This is definitely a Tesla flaw. Anyone dumb enough to buy one of these trucks is dumb enough to take it on the beach.
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skooma_king@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Since no one else has said it, this isn’t a design flaw of the truck. The operator didn’t let air out of their tires. Before driving on sand you really want to let your tire PSI down to like 15 to be safe. I used to pull hummers out of the beach with my old four cylinder Nissan pickup because their drivers were often overconfident they didn’t need to deflate their tires (or just completely unaware). I don’t like Tesla but this is an operator error, not a fatal flaw of the truck.
Conyak@lemmy.tf 3 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
how? Or more specifically, what?
wieson@feddit.de 3 months ago
You attract the customers you advertise to, I guess.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i mean, i suppose so, but that’s not a flaw. That’s marketing.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Or just don’t drive on sand that is so soft you sink to your ankles walking in it.
MadBob@feddit.nl 3 months ago
That’s handy to know, but I believe the implication is that the owner of the car in the photo is dumb for buying the car and then dumb for getting it stuck in sand.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Does that still apply to vehicles that weigh 6600+ lbs?
skooma_king@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I towed several hummer v2s. Wiki says they are 6400 lbs stock.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I used to race cars, and would over/ under inflate my tires based on the weather and track conditions. Never thought about driving on sand, but that’s a super useful tip that I would wager most people have never heard.
Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s not just sand, rock crawlers will deflate tires down to single digits (that’s why they use beadlocks) so that the tires actually wrap around the rocks.
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skooma_king@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah it made me a lot of extra cash when I was in high school. I would park over the on-ramp for beach access and wait for a tourist to inevitably get stuck. Most of the time I wouldn’t ask for money but they’d give me a nice tip since they knew the only other option was to call a tow truck. The park service requires a permit to off road now, and that info is on the permit so fortunately for visitors it happens less often now.