Sudden acceleration while stopped. Car was stopped in the driveway of my home while waiting for the garage door to open. Suddenly the car bolted forward, crashed through the rising garage door and then through the side of the garage and into the front steps of my home. The car is equiped with auto pilot, but it was not engaged. While reviewing other incidents of this type on your website, I noticed that other people mentioned their Tesla's having the autopilot feature but I saw no mention of the Model Y. Although extensive damage happened to the car and my home, no one was injured. However if this had happened while at a stop light or at a crosswalk someone could have been killed or injured. My Insurance Co. did not seem interested in investigating this event, haven't heard back from Tesla.
2021 Tesla Model Y suspension complaints
Page 4 of 4: complaints 71 to 82 of 82, newest first, as owners wrote them.
The car has less than 300 miles on it and I hear a loud clunk under the front of the floor by the pedals as if something is loose like the front motor or the suspension.
Here is a 2021 tesla model y in the junkyard/ https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/39928775?tenant=us&rownumber=10 it has done just 5000 miles and the front wheel has gone whompy then fallen off. Tesla is still using deadly defective suspension giblets. All the ball joints have popped apart. If you continue to ignore this you will soon have even more blood on your hands. Please get these weapons of mass destruction off the roads. Thank you. Keef
Parking my car when I pressed the brake and ready to engage park , car accelerated in high speed and drove to island and trying to control the wheel while my foot still on break to avoid hitting other cars on the parking lot , hit some curbs which cause the tire on the front passenger side came off completely with axle attached . This cause the car to stop and deployed air bag and caught on fire , that's when I immediately got out the car. The car mileage is 524 when it happened. Minor burn on my left arm from the fire and sore shoulder less than 24 hours.
Here is a 2021 tesla model y in the junkyard https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/39612087?tenant=us&rownumber=3 it has been in a rollover and it looks as though the occupants were injured. The front suspension has snapped off and it is most probable that this was the cause of the rollover rather than damage caused by the crash. Most alarmingly the base of the steering knuckle has cracked apart leaving half of the mounting point still attached to the lower ball joint. An expanded image of this component is provided with this submission. It is obvious that tesla is using low quality and unsafe components on the critical suspension and steering assemblies. The junkyards are filling up with late model teslas that still have absurdly weak suspension giblets. Please ask them nicely to fix this or better yet ban the wretched things from leaving the tent factory. Thank you for your attention. Keef
Heard a loud pop when turning wheel to put in reverse and park. Now one wheel points straight, one is turned.
Here is a model y in the junkyard https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/39423095?tenant=us&rownumber=11 the front wheel fell off. All the stupid flimsy little ball joints have snapped off. The wheel is stashed in the frunk. The damage to the wheel well is a strong indication that the wheel was not torn off in a crash but that it went whompy and thrashed the begeezus out of the front of the car. This a 2021 car and this is the best they can do? This thing is a killer on the road. Please get these deadly junksters off the roads. Thank you. Keef
Here is yet another tesla with a broken suspension https://erepairables.com/salvage-cars-auction/tesla/model+y/vid-45992776 it has done just 283 miles since being factory gated. It has not been in a crash, the front suspension has simply fallen to bits. This is self inflicted injury caused by bad design, bad choice of material and total lack of quality control. The model y appears to be even worse than its predecessors. How much longer are you going to allow this madness to continue? How many more lives must be lost? Yours persistently keef
Here is a 2021 model y in the junkyard. Https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/39198554?tenant=us&rownumber=18 in common with many other tesla junkyard cars it has not been in a crash but has simply had the suspension fall to bits. The stem of the ball joint on the steering arm has snapped. The lower ball-joint is halfway fallen off. The undamaged wheel is lying on the ground beside the car. It is impossible for major force to be applied to the suspension without the wheel being damaged. This is once again the fault of chaotic disorganized manufacturing and widespread drug use at tesla. Watch this video to see good reason why drugs are bad. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf_ormiy9tk m'kay? Please do your job. Thank you. Keef
Here is a model y that has just arrived in the junkyard. Https://www.copart.com/lot/59067410/photos/salvage-2021-tesla-model-y-ma-north-boston it has travelled a mind boggling 283 miles and then the wheels fell off. The entire front suspension is fubar. This is not crash damaged. It is defective tent built self destructing lunacy. Will you please do the job which you are paid to do and get these deadly missiles banned from the roads. Thank you. Citizen keef
Clunk noise coming from front end suspension while driving on the freeway. Then the steering wheel started to go off centered, slightly to the right, and had some play. The steering wheel had to be held tightly to keep car driving straight. I called tesla and took it in to their lake forest service center. The clunk can be felt and heard while turning left onto drive way. Service was able to reproduce noice but was not able to pinpoint the cause. Tech did state that a bolt was 1/8 of a turn loose. Tech performed alignment and state thst noise went away. Service advisor released vehicle and ask to inform him if problem resurface. Same clunk noise persist but at a lower noise level while turning left on driveway.
Here is a 2021 tesla model y in the junkyard. Https://www.iaai.com/vehicledetails/38193324?rownumber=7 it has travelled an amazing 221 miles before the front wheel fell off and caused a whoopsie. You can see from the photographs that tesla is using the same fragile suspension giblets that are used in all the other models of tesla. The top ball-joint has popped apart. The stems on the lower ball joints have snapped. It is 99% certain that the other damage to the car was caused by a loss of control after the front wheel went whompy. It's not rocket science and it's certainly not proper engineering. It's just plain whompy. Please get these death-mobiles off the roads. Thank you. Keef
VIN decoder
See the problems and recalls for an exact car
Buying a used 2021 Tesla Model Y?
Check the exact car before you pay: accidents, salvage or flood titles, odometer readings and previous owners.
Check its history