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Another Gong for the Cyber shit truck.

Cybertruck Tailgates Are Deforming After Doing Regular Truck Stuff

"Perhaps I should have known."

The evidence keeps mounting that Tesla's plagued Cybertruck isn't very good at being a truck and doing average truck things.
As spotted by Jalopnik, a Cybertruck owner took to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum on Friday to lament that his vehicle's stainless steel tailgate was deformed. Why? Because he tried to use the tailgate to haul stuff. You know, run-of-the-mill truck activities.

"Warning to everyone about hauling items," read xhawk101's cautionary message. "I made sure that the weight limit was not exceeded, however, since the load shifted, it obviously put too much weight on the tailgate and now the tailgate is warped."

The owner was hauling a load of 12-foot composite decking boards

what happened to...Tesla brags that its vehicle can hold a payload of 2,500 pounds — or, as the webpage also notes "equivalent of an average African elephant" — and that its "ultra-hard stainless-steel exoskeleton helps to reduce dents, damage and long-term corrosion."

And yet, according to the owner, the truck was allegedly neither durable nor ultra-hard enough to withstand... a load of decking wood, highlighting once again that Tesla has been majorly overselling the brawniness of its unorthodox and highly unreliable pickup.

In short, it's reasonable to expect that a truck that can cost north of $100,000 and is allegedly "built for any planet" won't get deformed by some 12-foot deck planks and a slight shift in speed.