151 Cybertruck owners filed warranty claims after noticing the roof trim panel above the windows was coming loose
- Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks due to roof panels potentially detaching during driving.
- Issue stems from cant rail panel using a faulty structural adhesive prone to embrittlement.
- This recall adds to the growing list of Cybertruck issues since deliveries started in 2023.
If there’s one thing Cybertruck owners can rely on these days, it’s trim pieces falling off and obscene hand gestures from fellow drivers. While there’s little Tesla can do about the latter, they are stepping in to address the former. After multiple reports of trim pieces going rogue, Tesla launched an investigation into the issue of exterior panels detaching while driving and has decided it’s time for a recall.
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And it’s a big one, covering every single Cybertruck sold over the past 15 months, from November 13, 2023, to February 27, 2025, impacting a total of 46,096 units. This time, this issue can’t be fixed with a software update, as owners will need to bring their trucks into a dealership for some hands-on attention.
The Issue: A Faulty Cant Rail
The problem in question involves the cant rail, a stainless-steel trim panel that stretches from the base of the windshield to the rear door, running along the roof arch above the windows. Tesla explains that the cant rail relies entirely on structural adhesive to stay in place. Unfortunately, this adhesive is vulnerable to environmental embrittlement, meaning it doesn’t hold up as well as it should.
To fix this, Tesla is replacing the problematic glue with a more durable version that’s not prone to environmental wear. To make sure it stays in place, they’re also reinforcing the assembly with a stud welded to the stainless steel panel, which will be clamped to the vehicle’s structure using a nut.
The Recall Process
While Cybertruck owners have been voicing complaints on forums for some time, Tesla says they first became aware of the problem in January 2025, when a routine review of field repairs uncovered a complaint about partial delamination of the component. Shortly after, 151 more owners filed warranty claims. After investigating, Tesla decided a recall was necessary, estimating that about 1% of the 46,096 affected trucks have the defect.
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As seen in the videos below, owners have been grappling with this issue for quite some time, with one incident shared on Reddit nearly nine months ago.
As of March 18, 2025, production vehicles have yet to be corrected, but Tesla expects to begin applying the remedy around March 21, 2025. Any trucks produced before the fix is implemented, but still sitting in Tesla’s possession, will be retrofitted before being delivered to customers.
A Long History of Recalls
This recall adds to the growing list of issues for the Cybertruck, which has now been recalled a total of eight times since deliveries began in 2023. However, many of those recalls didn’t require an in-person visit to the dealership, as they were resolved through software updates. Notable past issues include loose bed trim that could detach while driving and loss of drive power.
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By kordlessagain 2025-03-2014:336 reply The Cybertruck's Latest "Innovation": Parts That Self-Eject
Elon's $45 billion "unbreakable" metal origami experiment has reached a new milestone: every single one requires a recall because the roof trim is attempting to escape its dystopian design. The "cant rail" panels—appropriately named since they literally "can't" stay attached—are secured with what appears to be the same adhesive used on Post-it notes, but with less staying power.
Tesla's cutting-edge solution? Actually using nuts and bolts like every other manufacturer from the last century. Revolutionary! Nothing showcases disruptive innovation like hastily welding studs onto your "production-ready" vehicle because the original engineering approach involved hoping really hard that glue would work.
This eighth recall establishes the Cybertruck as Tesla's most consistent product—consistently recalled, that is. While traditional automakers waste time on extensive testing, Tesla boldly pioneers the "let customers discover the flaws" approach to quality control.
The timing couldn't be better, as owners were just mastering the art of pretending not to notice parts of their $100,000+ "future of transportation" littering highways behind them. At least the obscene gestures from passing motorists provide some entertainment while waiting for service appointments.
Perhaps next time, instead of launching cars into space, someone might suggest testing whether they can survive Earth's hostile environment—like air, roads, and reality.
> Tesla's cutting-edge solution? Actually using nuts and bolts like every other manufacturer from the last century.
Many other manufacturers secure some exterior trim pieces with glue or tape.
Hell, the fog light body panels on my partner's Audi Q5 was press-fit. We found out it was held in with a couple plastic tabs after it went missing (presumed stolen) and we had to replace it.
Even better, should it ever fly off, the plastic covering would do less damage than the Cybertruck's heavy steel body panels.
By 7e 2025-03-2114:26 Plastic tabs are much better than glue.
What other manufacturers glue large steel panels on the sides of their car?
Sure, some other car makers use glue and tape to adhere some parts of the car together. Usually things like plastic trim pieces, not large steel panels.
By rascul 2025-03-2019:03 It's a long steel trim piece. Calling it a large panel seems misleading. Similar (but not as long, as far as I know) pieces are glued by other manufacturers but they are plastic.
By janice1999 2025-03-2014:46 As an engineer I would be genuinely interested in a comprehensive "lessons learned" from the Cybertruck. I'd love to see how far you can diverge from standard processes/design and how much you must undo in order to fix the problems that creates. Could there be a reliable Cybertruck 2? What would it need to sacrifice from its odd design to accomplish that (drop the gigacast frame? 2 windscreen wipers? etc).
By ben_w 2025-03-2019:55 When it was announced, it had vibes of being a car meant for Mars (or the Moon); but there's so much wrong with it in practice, that whoever does eventually build bases on those bodies* will better off starting from scratch.
