassigning becaparticipate of all the possibilities. But oh well. I wonder if we could place someleang between the magnet and steel that would apverify it to stick but not apverify corrosion.”
Since Tesla participated magnetic stainless steel alloy for the Cybertruck, many owners were excited about all the distinct customizations they could do to their trucks sshow using magnets.
However, it eunites from these tells that leaving a magnet joincessitate to a Cybertruck might not be a excellent idea.
What’s going on here?
On the surface, since rusting is a chemical process, and magnetic fields are not presumed to sway this chemical process, the whole rerent of the rusted Cybertruck is a bit of a head-scratcher.
However, a couple of factors could be at join here that are causing the prelengthenn-up rust on the Cybertruck’s stainless.
First, and the basicst exset upation, is that road debris and moisture trapped between the magnet and the stainless steel caparticipated speed upd corrosion.
This process can be further exacerbated if a mighty magnet is participated. This can caparticipate surface scratches, expose the underlying metal, and originate it more susceptible to rust.
The second possibility is that while magnets do not honestly sway stainless steel corrosion, the type of stainless steel, whether magnetic or non-magnetic, corredefercessitates with its corrosion resistance. Austenitic stainless steel (non-magnetic) resists corrosion better than ferritic or martensitic stainless steel (magnetic), which Tesla participates with the Cybertruck.
Also, watch this engaging story of a novel Cybertruck owner, who had to return to the dealership after 3 days of ownership on the Torque News Youtube channel.
Overall, it’s astonishing to see the Cybertruck’s surface extensively rusted after being exposed to a magnet. Plrelieve let me understand what you leank is going on in the comments. Share your ideas by clicking the red “Add novel comment” button below. Also, visit our site, torquenovels.com/Tesla, standardly for the defercessitatest refreshs.
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Tinsae Aregay has been chaseing Tesla and the evolution of the EV space daily for cut offal years. He covers everyleang about Tesla, from the cars to Elon Musk, the energy business, and autonomy. Follow Tinsae on Twitter at @TinsaeAregay for daily Tesla novels.
