{"id":74504,"date":"2024-07-17T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74504"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:34:12","slug":"cybertrucks-redesigned-wheel-covers-are-ready-to-go-almost-half-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74504","title":{"rendered":"Cybertruck’s redesigned wheel covers are ready to go, almost half a year later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After stopping shipment<\/a> of Cybertruck\u2019s original aerodynamic wheel covers due to unusual tire wear in early February, Tesla is finally starting to install redesigned wheel covers on Cybertrucks that were delivered without them in the interim, and we\u2019re finally seeing pictures of what they\u2019ll look like.<\/p>\n

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All the way back to its original unveiling<\/a>, the Cybertruck has been shown with some pretty cool wheel covers that fit the design of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Much has been said about the Cybertruck\u2019s, uh, \u201cunconventional\u201d design<\/a>, and it is certainly polarizing. Some love it, some hate it (me). But the design philosophy in the car is quite consistent \u2013 Tesla maintained an extremely angular design <\/a>throughout the entire vehicle, inside and out.<\/p>\n

Its aerodynamic wheel covers are one aspect of that design, with a cool 7-spoked look that matches up with the vehicle\u2019s custom tires. (Aerodynamic wheel covers are very beneficial for vehicles, increasing efficiency significantly<\/a> at very low cost)<\/p>\n

But, just before production, Tesla had a problem. One of the wheel covers flew off in traffic<\/a>, which could cause a dangerous situation \u2013 sending following cars swerving or otherwise creating road debris that could be kicked up and cause damage to vehicles or people.<\/p>\n

Then, not long after the vehicle started shipping, people started noticing unusual wear on the Cybertruck\u2019s tires.<\/a> The 7 \u201cspokes\u201d on the wheel cover were rubbing against the tire sidewall, and causing wear much faster than expected. The problem was that tires would bulge out while rotating, rubbing against the rubber spoke on the wheel cover, and this caused a small amount of wear every rotation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that this resulted from a late redesign. Perhaps, after Tesla had the problem with the cover flying off, the cover was redesigned to sit closer to the wheel, which then caused wear which wasn\u2019t noticed in testing before release. At least, that\u2019s how we speculate it happened.<\/p>\n

The unusual wear problem caused Tesla to stop shipping wheel covers, and recommend that all drivers remove theirs until further notice. Some owners claimed that Tesla communicated that new caps would be available in March, but that time came and went.<\/p>\n

We did see one new wheel cover design<\/a> just three weeks after Tesla pulled the original covers, but people weren\u2019t particularly happy with the look. In order to fix the problem of the spokes rubbing against the tires, Tesla just deleted the extending parts of the spokes completely. While this probably would have looked fine if it was the original design, it definitely doesn\u2019t have the unique\/cool aspect of the extending-spoke design we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

So those caps never got delivered. But now one Cybertruck owner has reported that Tesla contacted them to have new covers installed, and posted a photo online of the new design \u2013 which looks a lot like the old one.<\/p>\n

The photos were posted by gmembersonly on Reddit, and you can see them here:<\/p>\n

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Without looking side by side, they look almost identical. But if you compare to a photo of the old wheel covers, there are some minor differences.<\/p>\n

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The old Cybertruck wheel cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new design has a more sunken area in the center, which doesn\u2019t bulge out quite as far as the original design does. But most notably, the \u201cspokes\u201d are just shorter in the redesigned cover than the original one.<\/p>\n

This makes sense, because that\u2019s what was causing the problem. While the new design looks a little bit like it \u201cdoesn\u2019t fit\u201d because the spokes are nowhere near as long as the indentations on the tire, it still shows the intent of the design language between the tire and the wheel cover. So it maintains the general idea of the original design, but hopefully without the fatal flaw.<\/p>\n

As for how to get your hands on the new wheel covers, gmembersonly says that they were \u201crandomly contacted from Tesla\u201d after which they went in to get them installed right away. They originally took delivery in March, not too long after Tesla stopped delivering covers.<\/p>\n

So, Cybertruck owners might be hearing soon about install of these new covers. And hopefully the nearly six months that Tesla spent redesigning them means there won\u2019t be as many problems as there have been in the last few iterations.<\/p>\n

Regardless, if I owned a Cybertruck (which, per previous discussion about my opinion of its design, I wouldn\u2019t), I\u2019d make sure to keep the tires inflated to recommended tire pressures, to prevent bowing out and potential rubbing of the tires against the covers, at least until enough miles have been put on these parts to see if there might still be any problems.<\/p>\n

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After stopping shipment of Cybertruck\u2019s original aerodynamic wheel covers due to unusual tire wear in early February, Tesla is finally starting to install redesigned wheel covers on Cybertrucks that were delivered without them in the interim, and we\u2019re finally seeing pictures of what they\u2019ll look like. All the way back to its original unveiling, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}