2015 Tesla Model S: engine stalls while driving

Filed May 10, 2023 · Driver assistance, Lights · 79,000 miles · TN

The contact owns a 2015 Tesla Model S. The contact stated that the center display screen became inoperable. The contact stated that the defroster, exterior lights, back-up camera and radio were inoperable. The contact stated that the vehicle occasionally stalled. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer where it was diagnosed and determined that the center display screen needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact related the failure to the federal safety agency Campaign Number: 21V035000 (Back Over Prevention, Visibility, Exterior Lighting) however, the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was contacted, and the contact was referred to the dealer. The failure mileage was approximately 79,000.

Filed Apr 6, 2022 · Electrical · 73,000 miles · WA

The contact owns a 2015 Tesla Model S. The contact stated that while attempting to start the vehicle, the vehicle took 5 – 10 minutes to be started. The contact stated that the doors and apps were inoperable. The contact stated that there were several error messages displayed. The contact was concerned about the vehicle stalling. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 73,000. The VIN was not available.

Filed Jan 19, 2021 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 50,000 miles · DC

I have the media control unit (mcu 1) and it pretty routinely shuts down while driving which causes a loss of major component functionality. I saw that the federal safety agency is asking tesla for a recall to replace and I think it's really important that tesla do recall these vehicles because the software updates are insufficient to fix the problem. The mcu just needs to be replaced.

Filed Oct 22, 2020 · Lights · 85,000 miles · NY

Head and tail lights turned off while driving on highway and would not turn back on. Neither high nor low beams would engage! A driver behind me saw what happened and turned on his high beams to guide me approx 1 mile to a safe stopping place. Once stopped, I experimented: hazard lights would turn on. No other lights turned on. I rebooted both the "mcu" (central 15" screen) and "ic" (instrument cluster) per earlier instructions from tesla in case of automation failure in the car. The mcu took an extremely long time to restart and displayed screen corruption, problems which in the past had LED tesla to replace that component of this vehicle under warranty. When the mcu did start up, the instrument cluster displayed "driver assistance features disabled". I attempted to use tesla's voice-activated "report" function to get help from tesla, but this resulted in a message stating that "the microphone is being calibrated". This entire time, the head and tail lights remained off and would not turn on. Finally I used the mcu to access the lighting settings of the car. I observed that the "exterior lights" setting displayed "auto". However, it was 6:40pm and almost completely dark and the lights had been on previous to suddenly turning off. Also, with the "auto" setting, the high beams should still engage when pulling the left stalk - but this did not work. I next used this same screen to turn on the front fog lights. This worked! I then turned off the fog lights, changed the "exterior lights" setting to off then back to "auto" and all exterior lights (head and tail) finally came back on! It is my opinion, based on over 20 years in embedded software development, that the mcu's "exterior lights" setting had become corrupted and forced all vehicle lights off while I drove in darkness at 45mph. I could have died. Make tesla fix this before someone dies!

Filed Sep 28, 2018 · Acceleration, Airbags · CA · crash

A malfunction caused the sudden deployment of the airbags and subsequent unintentional unexpected acceleration causing the vehicle to jump a cement block and violently smash into a pole while I was slowly pulling into a parking stall at a grocery store.