general problems of the 2018 Tesla Model 3

The turn signal stalk does not differentiate between a partial (lane change) press or a full turn press. The signal will remain on until the stalk is moved in the opposite turn direction. This sometimes results in the opposite turn signal activating. This entire process is intermittent while driving. This happens mainly on the highway where an intermittent (half press) of the stalk is performed to switch lanes. When switching lands I have no idea whether it'll work as designed or fail to register a half press or full press of the stalk.

The is water in my right front fog lamp and I don't know how it got in there, but Tesla says they can't get water out of it and can't reseal it, but is willing to let me pay $504 to replace a light. . . This is yet another billionaire abusive practice by elon musk to generate cash flow and revenue for his failing company. Telsa also asked for $15,000 for a new battery, which the "software" said it started reducing the range just after the 120,000 mile battery warranty was up. Just like apple does with reducing iphone battery performance for so called "safety" reasons to make people pony up to the latest model. Which Tesla has been emailing me and texting me to try to get me to buy a new Tesla lol. This is clearly an abusive "sales tactic". If they actually care about helping customers, they would figure out how to fix each issue. Clear out the water and seal the headlight. Figure out which battery cells need replacing and replace them. Simple and cheap solutions. Not "customer pay astronomical prices" for every damn issue Tesla forces upon people. Including "customer pay tows" after "Tesla's software" decides to randomly shut the car down in the middle of the road, rather than Tesla taking responsibility for their software malfunctioning preventing the driver from reaching their destination. These are clearly misguided attempts by an awol ceo pissed off about his $55b pay package, trying to claw back money from customers to reward himself to pay for twitter/x. Make "elies" elon "moron" musk and Tesla do the right thing by customers and repair these issues, rather than rape and pilage poor customers' cashflow.

Many states like florida have a law that headlights need to be on when it is raining, my Tesla has automatic wipers that come on when it senses rain, when this happens, it should also turn on headlights for safety reasons but it does not, they need to be turned on manually, the car does also have automatic headlights, but the automatic headlights on the car only work when it gets dark in the evening. This is a simple programming change that Tesla could do, my repeated requests to Tesla to address this in the app has done nothing, that’s why I’m requesting you force Tesla to do this. Makes sense right?.

The passenger-side daytime-running headlight (aka, "signature light" or "accent headlight") failed at approximately 66,000 miles and four years. This makes the daytime-running headlight ineffective. I have since noticed many Tesla Model 3's with the same issue. To fix this problem requires replacement of the entire headlight assembly. This was a very expensive repair (~$1200) and will likely be ignored by owners of Teslas no longer covered under warranty. This creates a common safety issue with these automobiles.

Vehicle center screen freezing multiple times per drive. Speedometer, turn signals, autopilot, battery percentage, backup camera, blind spot monitor, parking sensors, hvac and garage door opener all repeatedly inoperative. Audio chimes also freeze up and previously-engaged “navigate on autopilot” functions continue to operate without any visual or auditory alerts.

Daylight running lights are not operating, a warning in the instrument cluster of not operating lights is not give. So the driver is not aware of the issue! repair is not possible the entire light unit needs to be replaced ! this is a come issue with the manufacture Tesla as I found a lot of complains on the internet with this specific issues.

Automatic headlights fail to illuminate when wipers are active. This has been reported to Tesla in 3/2022.

The steering system failed. I'm not sure about the availability for inspection. My safety was put at risk when my car collided with another car. I had just pulled out of my driveway and turned to go down the street a short distance from a stop sign where I would turn left. From a video taken by one of the car's cameras, the car went to the left side of the street and started toward the intersection where the car hit another vehicle. I have driven to the intersection numerous times. There is no way that I would have pulled toward the left side of the street. I believe that something in the steering system malfunctioned. This put me and other drivers on the road at risk. I don't know if the the problem has reproduced. There was a policeman at the site, but he would not inspect the vehicle for a malfunction. My insurance company must have inspected the car as they called today to inform me that the car is totaled. The failure happened so quickly, that I had no warning.

In a heavy florida rain this afternoon about 3:30pm edt I noticed my automatic headlight with windshield wiper function was inop. The lights normally go on with windshield wipers in the past. Upon investigation Tesla has removed this function at least on Model 3 and y cars for some regulatory reason. It is unsafe to have to go to the touch screen to turn on headlights in this situation. Owners are complaining on forums but I think more drastic action is required.

These vehicles are not equipped with front side amber reflex reflectors as required undr fmvss 205 requirements.

I was at the supercharging station in dublin ( California) . When I wanted to take reverse and park my car for supercharging. My car showed the option of autopark. Since there was an open spot available for parking my car (where my car fits properly - as per Tesla guidelines) . I started auto parking ,in autopark feature usually the car comes close to the other car and then takes necessary turn. But in my case the car came very close to the other car and instead of stopping it speeded up and dashed to the other car in the parking spot. My car has collision prevention plus it provides accurate distance if there is some object behind my car, but in this car neither of the systems alerted me and led to a crash. I raised a complaint to Tesla about the auto park features problem but haven't received any any word from them. I have attached the images of the car.