The Tesla Cybertruck has only been around for terrorize American roads for a while more than six months, but someone has already managed to get their huge electric van totaled. A brave engineer bought the destroyed monstrosity and tries to bring him back to life, but it doesn’t seem like a fun task at all.
A Ford Edge destroyed the truck in question earlier this year, Autoevolution ReportsInsurers wrote off the Cybertruck, after which it was sold to YouTuber and aspiring tinkerer Kyle Wade, who runs the company. BoostedBoiz Channel.
In his latest video, which is available to watch for yourself belowWade describes all the problems he encountered while trying to save the wrecked truck, a mission he describes as a “bad idea.”
The truck he started with had two collapsed doors on the passenger side, as well as damage to the driver’s side after hitting a pole, as well as rear tracking issues caused by The Cybertruck has been pushed in the sidewalk. All sorts of body parts and trim were also missing.
To try to fix the truck, Wade and his crew took a methodical approach that began by replacing some key fuses that he said commonly blow. When Tesla Cars Are Involved in Accidents. Then they identified a problem with the 48V battery and replaced it. Miraculously, the truck was able to restart – but there was a problem, as Wade explains:
We managed to get the Cybertruck running again, but it was in idle mode, which only allowed it to go 4 mph. A big red warning appeared on the screen saying “critical steering issue detected.”
The solution, they thought, was to recalibrate all the sensors The Cybertruck to try and reset the red warning that was flashing on the central display. They also attempted to recalibrate the truck’s electronic steering system, which they believe may have been affected by the crash.
To do this, the team had to rent Tesla’s Toolbox software for a day. For $165, it gave them greater access to the truck’s controls and allowed them to delve deeper into how the front and rear steering works, as well as the response from the steering wheel.
Plug in the toolbox in the Cybertruck This seems to have helped them progress with the rebuild, as it uncovered 25 issues with the onboard steer-by-wire system that they say can be fixed by calibrating the steering and all associated sensors. But while this seemed to work on the rear wheels, it failed on the front wheels and the steering wheel itself. Not good.
The situation was just as bad when they tried to restart the truck and the screen flashed red and asked the team to pull over safely. Clearly, little progress has been made on the wrecked truck.
After endless hours of working on the CybertruckThis progress stops. Wade describes the wrecked truck as a “big old stainless steel paperweight” at the end of the video, as it still doesn’t roll, doesn’t steer, and is still missing two doors.
But he’s not giving up, and says the next step will be to put the doors back on, plug everything back in, and start the process over again. Wade also said the issues he’s having could be related to the steering control module, which he says is the team’s next target for repairs.
The complexity of the repair shows just how much cars have changed with the shift to electric vehicles. We’re used to seeing builds where people revive ruined internal combustion engine cars, with another YouTuber currently working on Reviving a Ruined Rolls Royce. However, could the shift to electric vehicles put an end to this kind of car building without adequate support from car manufacturers?