* I now only give 70% odds of Starship getting to Mars ever, including one-way test flights that crash rather than landing correctly: if SpaceX can't launch to Mars before Trump stops being president, they more than likely never will — I think Musk will be directly told by the sucessor that he's no longer allowed to work on rockets, or any government contracts, due to being seen as a security risk. And without Musk, why bother with Mars?
By cozzyd 2025-03-214:35 Beyond the environment
By sundaeofshock 2025-03-2014:462 reply Please provide evidence of Democratic politicians cheering on the murder of Cybertruck drivers.
By JohnFen 2025-03-2014:48 Or of people trying to murder them.
Not 100% sure this counts but I noticed that yesterday Reddit.com, on a default signed-out profile, was recommending me a /r/ "Cyberstuck" subreddit via the front page which was actively condoning and encouraging violence against teslas. Given that tens of millions of people view the front page daily, that could probably reasonably be construed as mass inciting of violence, and Reddit is well known to be a primarily Democratic instituion.
> was actively condoning and encouraging violence against teslas
> Violence is often defined as the use of physical force or power by humans to cause harm and degradation to other living beings, such as humiliation, pain, injury, disablement, damage to property and ultimately death, as well as destruction to a society's living environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation
You can't be violent against cars. You can vandalise them, which is a crime against property, but that's still not violence.
> Reddit is well known to be a primarily Democratic instituion.
I'm sorry, but you've been woefully misinformed. Reddit is mostly young, and thus socially progressive. Any relation to the US Democratic party is completely by accident, and in fact, I've seen tons of criticism towards them for going the wrong way (trying to entice "centrist Republicans" instead of being more progressive).
Your own definition of violence includes damages to property. And besides, damaging someone’s personal property is effectively the same thing as damaging their person. Because property takes time out of a persons life to earn, therefore depriving someone of their property is almost exactly the same thing as depriving them of their life / health.
> And besides, damaging someone’s personal property is effectively the same thing as damaging their person. Because property takes time out of a persons life to earn, therefore depriving someone of their property is almost exactly the same thing as depriving them of their life / health
This is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. Cars are insured, and even if they weren't... this is still absurd. I can't even put into words how absurd it is. So if someone burns your house, it's the same as getting your feet amputated? Or what exactly is your scale? Losing the phone the same as going bald?
Having a house burn down is comparable to 25-75 years(most people get a mortgage) of labor toil loss, which is enough to push most humans to the point of debilitation, or at least they can only do that amount of work once or twice per lifespan. It’s hard to quantify suffering but yes I’d agree the physical suffering toll on their body and mental facilities required to work that long period of time does seem somewhat roughly comparable to the acute loss of a major limb.
By sundaeofshock 2025-03-2019:49 Which is why most people (at least in the United States) have fire insurance.
By sofixa 2025-03-2019:10 You're completely ignoring insurance.
By sundaeofshock 2025-03-2016:33 That’s lovely. So, where is your evidence that Democratic politicians are cheering on the murder of Cybertruck owners? That was the claim you made in your flagged post. Time to put up or shut-up.
Owning a Cybertruck is a death sentence with or without liberals wishing you dead: https://sfist.com/2025/03/11/testimony-reveals-doors-would-n...
Remember Elon with the bowling ball? Yeah, I'd be afraid of any motorcyclist with a bag of pennies in their pocket.
By ben_w 2025-03-2015:04 Link 404s, try this: https://sfist.com/2025/03/11/testimony-reveals-doors-would-n...
It's weird it took so long for a recall to happen, people were reporting these trim pieces falling off for a long[1] time[2] now.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1dx47vh/another...
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1ek88mj/the_cyb...
By 7e 2025-03-2114:27 That's what you get when Tesla maintains a monopoly on service of their cars. Suppressed information, hidden recalls. The dealership model is more open and the power balance makes it harder to mask problems.
By sjsdaiuasgdia 2025-03-2014:292 reply The "apocalypse proof" vehicle, held together with bad glue.
The bulletproof truck that can’t withstand a baseball toss
The amphibious vehicle that traps its passengers inside to die
The self driving car with the awareness of wile-e-coyote
This is the dictionary definition of film-flam. All yours for a low $100,000
By BXlnt2EachOther 2025-03-2015:512 reply At the unveiling it was promised to start at $39,900, just under $50k in today's dollars.
Yes, that was for a base model that wasn't produced, but we are a long way from the promised stats on the upper trim. Promised to be under $70k, or about $87k in today's dollars (nope), 500+ mi range (nope, 300), payload 3500lbs (nope, 2500), tow rating 14000 (nope, 11000). By 2021 (nope).
It does come close on two of the promised stats: 0-60 in under 3 seconds and top speed just under the promised 130. I'd much rather have it be good at being a truck than being a massive hunk of pointy steel that can be thrown around with that much torque.
I don’t believe that final towing capacity either after seeing the tear downs where the hitch is attached with aluminum instead of steel to the frame.
By AlexandrB 2025-03-2018:36 I believe it, but only if you don't use it too often. Aluminum doesn't handle creep[1] well so the actual tow rating probably decreases every time you tow something near the limit.
Tesla's vehicles give me "disposable technology" vibes. Criminal for something so expensive that's also meant to be environmentally friendly.
By SN76477 2025-03-2017:27 We are the beta testers, and it is exhausting.
Siri, for example, introduced in I think 2011, still doesn't work nearly as well as they exclaim.
