Vehicle started reversing from a parallel parking spot to get enough room in front to exit. Once vehicle reversed enough to exit the parking spot driver confirmed vehicle was switched to drive. Accelerator was pressed and vehicle moved backwards instead of forward. Street was flat and vehicle was stationary from when drive was selected and before accelerator was pressed.
2022 Tesla Model Y transmission complaints
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Auto acceleration(forward) caused while parking and crashed into fence and utilities. Requested TESLA to diagonalize the cause of auto acceleration. Tesla couldn't handle my request well and they canceled and delayed my request, finally, they rejected my request as the car was salvaged.
Bought a brand new Tesla model Y with 11 miles on it. 1 mile down the road it tells me to “pull over immediately” “reduced power” I was going 45 mph downhill and thankfully not a lot of cars around. I pulled over and it said reduced power, exit and enter vehicle to restore operation. I did and it worked fine. I drove home with no problems for 25 miles. An hour later I was headed somewhere else and stopped at a light, when it was green I accelerated then it did the same thing but I was on an entrance ramp to a bridge and 5 cars were behind me. The car then was in reduced power mode and told me to do the same thing again, exit then re-enter. It was busy traffic and took me 5 minutes to get out when there were no cars going past me. It reduced power and couldn’t excelerate and caused a dangerous situation. This happened 3 more times while I was on the phone with Tesla support before I had to wait 2.5 hours for a tow with 47 miles on it.
Vehicle has less than 5,000 miles. On three separate dates, a sudden warning appears "Rear Motor Disabled; Avoid Steep Hills; If problem persists contact Service. There is an image of a turtle icon, and vehicle speed is limited. This happens with a gradual reduction, first to around 65, in a few minutes it drops to 37 mph. I had to drive several miles on a limited access turnpike with no exits at 37 mph, including crossing some bridges with no shoulder lane. I was very concerned about being rear ended in this situation. Information below is on the most recent incident which happened today.
The vehicle started shaking and stuff wrong from the rear wheels and was told to pull over safely. The error codes Dl_a063 and Dl_a139 popped up and it seems there is a rear drive unit failure.
There is no sound warning to switch gears. For example from forward to reverse. I was trying to go forward and I was actually in reverse. The gear change is on the steering stalk and doesn’t make any warning sound when switching. As the drivers eyes are looking forward, and not looking at the screen feedback, it makes it difficult to remember which gear you are in. Forward or reverse. I assumed I was going to move forward, but the car was actually in reverse. I hit the car that was parked behind me and did damage to my car. I’m feel that most cars makes a physical click sound with the gears shifting as well as a small jump in movement to remind the driver they have switched directions.
On January 19th, around 9:35-9:40am, while driving on Bollinger Canyon Road in San Ramon, the car jerked as if someone rear-ended it and then stopped abruptly in the middle of a busy road. The information screen displayed various error messages regarding battery and drive system. The stop was abrupt and we could have been seriously injured in busy traffic. This was a scary experience. The car had 260 miles range in the battery and no prior warnings/ messages indicating any problem. We called 911 and Tesla roadside assistance for help. San Ramon PD showed up and blocked the lane to avoid someone hitting our car. They had the car towed to the nearest Tesla Service Center in Dublin, CA. While waiting for the tow truck, we attempted to restart the car and computer system two times but the car did not go into "Drive" position to be moved. The service center is diagnosing the problem and have informed us that it could be a problem with the motor or drive terrain or inverter of the car. All these are major and crucial components on the car for safe and normal operation. Failure of any of these is catastrophic and can be fatal on freeway speeds or local roads if someone is following too closely and the car stops abruptly. We usually have kids in the car and this is a scary situation to imagine. This needs to be investigated in more detail by someone to find out how many card suffer this fate and how many accidents/ fatalities have been caused by something like this.
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