I was making a legal u turn on a city street to park. I pulled behind a parked car and was going about 1mph when my car suddenly accelerated and hit the parked car. There were no warning sounds until the car hit the other car and then the horn and lights on my car went off. The car was not on auto park and no air bags were deployed however my car and the car that was hit had extensive body damage. There were not injuries to people. I don't know why the car accelerated instead of stopping. I have never hit the accelerator peddle instead of the brake and I doubt if I did it in this case.
2017 Tesla Model S body complaints
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While pulling into a parking spot at a busy shopping center, and applying the brake pedal (having moved it over from accelerator) to stop the car at about 5 MPH, the model s suddenly lurched forward at full acceleration hitting not 1 but 2 parked cars. Nothing would stop the car as it took over and went forward with both my feet pressing the brake pedal as hard as I could. Finally it stopped after hitting a second parked car. Tesla has not responded, despite 2 days of emails and calls.
At our driveway on sun. 1/14/18, coming back from shopping a few minutes before four pm, suddenly the car took off by itself. It accelerated tremendously with the speed which was felt around 65-80 m/hr, hitting our heavy garage door, which was closed at the time, went through the garage, hit my parked porsche and pushed it to the left to the water heater. It then hit and broke the wall between our garage and courtyard, broke and pushed our concrete planter and stopped halfway between the garage and our family room windows in the courtyard.I firmly believe that this was the result of unintended acceleration. This is our new and second tesla my wife and I owned and drove.when my wife talked to local tesla representative, he refused to give us any computer generated report.the car still on the wall between garage and courtyard. We understand, tesla has a black box that we do not know where it will end up if we take it to tesla certified body shop.we appreciate it very much if you advise us what to do.
Here is a report from an owner of a brand new model x that has a cracked in half a-pillar. Https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/help-a-pillar-defect-found.88657/ photographs are attached. Snip "I picked up my s90d last friday and was super happy about it, there was some trim mis-alignment on delivery but nothing serious. Today, I was showing off the car to my brother in-law and noticed something very wrong with the a-pillar. On the passenger side where it touches the front of the windshield, the aluminium was actually cracked and there is a gaping hole to the inside! There is no way that I would have actually caused this and you can see that they painted the crack part as well. I have emailed my delivery person and am super sad about this as I don't know how they can actually replace that part without ripping apart the car. This cracked part is obviously unacceptable but I don't want them to cause more issues ripping it apart to replace it. What should I do?" it is scandalous that such a serious structural defect could pass quality control. This is yet another example of teslas being rushed off the production line in order to meet quotas while ignoring the production defects. Please investigate how this car was able to escape from the factory. Concerned citizen etc.
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