Recall of all Tesla Cybertrucks has expanded to Canada and huge pieces can just fly off

If you've been tracking the Tesla Cybertruck launch in Canada — maybe thinking Elon Musk's stainless-steel space trapezoid would somehow be less cursed up here — we have news for you.

A major Tesla recall that started in the U.S. has officially crossed the border, and it's targeting pretty much every Cybertruck currently in Canada. We're talking about a vehicle recall for trucks that might literally shed giant metal chunks mid-drive.

The Cybertruck recall was issued by Transport Canada on March 27 and affects 1,995 vehicles sold in Canada across both the 2024 and 2025 model years. Meanwhile, in the U.S., a whopping 46,096 trucks are impacted.

According to the agency, the issue lies with exterior stainless-steel trim panels called cantrails — the long, flat metal strips that border the roof along each side of the truck — which might not be attached properly. If they come loose, the panels could detach completely from the vehicle.

"A panel that detaches from the truck could create a road hazard for others and increase the risk of a crash," the recall notice warns. No kidding.

Tesla, for its part, says the problem is that the "stainless steel panel of the cantrail assembly may delaminate at the adhesive joint" — not exactly the kind of sentence that inspires confidence in the famously overpromised and underdelivered truck.

You can check if the recall applies to your vehicle by entering your VIN into Tesla's database — but if you own one of these steel origami projects, you can be pretty confident yours is impacted, since the recall applies to all units manufactured from November 13, 2023 (around when production first started) to February 27, 2025.

Owners are being told Tesla will eventually contact them to arrange a free fix, which apparently takes about an hour. Until then, they're free to keep driving their vehicles... as long as they're okay with the possibility of creating a high-speed game of dodge-the-metal-sheet on the highway, presumably.

This is now the eighth Cybertruck recall in just 13 months — and the first one to impact Canadians since Musk's metallic meme-machine started rolling out here in late 2024. It's just the latest in a long series of woes for the electric car company that's been mired in controversy and ridicule ever since the company's billionaire CEO first introduced the brutalist fever dream in 2019.

Last week, Forbes named the Cybertruck "the auto industry's biggest flop in decades," with just under 40,000 units of "Elon Musk's pet project, the dumpster-driving Tesla Cybertruck" sold in its first year — way below Musk's projection of 250,000.

The price tag for one of these shiny highway hazards in Canada starts at $114,990 — a far cry from the US$39,900 price Musk originally promised back in 2019.

For that kind of money, you'd think it might at least stay in one piece.

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