Starting on May 5, 2022, my car has been plagued with numerous errors messages that stated multiple features of my car were malfunctioning/disabled, both while I first got into the car, and also occurring suddenly without any warning while the car was IN MOTION on the road. This included loss of power steering, traction control, stability control, parking brake, automatic emergency braking, and lane departure avoidance . The same problem(loss of all these vital features) has recurred many times on May 22nd, May 31st, July 8th, and most recently, September 14th. Each time I brought the car in to the Tesla service center, they would have absolutely no idea what was causing the same exact issues. At the very first visit, they stated the incorrect-sized tires were likely the culprit. Even after the correct sized tires were put on, the same problems returned weeks later. Another time they replaced the MCU, but again the problem returned. Every time I brought the car in, they would basically return the car with no definitive repairs done as by the time they started working on my car, all the errors had disappeared, and they would declare the car as being "fixed". After 5 visits for the SAME EXACT problem over the past 5 months, it is extremely clear that Tesla has no idea what is wrong with the car, and keeps returning the car to me without permanently solving the problem. At this point, I feel this car should not be on the road as I could lose vital controls(power steering, brakes, etc) all of a sudden with no warning, exposing the passengers inside, and all vehicles and pedestrians around it to serious, life-threatening danger. Despite this grave risk, Tesla has refused to buy the car back even though it still has an active factory warranty, claiming that it is past the two-year buy-back window, and the fact that it already has a lemon title(for a completely different issue) from 2019. It is just a matter of time before a serious accident happens.
2017 Tesla Model X brakes complaints
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The vehicle brakes are aggressively applied at random times when traveling on the freeway. This only appears to happen when the vehicles TACC (Traffic Aware Cruise Control) is enabled. Thankfully I have not been rear ended yet. My family's safety is in danger when TACC is enabled. Not only am I concerned we could be rear ended, but I am concerned someone could think I am "brake checking" them and then proceed to act violently (road rage). There is a particular stretch of highway where this happens 100% of the time that would allow me to reproduce the occurrence on demand for investigative purposes.
Many instances of hard braking in cruise control with no cause. In the last 6 months it’s gotten very bad. It only happened very infrequently before when someone was turning off the freeway it would brake for just a second. Now it is braking hard in an extended fashion and multiple times in one trip. Sometimes we can see some reason, sometimes not. Once, traveling 75 MPH passing a large truck in the lane to my right, the brakes slammed on very hard. Fortunately, I had both hands on the wheel and avoiding crashing into him and the car be him me was far enough back to not hit me. Many other smaller instances, but today doing about 45-50 MPH the brakes slammed on HARD, didn’t release, and I had to steer to the left and hit the accelerator to avoid hitting a biker. I think the Tesla may have been reacting to the biker. I will not use cruise control any longer until it is fixed. It is terrifying and it’s just a matter of time until something really bad happens.
While on autopilot at highway speeds, car randomly and suddenly brakes rapidly for no reason. Happens during day, at night, on different roads, in different conditions. No warning lights or alarms.
When the car is parked then put in reverse, the car makes a loud cracking noise. I was told it was brakes that were cleaned up but still make a loud noise.
The vehicle experienced a multiple-system failure. Warning lights indicated loss of steering assist, loss of cruise control, loss of braking assist, and other safety features. A reset of the computer rectified the issue, but only temporarily, and the software fails again and again. In failure mode, which comes on unpredictably, the brakes make a terrible grinding sound and are not as effective in stopping the car. This is a major safety concern. The onset of these failures is usually when the car is moving and occurs randomly.
This is a complaint about the tesla autopilot. Here is a freshly uploaded video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jllupsvgj4 the owner drives hands free on an undivided road whilst using both hands to eat a burger. This is not merely a case of stupidity it is a direct consequence of the marketing of autopilot by tesla. The very name autopilot is dangerously misleading, other makers call their systems "driver assist" or "lane-keeping assist" the widely publicised claim that tesla autopilot is 40% safer than a human driver is further encouragement for owners to use this in a dangerous fashion. During this video the car takes a sudden swerve over the centre-line just after the owner has finished eating his burger. The owner thinks that this is all a great joke. I agree, tesla autopilot is a joke, but not in a good way. Please stop this dangerous experiment before more lives are lost. I have attached a photograph of a fatal crash that has just happened in china. Https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6raud3/another_accident_in_china_involving_an_tesla/?st=j5z9ztcw&sh=61e3b47d it is possible that this fatal crash was caused by autopilot. Please ask tesla to provide further details and ask them to prove beyond any dispute that the crash was not caused by autopilot. It seems that after every crash tesla claim that the autopilot was disengaged at the actual moment of impact. Well, they would say that wouldn't they? Please note that I am not the owner of this vehicle just a concerned citizen. Dates of incidents are an approximation. Details of fatalities are an estimate based upon the blood and brains splattered over the tesla.
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