On April 9th, 2022, the vehicle in traffic went from the drive gear to the park. vehicles were coming behind me at 55mph and I could not maneuver to safety. It took up to 4mins before I got moving. The incident occurred again on April 25th, while my kids and I were on the way to basketball practice. Finally, I got an appointment with Tesla service, and after two weeks of troubleshooting I was informed that the issue is an anomaly.
Engine & cooling
Tesla Model S 75 Engine problems by year
6 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Tesla Model S 75's engine & cooling. Stalling, loss of power, oil consumption, overheating, head gaskets, timing chains and engine failure.
Engine complaints by model year
Latest Model S 75 engine complaints
Mcu computer is blacking out and requires constant resets. Connection to the app is spoty. Computer showing signs if not working properly. Reported to tesla. Was told they cleared my memory and they are 'diverting my concerns'
Tesla pushed over-the-air software updates to my vehicle, which reduced the range the car could travel on a single charge, owners. The software updates, which started in may 2019, were made to fix for batteries that could ignite in non-crash scenarios.
While attempting to park the car in a parking space the car accelerated on it's own and crashed over a small concrete retaining wall and crashed into another vehicle. My car and the car that was struck were totaled.
2017 Tesla model s started to accelerate on its own over 100 mph, when traveling on highway around 70 mph, without autopilot engaged. As soon as it started to accelerate, the car took control over the steering wheel and drove into the guardrail on the left of the lane, then quickly steered to the right lanes and steered to the left again. Slammed on the brake but did not work at all, and steering wheel did not respond. The car completely took control over traveling over 100 mph going zig-zag on three lane highway, finally came to a stop after hitting number of trees in the woods on the right side of the highway. The car is completely totaled.
While driving at 60 mph on a highway front motor shorted loosing power and car slowed to a halt at a unsafe highway location.
Source: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked daily. Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data