Tesla recollects about 10% of Cybertrucks for utilizing the fallacious glue

Tesla is recalling 6,197 Cybertrucks with the “Off Highway Lightbar” attachment, citing incorrect use of adhesives which may lead the accent to fall off throughout automobile operation.

It’s about 10% of the 63,619 Cybertrucks in existence, which we find out about resulting from one other recall from final week (although that one was mounted by a software program replace).

The Cybertruck has been marketed all alongside as an off-road succesful automobile, with devoted off-roading modes and sure out there equipment for these house owners who wish to get out and journey.

A fascinating off-road accent out there on many automobiles are giant, overhead lights which supply higher and wider visibility of the terrain forward, getting round rocks or brush or different issues which may forged shadows from decrease static headlights.

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Within the Cybertruck’s case, this takes the type of a large gentle bar throughout the highest of the truck’s windshield, proper on the “level” within the roof.

It doesn’t include each truck, and isn’t even out there as an choice. It’s additionally not even listed as an adjunct on Tesla’s on-line store. It’s solely out there as a retrofit by way of Tesla’s service community, for which you should make a service request to get it put in.

Regardless of that, it appears to be like like an entire lot of Cybertruck house owners have gotten it put in. With the data on this new recall stating that doubtlessly 6,197 automobiles are affected, it appears to be like like almost 10% of current Cybertrucks have the sunshine bar, which is kind of a excessive take charge for a retrofit merchandise like this.

We all know this 10% quantity due to one other latest recall, final week, which recalled each Cybertruck for having too-bright headlights. That one was mounted by a software program replace, however did inform us {that a} whole of 63,619 Cybertrucks had been offered in whole.

However the lightbar recall isn’t such a simple repair, because it’s an precise bodily difficulty, moderately than a software program one.

Plainly the adhesives Tesla used might have been utilized incorrectly by service personnel, resulting in a substandard bond to the floor of the automobile. Tesla up to date its service directions a number of occasions to attempt to repair the issue, however plainly none of those updates have been sufficient.

In whole, Tesla says it discovered 619 guarantee claims associated to this difficulty, and had one discipline report of the glue not working appropriately – although it’s not conscious of any collisions or accidents related to the problem. However, conceivably, this may result in a lightweight bar falling off the automobile and making a street hazard for different drivers, so a recall is so as.

To repair the issue, Tesla will examine any put in lightbars on Cybertrucks and if it finds any indication that the adhesive isn’t bonded absolutely, it’ll substitute the lightbar with a brand new one adhered with tape and a “optimistic mechanical attachment” (that’s, bolting it down).

Whereas Cybertruck house owners with the sunshine bar put in ought to make a service appointment to get their gentle bar inspected, it’s doable to inform if yours suffers from this difficulty. Tesla says that gentle bars exhibiting this difficulty “might create a noise detectable from contained in the cabin” or that the sunshine bar might really feel unfastened when touched or have a visual hole between it and the windshield. In case your lightbar reveals any of those points, then you definately’ll most likely wish to make that service appointment sooner moderately than later.

Electrek’s Take

This isn’t the primary attachment-related drawback Tesla has had with the Cybertruck. It’s seen wheel covers fly off (which led to a pre-manufacturing redesign which precipitated extra tire put on and was subsequently topic to a recall), accelerator pedals that may slip off and have been mounted by drilling a screw into the pedal, and even detaching items of the automobile’s “exoskeleton” trim (which… isn’t truly an exoskeleton). A variety of (un)sticky conditions occurring with this truck.

As for the headlight recall from final week, we didn’t report on it as a result of, as is the case with a lot of Tesla’s “recollects,” it was comparatively minor and was mounted by a software program replace. NHTSA actually does want one other phrase to differentiate actual recollects from ones which are already mounted by an OTA replace by the point the recall discover goes out.

However, this lightbar recall right this moment is extra severe and desires an precise bodily repair, and thus is extra deserving of being reported on.

Nonetheless, final week’s headlight replace did nonetheless have an attention-grabbing piece of data (which we most likely ought to have reported, and so now are reporting right here): the entire variety of automobiles out on the street. That recall coated 63,619 automobiles produced between November 13, 2023 and October 11, 2025. That’s almost two years, and but the truck which had been hailed because the harbinger of the way forward for the automotive business has averaged simply over 30k gross sales per 12 months in that point interval.

Whereas that may be a powerful quantity for a brand new producer, it’s fairly a bit decrease than the hundreds of thousands of preorders the Cybertruck had, Musk’s 250,000+/12 months predictionand the present >125,000 yearly manufacturing capability that Tesla claims it has for the truck.

At a present run charge of round 5,000 vehicles offered per quarterthat’s over 80% of Tesla’s claimed manufacturing capability sitting idle.

Whereas the Cybertruck was the best-selling electrical truck for a time after its introduction, it now not has that title. And, within the final final quarterthe F-150 Lightning, Silverado EV, Sierra EV and R1T all noticed rising gross sales. The Cybertruck, in distinction, is the one electrical truck in America that noticed decrease gross sales final quarter than within the 12 months prior, regardless of an enormous spike in EV gross sales as a result of retirement of EV tax credit.

It’s a part of a wider development of EV gross sales rising across the globe, however Tesla gross sales being left behind – and the reason being largely resulting from Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s unfavorable affect.

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