Truck nuts are a pretty basic concept. Someone figured it would be fun and affordable to sell molded plastic testicles to hang from your tow hitch. The joke was funny for about three seconds, the creator presumably made bank, and the world moved on. Only, now there’s a new kind of truck nuts on the scene, and they’re perfect for EVs.
Meet wire truck nuts. Or truck wire nuts, depending on which way you want to flip it. If you’re unfamiliar, wire nuts are small plastic devices used for making electrical connections between two wires. Basically, someone decided to recreate wire nuts at a larger scale and threw them on the back of a truck for the laughs.
That someone is named Charlie Wil, who uploaded design files for a 3D-printed set of truck wire nuts to Thingiverse back in August this year. They faithfully recreate the simple wire fixing at a larger scale, and easily hold a loop of wire for attaching them to a vehicle.
If you want to make your own truck wire nuts, it’s pretty easy. You just download the files from Thingiverse, and print them out on your own 3D printer at home. They’re pretty simple, geometrically speaking, so you should be able to whip up a set on just about any FDM or resin printer out there.
These things are already showing up in the wild. Digital creator BJ Adams spotted them on a Ford F-150 Lightning out in the wild, and he took to Facebook to share the hilarious find. The install was great for two reasons. One, it’s on an EV—given the wire nuts are electrical in nature, they’re perfectly suited in this case. Plus, the truck owner chose to install two, with red and black wires—emulating the positive and negative lines of a DC hookup. Authentic and fun!
Other Lightning owners have installed them, too. As above, there’s a truck getting around Alabama with a similar setup, as seen on Reddit. A user named Kenric also posted a great set over on the F-150 Lightning Forum, too.
These are an easy laugh when installed on an EV. They’d also be a right laugh on an electrician’s truck or van, whether or not it’s an electric vehicle. The fun is in knowing why they’re there—they’re a simple electrical part that are referencing genitals indirectly—because they’re hanging off the back of a truck. It’s smart, a sort of multi-level joke. The sort of thing you’d see on Frasier!
These aren’t the only 3D-printed truck nuts going, either. Over at the Shitty Car Mods page on Reddit, someone posted a great set of Cybertruck nuts. They’re appropriately angular and jagged, with the low-poly design rather fitting for the truck’s unique aesthetics. Files are available for those wishing to print their own at home, courtesy of regsix7 on Thingiverse.
It was only a matter of time…
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Just in case you’ve gotten this far and you’re completely unfamiliar, we should post some regular truck nuts for context. As mentioned above, they’re basically just simulated scrotums that you hang off the back of a truck. I’ve posted some photos below so you might understand them from a visual perspective.
Amazingly, you can even get truck nuts for RC cars, too. RPM RC sells them for $7.95 a piece.
I’ll make a quick sidebar here to point out something important. The reason we usually see these on trucks is because “car nuts” just doesn’t roll off the tongue as well. It’s all down to the English language—”truck” and “nut” both have an “uh” sound that makes “truck nuts” fun to say. If they’d have nicknamed them “car nards,” we’d probably see a lot more of them on Nissan Altras and Kia Seratos.
In any case, it’s great to see such creativity in the wider truck nuts fanbase. The joke was getting old and stale, no surprise since they’ve been around since the 1980s. This new concept has breathed fresh life into the pastime of dangling funny junk off the back of your vehicle. That’s something worth celebrating.
Image credits: Charles047 via Thingiverse, BJ Adams via Facebook screenshot, Jkfcfriedchix CC-BY-SA 4.0
This is one of the fucking stupidest things I’ve ever seen. I just lost brain cells reading this not educational.
Also, EV’s are TRASH