It’s worth noting that due to brilliant design decisions, the only way to put different tires on it is to replace the whole wheel. edit: apparently this part was not correct, my apologies for the misinformation
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That does not look like a ton of snow. I park in higher snow than that every year when I drive out to the mountains to ski. That would be about the amount of snow I park in the driveway with after it’s been plowed and sat for a couple hours with snow fall.
The thread that came from is full of people saying their Civics, Outbacks, Mini Coopers, etc has handled snow like that with no problem.
It’s like 5-6” of snow on a flat grade.
I used to drive a Mini Cooper Clubman and it definitely handled snow better than that.
Back in my day we used to drive in double the snow on our way to school, up hill both ways. And all of that on summer tires!
That’s basically no snow. I drove a 2003 Miata through deeper snow than that just to get out of a residential area onto plowed roads.
replace the whole wheel.
How does that work?
Apparently they have custom wheels and custom tires so you can’t just put a different tire on, you need to switch out the rims too.
Isn’t vendor lock-in a wonderful thing…
Isn’t replacing the wheel what you do on a normal car too? I’ve always found the use of the phrase “change the tyre” on cars weird, because it’s not like you actually take off just the tyre and put a new one on, like with a bike. Speaking of which, do car tyres have inner tubes inside them?
It is like a bike :). The wheel is the metal/plastic part in the middle. The tyre is the outer rubber part. They will take the wheel of the car to replace the tyre but unless the wheel is also damaged you will get the same one back. Regarding the inner tube some have a tube and some don’t same for bikes actually.
Oh okay. So when getting a new tyre to replace an old one, that’s the same as a bike, then?
But I think it’s still probably right to say that “wheel” would be more accurate when referring to your “spare tyre”, wouldn’t it? And probably also when talking about rotating tyres?
Yeah the rubber part gets replaced.
Correct the spare tyre is the wheel+tyre as you can’t just swap the tyre on your own. And yeah rotating is just moving wheel+tyre to a new position on the car so the tyre gets a different wear pattern which helps it last longer.
lol, that’s barely a few inches of snow.
I have an AWD Hyundai Kona. I regularly drive to work in more snow than that on the roads during the winter… easily.
I’m no fan of the cybertruck nor Tesla but this is likely a tires issue and not necessarily a Tesla issue.
When I drove my car through snow on performance tires last year I barely made it home even though there’s only half an inch of snow on the road.
All that being said: proprietary tires? That’s fucking asinine. Tech company gonna tech company i suppose
To my knowledge, they are custom Tesla tires. On custom Tesla rims that don’t accommodate non-Tesla tires. So still a Tesla problem.edit: apparently my knowledge is wrong
https://youtube.com/shorts/1ZyIthzDgxE
That’s just with AWD, not even 4x4, let alone a low range mode!
Why’s he spinning the tires so much?
Do BMW drivers actually understand the concept of letting off on the gas a bit, or is that a lost art for them like turn signals and shoulder-checks?
It makes it an even better example, you must be even more stupid than a BMW driver to be stuck like that Cybertruck driver!
You don’t need low range in snow
I’ve always had my winter tires on seperate wheels. In the past it’s been steel wheels, but for my current car, I got a matching set of OEM wheels fairly cheap bc someone had custom wheels put on their car and didn’t want the OEM wheels, so I bought them at a discount from the dealer, and had some winter tires put on. I couldn’t imagine getting the tires on my wheels switched twice a year, I just get the wheels swapped. I used to do it myself, it’s a bit of a workout to change four wheels, these days I get a shop to do it. Steel wheels aren’t the most aesthetic, although my silver Subaru looked pretty good in the snow with 17" black wheels and some aggressive winter tires. Drifting…drifting…drifting the night away!
