At approximately 9am on the morning of 1/4/18, I was driving in autopilot on the 405 heading north to my office in santa monica in my tesla model s and the car simply ran into the barrier wall on the left side of the car pool lane at 75mph. It was absolutely crazy! I have contacted tesla about the accident several times, but they are simply not interested. I just read about an accident that the u.s. National transportation safety board is investigating where the same thing happened and the driver died. I believe my accident could have ended the same way and I think it needs to be taken very seriously.
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Our 2016 tesla model s dropped the left rear wheel completely while my wife was driving on freeway 5 north bound last saturday night (08/19/2017) in san juan capistrano area, right before exit 81. The road is smooth and without bump or sharp turn. All other cars was able to run by normally. The right rear wheel also lost a locking nut. The accident was very dangerous, very scary! We just had a routine service at tesla service center this june.
Left wheel fell off from what appears to be a broken bolt controlling lower control arm. The car was backing into a driveway at low speeds with a sudden thud. The left front was resting on the tire with the tire turned at 90 degrees. The lower control arm was no longer attached with the bolt broken. See pictures.
Owners are still reporting extreme and rapid wear of rear tires on the hidden inside edge that can go unnoticed until the tire blows out. Here is a thread from the elbilforum in norway elbilforum.no/forum/index.php?board=49.0 sample: a: rear worn out after 50 days, 4000 km. Reply # 480 on: friday 17 october 2014, in time 5:50 p.m." now I sit in verdal in nord-trndelag with flat rear tire. Famous light vibrations in the rear tire when I drove on the e6, and thought that there was little air in the tires as it is 4 degrees. It turns out that one rear tire can not be racking up the compressor wife came with the e-mexico. I stroke her hand inside cover to reveal the "hole" is. It turns out that I touch the wires on the entire back, which means that the tire is completely worn down on the inside. This is one of four ps2 tires that I put two months ago (!) because the original tires were worn down (and the car was new in march). Here is a long term owner complaining that tesla is unable to fix this despite replacing some of the suspension arms: a: rear worn out after 50 days, 4000 km. Reply # 497 on: yesterday at. 3:32 p.m. " have them turn off spissingsstagene. Have struggled with this for two years and despite repeated adjustments, there have not been good. However, when the bars were removed and checked, it turned out that they were destroyed and are not kept setting. Do not know what the result mtp wear becomes even, but it is a fact that early rwd cars not struggling rear tires _helt_ evenly whatever you do with them. But it should not be "gnawing" at the innermost centimeters. This situation is putting lives at risk. Please note that although this discussion is based in norway this is a us made car that is sold all over the world.
On wednesday, july 13, 2016, my minor son was driving my tesla (VIN [xxx]) northbound on round hill road in greenwich, connecticut, with the autopilot engaged. At approximately 3:50pm, the tesla approached a vehicle that was parked partially on the shoulder of the road and partially on the road in front of 273 round hill road. The vehicle obscured the white line along the right hand side of the road. Rather than moving to the left to avoid the parked vehicle, the tesla continued on the same path. At the last moment my son grabbed the steering wheel and moved the tesla to the left, but not soon enough/far enough. The tesla's right side collided with the parked vehicle's left side. My son believes that had he not grabbed the steering wheel, the right front area of the tesla would have hit the rear of the parked vehicle. To the best of his knowledge the brakes on the tesla did not engage. No one was hurt. The police were not called. Round hill road is not a divided highway, however it is a wide, two lane road with freshly painted double yellow lines down the middle and a freshly painted white line on the edge. It was a sunny day, no fog. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
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