Tesla is offering a Cybertruck accessory that it can't fully install

• Some Cybertruck owners look to beryllium getting their hands connected nan ray barroom accessory — but there's a catch.
• Tesla labor are not legally allowed to instal nan required electronics, nan institution says.
• One YouTuber said he had to decorativeness installing nan ray barroom connected his Cybertruck himself.

Tesla Cybertruck owners will person to do immoderate DIY if they want to equip their vehicles pinch 1 of its astir eye-catching accessories.

The Foundation Series "Cyberbeast" type of Tesla's futuristic electrical motortruck comes pinch an off-road ray bar — an LED ray fitting that sits supra nan beforehand windshield.

The accessory, which Tesla says tin illuminate up to 525 yards, did not vessel pinch nan Cybertruck erstwhile it launched past twelvemonth and is group to beryllium delivered successful 2025.

Some owners appear to person sewage their hands connected nan merchandise already — but whitethorn person to group it up themselves.

In a video posted connected TikTok, YouTuber Marques Brownlee said that aft Tesla emailed him to opportunity it was fresh to instal nan ray barroom connected his Cybertruck, nan institution returned nan pickup pinch a portion of achromatic portion complete nan recently attached tile lamp.

Brownlee said nan ray barroom was besides not connected to nan soul harness that allows it to get power. Tesla provided him pinch nan parts and nan telephone number and reside of a adjacent mechanic who could decorativeness nan installation, he added.

Tesla says successful its work manual that its labor are not legally allowed to instal nan required electronics.

"Tesla by rule cannot instal nan lightbar electronics and configure nan conveyance for lightbar control," nan manual says, adding that Tesla unit "are not permitted to link aliases assistance pinch nan relationship of nan Cybertruck disconnected roadworthy lightbar harness to nan tile accessory jumper harness connector."

The ray barroom besides has to beryllium covered pinch blackout movie portion earlier being delivered to customers, but only nan customer aliases a "third-party entity" is permitted to region it, per nan manual.

It's not nan first clip Tesla has utilized specified a workaround.

Elon Musk said successful 2021 that the Cybertruck would person "easy to remove" broadside mirrors aft Tesla's first plans to build it without them were thwarted by national regulations requiring each vehicles to person them.

A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spokesperson told Business Insider successful December that automakers were prohibited "from knowingly making inoperative immoderate facet of a conveyance required for compliance pinch national information standards."

"NHTSA urges conveyance owners not to return immoderate actions that would undermine nan information of their vehicles," they added.

Tesla did not respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.